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FRESTWICH. 



INDEX. 



SEEDS. 



Prestwich, Mr., on English and 



French eocene formations, 282. 

 Proctotrupes, 133. 

 Proteolepas, 110 

 Proteus, 104. 



Psychology, future progress of, 402. 

 Prygoma, found in the chalk, 267. 



Quagga, striped, 121. 



Quafaefages, M., on hybrid moths, 



224. 



Quercus, variability of, 37. 

 Quince, grafts of, 230. 



B. 



Babbits, disposition of young, 196. 



Races, domestic, characters of, 11. 



Race-horses, Arab, 24. 



, English, 303. 



Radcliffe, Dr.,. the electrical organs 

 of the torpedo, 140. 



Ramond, on plants of Pyrenees, 311. 



Ramsay, Prof., on subaerial denu- 

 dation, 250. 



, on thickness of the British 



formations, 251, 252. 



, on faults, 251. 



, Mr., on instincts of cuckoo, 



199. 



Ratio of increase, 46. 



Rats supplanting each other, 55. 



, acclimatisation of, 105. 



, blind, in cave, 102. 



Rattle-snake, 152. 



Reason and instinct, 191. 



Recapitulation, general, 379. 



Reciprocity of crosses, 227. 



Record, geological, imperfect, 247. 



Rengger, on flies destroying cattle, 52. 



Reproduction, rate of, 47. 



Resemblance, protective, of insects, 

 169. 



to parents in mongrels and 



hybrids, 243, 244. 



Reversion, law of inheritance, 10. 



, in pigeons, to blue colour, 118. 



Rhododendron, sterility of, 223, 224. 



Richard, Prof., on Aspicarpa, 344, 

 345. 



Richardson, Sir J., on structure of 

 squirrels, 129, 130. 



, en fishes of the southern hemi- 

 sphere, 317. 



Robinia, grafts of, 230. 



Rodents, blind, 102. 



Rogers, Prof., Map of N. America. 

 257. 



Rudimentary organs, 373 



Rudiments important for classifica- 

 tion, 344. 



Riitimeyer, on Indian cattle, 13, 225. 



Salamandra atra, 373. 



Saliva used in nests, 213. 



Salvin, Mr., on the beaks of ducks, 



172. 



Sageret, on grafts, 230. 

 Salmons, males fighting, and hooked 



laws of, 64. 

 Salt water, how far injurious to seeds, 



304, 305. 

 not destructive to land-shells, 



331, 332. 

 Salter, Mr. , on early death of hybrid 



embryos, 233. 



Saurophagus sulphuratus, 132. 

 Schacht, Prof., on Phyllotaxy, 161. 

 Schiodte, on blind insects, 103. 



, on flat-fish, 174. 



Schlegel, on snakes, 107. 



School, Dr., on the ears of mice, 



160. 

 Scott, J., Mr., on the self -sterility 



of orchids, 223. 

 , on the crossing of varieties of 



verbascum, 241, 242. 

 Sea-water, how far injurious to seeds, 



304, 305. 

 not destructive to land-shells, 



331, 332. 

 Sebright, Sir J., on crossed animals, 



14. 



Sedgwick, Prof., on groups of spe- 

 cies suddenly appearing, 264. 

 Seedlings destroyed by insects, 49. 

 Seeds, nutriment in, 56. 



, winged, 109. 



, means of dissemination, 144, 



151, 306, 307. 

 , power of resisting salt water, 



305. 

 , in crops and intestines of birds, 



306, 307. 



, eaten by fish, 307, 325. 



, in mud, 324. 



, hooked, on islands, 328. 



