INDEX
ABBAS PACHA, a fancier of fantailed pigeons, 6.
ABBEY, Mr., on grafting, 18 (2);
—on mignonette, 21.
ABBOTT, Mr. Keith, on the Persian tumbler pigeon, 5.
ABBREVIATION of the facial bones, 3.
ABORTION of organs, 24, 27.
ABSORPTION of minority in crossed races, 15, 19.
ABUTILON, graft hybridisation of, 11.
ACCLIMATISATION, 24;
—of maize, 9.
ACERBI, on the fertility of domestic animals in Lapland, 16.
Achatinella, 13.
Achillea millefolium, bud variation in, 11.
Aconitum napellus, roots of, innocuous in cold climates, 23.
Acorus calamus, sterility of, 18.
ACOSTA, on fowls in South America at its discovery, 7.
Acropera, number of seeds in, 27.
ADAM, M., origin of Cytisus adami, 11.
ADAM, W., on consanguineous marriages, 17.
ADAMS, on hereditary diseases, 12.
ADVANCEMENT in scale of organisation, Introduction.
Ægilops triticoides, observations of Fabre and Godron on, 9;
—increasing fertility of hybrids of, with wheat, 16.
Æsculus pavia, tendency of, to become double, 18.
Æthusa cynapium, 25.
AFFINITY, sexual elective, 19.
AFRICA, white bull from, 3;
—feral cattle in, 3;
—food-plants of savages of, 9;
—South, diversity of breeds of cattle in, 3;
—West, change in fleece of sheep in, 3.
Agave vivipara, seeding of, in poor soil, 18.
AGE, changes in trees, dependent on, 11.
——, as bearing on pangenesis, 27.
AGOUTI, fertility of, in captivity, 18.
AGRICULTURE, antiquity of, 21.
Agrostis, seeds of, used as food, 9.
AGUARA, 1.
AINSWORTH, Mr., on the change in the hair of animals at Angora, 24.
AKBAR KHAN, his fondness for pigeons, 6; 20.
Alauda arvensis, 18.
ALBIN, on “Golden Hamburgh” fowls, 7;
—figure of the hook-billed duck, 8.
ALBINISM, 4, 12.
ALBINO, negro, attacked by insects, 21.
ALBINOES, heredity of, 12.
ALBINUS, thickness of the epidermis on the palms of the hands in man, 24.
ALCO, 1, 15.
ALDROVANDI, on rabbits, 4;
—description of the nun pigeon, 5;
—on the fondness of the Dutch for pigeons in the seventeenth century, 6;
—notice of several varieties of pigeons, 6;
—on the breeds of fowls, 7;
—on the origin of the domestic duck, 8.
ALEFIELD, Dr., on the varieties of peas and their specific unity, 9;
—on the varieties of beans, 9.
ALEXANDER the Great, his selection of Indian cattle, 20.
ALGÆ, retrogressive metamorphosis in, 27;
—division of zoospores of, 27.
ALLEN, J., birds in United States, 23.
ALLEN, W., on feral fowls, 7, 13.
ALLMAN, Professor, on a monstrous Saxifraga geum, 18;
—on the Hydroida, 27 (2).
ALMOND, 10;
—antiquity of, 28;
—bitter, not eaten by mice, 21.
Alnus glutinosa, and incana, hybrids of, 17.
ALPACA, selection of, 20.
Althæa rosea, 11, 16.
Amaryllis, 17.
Amaryllis vittata, effect of foreign pollen on, 5.
AMAUROSIS, hereditary, 12.
Amblystoma lurida, 27.
AMERICA, limits within which no useful plants have been furnished by, 9;
—colours of feral horses in, 2;
—North, native cultivated plants of, 9;
—skin of feral pig from, 3;
—South, variations in cattle of, 3.
AMMON, on the persistency of colour in horses, 12.
Amygdalus persica, 10, 11.
Anagallis arvensis, 19.
ANALOGOUS variation, 5, 22;
—in horses, 5;
—in the horse and ass, 2;
—in fowls, 7.
Anas boschas, 8, 13;
—skull of, figured, 8.
“ANCON” sheep of Massachusetts, 3, 15.
ANDALUSIAN fowls, 7.
ANDALUSIAN rabbits, 4.
ANDERSON, J., on the origin of British sheep, 4;
—on the selection of qualities in cattle, 20;
—on a one-eared breed of rabbits, 4;
—on the inheritance of characters from a one-eared rabbit, and three-legged bitch, 12;
—on the persistency of varieties of peas, 9;
—on the production of early peas by selection, 20;
—on the varieties of the potato, 9;
—on crossing varieties of the melon, 11;
—on reversion in the barberry, 11.
ANDERSON, Mr., on the reproduction of the weeping ash by seed, 12.
—on the cultivation of the tree pæony in China, 20.
ANDERSSON, Mr., on the Damara, Bechuana, and Namaqua cattle, 3;
—on the cows of the Damaras, 24;
—selection practised by the Damaras and Namaquas, 20;
—on the use of grass-seeds and the roots of reeds as food in South Africa, 9.
Anemone coronaria, doubled by selection, 20.
ANGINA pectoris, hereditary, occurring at a certain age, 14.
ANGLESEA, cattle of, 3.
ANGOLA sheep, 3.
ANGORA, change in hair of animals at, 23;
—cats of, 1 (2);
—rabbits of, 4 (2).
ANIMALS, domestication of, facilitated by fearlessness of man, 1;
—refusal of wild, to breed in captivity, 18;
—compound, individual peculiarities of, reproduced by budding, 11;
—variation by selection in useful qualities of, 20.
ANNUAL plants, rarity of bud-variation in, 11.
