INDEX. 



489 



Cattle, Indian, 15, 266. 



Cave, inhabitants of, blind, 123. 



Cecidomyia, 428. 



Celts, proving antiquity of man, 15. 



Centres of creation, 357. 



Cephalopodae, structures of eyes,169. 



development of, 431. 

 Cercopitheeus, tail of, 210. 

 Ceroxylus laceratus, 203. 

 Cervulus, 265. 

 Cetacea, teeth and hair, 129. 



development of the whalebone, 

 203. 

 Cetaceans, 203. 

 Ceylon, plants of, 366. 

 Chalk formation, 330. 

 Characters, divergence of, 95. 



sexual, variable, 135, 138. 



adaptive or analogical, 413. 

 Charlock, 67. 

 Checks to increase, 59. 



mutual, 61. 

 Chelae of crustaceans, 214. 

 Ciiickens, instinctive tameness of, 



234. 

 Chironomus, its asexual reproduc- 

 tion, 428. 

 Chthamalinae, 300. 

 Chthamalus, cretacean species of, 



315. 

 Circumstances favorable to selec- 

 tion of domestic products, 33. 



to natural selection, 88. 

 Cirri pedes capable of crossing, 88. 



carapace aborted, 132. 



their ovigerous frena, 166. 



fossil, 315. 



larvae of, 429. 

 Claparede, Prof., on the hair-clasp- 



ers of the Acaridae, 171. 

 Clarke, Rev. W. B., on old glaciers 



in Australia, 371. 

 Classification, 404. 

 Clift, Mr., on the succession of 



types, 344. 

 Climate, effects of, in checking in- 

 crease of beings, 61. 



adaptation of, to organisms, 126. 

 Climbing plants, 165. 



development of, 217. 

 Clover visited by bees, 83. 

 Cobites, intestine of, 164. 

 Cockroach, 67. 



Couections, palajontological, poor, 

 399, 



Color, influenced by climate, 120. 

 in relation to attack by flies, 177. 



Columba livia, parent of domestic 

 pigeons, 19. 



Colym betes, 382. 



Compensation of growth, 131. 



Compos itae, flowers and seeds of, 130. 

 outer and inner florets of, 193. 

 male flowers of, 444. 



Conclusion, general, 465. 



Conditions, slight changes in. 

 favorable to fertility, 277. 



Convergence of genera, 113. 



Coot, 159. 



Cope, Prof., on the acceleration or 

 retardation of the period of 

 reproduction, 166. 



Coral islands, seeds drifted to, 361. 

 reefs, indicating movements of 

 earth, 361. 



Corn-crake, 160. 



Correlated variation in domestic 

 productions, 10. 



Coryanthes, 173. 



Creation, single centres of, 357. 



Crinum, 264. 



Croll, Mr., on subaerial denuda- 

 tion, 296. 

 on the age of our oldest forma- 

 tions, 318. 

 on alternate Glacial periods in 

 the North and South, 372. 



Crosses, reciprocal, 269. 



Crossing of domestic animals, im- 

 portance in altering breeds, 17. 

 advantages of, 84. 

 unfavorable to selection, 89. 



Cruger, Dr., on Coryanthes, 173. 



Crustacea of New Zealand, 374. 



Crustacean, blind, 123. 

 air-breathers, 170. 



Crustaceans, their chelae, 214. 



Cryptocerus, 255. 



Ctenomys, blind, 123. 



Cuckoo, instinct of, 235. 



Cunningham, Mr., on the flight of 

 the logger-headed duck, 121. 



Currants, grafts of, 272. 



Currents of sea, rate of, 360. 



Cuvier, on conditions of existence, 

 228. 



Cuvier, Fred., on instinct, 227. 

 on fossil monkeys, 314. 



Cyclostoma, resisting salt water. 

 391. 



