INDEX 
481 
Darwin, Mr., on colours of caterpillars, 
83 
on cause of colour in flowers, 89, 
139 
on sexual coloration, 138 
his metaphors liable to miscon- 
ception, 144 
criticism of, in North British 
Review, 159 
on mode of cross-fertilisation and 
its use, 400 
debt of science to, 450 
his voyage in the Beagle, 455 
on dust collected 300 miles from 
land, 456 
on productions of Cocos and 
Galapagos islands, 456 
the origin of species, 458 
animals and plants under do- 
mestication, 459 
observations on variability, 460 
observations on use and disuse, 
461 
the fertilisation of orchids, 463 
on crossing and hybridity, 463 
on cowslip and primrose, 464 
on Lythrum salicaria, 465 
on enemies of seedling plants, 467 
on oceanic and continentalislands, 
469 
on vitality of seeds, 469 
on seeds in mud, 470 
The descent of man, 471 
Expression of the emotions, 472 
Climbing and  Insectivorous 
plants, 472 
on coral reefs and cirripedia, 
473 
revolution in thought effected by 
him, 478 
summary of his work, 473 
Desert animals, colours of, .37 
Deserts on line of tropics, 289 
Desmoncus, 249 , 
De Vry, Mr., on the sugar-palm, 251 
Dews, cause of heavy tropical, 224 
Diadema, species of, mimic Danaide, 
61, 62 
female with male coloration, 79 
D. misippus, 79 
D. anomala, 80 
Diagram of mean temperature at Bat- 
avia and London, 220 
Diagram of rainfall at London and 
Batavia, 228 
Dianthus alpinus, D. glacialis, 404 
Diaphora mendica, 64 
Dicnyodontia, 164 
Dicrourus, 183 
Diloba ceruleocephala, 84 
Dinosauria, 164 
Diptera mimicking wasps and bees, 
69 
Distribution of humming-birds, 322 
Disuse, effects of, studied by Darwin, 
461 
Dixon, Mr. Charles, on nest of a 
chaffinch in New Zealand, 111 
Doliops curculionides, 67 
Domesticated animals, their essential 
difference from wild ones, 30, 31 
Dotterell, 132 
Dragons or flying-lizards, 303 
Drugs from equatorial forest-trees, 245 
Duke of York island, pale coloured 
insects of, 885 
islands, remarkable white plum- 
aged birds of, 388 
Dyes from equatorial forest-trees, 245 
Dynastide, 289 
probable use of horns of, 372 
EaRTH-works, North American, 425 
Earth-worms, Darwin’s work on, 472 
Easter island, sculptures on, 424 
Eciton, genus of foraging ants, 283 
Egyptidn architecture, introduced, 113 
Elaps fulvius, E, corallinus, E. lemnis- 
catus, E. mipartitus, E. hemi- 
prichii, 72 
Elateride, luminous species, perhaps 
mimetic, 374 
Emperor-moth, protective coloration 
of, 850 
Ennomos, autumnal colours of this 
genus, 45 
Epicalia, sexes of, differently coloured, 
Epilobium angustifolium, E. parvi- 
florum, 404 
Epimachine, 332 
Equator, cause of uniform high temper- 
ature near, 221 
short twilight at, 232 
Equatorial climate, general features of, 
229 
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