INDEX. 



381 



BIRMINGHAM. 

 Birmingham, Music Meeting at, i. 180. 

 Philosophical Society, address 



from the, iii. 227. 

 Blackbird, sexual differences of the, 



iii. 124. 

 Black Grouse, female, coloration of the, 



iii. 124. 

 Blasis, Madame, i. 180. 

 Blocks, erratic, Mr. D. Mackintosh's 



work on, iii. 235. 

 Blomefield, Rev. L., j«jENYNS; Rev. 



L. 

 Blood, experiments of intertransfusion 



of, to test the theory of pangenesis, 



iii. 195. 

 ' Bloom ' on leaves and fruit, iii. 339- 



342 ; a check to evaporation, a pro- 

 tection from insects and from salt 



water, iii. 341. 

 Bloom-protected plants, distribution of, 



iii. 341. 

 Blyth, Edward, ii. 315 ; notice of, ii. 



315 note. 

 Blytt, Axel, " On the Immigration of 



the Norwegian Flora," iii. 215 ; on 



the evidence from the peat-beds of 



former changes in the climate of 



Scandinavia, iii. 249. 

 " Bob," the retriever, i. 113. 

 Body-snatchers, arrest of, in Cambridge, 



i- 53- 

 Books, treatment of, i. 150-152 ; advo- 

 cacy of cutting the edges of, iii. 36 ; 



containing contributions by C. 



Darwin, Lists of, iii. 364, 365. 

 Boole, Mrs., letter from, on Evolution 



and Religion, iii. 63 ; letter to, iii. 



64. 

 Boott, Dr. Francis, i. 294 ; ii. 292 ; 



opinion of American affairs, ii. 382. 

 Boston dinner, ii. 385. 

 Botanical work, collecting, ii. 58, 59 ; 



scope and influence of C. Darwin's, 



iii. 255, 256. 

 Botofogo Bay, letter to W. D. Fox 



from, i. 233 ; letter to J. M. Herbert 



from, i. 238. 

 Boucher de Perthes, iii. 13, 15, 16 note, 



19. 

 Boulders, erratic, of South America, 



paper on the, i. 70 ; paper on the 



transportal of, i. 328. 



BRODERIP. 



Boulders on the Azores, ii. 112, 113. 



transported by floating ice, 



paper on, i. 302. 



Bournemouth, residence at, ii. 383. 



Bowen, Prof. F., hostile review by, in 

 the ' Memoirs of the American 

 Academy of Sciences,' ii. 349, 354 ; 

 Asa Gray on the opinions of, ii. 359 ; 

 on heredity, ii. 372. 



Brace, Mr. and Mrs. C. L., visit to 

 Down, iii. 165. 



Brachiopoda, evidence from, of descent 

 with modification, ii. 366. 



Brain, size of the, in the sexes of ants, 

 iii. 191. 



Branch-climbers, iii. 317. 



Brazil, first sight of, i. 241 ; second 

 sight of, i. 266 ; sublimity of the 

 forests of, iii. 54 ; Emperor of, his 

 desire to meet C. Darwin, iii. 227. 



Breathing, influence of, on hearing, iii. 

 141 ; influence of surprise upon, iii. 

 141. 



Bree, Dr. C. R., 'Species not trans- 

 mutable,' ii. 358 ; on ' Fallacies in 

 the hypothesis of Mr. Darwin,' iii. 

 167. 



Breeding, books on, ii. 281. 



Bressa Prize, award of the, by the Royal 

 Academy of Turin, iii. 225. 



Brinton, Dr., iii. I. 



British Association at Southampton, 

 1846, i. 351 ; at Birmingham, 1849, 

 i. 378 ; Sir C. Lyell's Presidential 

 address to the, at Aberdeen, 1859, 

 ii. 166 ; at Norwich, 1868, Sir 

 Joseph Hooker's address to the, iii. 

 100 ; action of, in connection with 

 the question of vivisection, iii. 201 ; 

 Sir J. D. Hooker's address to the 

 Geographical Section of the, at 

 York, 1881, iii. 246, 249; Sir John 

 Lubbock's Presidential Address to 

 the, at York, 1 881, iii. 249 ; Meet- 

 ing at Oxford, discussion at the, ii. 

 320-323 ; Sir J. D. Hooker's alle- 

 gory of the Discussion at the, iii. 48 ; 

 Prof. Tyndall's Presidential address 

 to the, at Belfast, 1874, iii. 189. 



British aquatic and terrestrial plants, 

 sexual characteristics of, iii. 304. 



Broderip, \V. J., i. 274 note, 275. 



