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INDEX 



Brackish- water plants, i. 116 



Bradshaw, H., translation of Hebrew 

 letter by, i. 365 



Brain, Owen on, i. 238 ; evolution in 

 man, ii. 39, 40 ; Wallace on Natural 

 Selection and Evolution of, ii. 39 



Branchipus, Schmankewitsch's experi- 

 ments on, i. 391 



Branta, mentioned in reference to 

 nomenclature of Barnacles, i. 69 



Brassica sinapistrum, germination at 

 Down of old seeds, ii. 245 



Braun, A., convert to Darwin's views, 



i- 259 



Bravais, on lines of old sea-level in 

 Finmark, ii. 176, 183 



Brazil, L. Agassiz's book on, i. 305 ; 

 Agassiz on glacial phenomena in, i. 

 476 ; F. Midler's residence in, i. 382; 

 plants on mountains of, i. 478 ; basalt 

 in association with granite, ii. 125; 

 Darwin on origin of lakes in, ii. 155; 

 dimorphism of plants in S., ii. 350 



Bree, Dr., on Celts, i. 174; misrepre- 

 sents Darwin, i. 174. 



Breeders, views on Selection held by, i. 



193 



Breeding, chapter in Origin on, i. 130 



Brehm, 011 birds, i. 173, 174 



Breitenbach, Dr., ii. 369 



Brewster, Sir D., on Glen Roy, ii. 176 



Bridgeman, ii. 314 



Brinton, Dr., attends Darwin, ii. 338 



British Association meetings, Belfast 

 (1874), ii. 398, 402 : Birmingham 

 (1849), i. 66 ; Cambridge (1862), ii. 

 155; Ipswich (185 1 ), i. 66; Leeds 

 (1858), i. 178; Liverpool (1870), i. 

 322; Manchester (1861), i. 194; 

 Norwich (1868), i. 309; Nottingham 

 (1866), i. 480 ; Oxford (1847), ii. 218, 

 247, 248; Oxford (i860), i. 156, 158, 

 160; Southampton (1846), i. 55, 

 ii. 175; Swansea (1880), ii. 424; 

 York (1881), ii. 24; Addresses — 

 Berkeley, i. 309 ; Fawcett, i. 194, 

 195 ; Hooker, i. 297, 299, 302, 304, 

 309 ; ii. 398 , 402 ; Hooker on Insular 

 Floras, i. 480 (see also Hooker, Sir 

 J. D.) ; Huxley on Abiogenesis, i. 

 322, 323 ; Lord Kelvin, i. 329, 330 ; 

 Wallace on Birds' Nests, i. 283 



British Association, Committee for in- 

 vestigation of Coral Atoll by boring, 

 ii. 198, 199 



British Medical Association, undertakes 

 defence of Dr. Ferrier, ii. 437, 438 



British Museum, disposal of Botanical 

 Collections, i. 109-13 



Brodie, Sir Benjamin, ii. 442 



Brongniart, Ad., on Sigillaria, ii- 220 



Bronn, H. G., Letter to, i. 172-4 ; on 

 German translation of Origin, i. 139 ; 

 reference in his transl. of Origin to 

 tails of mice as difficulty opposed to 

 Natural Selection, i. 358 ; on Natural 

 Selection, i. 387 ; Entwickelung, ii. 

 234 ; Morphologische Sludien, ii. 232 ; 

 Naturgcschichte der drei Reiche, ii. 

 223 



Brougham, Lord, on Structure of Bees' 

 cells, i. 123 ; habit of writing every- 

 thing important three times, ii. 323 



Brown, H. T., and F. Escombe, on 

 vitality of seeds, ii. 245 ; on influence 

 of varying amounts of C0 2 on plants, 

 ii. 21 



Brown, R., accompanies Flinders on 

 Australian voyage, i. 444 ; meets 

 Darwin, i. 408 ; dilatoriness over 

 King's collection, i. 39 ; illness, i. 109 ; 

 on course of vessels in orchid flowers, 

 ii. 273-5 i mentioned, ii. 156 ; on 

 pollen-tubes, ii. 313 ; seldom indulged 

 in theory, ii. 323 



Brulle, G. A., biographical note, i. 

 257 ; reference to work by, i. 97, 98 ; 

 his pupils' eagerness to hear Darwin's 

 views, i. 257 



Brunonia, Hamilton on fertilisation 

 mechanism, ii. 258 



Brunton, Sir T. Lauder, letters to, ii. 

 437, 441 ; letter to Darwin from, ii. 



438 



Brydges and Anderson, collection of 

 S. American plants, i. 400 



Bryophyllum ealycinum, Duval-Jouve 

 and F. Muller on movements of 

 leaves, ii. 365 



Bryozoa, specimens found during 

 voyage of Beagle, i. 16. 



Buch, von. on craters of Albemarle I., 

 ii. 127 ; Darwin's disbelief in his 

 views, ii. 116; mentioned, ii. 200; 

 Travels in Norway, ii. 201 



Buckland, W., biographical note, ii. 

 150, 151 ; on Glen Roy, ii. 172, 175, 

 187 ; mentioned, ii. 149 



Buckle, Darwin reads book by, ii. 156 



Buckley, Miss, ii. 238 



Buckman, on N. American plants, i. 451 



Buckman, Prof., experiments at Ciren- 

 cester, ii. 421 



Bud, propagation by, i. 280, 296 ; 

 Hooker's use of term, i. 197 ; fertili- 

 sation in, ii. 254, 255 



Bud -variation, i. 213, 220, 275-7 ; ii. 314 



Buenos- Ay res, fossils sent by Darwin 

 from, i. 17 



Bull-dog, as example of Design, i. 282 



