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INDEX 



Brackish- water plants, i. 116 



Bradshaw, H., translation of Hebrew 

 letter by, i. 365 



Brain, Owen on, i. 238 ; evolution in 

 man, ii. 39, 40 ; Wallace on Natural 

 Selection and Evolution of, ii. 39 



BranchipuS) Schmankewitschs experi- 

 ments on, i. 391 



Brant a,) mentioned in reference to 

 nomenclature of Barnacles, i. 69 



Brassica sinapistrum, germination at 

 Down of old seeds, ii. 245 



Braun, A., convert to Darwin's views, 

 i- 259 



Bravais, on lines of old sea-level in 

 Finmark, ii. 176, 183 



Brazil, L. Agassiz's book on, i. 305 ; 

 Agassiz on glacial phenomena in, i. 

 476 ; F. Miiller's residence in, i. 382; 

 plants on mountains of, i. 478 ; basalt 

 in association with granite, ii. 125 ; 

 Darwin on origin of lakes in, ii. 155; 

 dimorphism of plants in S., ii. 350 



Bree, Dr., on Celts, i. 174; misrepre- 

 sents Darwin, i. 174. 



Breeders, views on Selection held by, i. 



J93 

 Breeding, chapter in Origin on, i. 130 



Brehm, on birds, i. 173, 174 



Breitenbach, Dr., ii. 369 



Brewster, Sir D., on Glen Roy, ii. 176 



Bridgeman, ii. 314 



Brinton. Dr., attends Darwin, ii. 338 



British Association meetings, Belfast 

 (1874), ii. 398, 402 : Birmingham 

 (1849), i. 66 ; Cambridge (1862), ii. 

 155; Ipswich (1851), i. 66; Leeds 

 (1858), i. 178; Liverpool (1870), i. 

 322; Manchester (1861), i. 194; 

 Norwich (1868). i. 309 ; Nottingham 

 (1866), i. 480 ; Oxford (1847), 2I 8, 

 247, 248; Oxford (1860), i. 156, 158, 

 1 60 ; Southampton (1846), i. 55, 

 ii. 175; Swansea (1880), ii. 424; 

 York (1881), ii. 24; Addresses- 

 Berkeley, i. 309 ; Fawcett, i. 194, 

 195 ; Hooker, i. 297, 299, 302, 304, 

 309 ; ii. 398 , 402 ; Hooker on Insular 

 Floras, i. 480 (see also Hooker, Sir 

 J. D.) ; Huxley on Abiogenesis, i. 

 322, 323 ; Lord Kelvin, i. 329, 330 ; 

 Wallace on Birds' Nests, i. 283 



British Association, Committee for in- 

 vestigation of Coral Atoll by boring, 

 ii. 198, 199 



British Medical Association, undertakes 

 defence of Dr. Ferrier, ii. 437, 438 



British Museum, disposal of Botanical 

 Collections, i. 109-13 



Brodie, Sir Benjamin, ii, 442 



Brongniart, Ad., on Stgi I/aria, ii. 220 



Bronn, H. G., Letter to, i. 172-4 ; on 

 German translation of Origin, i. 139 ; 

 reference in his transl. of Origin to 

 tails of mice as difficulty opposed to 

 Natural Selection, i. 358 ; on Natural 

 Selection, i. 387 ; Entwickelung, ii. 

 234 ; Morphologische Studien, ii. 232 ; 

 Naturgcschichte der drei Reich e, ii. 

 223 



Brougham, Lord, on Structure of Bees' 

 cells, i. 123 ; habit of writing every- 

 thing important three times, ii. 323 



Brown. H. T., and F. Escombe, on 

 vitality of seeds, ii. 245 ; on influence 

 of varying amounts of CO : on plants, 

 ii. 21 



Brown, R., accompanies Flinders on 

 Australian voyage, i. 444 ; meets 

 Darwin, i. 408 ; dilatoriness over 

 King's collection, i. 39 ; illness, i. 109 ; 

 on course of vessels in orchid flowers, 

 ii. 273-5 '> mentioned, ii. 156 ; on 

 pollen-tubes, ii. 313 ; seldom indulged 

 in theory, ii. 323 



Brulle, G. A., biographical note, i. 

 257 ; reference to work by, i. 97, 98 ; 

 his pupils' eagerness to hear Darwin's 

 views, i. 257 



Brunonia, Hamilton on fertilisation 

 mechanism, ii. 258 



Brunton, Sir T. Lander, letters to, ii. 

 437, 441 ; letter to Darwin from, ii. 



433 

 Brydges and Anderson, collection of 



S. American plants, i. 400 

 Bryophyllum calycinum, Duval-Jouve 



and F. M tiller on movements of 



leaves, ii. 365 

 Bryozoa, specimens found during 



voyage of Beagle, i. 1 6. 

 Buch, von. on craters of A'bemarle I., 



ii. 127 ; Darwin's disbelief in his 



views, ii. 116 ; mentioned, ii. 200; 



Travels in Norway, ii. 20 1 

 Buckland, W., biographical note, ii. 



150, 151 ; on Glen Roy, ii. 172, 175, 



187 ; mentioned, ii, 149 

 Buckle, Darwin reads book by, ii. 156 

 Buckley, Miss, ii. 238 

 Buckman, on N. American plants, i. 451 

 Buckman, Prof., experiments at Ciren- 



cester, ii. 421 

 Bud, propagation by, i. 280, 296 ; 



Hooker's use of term, i. 197 ; fertili- 

 sation in, ii. 254, 255 

 Bud -variation, i. 213, 220, 275-7 ; ii. 314 

 Buenos-Ayres, fossils sent by Darwin 



from, i. 17 

 Bull-dog, as example of Design, i. 282 



