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INDEX. 



Contingency, Darwinian hypothesis 



based on, 52, 54, 76, 84, 86; mingled 



with design, 274. 

 Continuity of Nature. 123, 190, 234, 25S, 



273. 289, 323, 331. 379. 

 Creation, three views of, theistie, 158, 



357. 

 Cretaceous flora, relation of, to present 



flora, 233. 

 Cross-breeding, essential to longevity 



and vigor of species, 33, 346. 354. 

 Curtis, Kev. Dr., M. A., his account of 



Dionaea, 293. 

 Cuvier. on the part animals have to play 



in nature, 356. 

 Cypress, the bald, relation of, to Sequoia. 



213, 225, 230. 



Darwin, Charles, standing as a naturalist, 

 133, 283 sq., 287, 297 ; how his view of 

 species differs from the ordinary views, 

 13,16; how from Agassiz's view, 16, 

 117, 129; summary of arguments, 36, 

 109-116 ; his distinctive work, 37, 61, 

 273, 308-309, 327. 837 ; where his argu- 

 ment weakest, 47. 169 ; where strong- 

 est, 121 ; his candor, 169, 286; harmo- 

 nizes teleology and morphology. 52 

 121, 234, 247, 288, 322, 337, 357, 375; 

 does not deny creative intervention, 

 61. 93, 143, 149 ; does not sneer at the 

 doctrine of design, 139, 140 ; never de- 

 pended exclusively on natural selec- 

 tion, 104; view of instinct, 173; no 

 atheistical intent, 25S, 268-270, 27-1 ; 

 experiments with Dionia, 294. 321. 



Darwinism, still an hypothesis, 53 sq.. 

 119, 128, 135. 179, 274'; compatible witti 

 atheism, but not inconsistent with 

 theism, 54, 130, 159, 258, 279. 379 ; more 

 compatible with theism than the the- 

 ory of gravitation, 55, 235 ; relation to 

 teleology, 57, 84-86, 121, 145, 151-152, 

 176, 234, 247, 258, 271, 272, 28S, 337, 

 357; premonitions of, 88, 94, 238; re- 

 lations to Lvell's geological theories, 

 103, 109, 110 ; objections to, 168-177 ; 

 argument for, from the distribution of 

 the species of the oak, 190 ; as stated 

 bv Wallace, 191 ; present attitude of 

 naturalists to, 234, 236-251, 279 ; im- 

 plications of, regarding the indefinite 

 vitality of species, 348. 



Darwinian Teleology, accounts for abor- 

 tive and useless organs, 371 ; for the 

 apparent waste of Nature, 376, 377 ; for 

 imperfections and failures, 378. 



Dawson, on derivation of species, 236, 

 246. 



De Candolle, Alph., on the oak, 178; 

 definition of species, 201, 202 ; deriva- 

 tion of species, 186. 200, 236, 239; on 

 multiple origin of species, 191. 239. 



De Candolle, conception of the struggle 

 for existence, 37. 



Des Hayes, on gradation of species in 

 the tertiary period, 49, 110. 



Design versus Necessity, 62-86; distin- 

 guished from purpose, 35S, 859 ; how 

 proved, 70-76, 84, 150-152, 168, 301, 

 362, 365, 371 ; natural selection a 

 substitute for it. 69 ; can never be de- 

 monstrated, 70, 865; method of proof 

 illustrated by pump, 71 ; by boome- 

 rang, 72 ; by movement of billiard balls, 

 62-64, 69-74, 77 ; by the eye, 79-84 ; 

 by machinery, 85, 278 ; may act 

 through variation and natural selec- 

 tion, 148, 247, 272, 275, 28S; evidence 

 of, complete in the individual. 151, 364, 

 866; all Nature a manifested design, 

 152, 153. 176, 274, 337, 379 ; manifest in 

 insectivorous plants, 300, 301, 814, 822 ; 

 in climbing plants. 335, 336 ; consistent 

 with three views of efficient cause, 158 

 ff, 272 ; not disproved by negative in- 

 stances, 369, 370, 380. 



Dionaea. account of, 291-295, 820 ; digests 

 animal food, G19, 32!. 



Diseases, contagious, relation of, to nat- 

 ural selection, 241. 



Divergence, how produced by natural 

 selection, 91. 



" Division of labor " in the organic world, 

 43.91. 



Dogs, of diverse origin, 27. 



Domestication, effect of, upon variation, 

 26, 29, 32, 1&4, 389, 340. 



D"Orbigny, on destruction of species, 120. 



Drosera. 291,295-301,310; sensitiveness 

 of. 312, 817. 



Dubuque, address of Professor Gray at, 

 205. 



Effect, as result of complex causes, 62-86. 



Elephant, possible rapidity of increase, 

 3S ; Falconer on, 193-196. 



Embryology, 118. 



Equilibrium of natural forces, 41, 42. 



Evolution and theology. 252-265. 



Evolutionary hvpotheses should be the- 

 istie, 176, 199, 279, 381, 389. 390. 



Evolutionary teleology, article on, 359- 

 390. 



Extinction of species, not by cataclvsms, 

 41. 



Eye. formation of, 59, 60; illustrating 

 design, 79-^4. 



Falconer, on the affinity of the .mammoth 

 with the elephant, and the bearing 

 of the facts on Darwinism, 193-196. 



Fertilization of plants, contrivances for, 

 346, 375-377. 



Final causes, see Teleology. 



Flounder, see Pleuronecta. 



Flower, Prof., on the derivative hy- 

 pothesis, 236. 243. 



Fly-trap, see Dionsea. 



Forbes, Edward, on the dispersion of 

 species, 191. 



