QUERCUS. 



INDEX. 



REVERSION. 



473 



a bitch to litter, i. 77 ; selection in the 

 silkworm, i. 301 ; development of the 

 wings in the silkmoth, i. 303, ii. 298 ; 

 on varieties of the mulberry, i. 334 ; 

 special raising of eggs of the silkmoth, 

 ii. 197; on disease of the silkworm, ii. 

 228 ; on monstrosities in insects, ii. 269, 

 391 ; on the Anglo-Saxon race in 

 America, ii. 276; on a change in the 

 breeding season of the Egyptian goose, 

 ii. 304 ; fertilisation of the Teredo, ii. 

 363 ; tendency to similarity in the best 

 races, ii. 241 ; on his a tourbillon vital,'" 

 ii. 61 ; on the independent existence of 

 the sexual elements, ii. 360. 



Quereus cerris, i. 363. 



Quercus robur and pedunculata, hybrids 

 of, ii. 130. 



Quince, pears grafted on the, ii. 259. 



Babbits, domestic, their origin, i. 103-105 ; 

 of Mount Sinai and Algeria, i. 105 ; breeds 

 of, i. 105-111 ; Himalayan, Chinese, 

 Polish, or Kussian, i. 108-111, ii. 97; 

 feral, i. 111-115; of Jamaica, i. 112; of 

 the Falkland islands, i. 112 ; of Porto 

 Santo, i. 112-115, ii. 103, 279; osteo- 

 logical characters of, i. 115-129; dis- 

 cussion of modifications in, i. 129-130; 

 one-eared, transmission of peculiarity 

 of, ii. 12 ; reversion in feral, ii. 33 ; in 

 the Himalayan, ii. 41 ; crossing of 

 white and coloured Angora, ii. 92 ; com- 

 parative fertility of wild and tame, ii. 

 Ill ; high-bred, often bad breeders, ii. 

 121 ; selection of, ii. 204; white, liable 

 to destruction, ii. 230 ; effects of disuse 

 of parts in, ii. 298; skull of, affected 

 by drooping ears, ii. 301 ; length of in- 

 testines in, ii. 303 ; correlation of ears 

 and skull in, ii. 324-325 ; variations in 

 skull of, ii. 350 ; periosteum of a dog 

 producing bone in, ii. 369. 

 Race-horse, origin of, i. 54. 

 Races, modification and formation of, 

 by crossing, ii. 95-99; natural and 

 artificial, ii. 245; Pouchet's views on 

 plurality of, i. 2 ; of pigeons, i. 207- 

 212. 

 Radishes, i. 326 ; crossing of, ii. 90 ; va- 

 rieties of, ii. 217-218. 

 Radclyffe, W. F., effect of climate and 

 soil on strawberries, i. 354 ; constitu- 

 tional differences in roses, i. 367. 

 Radlkofer, retrogressive metamorphosis 



in mosses and algee, ii. 361. 

 Raffles, Sir Stamford, on the crossing of 

 Javanese cattle with Bos sondaicus, ii. 

 206. 

 Ram, goat-like, from the Cape of Good 



Hope, ii. 66. 

 Ranchin, heredity of diseases, ii. 7. 



Range of gallinaceous birds on the Hima- 

 laya, i. 237. 



Ranunculus ficaria, ii. 170. 



Banuncuhts repens, ii. 168. 



Rape, i. 325. 



Baphanus sativus, ii. 343. 



Raspberry, yellow-fruited, ii. 230. 



Rattlesnake, experiments with poison 

 of the, ii. 289. 



Raven, stomach of, affected by vegetable 

 diet, ii. 302. 



Rawson, A., self-impotence in hybrids of 

 Gladiolus, ii. 139-140. 



Re, Le Compte, on the assumption of a 

 yellow colour by all varieties of maize, 

 i. 321. 



Reaumur, effect of confinement upon the 

 cock, ii. 52 ; fertility of fowls in most 

 climates, ii. 161. 



Reed, Mr., atrophy of the limbs of rab- 

 bits, consequent on the destruction of 

 their nerves, ii. 297. 



Regeneration of amputated parts in man, 

 ii. 14 ; in the human embryo, ii. 15 ; in 

 the lower vertebrata, insects, and my- 

 riapoda, ibid. 



Reindeer, individuals recognised by the 

 Laplanders, ii. 251. 



Regnier, early cultivation of the cabbage 

 by the Celts, i. 324. • 



Reissek, experiments in crossing Cytisus 

 purpureus and laburnum, i. 389 ; modi- 

 fication of a Thesium by OEcidium, ii. 

 284. 



Relations, characters of, reproduced in 

 children, ii. 34. 



Rengger, occurrence of jaguars with 

 crooked legs in Paraguay, i. 17 ; naked 

 dogs of Paraguay, i. 23, 31, ii. 93, 102 ; 

 feral dogs of La Plata, i. 27 ; on the 

 aguara, i. 26 ; cats of Paraguay, i. 46, 

 ii. 86, 151; dogs of Paraguay, ii. 87 ; 

 feral pigs of Buenos Ayres, i. 77; on 

 the refusal of wild animals to breed in 

 captivity, ii. 149 ; on Dicotyles labiatus, 

 ii. 150 ; sterility of plantigrade car- 

 nivora in captivity, ii. 152 ; on Cavia 

 aperea, ii. 152 ; sterility of Cebus azarse 

 in captivity, ii. 153; abortions pro- 

 duced by wild animals in captivity, ii. 

 158. 



Reproduction, sexual and asexual, con- 

 trasted, ii. 361 ; unity of forms of, ii. 

 383 ; antagonism of, to growth, ii. 384. 

 Beseda odorata, ii. 237. 

 Retinitis, pigmentary, in deaf-mutes, ii. 



328 

 Reversion, ii. 28-29, 372-373, 396, 398- 

 402; in pigeons, ii. 29; in cattle, ii. 

 29-30; in sheep, ii. 30; in fowls, ii. 31; in 

 the heartsease, ibid. ; in vegetables, ibid. ; 

 in feral animals and plants, ii. 32-34; to 



