IIs 7 DEX 



Bullfinch, experiment on colouring, ii. 

 64 ; attracted by German singing- 

 bird, ii. 74 ; Weir on pairing, ii. 70 



Bunbury, Sir C. J. F., biographical 

 note, ii. 224 ; Darwin's opinion of, 

 i. 132 ; views on Evolution, i. 317; 

 on Agassiz's statements on glaciation 

 of Brazil, i. 476, 478 ; on plants of 

 Madeira, i. 480 ; illness, ii. 221 ; 

 mentioned, ii. 224 



Bunsen, Copley medal awarded to, ii. 

 231 ; mentioned, ii. 229 



Burbidge, F. W., on Malaxis, i. 474 



Burleigh, Lord, i. 135 



Burnett, ii. no, 



Busk, G., visit to the Continent with 

 Falconer,!. 253; on caves of Gibraltar, 

 ii. 105 



Butler, A. G., identification of butter- 

 flies, ii. 358 



Butler, Dr., Darwin at Shrewsbury 

 School under, i. 4; ii. 441,442; men- 

 tioned, i. 6 



Butterflies, attracted by colours, i. 183, 

 348 ; and mimicry, i. 266 ; tameness 

 of, i. 348 ; colour and sexual selec- 

 tion, ii. 56, 67, 68, 94 ; description by 

 Darwin of ticking, ii. 358 



Butterfly-orchis, ii. 276 (see also Habc- 

 naria ) 



CABBAGE, Darwin's work on, i. 218; 

 effect of salt water on, ii. 411 ; Pin- 

 guicula and seeds of, ii. 401 ; sleep- 

 movements of cotyledons, ii. 414 ; 

 waxy secretion on leaves, ii. 361, 409 



Caddis-flies, F. Miiller on abortion of 

 hairs on legs of, i. 382 



CcF.nonyrnpka, breeding in confinement, 

 ii. 96 



Caird, on Torbitt's potato experiments, 



i- 373, 374 

 Calcutta, J. Scott's position in Botanic 



Garden, i. 217 



Callidryasphilea,?(.-ftA ffedychium.'ii. 400 

 Callithrix Sciurais^ wrinkling of eyes 



during screaming, ii. 102 

 Callnna vulgaris, in Azores, i. 483 

 Cambrian, piles of unconformable strata 



below, i. 398 

 Cambridge, Darwin and Henslow, i. 

 151, 189 ; Honorary LL.D. given to 

 Darwin, i. 371-2; mentioned, i. 18; 

 Darwin's recollections of, i. 13 ; 

 Owen's address, i. 178, 211 ; Philo- 

 sophical Soc. meeting, i. 149, 150; 

 Darwin visits, ii. 425 ; specimens of 

 Darwin's plants in Botanical Museum, 

 ii. 290 



Camel, Cuvier's statement on teeth, i. 



210, 211 ; in N. America, ii. 18 

 Cameroons, commingling of temperate 



and tropical plants, i. 472 ; Hooker 



on plants of, ii. 5,6; plants of, ii. 25 

 Campanula, fertilisation mechanism, ii. 



257, 260 ; C. perfoliata, note by 



Scott on. ii. 319 



Campanulacege, crossing in, ii. 250 

 Campbell Island, flora, i. 404, 405 

 Campodea, Lord Avebury on, i. 331 

 Canada, Sir William Dawson's work, 



i. 209 

 Canaries, fertility of hybrids, ii. 71 ; 



plumage, ii. 81 ; wildness of hybrids, 



75 

 Canary Islands, flora, i. 407 ; Humboldt 



on, i. 494 ; insects of, i. 167 ; Madeira 

 formerly connected with, i. 480 ; re- 

 lation to Azores and Madeira, i. 427, 

 483; d'Urville on, i. 409; African 

 affinity of eastern, ii. I ; elevation of, 

 ii. 136; von Buch on. ii. 27 ; trunks of 

 American trees washed on shores 

 of. ii. 3 



Candolle, A. L. P. P. de, biographical 

 note, i. 233 ; on influence of climate, 

 i. 380 ; on Cupuliferse, i. 233 ; on ex- 

 tinction of plants in cultivated land, 

 i. 423 ; Geographic botanique, i. 444 ; 

 letters to, i. 233, 234, 348, 368-9; 

 ii. 429, 430 ; on introduced plants, 

 i. 434 ; on naturalised plants and 

 variation, i. 424 ; review by Asa Gray 

 of, i. 242 ; on relation of size of fami- 

 lies to range of species, i. 424 ; on 

 social plants, i. 424 ; mentioned, i. 

 93, 105, 116, 162 ; ii. 250 



Candolle, C. de, on latent life in seeds, 

 ii. 245 



Canestrini, on proportion of sexes in 

 Boj/ibyx, ii. 70 



Canna, fertilisation of, ii. 273 



Cape of Good Hope (see also Africa), 

 i. 27, 117, 167 ; Australian flora com- 

 pared with that of, i. 447 ; flora, i. 

 415, 447 ; ii. 24 ; variable heaths of, 

 i. 41 ; Darwin's geological observa- 

 tions on metamorphism at, ii. 203 ; 

 European element in flora, ii. 26 ; 

 Meyer and Doege on plants of, ii. 



251 



Cape Tres Monies, the Beagle's south- 

 ern limit, i. 20 



Caprification, F. Miiller in Kosmos on, 

 ii. 366 



CapseUa bursa-pastoris, cross-fertilisa- 

 tion of, ii. 414 



Carabus, origin of, i. 200 ; in Chili, ii. 

 159 ; A. Murray on, ii. 3 



