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INDEX 



Letters to : Botanising in Maroc- 

 co, ii. 91 ; geology of W. Scotland, 

 203 ; American impressions, 211 ; 

 Tuscany, 252 ; botany and micro- 

 scopic botany, 279 ; Indian orchids, 



281 ; on his narrow escape, 473 

 Oliver, F. W., ii. 180, 181 ; micro- 

 scopic botany, 279 



Oncidium, ii. 123 



Opinion, avowals of, ii. 54 ; cp. 

 Essays and Reviews ; Colenso 



Oranges, ii. 403, 409 sq. 



Orchids, early interest in, i. 25, 

 259 



Cultivation of, ii. 8, 246 ; appre- 

 ciation of Darwin's book on, 26, 34, 

 36; natural hybrids, 34; must not 

 be beaten by, 105 ; in the Icones 

 PL, 281 ; observations needed, 281, 



282 bis, 283 ; difficulties, 283, but 

 child's-play compared with Balsams, 

 400 



Order of Merit, dinner to members, 

 ii. 449 ; received, 464 ; as also by 

 Lord Kelvin, ib. n. ; his portrait 

 for Windsor, 466 



Orders, foreign, acceptance of, ii. 

 88, 186 sq. ; Pour le Merite, 187 ; 

 given for his eighty-fifth birthday, 

 448 ; the title and insignia, ib. 



Organ Mountains, i. 93 



' Origin of Species,' i. 2 ; effect of 

 book greater than private discus- 

 sion, 353 ; relation to the Tasma- 

 nian Essay, 353-4 ; exact know- 

 ledge of Geog. Distrib. first step 

 towards learning, 439 (cp. 474), 

 and theory which leaves an open 

 mind, 474 ; the making of the, 

 486-503 ; a crucial date in science, 

 486 ; is the history of a friendship, 

 ib. ; instant sale of, 509 ; effect of in 

 print, 510 ; not fully appreciated 

 in MS., ib. ; reviews of, 512-20 ; 

 Owen's description of, 513 ; effi- 

 cient cause and theology, 518 sq. ; 

 reception like that of every pro- 

 gression in science, 516 



Banter of Darwin on his re- 

 reading, ii. 75 n. ; excluded from 

 award of Copley Medal, 75 ; J. D. H. 

 knows parts by heart, ii. 98 ; 

 ii. 98 ; meets Nageli's criticisms, 

 121 ; Duke of Argyll's objection, 

 124 ; as probable as that pokers 

 breed rabbits. 301 



Ormerod, Miss Eleanor, Bot. Mag., ii 

 243 n. 



Owen, Sir R., i. 207 n. ; acquaint- 

 ance with, 207 ; ' high ' and ' low ' 

 types, 444 ; on the ' Origin,' 513 ; 

 in the Edinburgh Review, 514 and 

 note (513), 515 ; a transmutation 

 theory per saltus, 519 ; prompter 

 of Bishop Wilberforce, 520 ; at Ox- 

 ford, 1860, on the simian brain, 522 

 On Gryphosaurus, ii. 32 ; at Ox- 

 ford, 1860, 50 ; relation to Oken, 

 ii. 50 n. ; attack on Darwin through 

 Carpenter, ii. 50 sq. ; science and 

 religion, 56 ; ' law of necessary 

 correlation,' 123 ; 133 ; and the 

 Challenger collections, 139 ; inter- 

 vention, in Ayrton affair, 174 sq. ; 

 reply to, 175 n., and Wilberforce, 

 301, 302; Life of, Huxley's con- 

 tribution to, 349 



Oxenham, John, i. 7 



Oxford, associations with, i. 219; 

 botany at, 382 sq. 



Oxford, Bishop of (Wilberforce), 

 Quarterly article, i. 520 and note ; 

 at Oxford, 1860, 521 ; speech, 523 

 sq., 526 ; ii. 302-4 



Pachytheca, ii. 276, 291-4, 422 



Paget family, alliance with the 

 Hookers, i. 10, 25 n. 



Paget, Charles, i. 25 n. 



Paget, Sir James, i. 25 n. ; his fellow 

 examiner, 386, 387 



Aid against Ayrton, ii. 171 ; 

 visit to, 195 ; on plant diseases : 

 need of a vegetable pathologist for 

 Kew, 245 and note ; his death : 

 association with him, 443 



Paget, Samuel, i. 10, 25 n. 



Paisley, Mrs. (Sabina Smith of Jordan 

 Hill), i. 38, ii. 445 ; visit to, ib. ; 

 a childhood's friend, 461, 462 ; 471 

 Letters to, i. 38 ; early recollec- 

 tions, ii. 437 ; Scott's first expedi- 

 tion and the Erebus : Ross at 

 Jordan Hill, 438 sq., 439; con- 

 sulted as only survivor of Erebus, 

 439; a visit to her, 446; the 

 Coronation scene in the Abbey, 

 450 sq. ; his robes, 449 ; Lee'g 

 Life of Queen Victoria, 452 ; Col. 

 Younghusband and Capt. Scott, 

 457 sq. ; health : Walter Scott's 



