424 



EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW. 



Natural selection, admitted by C. 

 Darwin to be a false term, 364 



the complaint is that the ex- 

 pression has been retained 

 when an avowedly more 

 accurate one is to hand, 365, 

 366 



only another way of saying 



Nature, 368, 369 



the dislike of it is increasing, 



368, 369 



Francis Darwin does not use 



the expression, 368, 369 



daily and hourly scrutinizing 



throughout the world, &c., 

 369 



practically repudiated by C. 



Darwin himself, 369 



Professor Mivart declares it to 



be "simply nothing," 370 



a " puerile hypothesis," 371 



and not disuse, the true main 



cause of the winglessness of 

 Madeira beetles, according 

 to C. Darwin, 374 



not the main cause of the 



winglessness of Madeira 

 beetles, according to C. Dar- 

 win, 377 



"combined probably with 



disuse," will account, accord- 

 ing to C. Darwin, for the 

 winglessness of Madeira 

 beetles, 375 



Naturalistes, le peuple des, 80, 171 



Nature, the personification of com- 

 paratively venial, 367 



and natural selection the same 



thing, 368, 369 



the most important means of 



modification, and variation 

 the cause of variation, 369 



Neck, Paley on the human, 17, 18 



Need, sense of, the main idea in 

 connection with evolution that 

 is left with the reader by the 

 "Zoonomia," or " Philosophic 

 Zoologique," 363 



Needle, 20,000 devils dancing a 

 saraband on the point of a, 216 



Nest, a bird will alter its nest a 

 little, to meet altered circum- 

 stances, 55 



Nests, birds', Dr. E. Darwin on, 201 



Neuter insects, ' ' the demonstra- 

 tive case of neuter insects," &c., 

 249, 298, 314 



New countries, Buffon a hater of, 

 146 



Nomenclature, mistaken for know- 

 ledge, 141 



Nottingham market-place, Eras- 

 mus Darwin in, 182, 184, 197 



OAK and man, the germs of, 

 indistinguishable, 334 



man may become as long-lived 



as the, 382 



Obvious, Erasmus Darwin had no 

 wish to see far beyond the, 197 



Oken, alluded to, 72 



Old age, the phenomena of, 67, 204, 

 381 



and new worlds, Buffon on the 



fauna of, 145, &c. 



One source for all life, Buffon on, 

 91 



Erasmus Darwin on, 109, 233 



Oneness of personality between 

 parents and offspring, 37, 

 38, 39 



Buffon on the, 151 



Erasmus Darwin and Pro- 

 fessor Bering on the, 198- 

 200 



Dr. E. Darwin'a failure to 



grasp the whole facts in con- 

 nection with this, 198, 201, 

 203 



Dr. E. Darwin on, 214, 215 



Patrick Matthew on, 322, 323 



mentioned, 332, 380, 381 



Orang-outang, Buffon on the, 156- 

 159 



Organ and use. See " Use." 



and sense, interaction of the, 



Buffon on, 127 



and faculty, Lamarck on, 255 



Organs are living tools, 2 



the manufacture of, and that 



of tools, two species of the 

 same genus, 39, 43, &c. 



are the expressions of mental 



phases, 339, 341 



Organic structures have a margin, 

 49,50 



