INDEX. 



AMYGDALUS. 



Abbas Pacha, a fancier of fantailed pi- 

 geons, i. 206. 



Abbey, Mr., on grafting, ii. 147; on mig- 

 nonette, ii. 237. 



Abbott, Mr. Keith, on the Persian tum- 

 bler pigeon, i. 150. 



Abbreviation- of the facial bones, i. 73. 



Abortion of organs, ii. 315-318, 397. 



Absorption of minority in crossed races 

 ii. 87-89, 174. ' 



Acclimatisation, ii. 305-315 ; of maize, 

 i. 322. 



Ace RBi, on the fertility of domestic ani- 

 mals in* Lapland, ii. 112. 



Achatinella, ii. 53. 



Achillea millefolium, bud variation in i 

 408. 



Aconitum napellus, roots of, innocuous in 

 cold climates, ii. 274. 



Acorus calamus, sterility of, ii. 170. 



Acosta, on fowls in South America at its 

 discovery, i. 237. 



Acropera, number of seeds in, ii. 379. 



Adam, Mr., origin of Cytisus Adami, i. 



Adam, W., on consanguineous marriages. 



ii. 123. 

 Adams, Mr., on hereditary diseases, ii. 7. 

 Advancement in scale of organisation, 



Mgilops triticoides, observations of Fabre 

 and Godron on, i. 313 ; increasing fer- 

 tility of hybrids of, with wheat, ii. 110. 



Msculus jlara and rubictmda, i. 392. 



Msculus pavia, tendency of' to become 

 double, ii. 168. 



Mthusa cynapium, ii. 337. 



Affinity, sexual elective, ii. 180 



Africa, white bull from, i. 91 ; feral cattle 

 m, i. 85 ; food-plants of savages of i 

 307-309 ; South, diversity of breeds 'of 

 cattle in, i. 80; West, change in fleece 

 of sheep m, i. 98. 



Agave vivipara, seeding of, in poor soil 

 u. 169. ' 



Age, changes in trees, dependent on, i. 



Agouti, fertility of, in captivity, ii. 152 

 Agriculture, antiquity of, ii. 243. 

 Agrostis, seeds of, used as food, i 309 

 Aguara, i. 26. 

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Ainsworth, Mr., on the change in the 



hair of animals at Angora, ii. 278. 

 Akbar Khan, his fondness for pis-eons i 



205 ; ii. 204. ° 



Alauda arvensis, ii. 154. 

 Albin, on " Golden Hamburgh " fowls, i. 

 247 ; figure of the hook-billed duck' i." 

 277. 

 Albinism, i. Ill, ii. 17. 

 Albino, negro, attacked by insects, ii. 



229. 

 Albinoes, heredity of, ii. 9. 

 Albinus, thickness of the epidermis on 

 the palms of the hands in man, ii. 297 

 Alco, i. 31, ii. 102. 



Aldrovandi, on rabbits, i. 104; descrip- 

 tion of the nun pigeon, i. 156 ; on the 

 fondness of the Dutch for pigeons in 

 the seventeenth century, i. 205 ; notice 

 of several varieties of pigeons, i. 207- 

 210 ; on the breeds of fowls, i. 247; on 

 the origin of the domestic duck, i. 278. 

 Alefield, Dr., on the varieties of peas 

 and their specific unity, i. 326 ; on the 

 varieties of beans, i. 330. 

 Alexander the Great, his selection of 



Indian cattle, ii. 202. 

 Alg.e, retrogressive metamorphosis in, ii. 



361 ; division of zoospores of, ii. 378. 

 Allen, W., on feral fowls, i. 237; ii. 33. 

 Allman, Professor, on a monstrous Saxi- 

 fraga geum, ii. 166; on the develop- 

 ment of the Hydroida, ii. 368. 

 Almond, i. 337 ; antiquity of, ii. 429 ; 



bitter, not eaten by mice, ii. 232. 

 Alnus glutinosa and incana, hybrids of, 



ii. 130. 

 Alpaca, selection of, ii. 208. 

 Althaea rosea, i. 378, ii. 107. 

 Amaryllis, ii. 139. 

 Amaryllis r if tufa, effect of foreign pollen 



on, i. 400. 

 Amaurosis, hereditary, ii. 9. 

 America, limits within which no useful 

 plants have been furnished by, i. 310 ; 

 colours of feral horses in, i. 60-61 ; 

 North, native cultivated plants of, i. 

 312; skin of feral pig from, i. 77; 

 South, variations in cattle of, i 88' 

 92. 

 Amygdalus persica, i. 336-344, 374. 

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