GOETHE. 



INDEX. 



GREENHOW. 



455 



inanency of the simple-leaved ash, i. 

 386 ; non-inheritance of certain 

 mutilations, i. 466 ; wild turnips, 

 carrots, and celery, ii. 7 ; peloria, ii. 

 34 ; prepotency of a goat-like ram, 

 ii. 41 ; benefit of change of soil to 

 pUints, ii. 128; fertility of peloric 

 flowers of Corydalis solida, li. 150 ; 

 seeding of ordinarily seedless fruit, 

 ii. 152 ; sexual sterility of plants 

 propagated by buds, &c., ii. 153 ; in- 

 crease of sugar in beet-root, ii. 185 ; 

 effects of selection in enlarging par- 

 ticular parts of plants, ii. 2o2 ; 

 growth of the cabbage in the tropics, 

 ii. 267 ; rejection of bitter almonds 

 by mice, ii. 218; influence of marshy 

 pasture on the fleece of sheep, ii. 268 ; 

 on the ears of ancient Egyptian pigs, 

 ii. 291 ; primitive distinctness of 

 species, ii, 410 ; solid-hoofed swine, 

 ii. 424. 



Goethe, on compensation of growth, 

 ii. 335. 



Gold-fish, i. 312, 313, ii. 222. 



GOMARA, on South American cats, i. 

 48. 



GoxGORA, number of seeds in the, ii. 

 373. 



Goodman, thiee-toed cows, i. 459. 



Goose, ancient domestication of, i. 802 ; 

 sacred to Juno in Rome, ibid. ; inflexi- 

 bility of organisation of, i. 303 ; skull 

 perforated in tufted, ibid. ; charac- 

 ters of breeds and sub-breeds of, i. 

 303, 304 ; variety of, from Sebastopol, 

 i. 304, ii. 386 ; feral, in La Plata, i. 

 199; Egyptian, hybrid of, with pen- 

 guin duck, ii. 43 ; spontaneous 

 segregation of varieties of, ii. 82 ; 

 fertility of, increased by domestica- 

 tion, ii. 90 ; decreased fertility of, in 

 Bogota, ii. 145 ; sterility of, in the 

 Philippine Islands, i'nd. ; selection 

 of, ii. 1 88 ; white, preference of the 

 Romans for the liver of, ii. 194 ; 

 persistency of character in, ii. 241 ; 

 Egyptian, change in breeding season 

 of, 'ii. 294. 



Gooseberrv, i. 376-378; bud-variation 

 in the, i. 400 ; Whitesmith's, ii. 

 218. 



Goppert, on monstrous poppies, ii. 150. 



Gosse, p. H., feral dogs in Jamaica, i. 



80 



28; feral pigs of Jamaica, i. u^ , 

 feral rabbits of Jamaica, i. 116 ; on 

 Columba leucocephala, i. 192; feral 

 Guinea fowl in Jamaica, i. 199 ; re- 

 production of individual pe(^uliarities 

 by gemmation in a coral, i. 398 ; 

 frequency of striped legs in mules, 

 ii. 16. 

 Gould, Dr., on hereditary haemorrhage, 



i. 451. 

 Gould, John, origin of the turkey, i. 



308. 

 Goura coronata and Victorioe^ hybrids 



of, i. 203, ii. 138. 

 Gourds, i. 381 ; crossing of varieties of, 

 ii. 86 ; ancient Peruvian variety of, 

 ii. 425. 

 Gout, inheritance of, i. 451 ; period of 



appearance of, ii. 54. 

 Graba, on the pigeon of the Faroe 



Islands, i. 192. 

 Grafting, ii. 129; effects of, ii. 246, 

 267 ; upon the stock, i. 413-422 ; 

 upon the variability of trees, ii. 246 ; 

 changes analogous to bud-variation 

 produced bv, i. 413, 415. 

 Graft-hybrids, i. 413, 417-422, ii. 360. 

 Grapes, bud-variation in, i. 399 ; ci'oss 

 of white and purple, i. 419 ; green, 

 liable to disease, ii. 330 ; effect of 

 foreign pollen on, i. 430. 

 Grasses, seeds of, used as food by 



savages, i. 324-326. 

 Gray, Asa, superior wild varieties of 

 fruit-trees, i. 327 ; cultivated native 

 plants of North America, i. 329, 380 ; 

 non-variation of weeds, i. 335 ; sup- 

 posed spontaneous crossing of Cucur- 

 bitacese, ,i. 430 ; pre-ordination of 

 variation, ii. 428; progeny of husked 

 form of maize, i. 339 ; wild inter- 

 mediate forms of strawberries, i. 373. 

 Gray, G. R., on Coluniba gymnocydus, i. 



193. 

 Gray, J. E., on Sus pHciceps, i. 72 : on 

 a variety of the gold-fish, i. 313 ; 

 hybrids of the ass and zebra, ii. 16, 

 17 ; on the breeding of animals at 

 Knowsley, ii. 131; on the breeding 

 of birds in captivity, ii. 140. 

 Greene, J. Reay, on the development 



of the echinodermata, ii. 362. 

 Greenhow, Mr., on a Canadian web» 

 footed dog, i 41. 



