INDEX 



529 



Galapagos plants : Azores plant : 

 Atlantis : higher and lower plants, 

 444 sq., 445 sq. ; N.Z. flora, 445; 

 grasses identified : migration and 

 S. Australia : Carduus inter- 

 mediates reduce species : local 

 heat and tropical plants, 446 ; 

 Tasmanian flora, 447 ; Atlantis 

 theory : Island insects wingless : 

 Australian distribution, 448 ; 

 C. D.'s MS. on Geog. Distr. : 

 tropical cooling : paradoxes, 449 ; 

 botany, professional and philoso- 

 phical, 451 ; embryonic develop- 

 ment and affinity in plants, 451 ; 

 Leguminosae and insects : others 

 follow him in reducing species, 452 ; 

 large genera and much variation, 

 453 ; do. and local floras, 455 ; 

 do. and general monographs, 456 ; 

 do. accepted, 458 ; do. large mono- 

 graphs and local floras, 459 ; 

 ' highness,' and ' lowness ' : the 

 Tasmanian Essay, 460 ; Tasmanian 

 Essay : Indian and Australian 

 plants : trans -tropical migration, 

 461 ; ' highness ' of Australian 

 vegetation, 463 ; Wallace's dis- 

 claimers of priority, 499 n. ; rejects 

 any claim on his own behalf, 502 ; 

 success of the ' Origin,' 509 ; pub- 

 lication, the book very different 

 from the MS., 510; appreciation 

 of ' Origin,' 510 ; Natl. Selection 

 pressed too hard, 511 ; the Oxford 

 Meeting, 525 ; Lebanon, 533 ; hard 

 work and a new regime, 535 



Microscope work, ii. 25 ; Welwit- 

 schia and staleness in work, 26 ; 

 tropical cooling, 28, 29 ter ; the 

 Basques, 31 ; Lyell's ' Antiquity 

 of Man,' 33 ; hybrids in nature, 

 esp. orchids, 34; Oceanic Islands, 



35 bis; Alps and Himalayas, 35 

 sq. ; insects and plant migration, 



36 ; plants and animals, effects of 

 climate, 37 ; aristocracy and 

 natural selection, 38, 39, 40; 

 democracy, 41, 42 bis ; stress at 

 Kew, 46 ; society, 47 ; aims as 

 Director at Kew, 48 sq. ; news- 

 paper controversies, 51 bis, 52, 53 ; 

 the divine art of compilation, 53 ; 

 Colenso, 58, and Parrott's ' Ararat,' 

 ib. n. ; his daughter's death, 62 bis, 

 63, 64, 65 bis ; death of Falconer, 



63 bis; Greg's 'Enigmas,' faith 

 and prayer, 66 ; science swamped 

 by administrative duties, 68 ; con- 

 valescent reading ' Mill on the 

 Floss,' and ' Glacial Scotland,' 70 ; 

 * Clarissa Harlowe,' 70-1 ; politics 

 and science, 71 bis ; photographs, 

 Richmond's portrait, suppressed 

 gout, story of Ary Schefcer, 72 ; 

 a burglary at Kew, 73 ; description 

 of J. E. Gray, 73 ; science and self- 

 support, 74 ; award of the Copley 

 Medal, 75 bis; banters on his 

 re-reading of the * Origin,' 75 n., 

 cp. 76; Wedgwood ware, 77-9; 

 reorganising Kew, 81 ; burden 

 of correspondence : the credit 

 balance of life, 82 ; press of busi- 

 ness, 83 ; completes others' labours, 

 83; St. Petersburg, 87; artist 

 interested in his book, 89 ; return 

 from Marocco, 94, 95 bis ; conti- 

 nental extension, 99 bis, 100 ; 

 Nottingham Address described, 

 103 ; aim and methods of, 104 ; 

 anomaly detected by, 105 ; Not- 

 tingham Address, and reference to 

 Providence, 106 ; scientific chaff, 

 107; Presidency of Brit. Assoc., 

 accepted, 108 ; Pangenesis, 109 

 bis, 111 ; Pangenesis, Bentham 

 and Darwinism, Reign of Law, 

 Address, 113 ; Nottingham Address, 

 115 bis, 116, 119 bis, 120 bis, 121 ; 

 Nageli and morphological char- 

 acters, 121, 122, 123; variation 

 in wheat, 124 ; the primordial 

 cell, 124 ; evolution of man, and 

 a pre-ordained order, 124 ; the 

 ' Descent of Man,' Himalayan 

 journals and Huxley's work, 125 ; 

 Lord Kelvin on origin of life, 126 ; 

 Presidency of R.S., 132; R.S. 

 Publication Fund, 135 ; com- 

 mittees of R.S., 139; R.S. 

 Addresses, 140, 141; scientific 

 referee, 143 ; the C.B. and knight- 

 hood, 146, 147 bis; K.C.S.I., 150; 

 science primer, 151 ; sensitive 

 plants, 152 ; ' bloom ' and fine 

 hairs on leaves, 152 ; watering in 

 sunlight, 153 ; carnivorous plants, 

 153, 154 ter, 155 ter, 156, 157 ; 

 Huxley's lecture at Belfast, 158; 

 Ayrton affair, 167, 168 ; military 

 appreciation of Him. Journ., 183 ; 



