CATTLE. 



INDEX. 



CURRANTS. 



419 



Cattle destroying fir-trees, 62. 



destroyed by flies in Paraguay, 



52. 



breeds of, locally extinct, 80. 



, fertility of Indian and Euro- 

 pean breeds, 225. 



, Indian, 13, 225. 



Cave, inhabitants of, blind, 102. 



Cecidomyia, 363. 



Celts, proving antiquity of man, 13. 



Centres of Creation, 300. 



Cepbalopodac, structures of eyes, 142. 



, development of, 366. 



Cercopitbecus, tail of, 176. 



Ceroxylus laceratus, 170. 



Cervulus, 224. 



Cetacea, teeth and hair, 107. 



, development of the whalebone, 



170. 



Cetaceans, 170. 



Ceylon, plants of, 318. 



Chalk formation, 279. 



Characters, divergence of, 80. 



, sexual, variable, 111, 115. 



, adaptive or analogical, 350, 



Charlock, 55. 



Checks to increase, 49. 



, mutual, 51. 



Chelae of Crustaceans, 180. 



Chickens, instinctive tameness of, 

 197. 



Chironomus, its asexual reproduction, 

 363; 



Chthamalinaj, 253. 



Chthamalus, cretacean species of, 

 267. 



Circumstances favourable to selection 

 of domestic products, 27. 



to natural selection, 74. 



Cirripedes capable of crossing, 74. 



, carapace aborted, 110. 



, their ovigerous frena, 139. 



, fossil, 266. 



, larva; of, 365. 



Claparede, Prof., on the hair-claspers 

 of the Acaridffi, 143. 



Clarke, Eev. \V. B., on old glaciers 

 in Australia, 314. 



Classification, 340. 



Clift, Mr., on the succession of tvpes, 

 291. 



Climate, effects of, in checking in- 

 crease of beings, 50- 



, adaptation of, to organisms, 



104. 



Climbing plants, 138. 



Climbing, development of, 183. 

 Clover visited by bees, 69, 70. 

 Cobites, intestine of, 137. 

 Cockroach, 65. 

 Collections, palaeontological, poor. 



263. 



Colour, influenced by climate, 99. 

 , in relation to attack by flies, 



149. 

 Columba livia, parent of domestic 



Sigeons, 16. 

 ymbetes, 324. 



Compensation of growth, 109. 



Composite, flowers and seeds of, 108. 



, outer and inner florets of, 161. 



, male flowers of, 373. 



Conclusion, general, 395. 



Conditions, slight changes in, favour- 

 able to fertility, 235. 



Convergence of genera, 94. 



Coot, 133. 



Cope, Prof., on the acceleration or 

 retardation of the period of repro- 

 duction, 139. 



Coral-islands, seeds drifted to, 306. 



- reefs, indicating movements of 

 earth, 306. 



Corn-crake, 134. 



Correlated variation in domestic pro- 

 ductions, 8. 



Coryanthes, 144. 



Creation, single centres of, 300. 



Crinum, 222, 223. 



Croll, Mr., on subaerial denudation, 

 250, 252. 



, on the age of our oldest for- 

 mations, 268. 



, on alternate Glacial periods in 



the North and South, 315. 



Crosses, reciprocal, 227- 



Crossing of domestic animals, im- 

 portance in altering breeds, 14. 



, advantages of, 71. 



, unfavourable to selection, 74, 



75. 



Criiger, Dr., on Coryanthes, 144. 



Crustacea of New Ze'aland, 317. 



Crustacean, blind, 102. 



air-breathers, 143. 



Crustaceans, their chela;, 180. 



Cryptocerus, 215. 



Ctenomys, blind, 102. 



Cuckoo, instinct of, 191, 198. 



Cunningham, Mr., on the flight ot 

 the logger-headed duck, 100. 



Currants, grafts of, 230. 



