INDEX. 



405 



NAMES. 

 Names of garden plants, difficulty of 



obtaining, iii. 269. 

 ' Nancy, ' i. 254, 259. 

 Naples, Zoological Station at, iii. 198 ; 



donation of ;ioo to the, for appar- 

 atus, iii. 225. 



Nascent organs, ii. 213, 237. 

 ' Nation,' notice, by Asa Gray in the, 



of the ' Variation of Animals and 



Plants,' ii. 84. 

 Natural History, early taste for, i. 



28. 

 'Natural History Review,' project of 



establishing the, ii. 328. 

 Natural selection, ii. 78, 87, 123, 128, 



138, 3i7>-33- 



, applicability of the term, ii. 



278 ; belief in, founded on general 

 considerations, iii. 25 ; H. C. Watson 

 on, ii. 226 ; priority in the theory of, 

 claimed by Mr. Patrick Matthew, ii. 

 301, 302 ; progress of, in Germany, 

 iii. 306 ; Sedgwick on, ii. 249 ; 

 Wallace's criticism of the term, iii. 

 46, 47. 



and sterility, iii. 80. 



Naturalists, list of, who had adopted 

 the theory in March, 1860, ii. 293. 



' Naturalists' Pocket Almanack,' letter 

 to Rev. L. Jenyns on the, i. 353. 



'Nature,' letter to, in answer to Dr. 

 Bree, iii. 167 note; review of 

 'Different Forms of Flowers,' in, 

 iii. 310. 



Naudin's theory, ii, 246, 247. 



Neale, Mr., on 'Typical Selection,' ii. 



359- 



Nearctic and Palsearctic regions, separa- 

 tion of the, iii. 230. 



Nepenthes, iii. 97. 



"Nervous matter," something analo- 

 gous to, in Drosera and Dioncza, iii. 

 318, 319, 322. 



system, direct action of the, iii. 



172. 



Nescea vertidllata, iii. 302. 



Neumayr, M., letter to, iii. 232. 



Nevill, Lady Dorothy, letter to, on 

 Utricularia, iii. 327. 



New Caledonia, ii. 76. 



New Holland, ii. 74. 



Newton, Prof. A., letter to, iii. 79. 



OBSERVATION. 



Newton's ' Law of Gravitation,' objec- 

 tions raised by Leibnitz to, ii. 289. 



New York Times, review of the 

 ' Origin ' in the, ii. 305. 



New Zealand, absence of Acacias and 

 Banksias in, ii. 77 ; bats of, ii. 336 ; 

 Flora of, iii. 56 j glacial period in, 

 iii. 6 ; supposed tracks of Mammalia 

 in, iii. 6 ; spread of European birds 

 and insects in, iii. 6 ; plants of, ii. 



143- 

 Flora, Dr. Hooker's paper on 



the, ii 39, 41. 



Nicknames on board the Beagle, i. 221. 

 Nicotiana, partial sterility of varieties 



of. when crossed, ii. 384. 

 Nitrogenous compounds, detection of, 



by the leaves of Drosera, iii. 318, 324. 

 ' Nomenclator Darwinianus,' iii. 351 ; 



endowment by Mr. Darwin, iii. 352 ; 



plan of the, iii. 353. 

 Nomenclature and the law of priority, 



letters to and from H. E. Strickland 



upon, i. 366, 372. 

 Nonconformist, review of the ' Descent 



of Man' in the, iii. 139. 

 North America and Siberia, almost 



continuous in Pliocene times, ii. 



135- 

 ' North American Review,' review of 



the ' Origin ' in the, by Prof. Bo wen, 



ii. 304, 305. 

 ' North British Review,' review of the 



' Origin' in the, ii. 311, 315. 

 North Wales, glaciation in, i. 332 ; 



tours through, i. 42 ; tour in, i. 71 ; 



visit to, with Sedgwick, i. 56-58 ; 



visit to, in 1869, iii. 106. 

 Nose, objection to shape of, i. 59, 61. 

 Noterus, new species found, i. 237. 

 Noles, mode of keeping, iii. 333. 

 Novara Expedition, ii. 93. 

 Novels, liking for, i. 101, 122-124. 

 Nuptial dress of animals, iii. 123. 

 Nuthatch, iii. 118. 

 Nymphcea, petals of, perhaps modified 



stamens, iii. 285. 



OBSERVATION, methods of, i. 148-150 ; 



iii. 278. 

 , power of, i. 103. 



