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HUNTER. 



INDEX. 



INSECTS 



Hunter, John, period of gestation in the 

 dog, i. 29 ; on secondary sexual cha- 

 racters, i. 179 ; fertile crossing of Anser 

 ferus and the domestic goose, i. 288 ; 

 inheritance of peculiarities in gestures, 

 voice, &c, ii. 6; assumption of male 

 characters by the human female, ii. 

 51 ; period of appearance of hereditary 

 diseases, ii. 78 ; graft of the spur of a 

 cock upon its comb, ii. 296 ; on the 

 stomacli of Larus tridentatus, ii. 302 ; 

 double-tailed lizards, ii. 341. 



Hunter, W., evidence against the influ- 

 ence of imagination upon the offspring, 

 ii. 264. 



Hutton, Capt., on the variability of the 

 silk moth, i. 303; on the number of 

 species of silkworms, i. 300 ; markings 

 of silkworms, i. 302 ; domestication of 

 the rock-pigeon in India, i. 185; do- 

 mestication and crossing of Gallus 

 banlriva, i. 236. 



Hutchinson, Col., liability of dogs to 



distemper, i. 35. 

 Huxley, Prof., on 



the transmission of 



polydactylism, ii. 13; on unconscious 

 selection, ii. 194 ; on correlation in the 

 mollusca, ii. 320; on gemmation and 

 fission, ii. 359; development of star- 

 fishes, ii. 366. 



Hyacinths, i. 370-371 ; bud-variation in, 

 i. 385 ; graft-hybrid by union of half 

 bulbs of, i. 395 ; white, reproduced by 

 seed, ii. 20; red, ii. 229, 336; varieties 

 of, recognisable by the bulb, ii. 251. 



Hyacinth, feather, ii. 185, 316. 



Hyacinthus orientalis, i. 370. 



Hybiscus syriacus, ii. 286. 



Hybrids, of hare and rabbit, i. 105 ; of 

 various species of Gallus, i. 234-236; 

 of almond, peach, and nectarine, i. 339 ; 

 naturally produced, of species of Cytisus, 

 i. 390 ; from twin-seed of Fuchsia coc- 

 cinea and fulgens, i. 391 ; reversion of, 

 i. 392-394, ii. 36. 48-50 ; from mare, 

 ass, and zebra, ii. 42 ; of tame animals, 

 wildness of, ii. 44-46 ; female instincts 

 of sterile male, ii. 52 ; transmission and 

 blending of characters in, ii. 92-95; 

 breed better with parent species than 

 with each other, ii. 131 ; self-impo- 

 tence in, ii. 138440 ; readily produced 

 in captivity, ii. 151. 



Hybridisation, singular effects of, in 

 oranges, i. 336 ; of cherries, i. 347 ; dif- 

 ficulty of, in Cucurbitze, i. 358 ; of roses, 

 i. 366. 



Hybridism, ii. 178-191 ; the cause of a 

 tendency to double flowers, ii. 171 ; in 

 relation to pangenesis, ii. 385. 



Hybridity in cats, i. 44-45 ; supposed of 

 peach and nectarine, i. 342. 



Hyd 



Hydrangea, colour of flowers of, influ- 

 enced by alum, ii. 277. 



Hydrocele, ii. 52. 

 Hydrocephalus, ii. 295. 



Hypericum calycinum, ii. 170. 

 Bijpericum crispum, ii. 227, 337. 

 Hypermetamorphosis, ii. 367. 

 Hypermetropic hereditary, ii. 8. 



Ichthyopterygia, number of digits in 

 the, ii. 16. 



Ilex aqw'folium, ii. 19. 



Imagination, supposed effect of, on off- 

 spring, ii. 263. 



Imatophyllum miniatum, bud - variation 

 in, i. 385. 



Incest, abhorred by savages, ii. 123-124 

 Incubation, by crossed fowls of non-sit- 

 ting varieties, ii. 43-44. 

 India, striped horses of, i. 58 ; pigs of, i. 

 66, 67, 76 ; breeding of rabbits in, i. 112 ; 

 cultivation of pigeons in, i. 205-206. 



Individual variability in pigeons, i. 158- 

 160. 



Ingledew, Mr., cultivation of European 

 vegetables in India, ii. 169. 



" Indische Taube," ii. 144. 



Inheritance, ii. 1-84, 371-373, 395, 397- 

 402 ; doubts entertained of by some 

 writers, ii. 3 ; importance of to breeders, 

 3-4 ; evidence of, derived from statistics 

 of chances, 5 ; of peculiarities in man, 5- 

 7, 12-16 ; of disease, 7-8, 17 ; of peculia- 

 rities in the eye, 8-10; of deviations 

 from symmetry, 12; of polydactylism, 

 12-16; capriciousness of, 17-22, 27; 

 of mutilations, 22-24; of congenital 

 monstrosities, 24 ; causes of absence of, 

 24-26 ; by reversion or atavism, 28-61 ; 

 its connexion with fixedness of charac- 

 ter, 62-64 ; affected by prepotency of 

 transmission of character, 65-71 ; limited 

 by sex, 71-75; at corresponding pe- 

 riods of life, 75-80; summary of the 

 subject of, 80-84 ; laws of, the same in 

 seminal and bud varieties, i. 409; of 

 characters in the horse, i. 10-11 ; in 

 cattle, i. 87; in rabbits, i. 107; in the 

 peach, i. 339 ; in the nectarine, i. 340 ; 

 in plums, i. 347; in apples, i. 350; in 

 pears, i. 351 ; in the pansy, i. 369 ; of 

 primary characters of Columba livia in 

 crossed pigeons, i. 201 ; of peculiarities of 

 plumage in pigeons, i. 160-161; of pecu- 

 liarities of foliage in trees, i. 362 ; effects 

 ofj in varieties of the cabbage, i. 325. 



Insanity, inheritance of, ii. 7, 78. 



Insects, regeneration of lost parts ii), ii. 

 15, 294; agency of, in fecundation of 

 larkspurs, ii. 21 ; effect of changed con- 

 ditions upon, ii. 157 ; sterile neuter, ii. 



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