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, 

 loo; 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, 228. 



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, 

 58, 69, 138 ?., 154, 258, 266 sq., 269, 270, 

 279, 379; to doubt ordinary doctrine 

 of final causes not atheistical, 133. 



Augustine, St., on the method of crea- 

 tion, 857. 



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, 186. 



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, insectivorons, 823. 



Boomerang, illustrating the method of 

 proving design, 72. 



Breeding, thorough, 80 ; tendency of, to 

 reversion, 341; close, evil effects of, 



354- 



British flora, discrepancy of views re- 

 garding, 84. 



Broccoli, origin of, 111. 



Brongniart, Adolphe, on distribution of 

 species in tertiary period, 114. 



Brown, Robert, scientific sagacity of, 

 etc., 284-289. 



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, 208, 218 ; unlike that of the Atlantic 

 coast, 217. 



Canby, observations of, on sundew, 293, 

 800, 322; on Sarracenia, 830. 



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, 68, 

 76-84, 147, 153, 168, 170, 235. 



China, relation of flora of, to that of 

 North America, 214 sq. 



Classification, difference of opinion upon, 

 34 ; expresses judgments, not facts, 

 85, 122, 184, 203, 289 ; 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, 832 ; comparative advantage of 

 their habits, 334 ; cause of motion, 336. 



Cobbe, Frances Power, on the relation 

 of God to the Universe, 234. 



Cohn, Prof., on Utricularia, 324. 



Complexity of Nature, 41. 



Competition sharpest between allied 

 species, 42. 



Condor, rate of increase, 39. 



