INDEX 



141, 143; comparison with architec- 

 ture, i. 154 ; with force and matter, 

 i. 155 ; with laws of gravity, i. 154, 

 305 ; conservative influence of, i. 353 ; 

 Cope's and Hyatt's views on, i. 342, 

 343 ; Darwin accused of making too 

 much of a.Deus of, i. 213 ; Darwin's 

 anxiety not to overestimate effect of, 

 i. 198 ; Darwin lays stress on im- 

 portance of, i. 140, 208, 211-13, 

 387 ; Darwin on use of term, i. 126, 

 270, 271 ; deification of, i. 154; and 

 direct action, i. 214, 306, 307 ; 

 Eocene or Secondary organisms 

 would be beaten in competition with 

 recent on theory of, i. 114 ; and ex- 

 ternal conditions, i. 300 ; Falconer 

 on, i. 208 ; and fertility, i. 295, 368 ; 

 Asa Gray on, i. 126, 242 ; Harvey 

 misunderstands Darwin's meaning, 

 i. 160; Haughton partially admits, 

 i. 153 ; Hooker thinks Darwin 

 probably rides too hard his hobby of, 

 i. 135 ; Hooker on supposed falling 

 off in belief in, i. 304 ; Hooker and 

 Bates believe in, i. 199 ; Huxley's 

 belief in, i. 386 ; Huxley gives in 

 a lecture inadequate idea of, i. 139 ; 

 Hyatt and Cope on, i. 342, 343 ; 

 importance of, i. 161, 208, 305 ; 

 Lament on, i. 143, 179; Lyell on, 

 i. 172, 336 ; and monstrosities, i. 147 ; 

 Nageli's Essay on, i. 312 ; no limit 

 to perfection of co-adaptations pro- 

 duced by, i. 145 ; non-acceptance of, 

 i- 305 ; objections to, i. 269 ; " plants 

 are splendid for making one believe 

 in," i. 387 ; possibility of race of bears 

 being rendered aquatic through i. 392; 

 with the principle of divergence the 

 keystone of Origin, i. 109 ; pro- 

 duction of thorns through, i. 308 ; 

 tends to progression of organisation, 

 i. 164 ; providential arrangement 

 and superfluity of, i. 191 ; struggle 

 between reversion, variability and, 

 i- 353 '> Scott on, i. 221, 239 ; slow- 

 ness of action, i. 384 ; and sterility, 

 i. 287-9, 294, 296, 299 ; success 

 of i. 305 ; tails of mice a difficulty as 

 regards, i. 358 ; Sir W. Thomson's 

 misconception of, i. 388, 389 ; uses 

 of, i. 356; value of, i. 211-13 ; and 

 variation, i, 193, 291 ; variation of 

 species sufficient for selection and 

 accumulation of new specific charac- 

 ters by, i. 171 ; and useful characters, 

 i. 173, 191, 192 ; Wallace on, i. 118, 

 267-70 ; ii. 31, 36, 39 ; Watson on, 

 i. 286 ; applied to man and brutes, 



ii. 34 ; Australian savages and, 

 ii. 33 ; beauty and, ii. 77, 78 ; 

 Darwin on action of, ii. 379 ; 

 Darwin's historical sketch in Origin 

 of, ii. 377; difficulties of, ii. 311 ; 

 Donders nearly preceded Darwin in 

 views on, ii. 104 ; evolution of man 

 from point of view of, ii. 31 ; Owen's 

 attitude towards, ii. 377 ; primo- 

 geniture destructive of, ii. 34 ; Sexual 

 Selection less powerful than, ii. 88 ; 

 Wallace attributes theory entirely 

 to Darwin, ii, 31, 36 ; Wallace on 

 brain and ii. 39 



Naturalisation, of European plants, 

 i. 454 ; of plants in India, i. 115 ; 

 of plants in islands, i. 452 



Naturalised plants, Bentham on, i. 448 ; 

 comparison of variability of indi- 

 genous and, i. 429 ; De Candolle on, 

 i. 444 ; variability of, i. 424, 429 ; 

 fewness of American species of, in 

 Britain, i. 450. 



Naturalist in Nicaragua. Belt's, i. 357 ; 

 ii. 399 ; Belt's account of honey- 

 glands of plants in, ii. 399. 



Naturalist on the Amazons, Bates', i. 

 197 ; Darwin's opinion of, i. 240, 241 



Naturalists, views on species held by, 

 i. 175, 182 ; few care for philo- 

 sophical experiments, ii. 321 



Nature, Wallace on personification of, 

 i. 269 ; use of term, ii. 44. 



" Nature not lying," principle of, 



253 



Nature, Darwin's opinion of, i. 317 ; 

 letters or notes from Darwin in,i. 352, 



362, 377, 382, 383, 388, 389 ; ii- 368 ; 



Galton in, i. 362 ; F. Mtlller in, i. 



382 ; ii. 366, 367, 368 ; Thiselton- 



Dyer in, i. 378 

 Naudin, C, i. 134, 187 ; on hybridism, 



ii. 340 ; on Melastomacese, ii. 295 

 Nauplius stages, i. 347 

 Nautilus, of Silurian age, i. 116 

 Necrophorus, Darwin's observations on, 



ii. 63 

 Nectar, in leguminous flowers, ii. 380 ; 



Lord Farrer on secretion of, in 



Coronilla, ii. 388, 393, 394 

 Nectaries, Belt on extra-floral, ii. 399 

 Nectarines and peaches, i. 275 ; Rivers 



on production from seed, i. 279 ; 



variation in, i. 276 

 Negative geological evidence, Darwin 



and Lyell on, i. 97 



Negro, resemblance between ex- 

 pression of Cebus and, ii. 98 

 Nelumbium, as example of transport, 



i. 116 



