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Show 492 INDEX. BEES. Bees, hive, not sucking the red clover, 95. --, --, cell-making instinct, 224. --, humble, cells of, 225. --,parasitic, 218. Beetles, wingless, in Madeira, 135. --with deficient tarsi, 135. Bentham, Mr., on British plants, 48. --, on classification, 419. Berkeley, Mr., on seeds in salt-water, 358. Bermuda, birds of, 391. Birds acquiring fear, 212. -- annnally cross the Atlantic, 364. --,colour of, on continents, 132. --, fossil, in caves of Brazil, 339. -- of Madeira, Bermuda, and Gala-pagos, 390. --, song of males, 89. --transporting seeds, 361. --,waders, 386. --, wingless, 134, 182. --, with traces of embryonic teeth, 451. Bizcacha, 349. --, affinities of, 429. Bladder for swimming in fish, 190. Blindness of cave animals, 137. Blyth, Mr., on distinctness of Indian cattle, 18. --,on striped Hemionns, 163. --, on crossed geese, 253. Boar, shoulder-pad of, 88. Borrow, Mr., on the Spanish pointer, 35. Bory St. Vincent on Batrachians, 393. Bosquet, M., on fossil Chthamalus, 304. Boulders, erratic, on the Azores, 363. Branchire, 190. Brent, Mr., on house-tumblers, 214. --, ou hawks killing pigeons, 362. Brewer, Dr., on American cuckoo, 217. Britain, mammals of, 395. Bronn on duration of specific forms, 293. Brown, Robert, on classification, 414. Buckman on variation in plants, 10. Buzareingues on sterility of varieties, 270. CLIMATE. c. Cabbage, varieties of, crossed, 99. Calceolari::~, 251. Canary-birds, sterility of hybr ids 2.52. Cape de Verde islands, 398. ' Cape of Good Hope, plants of, 110, 375. Carrier-pigeons killed by hawks, 362. Cassini on flowers of compositre, 14-5. Catasetum, 424. Cats, with blue eyes, deaf, 12. --,variation in habits of, 91. --curling tail when going to spring 201. ' Cattle destroying fir-trees, 71. -- destroyed by flies in La Plata, 72. --, breeds of, locally extinct, 111. --, fertility of Indian and European breeds, 254. Cave, inhabitants of, blind, 137. Centres of creation, 352. Cephalopodre, development of, 442. Cervulus, 253. Cetacea, teeth and hair, 144. Ceylon, plants of, 375. Chalk formation, 322. Characters, divergence of, 111. --, sexual, variable, 156. --, adaptive or analogical, 427. Charlock, 76. Checks to increase, 67. ----, mutual, 71. Chickens, instinctive tameness of, 216. Chthamalinre, 288. Chthamalus, cretacean species of, 304. Circumstances favourable to selection of domestic products, 40. -- -- to natural selection, 101. Cirripedes capable of crossing, 101. --, carapace aborted, 148. --, their ovigerous frena, 192. --, fossil, 304. --, larvre of, 440. Classification, 413. Clift, Mr., on the succession of types, 339. Climate, effects of, in checking increase of beings, 68. --, adaptation of, to organisms, 139. INDEX. 493 CO BITES. Cobites, intestine of, 190. Cockroach, 7 6. Collections, palreontological, poor, 287. Colour, influenced by climate, 132. --, in relation to attacks by flies, 198. Columba Iivia, parent of domestic pi-geons, 23. Colymbetes, 386. Compensation of growth, 147. Composita:, outer and inner florets of, 144. --,male flowers of, 451. Conclusion, general, 480. Conditions, slight changes in, favour-able to fertility, 267. Coot, 185. Coral-islands, seeds drifted to, 360. -- reefs, indicating movements of earth, 309. Corn-crake, 185. Correlation of growth in domestic pro-ductions, 11. -- of growth, 143, 198. Cowslip, 49. Creation, single centres of, 352. Crinum, 250. Crosses, reciprocal, 258. Crossing of domestic animals, import-ance in altering breeds, 20. .--, advantages of, 96. --unfavourable to selection, 102. Crustacea of New Zealand, 376. Crustacean, blind, 137. Cryptocerus, 238. Ctenomys, blind. 137. Cuckoo, instinct of, 216. Currants, grafts of, 262. Currents of sea, rate of, 3.59. Cuvier on conditions of existence, 206. --on fossil monkeys, 303. --, Fred., on instinct, 208. D. Dana, Prof., on blind cave-animals, 139. --, on relations of crustaceans of Japan, 372. --~ on crustaceans of New Zealand, 376. DUCK, De Candolle on struggle for existence, 62. --on umbelliferro, 146. --on general affinities, 430. --, Alph., on low plants, widely dispersed, 406. --, --, on widely-ranging plants being variable, 53. --, --,on naturalisation, 115, --, --, on winged seeds, 146. --, --, on Alpine species sud-denly becoming rare, 17 5. --,--,on distribution of plants with large seeds, 360. --,--,on vegetation of Australia, 379. ~-, --, on fresh-water plants, 386. --,--,on insular plants, 389. Degradation of eoast-rocks, 282. Denudation, rate of, 285. --of oldest rocks, 308. Development of ancient forms, 336. Devonian system, 334. Dianthus, fertility of crosses, 256. Dirt on feet ofbirds, 362. Dispersal, means of, 356. -- during glacial period, 365. Distribution, geographical, 346. --, means of, 356. Disuse, effects of, under nature, 134. Divergence of character, 111. Division, physiological, of labour, 115. Dogs, hairless, with imperfect teeth, 12. -- descended from several wild stocks, 18. --,domestic instincts of, 213. --, inherited civilisation of, 215. --, fertility of breeds together, 254. --, -- of crosses, 268. --, proportions of, when young, 444. Domestication, variation under, 7. Downing, Mr., on fruit-trees in Ame-rica, 85. Downs, North and South, 285. Dragon-flies, intestines of, 190. Drift-timber, 360. Driver-ant, 240. Drones killed by other bees, 202. Duck, domestic, wings of, reduced, 11. --,logger-headed, 182. |