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INDEX. 



WEEB. 



336, ii. 187 ; of cattle and sheep, ii. 

 186. 



Virginian Islands, ponies of, i. 54. 



Vision, hereditary peculiarities of, i. 

 452, 453 ; in amphibious animals, ii. 

 208 ; varieties of, ii. 290 ; aifections 

 of organs of, correlated with other 

 peculiarities, ii. 321. 



Vitis vinifera, i. 352-354, 399. 



Viverra, sterility of species of, in cap- 

 tivity, ii. 134. 



Vogel, varieties of the date palm, ii. 

 243. 



Vogt, on the indications of stripes on 

 black kittens, ii. 30. 



Voice, differences of, in fowls, i. 272 ; 

 peculiarities of, in ducks, i. 296 ; in- 

 heritance of peculiarities of, i. 450. 



Volz, on the history of, the dog, i. 17 ; 

 ancient history of the fowl, i. 258 ; 

 domestic ducks unknown to Aristotle, 

 i. 292 ; Indian cattle sent to Mace- 

 donia by Alexander, ii. 186 ; mention 

 of mules in the Bible, ii. 186 ; 

 history of the increase of breeds, ii. 

 231. 



Von Berg, on Yerhascum p/usniceum, 

 ii. 295. 



VoORHELM, G., his knowledge of hya- 

 cinths, i. 395, ii. 238. 



Vrolik, Prof., on polydactylism, i. 

 457; influence of the shape of the 

 mother's pelvis on her child's head, 

 ii. 336. 



Wade, drooping evelids transmitted, 



i. 452. 

 Waders, behaviour of, in confinement, 



ii. 140. 

 Wagner, Moritz, oriental dogs, ii. 



222. 

 Wahlenborg, on the propagation of 



Alpine plants by buds, runners, bulbs, 



&c, ii. 154. 

 " Wahlverwandtschaft " of Gartner, 



ii. 164. 

 Wales, white cattle o(, in the tenth 



century, i. 89. 

 Walker, A., on intermarriage, i. 436; 



on the inheritance of polydactylism, 



i. 458. 

 Walker, D., advantage of change of 



soil to wheat, ii. 128. 



Walker, R., reversion in cattle, ii. 8. 



Wallace, A. R., on the multiple origin 

 of the dog, i. 27 ; on a striped 

 Javanese horse, i. 61; on the condi- 

 tions of life of feral animals, ii. 6 ; 

 artificial alteration of the plumage 

 of birds, ii. 269 ; on polymorphic 

 butterflies, ii. 394 ; on reversion, ii. 

 41 1 ; on the limits of change, ii. 412. 



Wallace, Dr., on the sterility of 

 Sphingidce hatched in autumn, ii. 

 141. 



Wallachian sheep, sexual peculiari- 

 ties in the horns of, i. 99. 



Wallflower, bud-variation in, i. 407. 



Wallich, Dr., on Thuja pendula or 

 filiformis, i. 386. 



Walnuts, i. 379, 380; thin-shelled, 

 attacked by tomtits, i. 379 ; ii. 216 ; 

 grafting of, ii. 247. 



Walsh, B. D., on attacks of insects, i. 

 371; on galls, ii. 272, 273; his 

 " Law of equable variability," ii. 

 344, 345. 



Walther, F. L., on the history of the 

 dog, i. 17 ; on the intercrossing of 

 the zebu and ordinary cattle, i. 87. 



Waring, Mr., on individual sterility, 

 ii. 146. 



Waterer, Mr., spontaneous produc- 

 tion of Cytisus alpino-laburnum, i. 

 416. 



Waterhouse, G. R., on the winter- 

 colouring of Lepus variabilis, i. 115. 



Waterton, C. r production of tailless 

 foals, i. 56 ; on taming wild ducks, 

 i. 292 ; on the wildness of half-bred 

 wild ducks, ii. 20 ; assumption of male 

 characters by a hen, ii. 26. 



Watson, H. C, on British wild fruit- 

 trees, i. 329 ; on the non-variation of 

 weeds, i. 335 ; origin of the plum, i. 

 366 ; variation in Pyrus malus, i. 

 370 ; on Viola atntena and tricolor, i. 

 392 ; on reversion in Scotch kail, ii. 

 35 ; fertility of Draha sylvestris when 

 cultivated, ii. 147 ; on generally 

 distributed British plants, ii. 275. 



Wattles, rudimentary, in some fowls, 

 ii. 306. 

 I Watts, Miss, on Sultan fowls, i. 2-40. 



Webb, Jonas, interbreeding of sheep, 

 i ii. 98. 



