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SUBJECT-INDEX. 



genesis, 2, 434, 437 ; heat expenditure 

 and genesis, 8, 440-8, 453 ; muscular 

 expenditure and genesis, 2, 448-51, 

 453 ; mammalian fertility, 2, 449 ; 

 eggs of wild and tame, 2, 457 ; nutri- 

 tion of blackbird and linnet, 2, 476 ; 

 Owen on skeleton of, 2, 528, 529, 530. 



V lainville, H. M. D. de, definition of life, 

 1, 60, 74. 



Blister, nervous action in, S, 299. 



Blood : similarity of iron peroxide, 1, 

 17; segregation of abnormal consti- 

 tuents, 1, 152 ; changed by disease, 1, 

 177, 484 ; assimilative power and or- 

 ganic repair, 1, 177-9; respiratory 

 tissue differentiation, 2, 292-5 ; pres- 

 sure in mammalia, 2, 329, 330. (See 

 also Yascular system). 



Boismont, A.B.de, human fertility, S, 484. 



Bone : adaptability, 1, 187, 2, 200-1 ; 

 function and weight, 1, 246 ; mam- 

 malian cervical vertebrae, 1, 309 ; 

 evolution and vertebral column, 1, 

 382 ; partial development, 1, 385 ; size 

 of head as influencing, 1, 424, 451-3 ; 

 direct equilibration and strength, 1, 

 441 ; skull development, 2, 205 ; 

 theory of supernumerary, 2, 206 ; 

 membranous, cartilaginous, and osseous 

 states, g, 207 ; differentiation, 2, 298, 

 334-46 ; integration, 2, 375 ; Owen's 

 theory of ve: tebratc skeleton,^, 517-35. 



Botany : influence of heat on plants, 1, 

 27 ;* effect of solar rays, 1, 28-33, 412, 

 472 ; plants non-nitrogenous, 1, 37 ; 

 fungi nitrogenous, 1, 38 ; generation 

 of heat in plants, 1, 44 ; phospho- 

 rescence, 1, 46 ; vegetal electricity, 

 1, 48 ; sensible plant motion, 1, 53-5 ; 

 vital plant changes, 1, 67, 68 ; charges 

 showing life, 1, 72, 75 ; crystalli- 

 zation and vegetal life, 1, 78 ; vital 

 adjustments, 1, 83 ; length and com- 

 plexity of life, 1, 84, 85 ; animal and 

 vegetal biology, 1, 96 ; growth, 1, 

 108; protopliytic structure, 1, 109; 

 organization and growth, 1, 110, 117- 

 9, 132; growth and nutrition, 1, 112, 

 119-21, 130, 131 ; relation of initial 

 to final bulks, 1, 115, 132 ; limits to 

 growth, 1, 125 ; growth and expendi- 

 ture, 1, 130, 132 ; central protophytic 

 development, /, 134 ; insubordinate 

 muiticentral development, 1, 135 ; 

 aiial development, 1, 136, 211 ; uni- 

 and multi-axial development, 1, 136, 



138; bud and leaf development, /, 

 138-41 ; weight, temperature, ard 

 self-mobility, 1, 145-50 ; function, 1, 

 154-6 ; functional and structural com* 



?lexity, 1, 156 ; vicarious function, 1, 

 6o-6* ; waste and repair, 1, 169, 176 ; 

 multiplication of bpyoniacea, 1, 180, 

 181 , 253 ; organic polarity and physio- 

 logical units, 1, 182-3, 253; adapt n- 

 tion, 1, 184 ; what is an individual ? 

 1, 201-3, 207, 208; homogenesis ex- 

 ceptional, 1, 211 ; heterogenesis, 1, 

 211, 212 ; parthenogenesis, 1, 214-6 , 

 disintegration of genesis, 1, 216-8; 

 reproductive- tissue structurally un- 

 differentiated,!, 218-24; gamogenesis 

 in protophyta, 1, 219 ; relation of 

 nutrition to growth and gamogenesis, 

 1, 224-8, 232, 235-7, 8, 30 ; homo- 

 logues of ovules, 1, 228; nutrition 

 and growth of willow, 1, 233 ; natural 

 selection and homo- and hetero-gencsis, 

 1, 233-7 ; general truths of heredity, 

 1, 233-41; heredity and "change of 

 habit," 1, 245 ; and " sports," 1, 216 ; 

 variation, 1, 257 ; cultivation and 

 variation, 1, 260, 261, 262-4; cross 

 fertilization, 1,278; self-fertilization, 

 1, 280-2 ; classification, 1, 29 >-8. 3"! ; 

 distribution and migiation, 1,312-7, 

 327 ; natural barriers and distribution, 

 1, 317-20, 328, 388; distribution in 

 time, 1, 320-7, 328 ; special creation 

 and parasitism, 1, 343 ; evolution 

 hypothesis, 1, 319; evolution and 

 classification, 1, 358, 364, 471 ; Darwin 

 on floral morphology, 1, 384; rudi- 

 mentary organs, 1, 986, 387, 472; 

 European plants in Jfew Zealand, 1, 

 389; distribution, 1, 389-91, 472; 

 varied media, 1, 396, 472 ; E. Damin 

 and Lamarck on plant evolution, 1, 

 402-10 ; geologic changes affecting, 

 1, 413-5, 472 ; interdependence of 

 animals and plants, 1, 416-8, 426; 

 complexity of influences on plant?, 1, 

 418 ; equilibration, nutrition, defence, 

 and fertilization, 1, 437-9; natural 

 selection and indirect equilibration, 1, 

 446, 448, 474 ; dimorphism, 1, 448 ; 

 seed distribution, 1, 461 ; importance 

 of natural selection, 1, 468 ; aquatic 

 and terrestrial conditions, 2. 24; 

 natural selection and nutrition, #, 48; 

 floral symmetry, 2, 117 ; wood de- 

 velopment, 2, 258-62, 268-71, 272. 



