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INDEX 



i. 65 ; mentioned, i. 414; ii. 119; 

 royal medal awarded to, ii. 131 ; 

 essay on connection between dis- 

 tribution of existing fauna and flora 

 of the British Isles and geological 

 changes, i. 51, 409 ; ii. 223 



Forbes, H. O., on Melasloma, ii. 292 



Force and Matter, Huxley on, i. 155 



Forel, Aug., on ants and beetles, ii. 17, 

 19; author of Les Fourmis de la 

 S:/isse, ii. 11 ; letter to, ii. 11, 12 



Forfarshire, Lyell on glaciers of, ii, 181 



Forms 0/ Flowers. De Candolle's criticism 

 of Darwin's, i. 369 ; homomorphic 

 and heteromorphic unions described 

 in, ii. 310 



Forsyth-Major, zoological expedition 

 to Madagascar, i. 454 



Fortnightly Review, Huxley's article 

 on Positivism, i. 313 ; Romanes on 

 Evolution, i. 370, 371 



Fossil Cephalopods, Hyatt on, i. 338 



Fossil corals, ii. 194, 197 



Fossil plants, small proportion of, i. 

 135 ; of Australia, ii. 26 ; sudden 

 appearance of Angiosperms indicated 

 by, ii. 20, 21 



Fossil seeds, supposed verification of, 

 ii. 244 



Fossils as evidence of variability, i. 42 



Fournier, E., De la Fecundation dans 

 les Phanerogames, ii. 375 



Fowls, difference in sexes, ii. 88 ; 

 spurred female, ii. 62 



Fox, tails of, used by Esquimaux as 

 respirators, 1. 359 



Fox, Rev. W. Darwin, ii. 132 



Foxglove, u;e of hairs in flower, ii. 380 



France, edition of Origin in, i. 200 ; 

 opinion favourable to Darwin's views 

 in, i. 259 ; birth-rate, ii. 50 



Franco-Prussian war, opinion in Eng- 

 land, i. 324 ; ii. 92 ; Science re- 

 tarded by, ii. 92 



Frank, A. B. , biographical note, ii. 

 426 ; Darwin's admiration for his 

 work, ii. 426 



Franklin, Sir J., search expedition, i. 



58 

 Fraser, G., letter to, ii. 94-5 

 Frasers Magazine, article by Hopkins, 



i- 1 53i 159; article by Galton on 



twins, i. 361 ; Huxley on review in, 



i. 156 

 Freemasons' Tavern, meeting held at 



(1872), ii. 442 

 Freewill, a preordained necessity, i. 192 

 Freke, Dr., paper by, i. 175 

 Freshwater, Bee-orchis at, ii. 263 

 Freshwater fauna, ocean faunas com- 



pared with, i. 233 ; poverty of, i. 



233 ; preservation of, i. 143 

 Friendly Islands, rats regarded as 



game, ii. 154 

 Fringillidas, colour and sexual selection, 



ii. 71 

 Frogs, article on spawn of, i. 284 ; F. 



Muller on, i. 382 ; salt water and 



spawn of, i. 418 ; frozen in glaciers, 



ii. 16 

 Fruits, bright colours of, ii. 348 

 Fucus, variation in, i. 102 

 Fuegia, plants of, i. 405-8, 426 (see also 



Tierra del Fuego) 

 Fumaria (Corydalis) claviculata, Mohl 



on tendrils, ii. 343 

 Fumariacese, cross- and self-fertilisation, 



ii. 372 ; morphology of tendrils, ii. 



343 

 Funafuti, Darwin's theory supported 



by results of boring in coral island 



of, ii. 199 

 Fungoid diseases, Darwin on, ii. 444 

 Fungus, effect on roots and shoots, ii. 



422 

 Fur Darwin, F. Midler's, i. 263 (see 



Faets and Arguments for Darwin) ; 



Darwin quotes, ii. 263 ; Hooker's 



opinion of, ii. 357 ; publication of, 



ii. 92 

 Furze, seeds and seedlings, i. 148 



Galapagos Islands, visited during the 

 Beagle voyage, i. 26 ; birds of, i. 

 412 ; character of species of, the be- 

 ginning of Darwin's evolutionary 

 views, i. 37, 38, 119 ; distribution of 

 animals, i. 40, 52 ; distribution of 

 plants, i. 40 ; flora of, i. 401, 402 ; 

 Hooker on plants of, i. 426 ; ii. 9 ; 

 insects, ii. 122; craters, ii. 126-9; 

 fissure eruptions in, ii. 227 ; restricted 

 fauna, ii. 19 ; Sandwich Islands 

 and, ii. 227 ; subsidence in the, ii. 195 



Galashiels, terraces near, ii. 187 



Galaxias, distribution of, ii. 16 



Gallinaceae, Blvth on, ii. So ; colour of, 

 ii. 71, 86 



Galls, artificial production of, i. 250 ; 

 ii. 425-7 ; Cynips and, i. 250 ; hy- 

 brids and, i. 261 ; Walsh on willow-, 

 i. 261 



Gallus bankiva, ii. 85, 88 ; colour of 

 wings, ii. 68 ; colour and environ- 

 ment, ii. 87 ; wings of, ii. 80 



Galton, F., experiments on transfusion 

 of blood, i. 319. 362 ; letters to, i. 

 360-62; ii. 41, 43, 44, 108, 214, 

 215 ; letter to Darwin from, i. 129 ; 

 on twins, i. 361 ; on variation, i. 199 



