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INDEX. 



GREY, 





314 ; colours of the seeds of maize, i. 

 321 ; unity of character in cabbages, 

 i. 323 ; correlation of colour and odour, 

 i. 325 ; effect of heat and moisture on 

 the cabbage, i. 325; on the cultivated 

 species of Brassica, i. 325 ; on the Roun- 

 cival and sugar peas, i. 327 ; variation 

 in the numbers of peas in the same pod, 

 i. 328 ; wild vines in Spain, i. 332 ; on 

 raising peaches from seed, i. 339 ; sup- 

 posed specific distinctness of peach and 

 nectarine, i. 340; nectarine producing 

 peaches, i. 341 ; on the flower of Cory- 

 dalis, i. 344 ; origin and variations of 

 the plum, i. 345; origin of the cherry, 

 i. 347; reversion of single - leaved 

 strawberries, i. 353; five -leaved va- 

 riety of Fragaria collina, i. 353 ; sup- 

 posed immutability of specific charac- 

 ters, i. 358-359 ; varieties of Bobinia, i. 

 361 ; permanency of the simple-leaved 

 ash, i. 362 ; non-inheritance of certain 

 mutilations, ii. 23 ; wild turnips, car- 

 rots, and celery, ii. 33 ; pre-potency of a 

 goat-like ram, ii. 66 ; benefit of change 

 of soil to plants, ii. 146 ; fertility of 

 peloric flowers of Corydalis solida, ii. 

 167; seeding of ordinarily seedless 

 fruit, ii. 168 ; sexual sterility of plants 

 propagated by buds, &c, ii. 169; in- 

 crease of sugar in beet-root, ii. 201 ; 

 effects of selection in enlarging par- 

 ticular parts of plants, ii. 217 ; growth 

 of the cabbage in the tropics, ii. 277 ; 

 rejection of bitter almonds by mice, ii. 

 232; influence of marshy pasture on 

 the fleece of sheep, ii. 278 ; on the ears 

 of ancient Egyptian pigs, ii. 301 ; pri- 

 mitive distinctness of species, ii. 415; 

 solid-hoofed swine, ii. 429. 



Goethe, on compensation of growth, ii.342. 



Goldfish, i. 296-297, ii. 236. 



Gomaka, on South American cats, i. 46. 



Gongora, number of seeds in the, ii. 379. 



Goose, ancient domestication of, i. 287 ; 

 sacred to Juno in Rome, ibid. ; inflexi- 

 bility of organisation of, i. 288 ; skull 

 perforated in tufted, i. 288 ; characters 

 of breeds and sub-breeds of, i. 288-289 ; 

 variety of, from Sebastopol, i. 289, ii. 

 392 ; feral in La Plata, i. 190 ; Egyp- 

 tian, hybrid of, with penguin duck* ii. 

 68 ; spontaneous segregation of va- 

 rieties of, ii. 104 ; fertility of, increased 

 by domestication, ii. 112 ; decreased 

 fertility of, in Bogota, ii. 161 ; sterility 

 of, in the Philippine Islands, ii. 162*; 

 selection of, ii. 204 ; white, preference 

 of the Romans for the liver of, ii. 209 ; 

 persistency of character in, ii. 254; 



Egyptian, change in breeding season of, 

 ii. 304. 



Gooseberry, i. 354-356 ; bud-variation in 



the, i. 376 ; Whitesmith's, ii. 232. 

 Goppert, on monstrous poppies, ii. 166. 

 Gosse, P. H., feral dogs in Jamaica, i. 



28; feral pigs of Jamaica, i. 77-78; 



feral rabbits of Jamaica, i. 112 ; 



Columba leucocephala, 



l. 



on 

 183; feral 



Guinea fowl in Jamaica, i. 190 ; repro- 

 duction of individual peculiarities by 

 gemmation in a coral, i. 374 ; frequency 

 of striped legs in mules, ii. 42. 



Gould, Dr., on hereditary haemorrhage, ii 



7. 



Gould, John, origin of the turkey, i. 292. 

 Goura coronata and Victorix ) hybrids of 

 i. 194, ii. 155. 



Gourds, i. 357 ; crossing of varieties of, ii. 

 1 08 ; ancient Peruvian variety of, ii. 429. 



Gout, inheritance of, ii. 7 ; period of ap- 

 pearance of, ii. 77. 



Graba, on the pigeon of the Faroe islands, 

 i. 183. 



Grafting, ii. 147 ; effects of, ii. 259, 278 ; 

 upon the stock, i. 394-395; upon the 

 variability of trees, ii. 259 ; changes 

 analogous to bud- variation produced by, 

 i. 387, 389. 



Graft-hybrids, i. 390-391, 394-397, ii. 

 364-365. 



Grapes, bud-variation in, i. 375 ; cross of 

 white and purple, i. 393 ; green, liable 

 to disease, ii. 336 ; effect of foreign 

 pollen on, i. 400. 



Grasses, seeds of, used as food by savages, 

 i. 307-309. 



Gray, Asa, superior wild varieties of 

 fruit-trees, i. 310 ; cultivated native 

 plants of North America, i. 312, 357 ; 

 non-variation of weeds, i. 317 ; supposed 

 spontaneous crossing of pumpkins, i. 

 399 ; preordination of variation, ii. 

 432 ; progeny of husked form of maize, 

 i. 320 ; wild intermediate forms of 

 strawberries, i. 352. 



Gray, G. K., on Columba gymnocyclus, i. 

 184. 



Gray, J. E., on Sus pliciceps, i. 70 ; on a 

 variety of the gold-fish, i. 297 ; hybrids 

 of the ass and zebra, ii. 42-43; on the 

 breeding of animals at Knowsley, ii. 

 149 ; on the breeding of birds in capti- 

 vity, ii. 157. 



Greene, J. Eeay, on the development of 

 the ecliinoderniata, ii. 367. 



Greenhow, Mr., on a Canadian web-footed 



dog, i. 39. 

 Greening, Mr., experiments on Abraxas 



grossulariata, ii. 280. 

 Gregson, Mr., experiments on Abraxas 



grossulariata, ii. 280. 

 Grey, Sir George, preservation of seed- 

 bearing plants by the Australian tsa- 



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