INDEX. 



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Buffon, on man and the lower 

 animals, 108 



on classification, 108, 109, 141 



on animals and plants, 109. 



110 r . . 



on reason and instinct, 110. 



115 



on final causes (the pig), 118, 



&c. 



on hybridism, 117, 118 



rudimentary organs, 120 



on animals under domestica- 

 tion, 121, &c., 148 



deals with these early, as 



giving him the best oppor- 

 tunities for illustrating the 

 theory of evolution, 276 



approaches natural selection 



in his "by some chamce 

 common enough in Nature," 

 122 



preaching on the hare when 



he should have preached on 

 the rabbit out of pure love 

 of mischief, 123 



resumption of feral character- 

 istics, 123 



on the geometrical ratio of 



increase, 123, ko. 



alternation of fat and lean 



years, 125 



equilibrium of Nature, 125 



"aur^el," 126 



on violent death, 126 



on sensation, 126, &c. 



on the interaction of organ 



and sense, 127 



the carnivora, 126 



his criterion of what name a 



thing is to bear, 127 



his criterion of perception and 



sensation, 127 



on the unity of the individual, 



127, 128 



satirizes our habit of judging 



all things by our own stand- 

 ards, 129 



the diaphragm, 129 



on the stock and the dia- 

 phragm, 130 

 distinction between percep- 

 tion and sensation, 129, 130 

 on the meninges, 132 



Buffon, on the brain, 131, 133, fcc. 



on scientific orthodoxy and 



mystification, 138 



on the the relativity of science, 



140 



on nomenclature and know- 

 ledge, 141 



on the gwrns felis, 143 



on the lion and the tiger, 143, 



145 



on the animals of the old and 



new world, 146, &o. 



on changed geographical dis- 

 tribution of land and water, 

 145, 164 



on extinct species, 146 



hates the new world, 146 



on heredity and habit, 148, 



159, 160, 161, 162 



approaches Erasmus Darwin 



and Lamarck, re the Buffalo, 

 Camel, and Llama, 148, 160, 

 161 



on oneness of personality be- 

 tween parents and offspring, 



on the organic and inorganic, 



153, &c. 



on apes and monkeys, 153, &o. 



on the causes or means of the 



transformation of species, 



159, &c. 

 on generic (as well as specific) 



differences, 164 

 on plants under domestica- 

 tion, 167 



on pigeons and fowls, 169 



on birds, 170, &c. 



the assistance he rendered to 



Lamarck, 237, 258 

 Isidore Geoffrey's failure to 



understand, 328 



Colonel, 75 



Bulk, a sine qua non for success in 



literature or science, 315 

 Bull running, Tutbury, and Eras- 

 mus Darwin, 187 



CAMEL, Buffon on the hereditary 

 ills of the, 161 

 Cant, and rudimentary organs, 38 

 Captandum, all good things are 

 done ad, 85 



