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INDEX. 



ALPS. 



Alps, butterflies of, tamer than those 

 of lowlands, iii. 170. 



Amazons, fishes of, iii. 99. 



Amblyopsis, ii. 265. 



Amblyrhynchus, origin of, ii. 336. 



Amblystoma, Professor Weismann on, 

 iii. 198. 



America, mountains of, ii. 76. 



, permanence of, ii. 75. 



' > progress of opinion in, ii. 314. 



, North, toothed birds in the 



Cretaceous of, iii. 242, note. 



American Academy of Sciences, dis- 

 cussion at the, ii. 326, 327. 



, hostile review by Professor 



Bo wen in the memoirs of the, ii. 349, 



354- 



American edition of the 'Origin,' ii. 

 245, 270. 



of the 'Variation of Animals 



and Plants,' iii. 84. 



'American Journal of Science and Arts,' 

 review of the ' Origin ' in the, by 

 Asa Gray, ii. 286 ; review of the 

 ' Fertilisation of Orchids,' in the, 

 iii. 272. 



American type in the Galapagos, ii. 

 209. 



Civil War, the, ii. 374, 377, 



3 8l > 385. 3 8 6 ; iii. 272. 



' Amixie,' Prof. A. Weismann's view 

 of the origin of local races through, 



iii. 155- 

 Ammonia, salts of, behaviour of the 



leaves of Drosera, towards, iii. 318, 



319, 324, 325, 326. 

 Amsterdam island, ii. 94. 

 Ancestral characters, reappearance of, 



iii. 246. 

 Andes, excursion across the, i. 259, 



260 ; Lyell on the slow rise of the, 



i- 325- 



Anelasma, iii. 38. 

 Aner gates, iii. 191. 

 Angiospermous plants in Cretaceous 



beds of the United States, iii. 248. 

 Angrcecum, A. R. Wallace on the 



structure of, iii. 274. 

 Angulus Woolnerianus, iii. 140. 

 Animals, crossing of, i. 299, 301 ; 

 dispersion of, iii. 182. 

 , fresh water, antiquity of, ii. 



ARISTOCRACY. 



340 ; terrestrial hermaphrodite, not 



fitted for self-impregnation, iii. 260. 

 Animism, iii. 157. 

 ' Anses-section,' iii. 202. 

 ' Annals and Magazine of Natural 



History,' review of the 'Origin 'in 



the, ii. 284 ; reprint of article by 



Asa Gray in the, ii. 353. 

 Antarctic Continent, possible former, 



iii. 248 ; Tertiary, iii. 231. 

 fossil plants, ignorance of, iii. 



247. 



Anti-Jacobin, ii. 324 note, 325, 331. 

 Anti-theism, ii. 202. 

 Ants, habits of, ii. 365 ; size of the 



brain in the sexes of, iii. 191 ; 



battles of, iii. 191 ; interbreeding of 



brothers and sisters of, iii. 191 ; 



recognition by, of those of the same 



community, iii. 191 ; slave-making, 



ii. 129. 

 Apocyneae, twisting of shoots of, iii. 



313. 

 Apparatus, i. 145-148 ; purchase of, 



for the Zoological Station at Naples, 



iii. 225. 

 Appletons' American reprints of the 



4 Origin,' ii. 270, 310. 

 Apple-trees, not attacked by Coccus, 



iii. 348. 

 Aquatic and terrestrial plants, sexual 



characteristics of British, iii. 304. 

 Aralo- Caspian basin, antiquity of the, 



ii- 75- 



Archebiosis, iii. 1 68. 



Archipelagoes, oceanic, ii. 77. 



Arctic fossil plants, importance of, iii. 

 247. 



Areas, large, perfection of forms inha- 

 biting, ii. 142. 



of elevation and subsidence in 



the Pacific and Indian oceans, as 

 deduced from the study of coral for- 

 mations, i. 279. 



Argyll, Duke of, Address to the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh, iii. 31, 33 ; 

 review of the 'Fertilisation of 

 Orchids,' in the 'Edinburgh Re- 

 view,' iii. 274 ; ' The Reign of Law ' 

 by the, iii. 61, 65. 



Aristocracy, influence of selection upon 

 the, ii. 385 ; iii. 91. 



