SUBJECT-INDEX. 



genesis, , 434, 437 ; heat expenditure 

 and genesis, 2, 440-8, 453; muscular 

 expenditxire and genesis, 2, 448-51, 

 453 ; mammalian fertility, 2, 449 ; 

 eggs of wild and tame, 2, 457 ; nutri 

 tion of blackbird and linnet, 2, 476 ; 

 Owen on skeleton of, 3, 528, 529, 530. 



V lainville, H. M. D. de, definition of life, 

 1, 60, 74. 



Blister, nervous action in, 2, 299. 



Blood : similarity of iron peroxide,*.?, 

 17; segregation of abnormal consti 

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

 177, 484 ; assimilative power and or 

 ganic repair, 1, 177-9 ; respiratory 

 tissue differentiation, 2, 292-5 ; pres 

 sure in mammalia, 2, 329, 330. (See 

 also Vascular system). 



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



Bone: adaptability, 1, 187, 2, 200-1; 

 function and weight, 1, 246 ; mam 

 mal 1 an cervical vertebra), 1, 309 ; 

 evolution and vertebral column, 1, 

 382 ; partial development, /, 385 ; size 

 of head as influencing, 1, 424, 451-3 ; 

 direct equilibration and strength, 1, 

 441 ; skull development, 2, 205 ; 

 theory of supernumerary, 2, 20G ; 

 membranous, cartilaginous, and osseous 

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

 334-46 ; integration, ,?, 375 ; Owen s 

 theory of vertebrate skeleton, #, 517-35. 



Botany : influence of heat on plants, 1, 

 27 ; 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, 1, 46 ; vegetal electricity, 

 7, 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, 1, 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 ; limits to 

 growth, 1, 125 ; growth and expendi 

 ture, 1, 130, 132 ; central protophytic 

 development, 1, 134 ; insubordinate 

 multicentral development, 1, 135 ; 

 axial development, 1, 136, 211 ; uni- 

 aad multi-axial development, 7, 136, 



138 ; bud and leaf development, /, 

 138-41 ; weight, temperature, and 

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

 154-6 ; functional and structural com 

 plexity, 1, 156 ; vicarious function, l t 

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

 multiplication of begoniacece, 1, 180, 

 181 , 253 ; organic polarity and physio 

 logical units, 1, 182-3, 253 ; adapt a- 

 tion, 1, 184 ; what is an individual? 

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

 ceptional, 1, 211 ; heterogenesis, 1, 

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

 disintegration of genesis, 1, 216-8; 

 reproductive tissue structurally un- 

 differentiated,^, 218-24; gamogenesis 

 in protophyta, 1, 219 ; region of 

 nutrition to growth and gnmogenesis, 

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

 logncs of ovules, 1, 228 ; nutrition 

 and growth of willow, 7, 233 ; natural 

 selection and homo- ar,d hetero-genesis, 

 1, 233-7 ; general truths of heredity, 

 1, 233-41; heredity and &quot;change of 

 habit,&quot; 1, 245 ; and &quot; sports,&quot; 1, 246 ; 

 variation, 1, 257 ; cultivation and 

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

 fertilization, 1, 278 ; self-fertilization, 

 1, 280-2 ; classification, 1, 29&quot;-8, 3^1 ; 

 distribution and migration, 1, 312-7, 

 327 ; natural barriers and distribution, 

 7, 3)7-20, 328, 388; distribution in 

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

 and parasitism, 1, 343 ; evolution 

 hypothesis, 1, 319; evolution and 

 classification, 1, 358, 364, 471 ; Darwin 

 on floral morphology, 1, 384 ; rudi 

 mentary organs, 1, 886, 387, 472 ; 

 European plants in Xew Zealand, 1, 

 389 ; distribution, 7, 389-91, 472 ; 

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

 and Lamarck on plant evolution, 1, 

 402-10 ; geologic changes affecting, 

 1, 413-5, 472 ; interdependence of 

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

 complexity of influences on plant?, l t 

 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, #,48; 

 floral symmetry, 2, 117 ; wood de- 

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



