INDEX. 



Accident incidental to design, 154-157. 



Agassiz, L., view of species, 19, 16, 163, 

 191, 200 ; how he diverges from Dar- 

 win, 16, 117, 120, 199; correspondence 

 of his capital facts with Darwin's, 19; 

 theory theistic to excess, 14, 20-22, 

 154, 200; relation of tertiary to exist- 

 ing species, 49, 110 ; on age of Florida, 

 100; on prophetic types, 116; on in- 

 telligence of animals, 172; on destruc- 

 tion of species, 120 ; on geological 

 time, 100, 162; on design in Nature, 

 154-156. 



Alaska, Sequoia fossil in, 223. 



Aldrovanda, insectivorous, 322. 



Analogy, use of, by Darwin, 47, 105 ; in 

 proof of design, 365. 



Argyll, Duke of, on creation by law. 275. 



Aristotle, his definition of Nature, 3S9 ; 

 his theistic view of Nature, 390. 



Atheism, relations of Darwinism to. 55, 

 5n 69, 133 s^.,154, 258, 206 sg., 269, 2T0, 

 279. 379 ; to doubt ordinary doctrine 

 of final causes not atheistical. 133. 



Ausustine, St., on the method of crea- 

 tion, 357. 



Austin, Mrs., on the California pitcher- 

 plant, 330. 



Bacon. Lord, view of Providence. 144. 



Baird, Prof, on variation in the birds of 

 North America, 244. 



Bartram, William, on insectivorous 

 plants, 305. 



Beech, species of, now extending their 

 limits, 1^6. 



Bentham. on the derivative hypothesis, 

 236, 242. 



Bible, does not determine the mode of 

 creation, 131, 291 ; a mirror of Provi- 

 dence, 142 ; interpretation of, partly a 

 matter of probabilities. 261. 



Billiard-balls illustrate the proof of de- 

 sign, 62-64, 69-74, 77. 



Birds, instinct of, 171. 



Bladderwort, insectivorous. 323. 



Boomerang, illustrating the method of 

 proving design, 72. 



Breeding, thorough. 30 ; tendency of, to 

 reversion, 341 ; close, evil effects of, 

 354. 



British flora, discrepancy of views re- 

 garding, 34. 



Broccoli, origin of. 111. 



Brongniart, Adolphe, on distribution of 

 species in tertiary period, 114. 



Brown, Bobert, scientific sagacity of, 

 etc., 2S4-2S9. 



Budding, propagation by, relation of, to 

 deterioration of varieties, 341. 



Butler. Bishop, definition of natural, 

 61, 160, 259, 269. 



Butterwort. insectivorous, 325 ; diges- 

 tion of, 325. 



Cabbage, origin of. 111. 



California, gigantic trees of, 207, see Se- 

 quoia ; general characteristics of flora 

 of, 203, 213; unlike that of the Atlantic 

 coast, 217. 



Canbv, observations of. on sundew, 293, 

 300*, 322 ; on Sarracenia, 330. 



Catastrophes in geology, 120. 



Cattle, origin of breeds of, 111 ; increase 

 of, in South America, 39, 117 ; exist- 

 ence sometimes dependent on insects, 

 41. 



Cauliflower, origin of, 111. 



Caulophyllum, and relatives, dispersion 

 of; 222. 



Cause, efficient, three theistic views of, 

 158-168. 



Cedar, species of, 188. 



Chair, classification of. 167. 



Chance, not admissible. 42. 55, 59, 65, 

 76-84, 147, 153, 1G8, 170, 235. 



China, relation of flora of, to that of 

 North America, 214 sq. 



Classification, difference of opinion upon, 

 84; expresses judgments, not facts, 

 35,122, 134, 203, 239; expresses only 

 the coarser gradations, 126, 142 ; see 

 Species, and Gradation. 



Climate, as affecting the numbers of a 

 species, 40 ; acts indirectly, 41 ; of the 

 north in early periods. 114, 224. 



Climbing-plants. 331-337 ; feel as well as 

 grow, 332 ; comparative advantage of 

 their habits. 3:34 ; cause of motion, 336. 



Cobbe. Frances Power, on the relation 

 of God to the Universe, 2-54. 



Cohn, Prof, on Utricularia, 324. 



Complexity of Nature. 41. 



Competition sharpest between allied 

 species, 42. 



Condor, rato of increase, 39. 



