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INDEX. 



FERTILISATION. 



in the 'Parthenon,' iii. 270; in 

 the Atkenteum } iii. 270 ; in the 

 ' London Review,' iii. 270 ; in ' Silli- 

 man's Journal,' iii. 272, 304 ; in the 

 Saturday Review 1 , iii. 274 ; in the 

 Literary Chtirchman, iii. 274 ; in 

 the 'Edinburgh Review,' iii. 274. 



Fertilisation, cross- and self-, in the 

 vegetable kingdom, iii. 289-294. 



of flowers, bibliography of the, 



iii. 275. 



Fish swallowing seeds, ii. 56. 



Fisher, Mrs. See BUCKLEY, Miss. 



Fishes, Amazonian, iii. 99 ; electrical 

 organs of, ii. 352 ; swim-bladder of, 



in. 135. 



and crustaceans, ii. 334. 



Fiske, J., letter to, on his ' Cosmic 



Philosophy,' iii. 193. 

 Fitton, W. H., i. 294. 

 Fitz-Roy, Capt., i. 58, 59; character 



of, i. 60 ; character of, by Rev. G. 



Peacock, i. 191, 194; Darwin's 



impressions of, i. 201, 203, 204, 206, 



210; discipline on board the 'Beagle,' 



i. 222 ; intended resignation of, i. 



257 ; letter to, from Shrewsbury, i. 



269 ; letters to, on his appointment 



as Governor of New Zealand, i. 331, 



332. 



Fitzwilliam Gallery, Cambridge, i. 49. 

 Flint implements associated with bones 



of extinct animals, ii. 160. 

 Flora of the Northern United States, 



ii. 88. 

 Flourens, opposition to Darwin, ii. 



185 ; ' Examen du livre de M. 



Darwin,' iii. 30. 

 Flowers, adaptation of, to visits of 



insects, iii. 262 ; different forms of, 



on plants of the same species, i. 97 ; 



iii. 295-310; fertilisation of, iii. 



256-288; hermaphrodite, first ideas 



of cross-fertilisation of, iii. 257, 258; 



irregular, all adapted for visits of 



insects, iii. 262. 



, cleistogamic, iii. 295. 



, love of, i. 116. 



Flustra, form allied to, i. 249 ; paper 



on the larvse of, i. 39. 

 Forbes, David, on the geology of 



Chile, ii. 355. 



FRANCE. 



Forbes, Prof. Edward, ii. 38. ; on 

 continental extensions, ii. 72 ; iii. 35. 



Ford, G. H., illustrations to the 

 ' Descent of Man,' iii. 121. 



Fordyce, J., extract from letter to, 

 304- 



Forel, Auguste, letter to, on ants, iii. 

 191. 



Forest, tropical, delight in, i. 237, 241. 



Forests, Brazilian, sublimity of the, 

 iii. 54.^ 



' Formation of Vegetable Mould, 

 through the action of Worms,' pub- 

 lication of the, i. 98 ; iii. 217; un- 

 expected success of the, iii. 217, 

 218. 



Formica rufa, observations on habits 

 of, iii. 191, 192. 



Forms, extinction of, ii. 212. 



Forster, Miss, letter to, iii. 224 note. 



Fossil bones, given to the College of 

 Surgeons, i. 276. 



Fox, Rev. William Darwin, i. 4, 51. 



, authority for the deafness of 



blue-eyed cats, ii. 348 ; letters to : i. 

 174-184, 186, 190; ii. 84, no; 

 before sailing in the Beagle, i. 205, 

 21 1 ; from Botofogo Bay, i. 233; 

 from Lima, i. 262 ; in 1836-1842 ; 

 i. 277, 278, 279, 280, 290, 299, 301 ; 

 on the house at Down, i. 321 ; on 

 traces of glacial action, i. 332 ; on the 

 death of his little daughter, i. 380 ; 

 on their respective families, pro- 

 fessions for boys, education and the 

 publication of vol. i. of the Cirri- 

 pedes, i. 380, 384 ; on education and 

 schools, i. 385, 386 ; condoling on 

 loss of a child, i. 388 ; on plumage 

 and skeletons of young birds, ii. 46, 

 48> 49, 50 ; on Pigeon-breeding, ii. 

 51 ; asking for lizards' eggs, ii. 53 ; 

 on the British Association meeting 

 at Glasgow, 1855, ii. 66 ; on striped 

 horses, ii. 1 1 1 ; on family matters, ii. 

 140, 150; on the progress of the 

 work, ii. 167; on the 'Origin of 

 Species,' ii. 221 ; on the award of 

 the Copley Medal, iii. 27. 



France, state of opinion in, iii. 7 ; 

 persistence of belief in immutability 

 of species in, iii. 87. 



