INDEX 



ABILITY, biometric investigation of, 136-7, 

 428 et seq. ; nature of, 421-2 



Abnormalities, 22 



Aborigines, decay of, 279 



Abrin, toleration of, 247 



Abstinence from Alcohol, ancient, 459 



Acclimatization, meaning of term, 263 



Acquired, right use of term, 20 



Acquirements, real nature of, 14 et seq. ; 

 importance of, n et seq., 245, 424, 485 ; 

 superiority to inborn traits, 69 et seq., 401, 

 424 ; mental, 379, 401 



Actions, protoplasmic, 371 ; reflex, 371 ; instinc- 

 tive* 373 1 rational, 373 etseg.; voluntary, 373 

 et seq. ; deliberate, 376 ; automatic, 400 



Adaptation, universality of, 21, 56-7, 106, 

 182, 187, 206, 219, 236, 324-5, 373, 390-2, 

 396 ; of microbes, 238 ; of the individual, 

 57 ; test of, 222 ; mental, 324, 388 et seq. 



Adaptability of man, 381, 428 



Africa, West, malaria in, 234-5 ; alcohol in, 

 299, 302 et seq. 



Alcohol, a waste product, 243 ; effect on 

 health, 286-7, 3 J 7 et se <7' > immediate and 

 remote effects, 306-7 ; craving for, 288 et 

 seq,, 457; variations in craving for, 289 

 et seq. ; influence of environment on con- 

 sumption, 292-3 ; as agent of natural selec- 

 tion, 294 et seq. ; artificial selection for, 

 457"8 ; evolution caused by, 297, 308 et 

 ^.,458; compared to tuberculosis, 308; 

 civilization, 313 ; climate, 311-2 ; occupa- 

 tion, 314 */j^. ; strength of beverages, 313 ; 

 ancient use of, 299 et seq. \ laws prohibit- 

 ing use of, 300, 306, 458 et seq. ; average 

 racial consumption of, 311; convivial and 

 industrial drinking, 314 et seq. ; suscepti- 

 bility to charm of, 289, 293-4 ; susceptibility 

 ^iot a disease, 457 ; alleged cause of racial 

 deterioration, 322 ; antiquity of drinking, 

 299 ; drinking of Jews, 299, 301-2 ; Greeks, 

 300 ; Italians, 301 ; West Africans, 302-3 ; 

 Germans, 304-5 ; British, 305 ; Chinese, 

 305-6; savages, 306; Mohammedans, 460 



Alcoholism, and disease, 457 ; chronic, 318 ; 

 altruistic, 318 et seq. ; impossibility of pre- 

 venting, 457, 465 



Alison, on drinking of savages, 306 



Allelomorphs, 155 ; compound, 161 ; non- 

 existence of, 1 88 



Alternation, of generations, 23 ; of progres- 

 sion and retrogression, 25 ; of sexual traits, 

 190 



Alternative reproduction, conditions of, 178 



Anatomy, systematic, 33, 504 



Ancestral Inheritance, Law of, 126 et seq. 



resemblances, 523 



Andalusian Fowls, 155 



Ani, maxims of, 300 



Animals, lower, minds of, 380, 398, 415, 425 ; 



dreams of, 418 ; social, 382 

 Ant, mental operations of, 382-3 ; brains of, 



405 



Anthrax, lethal dose of for rabbit, 86 ; attenua- 

 tion of, 240 

 Antitoxin, preparation of, 240; mixed with 



toxin, 241, 243-4 

 Aphides, latency of male characters, 113; 



variability of, 148 ; cause of disease in 



vines, 276 



Aptitudes, mental, 422 

 Areopagus, laws against drinking, 300 

 Aristophanes, on drinking, 300 

 Arsenic, toleration of, 247 

 Astronomy, scientific method in, 503 

 Athens, great men in, 496 

 Attention, area of, 412-3 ; concentration and 



diffusion of, 413-4 ; association with the 



will, 414 



Attractions, sexual, 145, 189 

 Australia, temperancejegislation in, 462, 464 

 Automatic actions, 400 et seq. ; compared to 



reflexes, 410-1 ; characteristics of, 411-12 

 Automaton hypothesis, 356 et se.q 

 Axioms, mathematical, 346 



B 



BACON, Francis, on the power of words, 

 19-20 ; service to science, 50 ; on know- 

 ledge by causes, 343 



Bacot, Mr A., on repertoire patterns, 60 



Baldwin, Prof. Mark, on use-acquirements, 

 72 ; on plasticity, 408 



Bantam, Sebright, 146, 165, 189 



Baring, Mr Maurice, on drinking in Russia, 

 320 



Bateson, Mr W., on dandelions and hawk- 

 weeds, 148 ; on segregation, 153, 154 ; on 

 central doctrine of Mendelism, 154; on 

 imperfect dominance, 155 ; on compound 

 allelomorphs, 161 ; on discontinuous origin 

 of Mendelian characters, 162 ; on ferments, 

 164; on limitations experimentation, 172; 

 on scientific method, 184-5 > on fertility 

 and Mendelian inheritance, 190 ; on Men- 

 delian inheritance of sexual characters, 191 ; 

 on inheritance of stature, 193 ; on systema- 

 tists, 506 ; on origin of species, 506 



Bathmic hypothesis, 60 



Beauty, appreciation of, 423-4 



Bees, latency of male characters, 113 ; diseases 

 of, 275 



Berberis vulgaris, repertoire patterns of, 60 



Berkeley, on Idealism, 334 



Bible, exhortations against intemperance, 299 



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