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ANALYTICAL INDEX 



MIMICRY, &c. UPON SUPPOSED 

 TRANSMISSION OF, V. 166-8. 



ACQUIRED CHARACTERS, TRANS- 

 MISSION OF, IMPLIED BY THE 

 THEORY OF EXTERNAL CAUSES, 

 VIII. 267. 



Acquired Characters, transmission 

 of, disputed, 96; a factor of La- 

 marck's theory, 98; meaning of 

 term, 1 10 ; transmission of, dis- 

 cussed, 110-15 ; Lamarckism and, 

 110-15 ; theoretical difficulty of trans- 

 mission of, in, 112; definition of 

 somatogenic, centripetal or, 122, 123 ; 

 pangenesis and inheritance of, 123-7 ; 

 continuity of the germ-plasm and, 

 131-2; relation to germ-plasm of, 

 shown in Diagram II, 132; ' identical' 

 twins and relation of inherent char- 

 acters to, 132-5 ; discussion of 

 transmission of, 136-8 ; direct and 

 indirect evidence of transmission 

 of, 136-8 ; mutilation, education, 

 disease, &c., 136; position of medical 

 faculty [in 1889] with regard to trans- 

 mission of, 136, 137; origin of indi- 

 vidual variation and, 137 ; instinct and, 

 116-19, 138, 154-66 ; use-inheritance 

 and, 137, 138 ; confusion caused by 

 term, 140 ; erroneous assumption 

 that use of term is only recent, 141 

 n. 2 ; use of term by Erasmus 

 Darwin (1794), 140-1; by Lamarck 

 (1809), 141 ; by J. C. Prichard 

 (1826), 177, 179; Sir Ray Lankester 

 on use of, 141 n. 2 ; Prof. Weismann 

 on, 142; Prof. J. Mark Baldwin on, 

 73, 73 n. I, 142, 142 n. 2 ; Prof. C. 

 Lloyd Morgan on, 142, 143 ; Francis 

 Galton on, 143 ; Sir Edward Fry on, 

 143, 144; E. B. Poulton on, 143, 

 144 ; interpenetrated by inherent 

 elements, 144; parental acquired 

 characters if hereditary would not be 

 acquired but inherent in offspring, 

 144; inconsistency of Lamarck's 

 Laws with regard to, 144-6; due to 

 gravity not inherited in pupae, 1 5 1-2 ; 

 insect colours and supposed trans- 

 mission of, 1 66-8 ; inherent (con- 

 genital or connate) characters clearly 

 distinguished from by J. C. Prichard, 

 J 75> J?9 5 non-transmission of, clearly 

 apprehended and ably discussed by 

 Prichard (1826), 174-85; 'acquired 

 varieties are not transmitted,' 

 Pnchard (1826), 177; 'acquired 



characters are transient ; they termi- 

 nate with the individual, and have no 

 influence on the progeny,' Prichard 

 (1826), 179; non-transmission of 

 considered beneficial by Prichard, 

 182. 

 Acraea acara, 339 n. I ; anemosa, 



339 n. I \-encedon, 355, 364, 365 n. I ; 

 esebria, 354; satis, 52 n. I ; 

 serena, 341; -violae, 269. 



Acraeinae (see also classification of 

 examples of mimicry, 384-8), slow-fly- 

 ing and gregarious, 52 n. i ; need for 

 breeding epigonic series of, 90 ; as 

 models paralleled by Diabrotica, 

 236 ; always tend to be mimicked, 

 233 ; an Indian species of proved to 

 be unpalateable, 269 ; uniformity 

 throughout many species of, 277 ; 

 unpleasant scent in African, 316; 

 absence of ' eye-spots ' in, 326 ; pre- 

 ferring station different from that of 

 model, Z. chrysippus, 349. 



Acraeoid Heliconidae of Bates = 

 Heliconinae, 327. 



Acridiidae of Commentry Carboni- 

 ferous (Palaeacridiidae), 36, 37 ; mi- 

 micry of leaf-carrying ant by, 260 ; 

 value of bright hind wings of, 303, 304, 

 325 ; colour adjustment of, 307 ; ob- 

 servations on the courtship of, 380. 



Acronycta alni, 319; cuspis, 87 

 n. i; psi, 87 n. i; strigosa, 87 

 n. i ; tridens, 87 n. I. 



actia, Precis, seasonal forms of, 

 208; dry f. bred from wet (1903), 



340 n. 2 ; under side more conspicuous 

 in wet than dry seasonal form of, 340 ; 

 S. African habitat of, 340. 



Aculeata Hymenoptera, see 

 Hymenoptera, and all the groups 

 there referred to except Ichneu- 

 monids, and saw-flies. 



A damsia palliata, 357. 



Adaptive or Syntechnic Resem- 

 blance, 312, 312 n. 2, 359, 360 n. i. 



Adaptation of certain Breeds 

 to particular local circumstances, 

 J. C. Prichard, 188-90. 



ADAPTATION, STUDY OF, STIMU- 

 LATES AND DOES NOT BAR INQUIRY, 

 Introd. xliv-xlvii. 



ADAPTATION FOR CROSS-FER- 

 TILIZATION A CAUSE OF ASYNGAMY, 

 II. 90, 91 ; see also 65. 



ADAPTATION FOR CROSS-FER- 

 TILIZATION THE CAUSE AND NOT 



