CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 inheritance, continued — reversion or atavism. 



DIFFERENT FORMS OF REVERSION — IN PURE OR UNCROSSED BREEDS, AS 

 IN PIGEONS, FOWLS, HORNLESS CATTLE AND SHEEP, IN CULTIVATED 

 PLANTS — REVERSION IN FERAL ANIMALS AND PLANTS — REVERSION 

 IN CROSSED VARIETIES AND SPECIES — REVERSION THROUGH BUD- 

 PROPAGATION, AND BY SEGMENTS IN THE SAME FLOWER OR FRUIT 

 — LN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BODY IN THE SAME ANIMAL — 

 THE ACT OF CROSSING A DIRECT CAUSE OF REVERSION, VARIOUS 

 CASES OF, WITH INSTINCTS— OTHER PROXIMATE CAUSES OF RE- 

 VERSION — LATENT CHARACTERS — SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS 

 — UNEQUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE TWO SIDES OF THE BODY — 

 APPEARANCE WITH ADVANCING AGE OF CHARACTERS DERIVE'.. 

 FROM A CROSS — THE GERM, WITH ALL ITS LATENT CHARACTERS, 

 A WONDERFUL OBJECT — MONSTROSITIES — PELORIC FLOWERS DUE IN 



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CHAPTER XIV. 

 inheritance, continued — fixedness of character — 



PREPOTENCY — SEXUAL LIMITATION — CORRESPONDENCE 

 OF AGE. 



FIXEDNESS OF CHARACTER APPARENTLY NOT DUE TO ANTIQUITY OF 

 INHERITANCE — PREPOTENCY OF TRANSMISSION IN INDIVIDUALS OF 

 THE SAME FAMILY, IN CROSSED BREEDS AND SPECIES ; OFTEN 

 STRONGER IN ONE SEX THAN THE OTHER; SOMETIMES DUE TO THE 

 SAME CHARACTER BELNG PRESENT AND VISIBLE IN ONE BREED 

 AND LATENT IN THE OTHER — INHERITANCE AS LIMITED BY SEX — 



