INDEX! 
Adaptation, accidental nature of, 81; 
not perfect, 87 
Advanced registry, 183 
Agriculture, beginnings of, 23 
Albino deer, 102* 
Albinos, 151 
Alfalfa, inoculation for, 261; origin 
of, 260 
Alpaca, 238 
Ancestral heredity, law of, 166 
Animals, as a means of recreation, 8; 
as sources of clothing, 4; as sources 
of food, 3; as sources of raw ma- 
terial, 8; as sources of shelter, 5; 
cost of maintaining, 35; domesti- 
cated, need of improvement in, 35; 
feral, 18; further improvement 
needed, 37; medicinal properties 
of, 9; not used in domestication, 
30; service of, 28; service of, too 
costly, 39; systematic improve- 
ment of, 178 
Apple, origin of, 267 
Arrested development, 132 
Ass, 215; wild, 22 
Aurochs, 16, 225, 226 
Average deviation, 109 
Aztecs, 247; hunts of, 24; semido- 
mestication by, 24 
Babiroussa, 233 
Baby beef, 196 
Bailey, “ Survival of the Unlike,” 97 
Banff, head of herd at, 223* 
Banteng, 221 
Barley, origin of, 245 
“Battle in the Meadows,” 63 
Beal, book on grasses, 255 
Bean, origin of, 263; soy, 265 
Beef, baby, 196 
Betel nut, 295 
Bighorn, 227 
Bison, American, 31*, 55*, 223* 
Bloodhound, 209 
Blue grass, origin of, 254 
Boar, wild, 16, 231 
Bones, splint, 213 
Bos frontosus, 22 
Bos longifrons, 225 
bos printigenus, 220, 224, 226 
Breed, choosing of, 194; differences 
slight, 195 
Breeding, mixed, 186; power of, to 
modify type, 93-95; pure, 187; 
rate of improvement by, 190; 
systems of, 186 
Brilliant, 6* 
Broom corn, 252 
Buckwheat, origin of, 253 
Buffalo Bill, 224 
Buffalo, of Asia, 222; service of, 6; 
water, 218% 
Burro, 7* 
Bush pig, 233 
Camel, 238; service of, 7 
Canada thistle, 299 
Castle, W. E., work illustrated, 147, 
149 
Cat, European and American, 234*; 
origin of, 233; relatives of, 234; 
true nature of, 235 
Cattle, humped, 219; Indian, 219; 
of Chillingham Park, 225; Short- 
horn, 11; Teeswater, 178; wild 
White, 225 
Celery compound, 294 
Cells, division of, 131 
Character, single, variability of, 105 
Characters, behavior of, in trans- 
mission, 141; both good and bad 
transmitted, 171; correlation of, 
1o1; developed and latent, 100; 
dominant and recessive, 1or, 146; 
how transmitted, 121; individual 
possesses those of the race, 99, 
1 References to figures are indicated by an asterisk, as 189%, 
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