INDEX. 



523 



Bronn, Prof., on duration of 

 specific forms, 326. 



, various objections by, 201. 



Brown, Robert, on classification, 

 432. 



, Sequard, on inherited muti- 

 lations, 129. 



Busk, Mr., on the Polyzoa, 228. 



Butterflies, mimetic, 443, 444, 

 445. 



Buzareingues, on sterility of varie- 

 ties, 304. 



Cabbage, varieties of, crossed, 9. 



Calceolaria, 282. 



Canary-birds, sterility of hybrids, 

 282. 



Cape de Verde Islands, produc- 

 tions of, 418. 



, plants of, on mountains, 



398. 



Cape of Good Hope, plants of, 

 121, 410. 



Carpenter, Dr., on foraminifera, 

 364. 



Carthamus, 205. 



Catasetum, 184, 438. 



Cats, with blue eyes, deaf, 10. 



, variation in habits of, 247. 



curling tail when going to 



spring, 193. 



Cattle destroying fir-trees, 67. 



destroyed by flies in Para- 

 guay, 67. 



breeds of, locally extinct, 



101. 



— , fertility of Indian and Euro- 

 pean breeds, 283. 

 -, Indian, 16, 283. 



Cave, inhabitants of, blind, 130. 



Cecidomyia, 456. 



Celts, proving antiquity of man, 



16. 

 Centers of Creation, 378. 

 Cephalopodse, structures of eyes, 



180. 



, development of, 460. 



Cercopithecus, tail of, 223. 

 Ceroxylus laceratus, 216. 

 Cervulus, 283. 

 Cetacea, teeth and hair, 137. 



Cetacea, development of the 

 whalebone, 216. 



Cetaceans, 216. 



Ceylon, plants of, 399. 



Chalk formation, 352. 



Characters, divergence of, 101. 



, sexual, variable, 141, 146. 



, adaptive or analogical, 440, 



Charlock, 71. 



Checks to increase, 63. 



, mutual, 65. 



Chelae of Crustaceans, 228. 



Chickens, instinctive tameness of, 

 249. 



Chironomus, its asexual reproduc- 

 tion, 456. 



ChthamalinaD, 320. 



Chthamalus, cretacean species of, 

 336. 



Circumstances favorable to selec- 

 tion of domestic products, 35, 



to natural selection, 94. 



Cirripedes capable of crossing, 93. 



, carapace aborted, 140. 



, their ovigerous frena, 177. 



, fossil, 336. 



, larvae of, 458. 



Claparede, Prof., on the hair- 

 claspers of the Acaridse, 182. 



Clarke, Rev. W. B., on old 

 glaciers in Australia, 396. 



Classification, 428. 



Clift, Mr., on the succession of 

 types, 367. 



Climate, effects of, in checking 

 increase of beings, 64. 



, adaptation of, to organisms, 



133. 



Climbing plants, 175. 



, development of, 231. 



Clover visited by bees, 88. 



Cobites, intestine of, 175. 



Cockroach, 71. 



Collections, palaeontological, poor, 

 319. 



Color, influenced by climate, 127. 



, in relation to attack by flies, 



189. 



Columba livia, parent of domes- 

 tic pigeons, 20. 



Colymbetes, 407. 