ANOMALIES in the osteology of the horse, 2.
ANOMALOUS breeds of pigs, 3;
—of cattle, 3.
Anser albifrons, characters of, reproduced in domestic geese, 8.
Anser ægyptiacus, 8, 14.
Anser canadensis, 18. Anser ferus, the original of the domestic goose, 8;
—fertility of cross of, with domestic goose, 8.
ANSON, on feral fowls in the Ladrones, 7.
ANTAGONISM between growth and reproduction, 27.
Anthemis nobilis, bud-variation in flowers of, 11;
—becomes single in poor soil, 18.
ANTHERS, contabescence of, 18.
ANTIGUA, cats of, 5;
—changed fleece of sheep in, 3.
Antirrhinum majus, peloric, 10, 13 (2), 18;
—double-flowered, 18;
—bud-variation in, 11.
ANTS, individual recognition of, 22.
APHIDES, attacking pear-trees, 21;
—development of, 27.
APOPLEXY, hereditary, occurring at a certain age, 14.
APPLE, 10;
—fruit of, in Swiss lake-dwellings, 9;
—rendered fastigiate by heat in India, 10;
—bud-variation in the, 11;
—with dimidiate fruit, 11 (2);
—with two kinds of fruit on the same branch, 11;
—artificial fecundation of, 11;
—St. Valéry, 11, 18;
—reversion in seedlings of, 13;
—crossing of varieties of, 17;
—growth of the, in Ceylon, 21;
—winter majetin, not attacked by coccus, 21;
—flower-buds of, attacked by bullfinches, 21;
—American, change of, when grown in England, 23.
APRICOT, 10 (2);
—glands on the leaves of, 21;
—analogous variation in the, 26.
Aquila fusca, copulating in captivity, 18.
Aquilegia vulgaris, 10, 25.
ARAB boarhound, described by Harcourt, 1.
Arabis blepharophylla and A. soyeri, effects of crossing, 11.
Aralia trifoliata, bud-variation in leaves of, 11.
ARAUCARIAS, young, variable resistance of, to frost, 24.
ARCHANGEL pigeon, 21.
ARCTIC regions, variability of plants and shells of, 22.
Aria vestita, grafted on thorns, 11.
ARISTOPHANES, fowls mentioned by, 7.
ARISTOTLE, on solid-hoofed pigs, 3;
—domestic duck unknown to, 8;
—on the assumption of male characters by old hens, 13.
ARNI, domestication of the, 3.
ARNOLD, Mr., experiments of pollen on the maize, 11.
ARRESTS of development, 24.
ARTERIES, increase of anastomosing branches of, when tied, 24.
ARU Islands, wild pig of, 3.
ARUM, Polynesian varieties of, 22.
Ascaris, number of eggs of, 27.
ASH, varieties of the, 10;
—weeping, 10;
—simple-leaved, 10;
—bud-variation in, 11;
—effects of graft upon the stock in the, 11;
—production of the blotched Breadalbane, 11;
—weeping, capricious reproduction of, by seed, 12.
Asinus burchellii, 2.
Asinus hemionus, 13.
Asinus indicus, 13 (2).
Asinus quagga, 2.
Asinus tæniopus, the original of the domestic ass, 2.
ASPARAGUS, increased fertility of cultivated, 16.
ASS, early domestication of the, 2;
—breeds of, 2;
—small size of, in India, 2;
—stripes of, 2 (2);
—dislike of, to cross water, 6;
—reversion in, 13 (3);
—hybrid of the, with mare and zebra, 13;
—prepotency of the, over the horse, 14;
—crossed with wild ass, 20;
—variation and selection of the, 21.
ASSYRIAN sculpture of a mastiff, 1.
ASTERS, 12, 24.
ASTHMA, hereditary, 12, 14.
ATAVISM. See Reversion.
ATHELSTAN, his care of horses, 20.
ATKINSON, Mr., on the sterility of the Tarroo silk-moth in confinement, 18.
AUBERGINE, 15.
AUDUBON, on feral hybrid ducks, 6, 13;
—on the domestication of wild ducks on the Mississippi, 8;
—on the wild cock turkey visiting domestic hens, 8;
—fertility of Fringilla ciris in captivity, 18;
—fertility of Columba migratoria and leucocephala in captivity, 18;
—breeding of Anser canadensis in captivity, 18.
AUDUBON and Bachman, on the change of coat in Ovis montana, 3;
—sterility of Sciurus cinerea in confinement, 18.
AURICULA, effect of seasonal conditions on the, 23;
—blooming of, 26.
AUSTRALIA, no generally useful plants derived from, 9;
—useful plants of, enumerated by Hooker, 9.
AUSTRIA, heredity of character in emperors of, 14.
AUTENRIETH, on persistency of colour in horses, 12.
AVA, horses of, 2.
Avena fatua, cultivability of, 9.
‘AYEEN Akbery,’ pigeons mentioned in the, 5 (2), 6 (4).
AYRES, W. P., on bud-variation in pelargoniums, 11.
Azalea indica, bud-variation in, 11.
AZARA, on the feral dogs of La Plata, 1;
—on the crossing of domestic with wild cats in Paraguay, 1;
—on hornlike processes in horses, 2;
—on curled hair in horses, 2;
—on the colours of feral horses, 2;
—on the cattle of Paraguay and La Plata, 3 (3), 22;
—on a hornless bull, 20;
—on the increase of cattle in South America, 17;
—on the growth of horns in the hornless cattle of Corrientes, 13;
—on the “Niata” cattle, 3;
—on naked quadrupeds, 23;
—on a race of black-skinned fowls in South America, 7, 20;
—on a variety of maize, 9.