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INDEX. 



KIRBY. 



the progress of the theory of Evolu- 

 tion, iii. 2. 



Kirby, Rev. William, on breeding cats, 

 ii. 348. 



Koch's researches on splenic fever, iii. 



234. 



Kolliker's * Ueber die Darwin'sche 

 Schopfungstheorie,' answered by 

 T. H. Huxley, iii. 29. 



Kolreuter on sexuality in plants, iii. 



257. 



Kossuth, character of, ii. 113. 



Krause, Ernst, ' Life of Erasmus Dar- 

 win,' i. 97 ; on Hackel's services to 

 the cause of Evolution in Germany, 

 iii. 67, 68 ; on the work of Dr. 

 Erasmus Darwin, iii. 218. 



Krohn, Prof. Aug., on Cirripedes, ii. 

 345 5 i". 2. 



LABURNUMS, iii. 57. 

 Laccadive islands, ii. 77. 

 Lake-basins and glacial action, iii. 35. 

 Lamarck's ' Philosophic Zoologique,' ii. 



189. 



views, references to, ii. 23, 29, 



39, 207, 215 ; iii. 14, 15. 

 Lamellicorn beetles, stridulating organs 



of, iii. 97- 

 Landois, H., on the stridulating organs 



of insects, iii. 97. 

 Lankester, E. Ray, letter to, iii. 120 ; 



letter to, on the reception of the 



* Descent of Man,' iii. 138. 

 , on ' Comparative Longevity,' 



iii. 120. 

 La Plata, 'deposits containing extinct 



Mammalia in the neighbourhood of 



the, i. 279 ; woodpecker of the, ii. 



351 ; pithing of lassoed cows, by the 



Gauchos of, iii. 245. 

 Large areas, perfection of forms inhabit- 

 ing, ii. 142. 



Lascelles family, i. 2, 3. 

 Last words, iii. 358. 

 Lathyrus grandiflorus, fertilisation of, 



by bees, iii. 260. 

 Laugel, M., notice of the 'Origin of 



Species,' ii. 186 ; Review of the 



' Origin ' by, in the ' Revue des 



Deux Mondes,' ii. 305. 



LINUM. 



Laughing, i. ill. 



Laws, designed, ii. 312. 



Leaves, divergence of, investigation of 

 the, iii. 23. 



, position of, on plants, iii. 51, 



52 ; position of, during rain, iii. 342. 



Lecky's ' Rise of Rationalism in Eu- 

 rope,' iii. 40. 



Lecoq, a believer in mutability of 

 species, iii. 26. 



Lecoq's ' Geographic Botanique,' iii. 

 301. 



Lecture, Huxley's, at the Royal Institu- 

 tion, ii. 238. 



Lee, Professor Samuel, i. 289. 



Legislation, attempted, in connection 

 with vivisection, iii. 201, 203. 



Leibnitz, objections raised by, to New- 

 ton's Law of Gravitation, ii. 290. 



Lens, simple, use of the, i. 145. 



Lepidodendron, i. 357, 359. 



Lepidoptera, sexual selection in, iii. 

 150. 



Lepidosiren, ii. 143. 



Leschenaultia, fertilisation of, iii. 261. 



Lesquereux, L., conversion of, iii. 31 

 note. 



Lewes, G. H., review of the ' Varia- 

 tion of Animals and Plants,' in the 

 Pall Mall Gazette ', iii. 7. 



Lewisham and Blackheath Scientific 

 Association, visit from the, iii. 227. 



Life, origin of, iii. 18. 



Light, gravity, &c., acting as stimuli, iii. 

 336, 337- 



Lightning, ii. 312. 



Lignite-plants of Kerguelen Land, iii. 

 247. 



Lima, letter to W. D. Fox, from, i. 262. 



Linaria vulgaris, observations on cross- 

 and self-fertilisation in, iii. 290. 



Lincolnshire, purchase of a farm in, i. 



343- 



Lindley, John, i. 389. 



Lmgula, ii. 340. 



Linnean Society, joint paper with A. 

 R. Wallace, read before the, ii. 115, 

 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 125, 126, 

 128, 129, 130; portrait at the, iii. 

 223 ; reading of the paper on 

 Prinmla before the, iii. 299. 



Linum, Dimorphic species of, iii. 297. 



