430 



ALEXANDER. 



INDEX. 



ANTIGUA. 



and their specific unity, i. 345 ; on 

 the varieties of beans, i. 349. 



Alexander the Great, his selection of 

 Indian cattle, ii. 186. 



Alg^, retrogressive metamorphosis in, 

 ii. 354; division of zoospores of, ii. 

 372. 



Allen, J., birds in United States, ii. 

 271. 



4llen, W., on feral fowls, i. 249, ii. 

 7. 



Allman, Professor, on a monstrous 

 Saxifraga geum, ii. 150 ; on the Hy- 

 droida, ii. 354, 364. 



Almond, i. 357 ; antiquity :<", ii. 425 ; 

 bitter, not eaten by mice, ii. 218. 



Alniis qlutlnosa, and incana, hj^brids of, 

 ii. 111. 



Alpaca, selection of, ii. 192. 



Althcea rosea, i. 402, ii. 85. 



Amari/Uis, ii. 120. 



Amaryllis vittata, eifect of foreign pollen 

 on, i. 431. 



Amaurosis, hereditary, i. 453. 



Ainblystoma lurida, ii. 358. 



America, limits within which no use- 

 ful plants have been furnished by, i. 

 327 ; colours of feral horses in, i. 62- 

 64; North, native cultivated plants 

 of, i. 329 ; skin of feral pig from, i. 

 80 ; South, variations in cattle of, i. 

 92, 95. 



Ammon, on the persistency of colour in 

 horses, i. 465. 



Amygdalus persica, i. 357-365, 398. 



Anagallis arvensis, ii. 173. 



Analogous variation, i. 442, ii. 341- 

 345 ; in horses, i. 58 ; in the horse 

 and ass, i. 67 ; in fowls, i. 255-257. 



Anas boschas, i. 291, ii. 14 ; skull of, 

 figured, i. 297. 



"Ancon" sheep of Massachusetts, i. 

 104, ii. 70. 



Andalusian fowls, i. 238. 



Andalusian rabbits, i. 109. 



Anderson, J., on the origin of British 

 sheep, i. 98 ; on the selection of 

 qualities in cattle, ii. 180; on a one- 

 eared breed of rabbits, i. 112 ; on the 

 inheritance of characters from a one- 

 eared rabbit, and three-legged bitch, 

 i. 456 ; on the persistency of varieties 

 of peas, i. 349 ; on the production of 

 early peas by selection, ii. 185; on 



the varieties of the ])otato, i. 350, 

 351 ; on crossing varieties of the 

 melon, i. 430 ; on reversion in the 

 barberry, i. 410. 



Anderson, Mr., on the reproduction of 

 the weeping ash by seed, i. 462 ; on 

 the cultivation of the tree paeony in 

 China, ii. 189. 



Andersson, Mr., on the Damara, Bechu- 

 aua, and Nam aqua cattle, i. 91 ; on 

 the cows of the Damaras, ii. 290 ; 

 selection practised by the Damaras 

 and Namaquas, ii. 192; on the use of 

 grass-seeds ami the roots of reeds as 

 food in South Africa, i. 326. 



Anemone coronaria, doubled by selection, 

 ii. 185. 



Angina pectoris, hereditary, occurring 

 at a certain age, ii. 55. 



Anglesea, cattle of, i. 84. 



Angola sheep, i. 98. 



Angora, change in hair of animals at, 

 ii. 268; cats of, i. 47, 49 ; rabbits of, 

 i. no, 127. 



Animals, domestication of, facilitated 

 by fearlessness of man, i. 20 ; refusal 

 of wild, to breed in captivity, ii. 131 ; 

 compound, individual peculiarities of, 

 reproduced by budding, i. 398 ; varia- 

 tion by selection in useful qualities 

 of, ii. 205. 



Annual plants, rarity of bud-variation 

 in, i. 440. 



Anomalies in the osteology of the 



horse, i. 51 



of 



pigs, 



■8; of 



Anomalous breeds 

 cattle, i. 92. 



Anser albifrons, characters of, repro- 

 duced in domestic geese, i. 303. 



Anser cB(fijptiacus, i. 296, ii. 44. 



Anser canadensis, ii. 1-10. 



Anser ferv^, the original of the domes- 

 tic goose, i. 302 ; fertility of cross of, 

 with domestic goose, i. 303. 



Anson, on feral fowls in the Ladrones, 

 i. 249. 



Antagonism between growth and re- 

 production, ii. 379. 



Anthemis no'iUis, bud-variation in 

 flowers of, i. 404 ; becomes single in 

 poor soil, ii. 151. 



Anthers, contabescence of, ii. 149. 



.ANTIGUA, cats of, i. 48 ; changed fleecfl 

 of sheep in, i. 102. 



