INDEX 



Beagle, 312; scientific results of Dawkins, Boyd, on man and the 



the voyage on the Beagle, 312- 

 315 ; publishes Journal of Re- 

 searches, 313; publishes Volcanic 

 Islands, Geological Observations on 

 South America, and Coral Reefs, 

 313, 314; publishes Monograph 

 of the Cirripedia, 314 ; publishes 

 Origin of Species, 315, 328 ; his 

 study of the flora and fauna of the 

 Galapagos Islands, 3 1 5-3 1 9 ; inau- 

 gurates the study of zoological and 

 botanical geography, 319; his con- 

 ception of Descent with Modifica- 

 tions, 319-323 ; his discovery of 

 the law of natural selection, 323- 

 328 ; his plans for a more elabo- 

 rate work on species, 329 ; the 

 adoption of his theories, 329, 

 333. 335 > publishes Variation of 

 Animals and Plants under Domes- 

 tication, 330; publishes Descent 

 of Man and Fertilization of Or- 

 chids, 333, 334; publishes Ex- 

 pression of the Emotions in Man 

 and Animals, Movements and 

 Habits of Climbing Plants, In- 

 sectivorous Plants, Cross and Self 

 Fertilization, Different Forms of 

 Flowers, Formation of Vegetable 

 Mould through the Action of 

 Worms, 335, 336; his work 

 compared with Sir Isaac New- 

 ton's, 336. 



Darwin, Erasmus, an ingenious and 

 original thinker, 310; author of 

 Botanic Garden, 310. 



Darwin, Sir Francis, author of a 

 book on botany, 310 ; a keen ob- 

 server of animals, 311. 



Darwin, R. W., father of C. R. 

 Darwin, 311. 



Darwinism and other Essays on the 

 meaning of infancy, 227. 



Dasyus races of Hindustan, 74. 



Davila, G. G., on the expulsion of 

 the Moriscoes, 223. 



Davy, Sir Humphry, and believers 

 in phlogiston, 176. 



Eocene age, 20 ; his Early Man 

 in Britain, 23 ; on river-drift men, 

 34 ; on cave-men, 39. 



Deer, Eocene ancestor of, 18 ; 

 Miocene ancestor of, 22 ; Plio- 

 cene, 27; Pleistocene, 29, 31. 



Dehra Dhun, meaning of, 116. 



Deinotherium, 22. 



Dentreath, Dame Dolly, last speaker 

 of the Cornish dialect of Kymric, 

 85. 



Denudation, geological, rate of, 12. 



Descartes, Rene, C. R. Darwin 

 ranked with, 310. 



Descent with modifications, sug- 

 gested by facts of geographical 

 distribution traced by Darwin in 

 the Galapagos Islands, 319; 

 strengthened by facts of geological 

 succession, 320 ; by genetic classi- 

 fication of species, 321 ; by mor- 

 phology and embryology, 321. 



Destiny of Man, on the meaning of 

 infancy, 279. 



Deviations from an average, 158 ; 

 in species, 159, 160, 162; in 

 mental capacity, 159; law of, 

 inexplicable, 161. 



Devonian epoch, fishes and insects 

 in > S> 7- 



Dialects, the rise of, 141-143, 145 ; 

 the Parisian and Tuscan, 142, 

 143 ; the decay of, 143, 145 j 

 of savages, 155, 156. 



Differential calculus, simultaneoiw 

 discoveries in, 332. 



Discoverers, the great, belong to 

 modern times, 184, 185; social 

 conditions and, 185-190. 



Dnieper a Keltic name, 84. 



Dog, harbinger of civilization, 41 ; 

 is teachable, 286 ; domesticated 

 by man, 324. 



Domestication, variation in plants 

 and animals under, 324. 



Dominic, Saint, his biography by 

 Lacordaire, 191 and persecution, 

 194. 



347 



