DARWIN'S NEW WORK. 



THE VARIATION 



ANIMALS AND PLANTS 



UNDER DOMESTICATION. 



BY 



CHARLES DAR^TIlSr, M.A M JT.R.S., ETC. 



AUTHORIZED EDITION. 

 TJac A. :F n. 33 HP yv o IE 



BY 



PROFESSOR ASA GRAY. 



IIST T^KTO -VOLTJIMIIES- 



This work treats of the variations in our domestic animals and cultivated 

 plants, discussing the circumstances that influence these variations, inherit- 

 ance of peculiarities, results of in-and-in breeding, crossing, etc. 



It is one of the most remarkable books of the present day, presenting an 

 array of facts that show the most extraordinary amount of observation and 

 -esearch. All the domestic animals, from horses and cattle to canary-birds and 

 noney-bees, are discussed, as well as our leading culinary and other plants, 

 making it a work of the greatest interest. 



Its importance to asricnlturists, breeders, scientific men, and the general 

 reader will be seen by its scope as indicated in the following partial enumera- 

 tion of its contents : PIGS, CATTLE, SHEEP, GOATS ; DOGS AND CATS, HOKSES 

 AND ASSES ; DOMESTIC RABBITS ; DOMESTIC PIGEONS ; FOWLS, DUCKS, GEESE, 

 PEACOCK, TURKEY, GUINEA FOWL, CANAKY-BIRD, GOLD-PISH; HIVE-BEES; 

 SILK-MOTHS. CULTIVATED PLANTS ; CEREAL AND CULINARY PLANTS ; FRUITS, 

 ORNAMENTAL TREES, FLOWERS, BUD VARIATION. INHERITANCE, REVERSION 

 OR ATAVISM, CROSSING. ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF CROSSING, AND ON THE 

 EVIL EFFECTS OF CLOSE INTERBREEDING. SELECTION. CAUSES OP VARIABII/- 

 ITY, LAWS OF VARIATION, ETC., ETO. 



Published in Two Volumes of nearly 11OO pages. 



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