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Show 496 INDEX. HOOKER. Hooker, Dr., on acclimatisation of Himalayan trees, 140. --, on flowers of umbelliferre, 145. --, on glaciers of Himalaya, 373. --,on algre of New Zealand, 376. --, on vegetation at the base of the Himalaya, 378. --, on plants of Tierra del Fuego, 374, 378. --,on Australian plants, 375, 399. --, on relations of flora of South America, 379. --,on flora of the Antarctic. lands, 381, 399. --, on the plants of the Galapagos, 391, 398. Hooks on bamboos, 197. --to seeds on islands, 392. Horner, Mr., on the antiquity of Egyp-tians, 18. Horns, rudimentary, 454. Horse, fossil, in La Plata, 318. Horses destroyed by flies in La Plata, 72. --, striped, 1G3. --,proportions of, when young, 445. Horticulturists, selection applied by, 32. Huber on cells of bees, 230. --, P., on reason blended with instinct, 208. ---, on habitual nature of instincts, 208. --,on slave-making ants, 219. --,on Melipona domestica, 225. Humble-bees, cells of, 225. Hunter, J., on secondary sexual characters, 150. Hutton, Captain, on crossed geese, 253. Huxley, Prof., on structure of herma-phrodites, 101. --, on embryological succession, 338. --, on homologous organs, 438. --, on the development of aphis, 442. Hybrids and mongrels compared, 272. Hybridism, 245. Hydra, structure of, 190. I. Ibla, 148. Icebergs transporting seeds, 363. LARVJE . Increase, rate of, 63. Individuals, numbers favourable to selection, 102. --, many, whether simultaneously created, 356. Inheritance, laws of, 12. -- at corresponding ages, 14, 86. Insects, colour of, fitted for habitations 84. ' --, sea-side, colours of, 132. --, blind, in caves, 138. --, luminous, 193. --, neuter, 236. Instinct, 207. Instincts, domestic, 213. Intercrossing, advantages of, 96. Islands, oceanic, 388. Isolation favourable to selection, 104. J. Japan, productions of, 372. Java, plants of, 375. Jones, Mr. J.M., on the birdsofBermuda, 391. J ussieu on classification, 417. K. Kentucky, caves of, 137. Kerguelen-land, flora of, 381, 399. Kidney-bean, acclimatisation of, 142. Kidneys of birds, 144. Kirby on tarsi deficient in beetles, 135. Knight, .Andrew, on cause of variation, 7. Kolrenter on the barberry, 98. --on sterility of hybrids, 247. -- on reciprocal crosses, 258. -- on crossed varieties of nicotiana, 271. -- on crossing male and hermaphrodite flowers, 451. L. Lamarck on adaptive characters, 427. Land-shells, distribution of, 397. -- of Madeira, natnra1ised, 402. Languages, classification of, 422. Lapse, great, of time, 282. Larvre, 440. INDEX. 497 LAUREL. Laurel, nectar secreted by the leaves, 92. Laws of variation, 131. Leech, varieties of, 7G. Leguminosre, nectar secreted by glands, 92. Lepidosiren, 107, 330. Life, struggle for, 60. Lingula, Silurian, 306. I.innreus, aphorism of, 413. Lion, mane of, 88. --,young of, striped, 439. Lobelia fulgens, 73, 98. Lobelia, sterility of crosses, 250. Loess of the Hhine, 384. Lowness of structure connected with variability, 149. Lowness, related to wide distribution, 406. Lubbock, Mr., on the nerves of coccus, 46. Lucas, Dr. P., on inheritance, 12, --,on resemblance of child to parent, 275. Lund and Clausen on fossils of Brazil, 339. Lyell, Sir C., on the struggle for existence, 62. --, on modern changes of the earth, 95. --, on measure of denudation, 283. --, on a carboniferous land-shell, 289. --, on fossil whales, 303. --, on strata beneath Silurian sys-tem, 307. --, on the imperfection of the geo·· logical record, 310. --, ou the appearance of species, 312. --,on Barrande's colonies, 313. --, on tertiary formations of Europe and North America, 323. --, on parallelism of tertiary formations, 328. --, on transport of seeds by icebergs, 363. --, on great alternations of climate, 382. --, on the distribution of fresh-water shells, 385. ·--, on land-shells of Madeira, 402. MONGRELS. Lyell anu Dawson on fossilized trees in Nova Scotia, 296. M. Macleay on analogical characters, 42 7. Madeira, plants of, 107. --,beetles of, wingless, 135. --, fossil land-shells of, 339. --, birds of, 390. Magpie tame in Norway, 212. Maize, crossed, 270. Malay Archipelago compared with Eu-rope, 299. --, mammals of, 395. Malpighincere, 417. Mammre, rudimentary, 451. .Mammals, fossil, in seconrlary forma-tion, 303. --, insular, 393. Man, origin of races of, 199. Manatee, rudimentary nails of, 454. Marsupials of Australia, 116. --, fossil species of, 339. Martens, M., experiment on seeus, 360. Martin, Mr. W. C., on striped mules, 165. Matteuchi on the electric organs of rays, 193. Matthiola, reciprocal crosses of, 258. Means of dispersal, 356. M elipona domestica, 225. Metamorphism of oldest rocks, 308. Mice destroying bees, 7 4. --, acclimatisation of, 141. Migration, bears on first appearance ot fossils, 296. Miller, Prof:, on the cells of bees, 226. Mirabilis, crosses of, 258. :Missel-thrush, 76. Misseltoe, complex relations of, 3. Mississippi, rate of deposition at mouth, 284, Mocking-thrush of the Galapagos, 402. Modification of species, how far applicaLle, 483. Moles, blind, 137. Mongrels, fertility and sterility of, 2G7. --and hybrids compared, 272. |