INDEX 



521 



Neo-Mendelism, 43, 44, 45, 413-32 



Nest-making instincts, as adaptations, 

 197 



Nettleship, E., 400, 461 



Newman, Colonel, 211 



Newton, Sir F., 7, 276, 277, 280, 283 



New Zealand, fauna of, no, in 



Nictitating membranes of vertebrates, 

 146, 147 



Nilsson-Ehle, H., 424-28 



Nitsche, Dr., 155 



Nucleolus: chromatin, 290; true, 290 



Nutritive chains, 208 



Nuttall, G. H. F., 124, 125 



Nutting, C. C, 258-62 



Oceanic islands, fauna of, loi-io 



Octopus, eye of, 135 



Oenothera, 35; O. albida, _iS5> ^^ 

 biennis, 349; 0. brevistylis, 349 ff- 

 O. elliptica, 355; 0. gigas, 353 ff. 

 O. lata, 355; O. laevifolia, 349 ff. 

 O. lamarckiatta, 37, 346-60; 

 leptocarpa, 357; 0. nannella, 349 ff. 

 O. rubrinervis, 353 flf.; 0. sciniillans, 

 355; 0. spattdata, 357 



Oglivie, Dr., 326 



Oken, 12, 16 



Onagra biennis, 362 



Ontogenetic selection, 268 



Oocyte, 300 



Oogenesis, 299, 300 



Oogonium, 300 



Organic selection, 268, 269 



Origin of Species, The, 4, 5, 7, 24, 27, 



61, 62, 67 

 Ornithorhynchus, 236 

 Orohippus, 72, 73 

 Orr, H. B., 465 



Orthogenesis, 33, 34, 35, 3^, 273 

 Orthoplasy, 268 

 Osborn, H. F., 8, 10, 11, 13, 20, 21, 45, 



86, 87, 89, 94, 95, 192-95, 273, 274-83 

 Overspecializations, 31 

 Ovum, 164 

 Owen, R., 121, 150, 240 



Pagurus bernhardus, 139 



Palaeomastodon, 76, 77, 78 



Palaeontology, evidences from, 60; 

 opinions as to the adequacy of, 62, 63; 

 strength and weakness of, 6r, 62 



ralingenctic, 174 



Pan vctus, 88 



Pangenesis, 28, 30 



Panmixia, 31, 263, 264 



Panniculus carnosis, 148, 149 



Papilio machaon, 315 



Paramecium, 377 



Parasitism, as adaptation, 197, 198 



Parthenogenesis: as a method of 

 asexual de\cl()|)ment, 164; sex deter- 

 mination in connection with, 451, 452 



Pearl, R., 440 



Pearson, K., 39, 365, 371, 373, 484, 489, 



491, 493 



Pedigree: of brachydactylism, 460; 

 of cataract, 461; of Charles the 

 Great of Sweden, 471; of feeble- 

 mindedness, 463, 464; of Ferdinand 

 and Isabella, 468; of HohenzoUcms 

 of Prussia, 470; of insanity, epilepsy, 

 etc., 465; of Romanoffs of Russia, 

 467 



Peneus potitniriiim, 170, 171 



Phaseolus, 376 



Phenotype, 377-79, 39°, 43 1 



Phenotypic, 377-79, 39°, 43 1 



Phillips, J. C, m 



Phocochaerus, 324, 325 



Physiological units, 28 



Pisum qiiadraium, 381 ; P. saccharalum, 

 381; P. sativum, iqy, P. umbdlatum, 

 381 



Pithecanthropus ercctus, 86, 87, 88, 90, 93 



Planetesimal hypothesis, 57 



Plate, L., 264, 265, 371 



PUny, 14 



Pliohippus, 72 



Ploetz, A., 489, 490, 491 



Podocor>'ne, 246 



Poebrotherium, 74, 75 



Polar bodies, 299, 300, 301 



Popenoe, P., 484--96 



Post-Aristotelians, 14 



Poulton, E. B., 257 



Preformation doctrine, 176 



Prenatal influences, 13, 14 



Presence and absence hypothesis. 413- 



15 

 Primates: geologic record of, 82; origin 

 of, 81, 82; place of origin; slock of, 

 81; time of origin, 81 



