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AMM0N. 



INDEX. 



ARISTOTLE. 



Ammon, on the persistency of colour in 

 horses, ii. 21. 



Anagallis arvensis, ii. 190. 



Analogous variation, i. 409, ii. 348-352 ; 



in horses, i. 55 ; in the horse and ass, i. 



64 ; in fowls, i. 243-246. 

 Anas boschas, i. 277, ii. 40; skull of, 



figured, i. 282. 

 Anas moschata, i. 181 ; ii. 40. 

 " Ancon " sheep of Massachusetts, i. 100, 



ii. 103. 



Andalusian fowls, i. 227. 



Andalusian rabbits, i. 105. 



Anderson, J., on the origin of British 



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sheep, i. 94 ; on the selection of qualities 

 in cattle, ii. 196 ; on a one-eared breed 

 of rabbits, i. 108 ; on the inheritance of 

 characters from a one-eared rabbit and 

 three-legged bitch, ii. 12 ; on the per- 

 sistency of varieties of peas, i. 329 ; on 

 the production of early peas by selec- 

 tion, ii. 201 ; on the varieties of the 

 potato, i. 330-331 ; on crossing varieties 

 of the melon, i. 399; on reversion in 

 the barberry, i. 384. 



Anderson, Mr., on the reproduction of the 

 weeping ash by seed, ii. 19 ; on the cul- 

 tivation of the tree pseony in China, ii. 

 205. 



Andersson, Mr., on the Damara, Bechu- 

 ana, and Namaqua cattle, i. 88 ; on the 

 cows of the Damaras, ii. 300 ; selection 

 practised by the Damaras and Nama- 

 quas, ii. 207 ; on the use of grass-seeds 

 and the roots of reeds as food in South 

 Africa, i. 309. 



Anemone coronaria, doubled by selection, 

 ii. 200. 



Angina pectoris, hereditary, occurring at 

 a certain age, ii. 79. 



Anglesea, cattle of, i. 80. 



Angola sheep, i. 95. 



Angora, change in hair of animals at, ii. 

 278 ; cats of, i. 45, 47 ; rabbits of, i. 

 106, 120. 



Animals, domestication of, facilitated by 

 fearlessness .of man, i. 20; refusal of 

 wild, to breed in captivity, ii. 149 ; 

 compound, individual peculiarities of, 

 reproduced by budding, i. 374 ; varia- 

 tion by selection in useful qualities of, 

 ii. 220. 



Annual plants, rarity of bud-variation 

 in, i. 408. 



Anomalies in the osteology of the horse, 



i. 50. 

 Anomalous breeds of pigs, i. 75 ; of cattle, 



i. 89. 

 Anser cdbifrons, characters of, reproduced 



in domestic geese, i. 288. 

 Anser ccgyptiacus, i. 282 ; ii. 68. 



Anser canadensis, ii. 157. 



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Anser cygnoides, i. 237. 



Anser ferus, the original of the domestic 



goose, i. 287 ; fertility of cross of, with 



domestic goose, i. 288. 

 Anson, on feral fowls in the Ladrones, i. 



238. 

 Antagonism between growth and repro- 

 duction, ii. 384. 

 Anthemis nobilis, bud-variation in flowers 



of, i. 379 ; becomes single in poor soil, 



ii. 167. 

 Antherozoids, apparent independence 



of, in alga3, ii. 384. 



Anthers, contabescence of, ii. 165-166. 



Antigua, cats of, i. 46 ; changed fleece of 

 sheep in, i. 98. 



Antirrhinum ma jus, peloric, i. 365 ; ii. 59, 

 70, 166 ; double-flowered, ii. 167 ; bud- 

 variation in, i. 381. 



Ants, individual recognition of, ii. 251. 



Apes, anthropomorphous, ii. 123. 



Aphides, attacking pear-trees, ii. 231 ; 

 development of, ii. 361-362. 



Apoplexy, hereditary, occurring at a cer- 

 tain age, ii. 78. 



Apple, i. 348-350 ; fruit of, in Swiss lake- 

 dwellings, i. 317 ; rendered fastigate 

 by heat in India, i. 361 ; bud-variation 

 in the, i. 376 ; with dimidiate fruit, i. 

 392-393; with two kinds of fruit on 

 the same branch, i. 392 ; artificial fe- 

 cundation of, i. 401 ; St. Valery, i. 401 ; 

 ii. 166 ; reversion in seedlings of, ii. 

 31 ; crossing of varieties of, ii. 129 ; 

 growth of the, in Ceylon, ii. 277 ; Winter 

 Majetin, not attacked by coccus, ii. 231 ; 

 flower-buds of, attacked by bullfinches, 

 ii. 232; American, change of when 

 grown in England, ii. 275. 



Apricot, i. 344-345 ; glands on the leaves 

 of, ii. 231 ; analogous variation in the, 



ii. 348. 

 Aquila fusca, copulating in captivity, ii. 



154. 



Aquilegia vidgaris, i. 365 ; ii. 330. 

 Arab boarhound, described by Harcourt, 



i. 17. 

 Arabis blepharojiliylla and A. Soyeri, 



effects of crossing, i. 400. 

 Aralia trifoliata, bud-variation in leaves 



of, i. 382. 

 Araucarias, young, variable resistance 



of, to frost, ii. 309. 

 Archangel pigeon, ii. 240. 

 Arctic regions, variability of plants and 



shells of, ii. 256. 

 Aria vestita, grafted on thorns, i. 3 ?7. 

 Aristophanes, fowls mentioned by, i. 246. 

 Aristotle, on solicl-hoofud pigs, i. 75; 



domestic duck unknown to, i. 277 ; on 



the assumption of male characters by 



old hens, ii. 51. 







