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FLOWERING 



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JORDAN 



37, 80 ; extra-European temperate, 

 36 



FLOWERING plants, peculiar British, 

 125 



FLOWERS, abundance of, within Arctic 

 circle, 142 



FOOD of young birds, 132 



FORBES, Mr. H. O., on self- fertilisa- 

 tion of orchids, 308 



FOREST reserves, advantages of small 

 botanical, 75 



FRUITS, colour of, 312 



GALAPAGOS, flora of, 63 

 GALTON'S law of heredity, 102 

 GAMBLE, Mr. J. T., on flora of Malay 



Peninsula, 45 

 GARDNER, on flora of Brazil, 70 ; 



on supposed greater richness of 



mountain floras, 80 

 GATKE, Herr, on bird-migration at 



Heligoland, 149 



GEESE moulting in Arctic regions, 137 

 Gentiana verna, one locality in Britain, 



24 

 GEOLOGICAL record, account of, 188 j 



its three well-marked periods, 189 ; 



the teaching of, 280 

 GEOLOGY, as influencing evolution, 174 

 GERMINAL selection, 261, 271, 275 

 GLASS essential for science, 360 

 Glyptodon clavifes, skeleton of, 236 

 GLYPTODONTID^B, extinct armadillos, 



235 



GRANT ALLEN on insects and colour of 

 flowers, 309 



GREY PLOVER'S nest in Arctic regions, 

 144 



GRIESBACH, on Mediterranean flora, 

 31 ; on Brazilian flora, 70 



GROWTH, the nature of, 291 ; by cell- 

 division, 292 ; admitted to be in- 

 explicable, 344; by cell -division, 

 what it implies, 346 



GUNTHER, Dr., on species of birds, 88 



HAECKEL on consciousness, 5 ; on 

 human nature, 6 ; matter and ether, 

 7, 8; on soul-atom unconscious, 333; 

 his carbon-theory of life, 363 



Hamites rotundus, 269 



HARDY, Mr. W. B., on complexity of 

 proteid molecule, 355 



HARTERT, Dr., on peculiar British 

 birds, 126 



HAY ATI, Mr., on floras of Japanese 

 mountains, 36, 37 



HEAT, rate of increase in deep borings, 



179 

 HELIGOLAND and migrating birds, 



149 

 HEMSLEY, W. B., on flora of Central 



America, 60 

 HEREDITY a universal fact, 101 ; 



Gallon's law of, 102 

 Heteroceras emeriti, 268 

 HOOKER, Sir Joseph, on flora of British 



India, 43 ; on primary floras, 61 ; 



on rich flora of Penang, 72 ; on 



floras of very small areas, 81 

 HORNS as recognition-marks, 160 

 HORSES, extinct South American, 233 

 HUDSON, W. H., on field mice in 



Argentina, 122 



HUMAN character, diversity of, 396 

 HUTTON, Capt., on recognition-marks, 



165 

 HUXLEY, Professor, on nature and 



origin of life, 8 ; on matter and 



spirit, 9 ; on cruelty of nature, 371 

 Hyanodon cruentus, skeleton of, 225 

 Hyopotamus brachyrhynchus, skeleton 



of, 226 



ICHTHYOPTERYGIA, 207 



ICHTHYOSAURUS, paddles of, 208 



Ichthyosaurus communis, skeleton of, 

 207 



Iguanodon bernissartensis^ skeleton of, 

 20 1 ; skull of, 202 



INCREASE in plants and animals, 113 



INDO-CHINA, estimate of flora of, 48 



INHERITANCE of educational results 

 would have checked diversity, 397 



INORGANIC substances, variety of, 386 



INOSTRANSEVIA, huge carnivorous 

 reptile, skull of, 200 



INSECT life of secondary period, 212 



INSECT pests, uses of, 131 



INSECTS, known species of, 85 ; 

 peculiar to Britain, 125; earliest 

 known, 195 ; and their metamor- 

 phosis, 297 



INSECTS and birds, co-adaptation of, 

 132 



IRISH deer, skeleton of, 266 



ISOMERISM explained, 357 



JACK-RABBIT, E. S. Thompson on, 159 

 JAMAICA, flora of, 63 

 JAPAN, mountain floras of, 36, 37 

 JAVA, rich flora of, 73 

 JORDAN, Dr. K., on phosphorescent 

 colours in lepidoptera, 322 



