CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE XIII. 



INHERITANCE, continued — REVERSION OR ATAVISM. 



DIFFERENT FORMS OF REVERSIOX — IX PURE OR UNCROSSED BREEDS, AS 

 LN PIGEONS, FOWLS, HORXLESS CATTLE AND SHEEP, IX CULTIVATED 

 PLAXTS — REVERSIOX IX FERAL AXIMALS AXD PLAXTS — REVERSIOX 

 LX CROSSED VARIETIES AXD SPECIES — REVERSION THROUGH BUD- 

 PROPAGATIOX, AXD BY SEGMENTS IX THE SAME FLOWER OR FRUIT 

 — IX DLFFEREXT PARTS OF THE BODY IX THE SAME ANIMAL— 

 THE ACT OF CROSSIXG A DIRECT CAUSE OF REVERSION, VARIOUS 

 CASES OF, WITH INSTINCTS —OTHER PROXIMATE CAUSES OF RE- 

 VERSION — LATENT CHARACTERS — SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS 



— UNEQUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE TWO SIDES OF THE BODY 



APPEARANCE WITH ADVAXCIXG AGE OF CHARACTERS DERIVED 

 FROM A CROSS — THE GERM, WITH ALL ITS LATEXT CHARACTERS, 

 A WOXDERFUL OBJECT — MOXSTROSITIES — PELORIC FLOWERS DUE IN 



some cases to reversiox Pacres 1-36 



CHAPTER XIV. 



inheritance, continued — FIXEDNESS of CHARACTER — 

 PKEPOTENCT — SEXUAL LIMITATION — CORRES PON DENCE 

 OF AGE. 



FIXEDNESS OF CHARACTER APPARENTLY !NOT DUE TO ANTIQUITY OF 

 INHERITANCE — PREPOTENCY OF TRANSMISSION IN INDIVIDUALS OF 

 THE SAME FAMILY, IN CROSSED BREEDS AND SPECIES ; OFTEN 

 STRONGER IN ONE SEX THAN THE OTHER ; SOMETIMES DUE TO THE 

 SAME CHARACTER BEING PRESENT AND VISIBLE IN ONE BREED 

 AND LATEXT IX THE OTHER — IXHERITAXCE AS LIMITED BY SEX — 



