INDEX 



Aar, gorge of, how formed, 136 



the valley of, 120 

 Aarschlucht, the, 131 

 Acquired characters, definition of, 317 



results of inheritance of, 31o, 318, .')07 

 Adaptations not directly caused by en- 

 vironment, 312 



not producible bj" use-inheritance, 

 343 

 Aeppli answered by Prof, James Geikic, 



143 

 Affinities of the Papuans, 459 

 Agassiz, on ancient glaciers, 61 

 Ainos and Australians, 465 

 Airy, Sir G. B., on weakness of earth's 



crust, 47 

 Allen, Mr. J. A., on variation, 203 

 Allied species in same area, 282 

 American erratics, 74 



flowers, rambles after, 206 



monkeys, 165 

 Animals, mode of development of, 280 

 Anthropoid apes, how to keep alive, 160 

 Arabia unachoretica and A. alpina, 330 

 Artemia salina changes in salter water,330 

 Ateles, 167 

 Australians are low Caucasians, 468, 471 



affinities of, 461, 406 



mental and moral character of, 472 

 Australian women, 404 

 Aye-aye, 177 

 Azores, beetles of, 263 



few peculiar, 263 



violent storms of, 264 



B. 



Baboons, 156 



Baion, ruins of, 478 



Bateson on discontinuity, 352 



Beccari, Dr., on the Papuans, 455 



Beeby, Mr., on intrinsic and extrinsic 



varieties, 314, 340 

 Beete-Jukes, on valley formation, 15 

 Beetles, genera absent from Madeira, 256 



disguises of, 194 



found at sea, 251 



not peculiar to Madeira, 250 



of Madeii-a often wingless, 254 

 Bellamj^'s forecast of society, 518 

 Pelt on shell-bearing glacial gravels, 03 



Big trees of California, 227, 234 

 Birds, four toes of, 360 



of Xew Guinea, 423 

 Bishop, Mrs., on the Ainos, 484 

 Blandford, W. T., on permanence of 



oceans, 20 

 Brachiurus, 171 

 Bradley, Prof. C. B., on age of Sequoias, 



230 

 Branner, Prof., on narrow gorges, 135 



none in Brazil, 136 

 British erratics, teachings of, SS 



plants in X. America, 203 

 not in X. America, 203 

 Buckland, Dr., on ancient glaciers, 50 

 Buffalo gi-ass, 214 



Buff on on mutability of species, 345 

 Buff -tip moth, disguise of, 188 

 Buprestidae, disguises of, 195 

 Butterflies and moths, colours of, 186 

 Butterfly 400 miles at sea, 252 



Calaveras grove, 228 

 California, flora of, 223 



forests of, 224 

 Callithrix, 173 



Campbell, Lord G., on Polynesians, 410 

 Canaries, spiny plants rare, 309 

 Caucasian affinities of Australians, 465, 



496 

 Caucasians of S.E. Asia, 484 

 Caverns in X.W. Australia, 20 

 Cebus, 170 



Centetidse, distribution of, 279 

 Cercopithecus, 155 



Chamberlain, Mr. T. C, on meteoric 

 theory of earth-fonxiation, 57 



on rock-scorings, 68 

 Chapman, Miss, on true marriage, 518 

 Character modified by social advance 517 

 Charpentier on Swiss erratics, 73 

 Checks to increase of population, 520 

 Chicks, habits of young, 498 

 Chimpanzee, 154 

 Chrysothrix, 173 

 Coleoptera of Madeira, 250 

 Colobus, 155 

 Colorado, canon of, 19 

 Cook, Captain, on natives of Tongt 



Islands, 410 

 Cormis Nuttalii, 220 



