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INDEX 



Cosmopolitan plants in Europe, 202 

 Comrie, Dr., on the Papuans, 453 

 Cox valley, 10 

 Cricketers as illustrating adaptation, 



332 

 Critic of natural selection answered, 305 

 Crosby, Mr., on oceanic islands, 34 

 Crust of earth affects gravity, 47 

 Cunningham, Mr., on origin of horns, 321 

 Curr on the Australian race, 404, 473 

 C')iaii02nca Cooki, distribution of, 2<;S 

 Cynocephalus, 156 



Dana, Prof., on oceanic basins, 28 

 Darwin, Prof. G., 43 



on beetles found at sea, 251 



on best criterion of ice- action, 67 



on character of the Polynesians, 405 



on inaccessible valleys, 11, 14 

 f on origin of horns, 322 



on permanence of oceans, 28 



on useless specific characters, 387 



his theory, what it is, 286 



his work, effect of, 347 

 Darwinism compared with Lamarckism, 

 350 



does not explain origin of life, 288 



minor objections to, 364 



objections to invalid, 287 



opponents of, 286 



what it really is, 348 

 Delaporte on ruins in Cambodia, 477 

 Delboeuf's law, 374 

 Deltas prove subsidence, 45 

 Dermal appendages, origin of, 322 

 Desor on valleys of disruption, 14 

 Discontinuity, the theory of, 352 

 Dogs, peculiar habit of, 320 

 Dome forms of granite, 22 

 Doone valley, 2 

 Douglas fir, 227 



E 



Earth, internal heat of, 41 

 Earth's crust. Appendix on, 57 



summary of evidence as to thickness 

 of, 56 



yields to pressure, 44 

 Elephant Hawkmoth, disguise of, ISO 

 Environment and discontinuity, 353, 355 



effect of change of, 298 



may differ in same locality, 356 

 Erosion of lake-basins, conditions favour- 

 able to, 100 



of lakes proved by their forms and 

 contours, 113, 120 

 Erratic blocks and ice-sheets, 59 

 Erratics and jDerched blocks, 69 



distribution of British, 88 



in Great Britain, 80 



in North America, 74 



in Switzerland, 71 



on the Jura, 72 

 Erskine, Admiral, on Polynesians, 410 



European plants not in N. America, 204 

 Evolution and distribution of animals, 

 267 

 the method of organic, 345 

 Eyes, rudimentary, 326 

 Eyre, Mr., on character of Australians, 

 472 



F. 



Faults absent beneath oceans, 35 



Fear not instinctive, 490 



Ferguson on Cambodian architectiire, 



480 

 Finger-marks and organic stability, 371 



not a specific character, 372 

 Fisher, Rev. O., on earth's ci'ust, 41 



on permanence of oceans, 28 

 Flora of Brazilian Campos, 309 



of Britain and Eastern States com- 

 pared, 201 

 N. America and Europe, relations 



of, 200 

 of Sierra Nevada and California, 



223 

 of the Californian forests, 226 

 Prof. Asa Gray on, 200 

 Sir Joseph Hooker on, 201 

 Floral beauty in England and America, 



210 

 Flowers and forests of the far west, 213 

 Flowers, English and American, 199 

 Henslow's theory' of modification 



of, 306 

 breaksdown, 308 

 in Michigan in March, 207 

 ,, „ in July, 208 



near Cincinnati in April, 207 

 near Washington in February, 206 

 rambles after American, 206 

 Four limbs of vertebrates, 360 

 Four toes of birds, 360 

 Forests, destruction of in N.E. Amei-ica, 

 199 

 of California, 224 

 Forms of lakes prove erosion, 113 



Galapagos, few spiny plants in, 309 

 Galls, a crucial case of non-heredity, 307 

 Galton, F., misconceives natural selec- 

 tion, 367 

 on checks to population, 521 

 on finger-marks, 371 

 on improvement of the race, 513 

 on positions of organic stability, 366 

 theory of, 315 

 Gardner, J. S., on crust-movements, 46 

 Gamier on ruins of Baion, 478 

 Gjitke on bird-migi-ation, 503 

 Geikie, Prof. J., on origin of the northern 

 drift, 108 

 on Lake Zurich as a supposed case 



of earth movement, 143 

 Sir A., on thick deposits in shallow 

 water, 44 



