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INDEX 



Ewart, Prof. C, on Telegony, ii. 359 



Exacum, dimorphism of, ii. 295 



Experiments, botanical, i. 218, 219 ; 

 ii. 154 ; Tegetmeier's on pigeons, i. 

 223-6 ; time expended on, i. 201 



Expression, queries on, i. 287 ; ii. 98- 

 112; Bell on anatomy of, ii. 98 ; 

 Darwin at work on, ii. 332 



Expression of the Emotions, Wallace's 

 review, ii. no 



External conditions, Natural Selection 

 and, i. 300. See also Direct Action 



Extinction, behaviour of species verging 

 towards, i. 344 ; contingencies con- 

 cerned in, i. 117; Hooker on, i. 

 167 ; races of man and, i. 168 ; Pro- 

 boscidea verging towards, i. 207 ; 

 St. Helena and examples of, i. 167 



Eyebrows, use of, i. 356 



Eyes, behaviour during meditation, ii. 

 104 ; contraction in blind people of 

 muscles of, ii. 109 ; children's habit 

 of rubbing with knuckles, ii. 108 ; 

 gorged with blood during screaming, 

 ii. 98-100 ; contraction of iris, ii. 

 104, 105 ; wrinkling of children's, 

 ii. 40 



Fabre, J. H., letters to, i. 385, 386 



Facts and Arguments for Darwin, 

 translation of F. Midler's Fiir Dar- 

 win, i. 264, 312 ; delay in publica- 

 tion, ii. 353 ; sale, ii. 356 ; un- 

 favourable review in Athenceum, ii. 

 356 



Fairy rings, Darwin compares with 

 fungoid diseases in man and animals, 

 ii. 445 



Falconer, Hugh, biographical note, i. 

 252, 253 ; article in Nat. Hist. Review. 

 i. 206, 207, 232; Darwin's Copley 

 medal and, i. 247 ; Darwin's criti- 

 cism of his elephant work, i. 207 ; 

 Darwin's regard for, i. 206, 253 ; 

 Forbes attacked by, i. 414 ; his 

 opinion of Forbes, 412 ; goes to 

 India, i. 414 ; Hooker's regard for, 

 i. 253 ; letter to Darwin, i. 205-6 ; 

 letter to Sharpey, i. 252-6 ; letters 

 to, i, 206- 1 1, 227-9, 244, 256-8, 

 454, 455 ; letter to Athenceum, i. 

 239-40 ; Lyell and, 239-41, 473 ; 

 on Mastodon andium, i. 227 ; on 

 J\Iastodon of Australia, i. 228 ; on 

 elephants, i. 168, 205 ; Owen and, 

 210, i. 226, 227 ; on phyllotaxis, i. 

 208 ; on Pfagiaulax, i. 210; speech 

 at Cambridge, i. 211 ; Memoirs, 

 ii. 9 



Falkland Islands. Darwin visits, i. 15, 



19 ; Polyborus sp. in, i. 408 ; brightly 

 coloured female hawk, ii. 60 ; effect 

 of subsidence, ii. 195 ; streams of 

 stones, i. 169 



Fanciers, use made of Selection by, i. 

 194 



Fantails : see Pigeons 



Faraday, i. 90 ; memorial to, i. 315 



Faramea, dimorphism, ii. 335, 354 



Farmer, Prof. J. B., and S. E. Chandler, 

 on influence of excess of CO.; on ana- 

 tomy of plants, ii. 21 



Faroe Islands, Polygala vulgaris of, 

 i. 102 



Farrar, , Canon, lecture on defects in 

 Public School Education, ii. 441, 442 ; 

 letter to, ii. 441-2 ; 



Farrer, Lady, ii. 394 



Farrer, Lord, biographical note, i. 393, 

 394 ; interest in Torbitt's potato 

 experiment,!. 373 ; letters to, i. 393"5» 

 ii. 212, 213, 373, 379-81, 383, 384, 

 388, 392-4, 409 ; on earthworms, ii. 

 213; observations on fertilisation of 

 Passi flora, ii. 357, 358 ; recollections 

 of Darwin, ii. 392 ; seeds sent to, 



"• 9*i 358 



Fawcett, H., biographical note, i. 189 ; 



defends Darwin's arguments, i. 196 ; 



letter to, i. 194-6 ; letter to Darwin, 



i. 189-90 

 Fear, expression of, ii. 103 

 Felis, range, i. 402, 403 

 Fellowships, discussion on abolition of 



Prize-, ii. 442 

 Felspar, segregation of, ii. 204, 205 

 Female?, modification for protection, 



ii. 85 

 Fenland, Past and Present, by Miller 



and Skertchley, ii. 241 

 Fergusson on Darwinism, i. 297 

 Fernando Po, plants of, i. 465, 477 ; ii. 



5. 25 



Ferns, Scott on spores, i. 219 ; Darwin's 

 ignorance of, ii. 381 ; variability 

 " passes all bounds," ii. 381 



Ferrier, Dr., groundless charge brought 

 against, for infringement of Vivi- 

 section Act, ii. 437-9 



Fertilisation, articles in Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, i. 100 ; of flowers, ii. 257- 

 266, 283-6, 302-28 ; H. Midler's work 

 on, i. 383; ii. 383; and sterility, i. 224; 

 Darwin fascinated by study of, ii. 419 ; 

 different mechanisms in same genus, 

 ii- 393 5 travelling of reproductive 

 cells in, ii. 76 



Fertilisation of orchids, Darwin's work 

 on, i. 281, 2S2 ; paper by Darwin in 

 Gardener? Chronicle on, i. 154 



