EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW. 



Carnivora, Buffon on the, 126 

 Carriage, Dr. Erasmus Darwin's, 181 

 Cat, family, Buffon on the, 142, &c. 



with a mane and long tail, 143 



Cataclysms, the good cells that get 

 exterminated during the cata- 

 clysms of our own development, 

 75 



Catastrophes, Laniarck on, 277 

 Causes, or "means," of modifica- 

 tion, 301 



C. Darwin says that Buffon 



has not entered on the, 104, 

 &c. 



C. Darwin gets us into a fog 



about, 345, &c. 



Change, under changed circum- 

 stances, Mr. Patrick Matthew 

 on, 318 



Charity, the greatest of these is, 77 

 Church, a, like a second chamber, 

 400 



the world better with than 



without, 400 



should be like the fly-wheel of 



a steam engine, 104 

 Cir Constances (see Conditions of Exis- 

 tence), Laniarck on, 268, 281 

 Circumstance, suiting power, a, 

 Mr. Patrick Matthew on, 318- 

 321 



Classification, rather superficial ap- 

 pearances our best guide to, 

 34, 35, 36, 198, 204 



Buffon on, 108, 109, HI 



Clear, an ineradicable tendency to 



make things, 92 

 Clifford, Professor, on "Design," 



6,7 



Climbing plants, the movements 

 of, Dr. Erasmus Darwin on, 209 

 Coherency, the persistency of ideas 

 th best argument in support of 

 their legitimate connection, 23 

 Coleridge, on " Darwin ising," 21 

 Common terms, our, involve the 

 connection between memory 

 and heredity, 201, 205 

 - descent, the "hidden bond" 

 of Lamarck, as also of C. 

 Darwin, 271 



Comparative anatomy, Laniarck 

 on, 266, &c. 



Complex structures, the incipiency 

 of, a difficulty in the way of the 

 natural selection view of evolu- 

 tion, 21, 22 



Compromise, Buffon's, 92 



Conditions of existence, the very 

 essence of condition involves 

 that there shall be penalty 

 in case of non-fulfilment, 

 352, 376, 377 



and the wiuglessness of 



Madeira beetles, 373, &c. 



according to C. Darwin, "in- 

 clude" and yet "are fully 

 embraced by " natural selec- 

 tion, 355 



identical with "natural selec- 



,tion," 351-354 



Etienne Geolfroy, and La- 

 marck on, 326, 327, 328 



Buffon on the, 103 ; differ- 

 ence between Buffon's and 

 Lamarck's view of their 

 action, 105 



direct action of changed, 



Buffon on the, 145, 147, 160 



Lamarck on, 105, 268, 270, 



271, 275,277, 278,281,291, 

 292, 294, 295, 298, 299, 300, 

 Ac. 



Continuity in discontinuity, and 

 vice versd, 47 



Contracts of animals, Dr. E. Dar- 

 win on the, 205 



Contrivance, does organism show 

 signs of this ? 2 



Convenient, not only sometimes, 

 but always, more, 365 



Corkscrew for corks, and lungs for 

 respiration, Prof. Clifford 

 on, 7. See also p. 58 



we should have grown a, if 



drawing corks had been im- 

 portant to us, 7 



Creator, a, who is not an organism, 

 unintelligible, 6, 11, 24 



Criticising, difficulty of, without 

 knowing more than the mere 

 facts which are to be criticised, 172 



Criticism, Miss Seward's, on Dr. 

 Darwin's " Elegy," 189 



Grant Allen on the decay of. 



388 



