INDEX. 



BEAGLE. 

 'Beagle,' correspondence relating to 



the appointment to the, i. 185-216. 

 , equipment of the, i. 217, 218 ; 



accommodation on board the, i. 218, 



219 ; officers and crew of the, i. 



221, 222, 229 ; manner of life on 



board the, i. 220, 223. 



, voyage of the, i. 58-67. 



, Zoology of the voyage of the, 



publication of the, i. 71. 

 Beans, stated to have grown on the 



wrong side of the pod, i. 104. 

 Bear, Polar, ii. 336. 

 Beautiful, sense of the, iii. 54. 

 Bedtime, i. 124. 

 Bee Orchis, observations on the, iii. 



263 ; self- fertilisation of the, iii. 276 ; 



possible identity of the Spider-Orchis 



with the, iii. 276. 



Bees, visits of, necessary for the impreg- 

 nation of the Scarlet Bean, iii. 



260. 

 Bees' cells, ii. 305, 350 ; angles of, ii. 



in ; Sedgwick on, ii. 249. 



combs, ii. 146. 



Beetles, collecting, at Cambridge, &c., 



i-, 50, 56, 168, 169, 172; ii. 140, 



141. 



, Lamellicorn, stridulating or- 

 gans of, iii. 97. 

 Begnis, J. de, i. 180. 

 Begonia frigida, ii. 275, 290. 

 Behrens, W., letter to, on fertilisation, 



iii. 282. 

 , ' Geschichte der Bestaubungs- 



Theorie,' iii. 282. 

 Belfast, British Association meeting at, 



1874, iii. 189. 

 Bell, Professor Thomas, i. 274, 275 ; 



ii. 363- 



Bell's ' Anatomy of Expression,' iii. 96. 

 Belloc, Madame, proposal to translate 



the ' Origin ' into French, ii. 235. 

 * Bell-stone,' Shrewsbury, an erratic 



boulder, i. 41. 

 Belt, T., on the Glacial period in the 



tropics, ii. 361. 

 Belt's * Naturalist in Nicaragua,' iii. 



188. 

 Bemmelen, A. van, letter to, on receipt 



of an album of Dutch men of science, 



iii. 226. 



BIRMINGHAM. 



Bence- Jones, Dr., iii. 31. 



Beneficence, Evidence of, ii. 312. 



Bentham, G., ii. 292. 



, 'British Flora,' ii. 131, 132. 



, approval of the work on the 



fertilisation of orchids, iii. 271. 



' On the Species and Genera of 



Plants,' ii. 363 ; reference to the 

 ' Variation of Animals and Plants,' 

 in his Address to the Linnean Society 

 (1868), iii. 85. 



, letter from, to F. Darwin, ii.. 



293- 



, letters to : iii. 24, 25 ; on his 



Address to the Linnean Society 

 (1868), iii. 85; letter to, on the 

 adaptation of flowers to cross-fertilisa- 

 tion, iii. 279 ; letter to, on cross and 

 self- fertilisation in plants, iii. 291. 



Bentham, G. and J. D. Hooker, the 

 'Genera Plantarum' of, ii. 306. 



Berkeley, Rev. M. J., review of the 

 * Fertilisation of Orchids ' by, iii. 

 270. 



Berlin, Academy of Sciences at, iii. 

 34; Academy of Sciences at, election 

 as a corresponding member of the, 

 iii. 224. 



Bermuda, Birds of, ii. 209 ; visited by 

 Bats from mainland, ii. 336. 



Bet as to height of Christ's College 

 combination-room, i. 279. 



Beyrout, mongrelisation of street dogs 

 in, iii. 252. 



' Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve,' 

 review of the ' Origin ' in the, ii. 



i? 297. 



Biddenham gravel-pits, Lyell's visit to 

 the, ii. 364. 



Bignonia capreolata, questions as to 

 conditions of climbing of, iii. 314. 



Billiards, ii. 151. 



* Biographical sketch of an Infant,' iii. 



233- 



Birds, bastard wing of, ii. 214; song 

 of, iii. 97 ; wingless, Sir R. Owen 

 on their loss of wings by disuse, ii. 

 388 ; toothed, in the North American 

 Cretaceous, iii. 242 note. 



Birds' nests, ii. 146. 



Birmingham, Meeting of British Asso- 

 ciation at (1849), i. 378. 



