INDEX. 



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ART-CRITICISM. 

 Art-criticism, opinion of, i. 125. 

 Arthur's Seat, boulders on, i. 328 note. 

 Aru islands, ii. 108, 109. 

 Ascension, i. 66, 265. 

 Asia, mountains of, ii. 75. 

 Atheism, charge of, ii. 230. 

 * Athenaeum,' attack of, 



Joseph Hooker, iii. 101 . 



the, iii. 19 ; article in the, iii. 21 ; 



reply to the article, iii. 22 ; reviews 



in the, i. 375, 376. 

 review of the ' Origin ' in 



upon Sir 

 letter to 



the, ii. 224, 228 ; reviews in the, 

 of Lyell's ' Antiquity of Man,' and 

 Huxley's ' Man's place in Nature,' 

 iii. 14 ; review of the ' Variation of 

 Animals and Plants,' in the, iii. 77, 

 79 ; review of the fifth edition of the 

 * Origin ' in the, iii. 108 ; review 

 of the ' Fertilisation of Orchids,' in 

 the, iii. 270. 



Athenceum Club, i. 294. 



Atlantic ocean, account of the fine 

 dust which often falls on vessels in 

 the, i. 328. 



continent, ii. 72, 73, 74 ; iii. 



35- 

 ' Atlantic Monthly,' Asa Gray's articles 



in the, ii. 338, 359, 370, 371. 

 * Atlantis,' of Edward Forbes, ii. 46, 



78, 306. 

 Atolls, ii. 325 ; formation of, iii. 184. 

 Atropine, indifference of leaves of 



Drosera and Dioncea to, iii. 323 ; 



action of minute quantities of, on the 



human eye, iii. 325. 

 Auckland island, ii. 74. 

 Audubon, i. 40. 



Australia, permanence of, ii. 75 ; moun- 

 tains of, ii. 76 ; flora of, ii. 143, 



144, 257-259; naturalized plants in, 



ii. 144 ; naturalized organisms in, ii. 



173 ; persistence of Marsupials in, ii. 



340; "bloom" common on the 



Acacias and Eucalypti of, iii. 341. 

 , South Western, relations of 



plants in, to those of the Cape of 



Good Hope, ii. 162. 

 Australian fossil and recent forms of 



plants, iii. 248. 

 Savages, Sir G. Grey's account 



of their battles, iii. 90. 



HATS. 

 Autobiography, i. 26-107. 

 ' Automata,' iii. 358. 

 Automatism, iii. 251. 

 Aveling, Dr., on C. Darwin's religious 



views, i. 317 note. 

 Avicularium of a Polyzoon, i. 249. 

 Axolotl, Professor Weismann on the, 



iii. 19S. 

 Azores, ii. 74, 77 ; Boulders on the, 



ii. H2, 113. 



Babbage and Carlyle, i. 77. 

 Bachelor of Arts, degree taken, i, 



47. 



Backgammon-playing, i. 1 23. 



Bar, Karl Ernst von, ii. 231 ; assent 

 of, to evolutionist views, ii. 186 

 note ; opinion of the theory, ii. 329, 



33°. 

 Bahia, forest scenery at, i. 231 ; letter 



to R. W. Darwin from, i. 226 ; letter 



to Miss S. Darwin from, i. 265. 



Bain, Alexander, letter to, on the 

 * Expression of the Emotions,' iii. 

 172. 



Balanus annatus, iii. 97. 



Baly medal, award of the, by the Royal 

 College of Physicians, iii. 224. 



Balfour, Professor F. M., on the prac- 

 tice of vivisection under Anaesthetics, 

 iii. 203 ; notice of, iii. 250. 



Balsamineae, insect agency requisite 

 for the fertilisation of some, iii. 



309- 



Barmouth, visit to, i. 168, 178. 



Bastian's ' Beginnings of Life,' iii. 

 168. 



Bates, H. W., on the Glacial period irt 

 the tropics, ii. 361 ; paper on mi- 

 metic butterflies, ii. 378 ; Darwin's 

 opinion of, ii. 380 note ; ' Naturalist 

 on the Amazons,' opinion of, ii. 381 ;. 

 letters to : — on his book on the Ama- 

 zons, ii. 378, 379, 381 ; on his ' In- 

 sect-Fauna of the Amazons Valley,' 

 ii. 391. 



Batrachians, absence of, on islands, ii. 



77- 

 Bats in New Zealand, ii. 336 ; Indian,, 

 killing frogs, ii. 336 ; on Oceanic 

 islands, iii. 20. 



