INDEX 



541 



Bates, Mr., on mimetic butterflies, 



46s, 466. 

 Batrachians on islands, 435. 

 Bats, how structure acquired, 186. 



' , distribution of, 437. 



Bear, catcliing water-insects, 188. 

 Beauty, how acquired, 209, 511. 

 Bee, sting of, 214. 



, queen, killing rivals, 214. 



, Australian, extermination of, 



90. 

 Bees fertilising flowers, 88. 

 • , hive, not sucking the red 



clover, 108. 



I , Ligurian, 108. 



, hive, cell-making instinct, 279. 



, variation in habits, 266. 



-, parasitic, 275. 



humble, cells of, 280. 



Beetles, wingless, in Maderia, 148. 



with deficient tarsi, 148. 



Bentham, Mr., on British plants, 63. 



, on classification, 457. 



Berkeley, Mr., on seeds in salt water, 



405- 

 Bermuda, birds of, 433. 

 Birds acquiring fear, 266. 

 , beauty of, 212. 



annually cross the Atlantic, 



410. 



-, colour of, on continents, 146. 

 — , footsteps, and remains of, in 

 secondary rocks, 357. 



fossil, in caves of Brazil, 



388. 



of Madeira, Bermuda, and 

 Galapagos, 433. 

 Birds, song of males, 102. 



transporting seeds, 409. 



• , waders, 430. 



, wingless, 147, 186, 187. 



Bizcacha, 398. 



■ , affinities of, 469. 



Bladder for swimming, in fish, 195. 

 Blindness of cave animals, 150. 

 Blyth, Mr., on distinctness of Indian 

 cattle, 35. 



, on striped hemionus, 171. 



, on crossed geese, 304. 



Borrow, Mr., on the Spanish pointer, 



Bory St. Vincent, on Batrachians, 



435- 

 Bosquet, M., on fossil Chthamalus, 



357- 

 Boulders, erratic, on the Azores, 308. 

 BranchiK, 196, 197. 



of crustaceans, 20:. 



Braun, Prof., on the seeds of Fuma- 



riaceae, 226. 

 Brent, Mr., on house-tumblers, 268. 

 Britain, mammals of, 437. 

 Broca, Prof., on Natural Selection, 



222. 

 Bronn, Prof., on duration of specific 



forms, 347. 

 f , various objections by, 222. 



Brown,^ Robert, on classification, 453. 



, Sequard, on inherited mutila- 

 tions, 148. 



Busk, Mr., on the Polyzoa, 248. 



I'utterflies, mimetic, 465, 466. 



Buzareingues, on sterility of varie- 

 ties, 325. 



Cabbage, varieties of, crossed, 112. 



Calceolaria, 303. 



Canary-birds, sterility of hybrids, 



303- 

 Cape de Verde islands, productions 



of, 440. 



, plants of, on mountains, 420. 



Cape of Good Hope, plants of, 140, 



432. 

 Carpenter, Dr.. on foraminifera, 385. 

 Carthamus, 225. 

 Catasctum, 204, 461. 

 Cats, with blue eyes, deaf, 29. 

 , variation in habits of, 267. 



curline; tail when going to 



spring, 213. 



Cattle destroying fir-trees, 86. 



destroyed by flies in Paraguay, 



86. 



, breeds of, locally extinct, 121. 



fertility of Indian and Euro- 



pean breeds, 304. 



, Indian, 35, 305. 



Cave, inhabitants of, blind, 150. 

 Cecidomyia, 478. 



Celts, proving antiquity of man, 35. 

 Centres of Creation, 400. 

 Cephalopoda, structures of eyes, 200. 



, development of, 482. 



Cercopithecus, tail of, 243. 



Ceroxylus laceratus, 236. 



Cervulus, 304. 



Cetacea, teeth and hair, 156. 



, development of the whalebone, 



236. 

 Cetaceans, 236. 

 Ceylon, plants of, 420. 

 Chalk formation, 373. 

 Characters, divergence of, 121. 



, sexual, variable, 161, 165. 



— — , adaptive or analogical, 462. 



Charlock, 90. 



Checks to increase, 83. 



, mutual, 85. 



Chela of Crustaceans, 248. 

 Chickens, instinctive tameness of 



269. 

 Chironomus, its asexual reproduction, 



478. 

 Chthamalina;, 341. 

 Chthamalus, cretacean species of, 



357- 

 Circumstances favourable to selec- 

 tion of domestic products, 53. 



— — ■ to n.itural selection, 114. 



Cirripedes capable of crossing, 113. 

 , carapace aborted, 159. 



