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INDEX. 



ABBOTT. 



Abbott, F. E., letters to, on religious 



opinions, i. 305. 

 Aberdeen, British Association Meeting 



at, 1859, ii. 166. 

 Absences from home, between 1842 and 



1854, i. 330. 

 Abstract (' Origin of Species'), ii. 131, 



132, 133, 137, i3 8 > U9, 140, 143, 



145, 147. 

 Abyssal fauna, Sir Wyville Thomson on 



the character of the, as bearing on 



the Darwinian theory, iii. 242. 



Acacias, Australian, "bloom" on the, 

 iii. 341. 



Acacia, South African, iii. 342. 



* Academy,' review of the ' Descent of 

 Man' in the, iii. 137. 



, review, by A. R. Wallace, of 



Mivart's ' Lessons from Nature,' in 

 the, iii. 184. 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia election of C. Darwin as a 

 correspondent of the, ii. 307. 



— of Sciences at Berlin, election 



as a corresponding member of the, 

 iii. 224. 



Acceleration and retardation of develop- 

 ment, views of Profs. Hyatt and 

 Cope upon, iii. 154, 233. 



Acclimatisation, ii., 212. 



Adaptation, power of, ii. 176. 



Adherents and adversaries, ii. 310. 



./Esthetic tastes, loss of, i. 101. 



Africa, mountains of, ii. 75 ; perma- 

 nence of, ii. 75. 



Agassiz, Louis, Professor, influence of, 

 ii. 43 ; opposition to Darwin's views, 



ALPINE, 

 ii. 184, 310, 314; letter to, sending 

 him the ' Origin of Species,' ii. 215 ; 

 note on, and extract from letter to, ii. 

 215 note', opinion of the book, ii. 

 268 ; attack on the ' Origin ' in 

 i Silliman's Journal,' ii. 330, 331; 

 criticism of article by, ii. 333 ; Asa 

 Gray on the opinions of, ii. 359 ; letter 

 to, on Amazonian fishes, iii. 99. 



Agassiz, Alexander, Professor, letters 

 to: — on coral reefs, iii. 183 ; on his 

 address to the American Association, 

 iii. 245 ; on the reappearance of 

 ancestral characters, iii. 246. 



Agnosticism, i. 304, 313, 317. 



Ainsworth, William, i. 37. 



Albumen, dissolution of, by leaves of 

 Drosera and Dioncca, iii. 323. 



Albums of photographs received from 

 Germany and Holland, iii. 225. 



Alca impcnnis. Professor W. Preyer on, 

 iii. 16 note. 



Aldrovanda, observations on, iii. 328. 



Algebra, distaste for the study of, i. 46. 



Allen, J. A., on the existence of geo- 

 graphical races of birds and mammals, 

 iii. 233. 



'All the Year Round,' notice of the 

 1 Origin' in, ii. 319. 



Allfrey, Mr., treatment by, iii. 357. 



Almond Tumbler, J. Eaton on the, ii. 



51. 



Alpine plants, American, ii. 61 ; Euro- 

 pean and American, connexion of, 

 through Greenland, ii. 89 ; hairiness 

 of, ii. 91, 92, 96, 98; flowers of, ii. 



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