INDEX. 



ABBAS. 



ALEFIELD. 



Abbas Pacha, a fancier of fantailed pi- 

 geons, i. 216. 



Abbey, Mr., on grafting, ii. 128, 129 ; 

 on mignonette, ii. 223. 



Abbott, Mr. Keith, on the Persian 

 tumbler pigeon, i. 156. 



Abbreviation of the facial bones, i. 

 76. 



Abortion of organs, ii. 306-310, 392. 



Absorption of minority in crossed 

 races, ii. 65-67, 158. 



Abutilon, graft hybridisation of, i. 

 418. 



Acclimatisation, ii. 295-305 ; of 

 maize, i. 341. 



Acerbi, on the fertility of domestic 

 animals in Lapland, ii. 90. 



Achatinella, ii. 28. 



Achillea millefolium, bud variation in, i. 

 440. 



Aconitum napellus, roots of, innocuous 

 in cold climates, ii. 264. 



Acorus calamus, sterility of, ii. 154. 



Acosta, on fowls in South America at 

 its discovery, i. 249. 



Acropera, number of seeds in, ii. 373. 



Adam, M., origin of Cytisus adami, i. 

 416. 



Adam. W., on consanguineous mar- 

 riages, ii. 103. 



Adams, on hereditary diseases, i. 451. 



Advancement in scale of organisation, 

 i. 8. 



JEgilops triticoides, observations of 

 Fabre and Godron on, i. 330; in- 

 creasing fertility of hybrids of, with 

 wheat, ii. 88. 



^lscuIus pavia, tendency of, to become 

 double, ii. 152. 



JEthusa cynapium, ii. 331. 



Affinity sexual elective, ii. 163. 



Africa, white bull from, i. 95 ; fera 

 cattle in, i. 89 ; food-plants of savages 

 of, i. 325 ; South, diversity of breeds 

 of cattle in, i. 84 ; West, change in 

 fleece of sheep in, i. 102. 



Agave vivipara, seeding of, in poor soil, 

 ii. 152. 



Age, changes in trees, dependent on, i. 

 413. 



, as bearing on pangenesis, ii. 384. 



Agouti, fertility of, in captivity, ii, 

 135. 



Agriculture, antiquity of, ii. 230. 



Agrostis, seeds of, used as food, i. 326. 



Aguara, i. 27. 



Ainsworth, Mr., on the change in 

 the hair of animals at Angora, ii. 

 268. 



Akbar Khan, his fondness for pigeons, 

 i. 215; ii. 188. 



Alauda arvensis, ii. 137. 



Albin, on " Golden Hamburgh " fowls, 

 i. 259; figure of the hook-billed 

 duck, i. 291. 



Albinism, i. 114, 460. 



Albino, negro, attacked by insects, ii. 

 214. 



Albinoes, heredity of, i. 454. 



Albinus, thickness of the epidermis on 

 the palms of the hands in man, ii. 

 287. 



Alco, i. 32, ii. 80. 



Aldrovandi, on rabbits, i. 108 ; de- 

 scription of the nun pigeon, i. 164; 

 on the fondness of the Dutch for 

 pigeons in the seventeenth century, 

 i. 215; notice of several varieties of 

 pigeons, i. 217-220; on the breeds of 

 fowls, i. 259 ; on the origin of the 

 domestic duck, i. 292. 



Alefield, Dr., on the varieties of peas 



