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genesis, 2, 434, 437 ; heat expenditure 

 and genesis, 2, 440-8, 453 ; musf-nlar 

 expenditure and genesis, 2, 448-51, 

 453 ; mammalian fertility, 2, 449 ; 

 eggs of -n-ild and tame, 2, 457 ; nutri- 

 tion of blackbird and linnet, 2, 476; 

 Owen on skeleton of, S, 528, 529, 530. 



I- lainville, H. M. D. de, definition of life, 

 1, 60, 74. 



Blister, nervous action in, 2, 299. 



Blood : similarity of iron peroxide, 1, 

 17 ; segregation of abnormal consti- 

 tuents, 1, 152 ; changed by disease, 1, 

 177, 484 ; assimilatiTe power and or- 

 ganic repair, 1, 177-9 ; res]iiratory 

 tissue difPerentiation, S, 292-5 j pres- 

 sure in manunalia, 2, 329, 330. {See 

 also Yascular system). 



Boismont, A.B.de, human fertility, 2, 484. 



Bone: adaptabihty, 1, 187, ^,"200-1; 

 function and weight, 1, 246 ; mam- 

 malian cervical vertebrae, 1, 309 ; 

 evolution and vertebral column, 1, 

 382 ; partial development, 1, 385 ; size 

 of head as influencing, i, 424, 451-3 ; 

 direct equilibration and strength, 1, 

 441 ; skull development, 2, 205 ; 

 theory of supernumerary, 2, 206 ; 

 membranous, cartilaginous, and osseous 

 states, 2, 207 ; differentiation, 2, 298, 

 334-46 ; integration, 2, 375 ; Owen's 

 theory of vertebrate skeleton,^, 517-35. 



Botany : influence of heat on plants, 1, 

 27 r effect of solar rays, 1, 28-33, 412, 

 472 ; plants non-nitrogenous, 1, 37 ; 

 fungi nitrogenous, 1, 38 ; generation 

 of heat in plants, 1, 44 ; phospho- 

 rescence, i; 46 ; vegetal electricity, 

 1, 48 ; sensible plant motion, 1, 53-5 ; 

 vital plant changes, 1, 67, 68 ; changes 

 showing life, 1, 72, 75 ; crystalli- 

 zation and vegetal life, 1, 78 : vital 

 adjustments, i, 83 ; length and com- 

 plexity of life, 1, 84, 85 ; animal and 

 vegetal biology, 1, 96 ; growth, 1, 

 108 ; protophytic structure, 1, 109 ; 

 organization and growth, 1, 110, 117- 

 9, 132; growth and nutrition, 1, 112, 

 119-21, 130, 131 ; relation of initial 

 to final bulks, 1, 115, 132 ; hmits to 

 growth, 1, 125 ; growth and expendi- 

 ture, 1, 130, 132 ; central protophytic 

 development, ?, 134 ; insubordinate 

 multicentral development, 1, 135 ; 

 esial development, 1, 136, 211 ; uni- 

 oad multi-axial development, 7, 136, 



13S; bud and leaf development, f, 

 1?8-41 ; weight, temperature, and 

 self-mobility, 1, 145-50; function, i, 

 154-6 ; functional and structural com- 

 plexity, 1, 156; vicarious function, 2, 

 165 -6^ waste and repair, 1, 169, 176 ; 

 muhi|)lication of hegoniacecs, 1, 180, 

 181 , 253 ; organic polarity and physio- 

 logical units, 1, 182-3, 253 ; adapta- 

 tion, 1, 184; -what is an individual? 

 1, 201-3, 207, 208 ; homogenesis ex. 

 ccptional, 1, 211 ; heterogenesis, i, 

 211, 212 ; parthenogenesis, 1, 214-6 ; 

 disintegration of genesis, 1, 216-8; 

 re]Droductive tissue sti'ucturally un- 

 differentiated, i, 218-24; gamogenesia 

 in protophyta, 1, 219 ; relation of 

 nuti'ition to growth and gamogeuesis, 

 1, 224-8, 232, 235-7, 2, 30 ; bomo- 

 logues of ovules, 1, 228 ; nutrition 

 and growth of willow, i, 233 ; natural 

 selection and homo- ar.d hetero-genesis, 

 1, 233-7 ; general truths of heredity, 



1, 233-41; heredity and "change of 

 habit," 1, 245 ; and " sports," i, 246 ; 

 variation, 1, 257 ; cultivation and 

 variation, 1, 260, 261, 262-4; cross 

 fertilization, 1,278; self-fertilizafion, 



2, 280-2 ; classification, Z, 295-8. 2,' 'I ; 

 distribution and migration, 1, 312-7, 

 327 ; natural barriers and disti'ibutit n, 

 1, 3] 7-20, 328, 388; distribution in 

 time, 1, 320-7, 328 ; special creation 

 and parasitism, i, 343 ; evolution 

 hypothesis, 1, 349 ; evolution and 

 classification, 1, 358, 364, 471 ; Dai win 

 on floral morphology, 1, 384; rudi- 

 mentary organs, 1, ""386, 387, 472 ; 

 European plants in Xew Zealand, i, 

 389 ; distribution, 1, 389-91, 472 ; 

 varied media, 1, 396, 472 ; E. Darwin 

 and Lamarck on plant evoluticn, 1, 

 402-10 ; geologic changes affecting, 

 1, 413-5, 472 ; interdependence of 

 animals and plants, 1, 416-8, 426 ; 

 complexity of influences on plants, 1, 

 418 ; equilibration, nutrition, defence, 

 and fertilization, 1, 437-9 ; natural 

 selection and indirect equilibration, 1, 

 446, 448, 474 ; dimorphism, 1, 448 ; 

 seed distribution, 1, 461 ; importance 

 of natural selection, 1, 468 ; aquatic 

 and terrestrial conditions, 2, 24; 

 natural selection and nutrition, 2, 48; 

 floral symmetry, 2, 117 ; wood de- 

 velopraent, 2, 258-62, 268-71, 272, 



