INDEX. 



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ART-CRITICISM. 



Art-criticism, opinion of, i. 125. 

 Arthur's Seat, boulders on, i. 328 note. 

 Aru islands, ii. 108, 109. 

 Ascension, i. 66, 265. 

 Asia, mountains of, ii. 75. 

 Atheism, charge of, ii. 230. 

 'Athenaeum,' attack of, upon Sir 



Joseph Hooker, iii. 101 ; letter to 



the, iii. 19 ; article in the, iii. 21 ; 



reply to the article, iii. 22 ; reviews 



in the, i. 375, 376. 



review of the ' Origin ' in 



the, ii. 224, 228 ; reviews in the, 

 of Lyell's * Antiquity of Man,' and 

 Huxley's * Man's place in Nature,' 

 iii. 14 ; review of the ' Variation of 

 Animals and Plants,' in the, iii. 77, 

 79 ; review of the fifth edition of the 

 * Origin ' in the, iii. 108 ; review 

 of the ' Fertilisation of Orchids,' in 

 the, iii. 270. 



Athenaeum Club, i. 294. 



Atlantic ocean, account of the fine 



dust which often falls on vessels in 



the, i. 328. 

 continent, ii. 72, 73, 74 ; iii. 



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* Atlantic Monthly,' Asa Gray's articles 



in the, ii. 338, 359,370,371. 



'Atlantis,' of Edward Forbes, ii. 46, 

 78, 306. 



Atolls, ii. 325 ; formation of, iii. 184. 



Atropine, indifference of leaves of 

 Drosera and Dioncea to, iii. 323 ; 

 action of minute quantities of, on the 

 human eye, iii. 325. 



Auckland island, ii. 74. 



Audubon, i. 40. 



Australia, permanence of, ii. 75 ; moun- 

 tains of, ii. 76 ; flora of, ii. 143, 

 144, 257-259; naturalized plants in, 

 ii. 144 ; naturalized organisms in, ii. 

 173 ; persistence of Marsupials in, ii. 

 340; "bloom" common on the 

 Acacias and Eucalypti of, iii. 341. 



, South Western, relations of 



plants in, to those of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, ii. 162. 



Australian fossil and recent forms of 

 plants, iii. 248. 



Savages, Sir G. Grey's account 



of their battles, iii. 90. 



BATS. 



Autobiography, i. 26-107. 

 ' Automata,' iii. 358. 

 Automatism, iii. 251. 

 Aveling, Dr., on C. Darwin's religious 



views, i. 317 note. 

 Avicularium of a Polyzoon, i. 249. 

 Axolotl, Professor Weismann on the, 



iii. 198. 

 Azores, ii. 74, 77 ; Boulders on the, 



ii. 112, 113. 



BABBAGE and Carlyle, i. 77. 

 Bachelor of Arts, degree taken, i. 



47- 



Backgammon-playing, i. 123. 



Bar, Karl Ernst von, ii. 231 ; assent 

 of, to evolutionist views, ii. 1 86 

 note ; opinion of the theory, ii. 329, 



330. 



Bahia, forest scenery at, i. 231 ; letter 

 to R. W. Darwin from, i. 226 ; letter 

 to Miss S. Darwin from, i. 265. 



Bain, Alexander, letter to, on the 

 ' Expression of the Emotions,' iii. 

 172. 



Balanus armatus, iii. 97. 



Baly medal, award of the, by the Royal 

 College of Physicians, iii. 224. 



Balfour, Professor F. M., on the prac- 

 tice of vivisection under Anaesthetics, 

 iii. 203 ; notice of, iii. 250. 



Balsaminese, insect agency requisite 

 for the fertilisation of some, iii. 



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Barmouth, visit to, i. 168, 178. 



Bastian's ' Beginnings of Life,' iii. 

 168. 



Bates, H. W., on the Glacial period in 

 the tropics, ii. 361 ; paper on mi- 

 metic butterflies, ii. 378 : Darwin's 

 opinion of, ii. 380 note ; ' Naturalist 

 on the Amazons,' opinion of, ii. 381 ; 

 letters to : on his book on the Ama- 

 zons, ii. 378, 379, 381 ; on his ' In- 

 sect-Fauna of the Amazons Valley,' 

 ii. 391. 



Batrachians, absence of, on islands, ii. 



77- 



Bats in New Zealand, ii. 336 ; Indian, 

 killing frogs, ii. 336 ; on Oceanic 

 islands, iii. 20. 



