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BOUCHARDAT. 



INDEX. 



BROOMFIELD. 



Bouchardat, on the vine disease, i- 

 354. 



Boudin, on local diseases, ii. 266 ; re- 

 sistance to cold of dark-complexioned 

 men, ii. 329. 



"Boulans," >• 1*3. 



" Bodton d'Alep," ii. 266. 



Bowen, Prof., doubts as to the import- 

 ance of inheritance, i. 446. 



Bowman, Mr., hereditary peculiarities 

 in the human eye, i. 452^i54 ; here- 

 ditary cataract, ii. 56. 



Brace, Mr., on Hungarian cattle, i. 84. 



Brachycome iberidifolia, ii. 249. 



Bracts, unusual development of, in 

 gooseberries, i. 377. 



Bradley, Mr., effect of grafts upon the 

 stock in the ash, i. 418; effect of 

 foreign pollen upon apples, i. 432 ; 

 on change of soil, ii. 128. 



"Brahma Pootras," a new breed of 

 fowls, i. 258. 



Brain, proportion of, in hares and 

 rabbits, i. 130-134. 



Brandt, Dr., origin of the goat, i. 105 ; 

 correlation of teeth and hair, ii. 321. 



Brassica, varieties of, with enlarged 

 stems, ii. 341. 



Brassica asperifolia, ii. 335. 



Brassica napus, i. 344. 



Brassica olcracea, i. 341. 



Brassica rapa, i. 344, ii. 148. 



Braun, A., bud-variation in the vine, 

 i. 400 ; in the currant, ibid. ; in 

 Mirabilis jalapa, i. 407 ; in Cytisus 

 adami, i. 413; on reversion in the 

 foliage of trees, i. 408 ; spontaneous 

 production of Cytisus purpureo-elon- 

 yatus, i. 416 ; reversion of flowers 

 by stripes and blotches, ii. 11; ex- 

 cess of nourishment a source of 

 variability, ii. 244. 



Brazil, cattle of, i. 92. 



Bread-fruit, varieties of, ii. 243; ste- 

 rility and variability of, ii. 256. 



Bree, W.T., bud-variation in Geranium 

 pratense and Ccntaurea cyanus, i. 404 ; 

 by tubers in the dahlia, i. 411 ; on the 

 deafness of white cats with blue eyes, 

 ii. 322. 



Breeding, high, dependent on inheri- 

 tance, i. 446, 447. 



Breeds, domestic, persistency of, ii. 233, 

 423, 424 ; artificial and natural, ii. 



409,410; extinction of, ii. 421 ; of 

 domestic cats, i. 47-49 ; of pigs pro- 

 duced by crossing, i. 82 ; of cattle, i. 

 90, 94-97 ; of goats, i. 105. 



Brehm, on Colamba amalice, i. 192. 



Brent, B. P., number of mamma in 

 rabbits, i. 110 ; habits of the tumbler 

 pigeon, i. 158; Laugher pigeon, i. 163; 

 colouring of the kite tumbler, i. 169 ; 

 crossing of the pigeon with Columba 

 arnas, i. 202 ; mongrels of the trum- 

 peter pigeon, ii. 42 ; close interbreed- 

 ing of pigeons, ii. 106 ; opinion on 

 Aldrovandi's fowls, i. 259 ; on stripes 

 in chickens, i. 262 ; on the combs of 

 fowls, i. 266; double-spurred Dorking 

 fowls, i. 267 ; effect of crossing on 

 colour of plumage in fowls, i. 270 r 

 incubatory instinct of mongrels be- 

 tween non-setting varieties of fowls, 

 ii. 18 ; origin of the domestic duck, 

 i. 291 ; fertility of the hook-billed 

 duck, ibid. ; occurrence of the plu- 

 mage of the wild duck in domestic 

 breeds, i. 294 ; voice of ducks, i. 295 ; 

 occurrence of a short upper mandible 

 in crosses of hook-billed and common 

 ducks, ibid. ; reversion in ducks pro- 

 duced by crossing, ii. 14 ; variation of 

 the canary-bird, i. 311; fashion in 

 the canary, ii. 226 ; hybrids of canary 

 and finches, ii. 20. 



Brickell, on raising nectarines from 

 seed, i. 360 ; on the horses of North 

 Carolina, ii. 290. 



Bridges, Mr., on the dogs of Tierra del 

 Fuego, i. 41 ; on the selection of dcgs 

 by the Fuegians, ii. 191. 



Bridgman, W. K., reproduction of ab- 

 normal ferns, i. 408. 



Broca, P., on the intercrossing of dogs, 

 i. 32, 33 ; on hybrids of hare and 

 rabbit, i. 109 ; on the rumpless fowl, 

 i. 271 ; on the character of half- 

 castes, ii. 21 ; degree of fertility of 

 mongrels, ii. 78; sterility of descend- 

 ants of wild animals bred in cap- 

 tivity, ii. 143. 



Broccoli, i. 341 ; rudimentary flowers 

 in, ii. 307 ; tenderness of, ii. 301. 



Bromehead, W., doubling of the Can- 

 terbury Bell by selection, ii. 185. 



Broomfield, Dr., sterility of the ivy 

 and Acorus calamus, ii. 154. 



