INDEX. 



DELPHINIUM. 



445 



Danish Middens, remains of dogs in, i. 

 18. 



Dappling in horses, asses, and hybrids, 

 i. 58. 



Dareste, C, on the skull of the Polish 

 fowl, i. 275 ; causes of variability, 

 ii. 257 ; on the production of mon- 

 strous chickens, ii. 279; co-existence 

 of anomalies, ii. 325 ; production of 

 double monsters, ii. 334. 



Darvill, Mr., heredity of good qualities 

 in horses, i. 456. 



Darwin, C, on Lepus magettanicus. i. 

 117 ; on the wild potato, i. 349 ; 

 dimorphism in the polyanthus and 

 primrose, i. 464. 



Darwin, Dr., improvement of vegeta- 

 bles by selection, ii. 189. 



Darwin, Sir F., wildness of crossed 

 pigs, ii. 19. 



Darwin, G., consanguineous marriages, 

 ii. 104. 



D'Asso, monogynous condition of the 

 hawthorn in Spain, i. 387. 



Dasgprocta aguti, ii. 135. 



Date-palm, varieties of the, ii. 243. 



Datura, ii. 11 ; variability in, ii. 254. 



D dura Icevis and stramonium, reversion 

 in hybrids of, i. 425. 



Datura stramonium, ii. 43. 



Daubenton, variations in the number 

 of mammas in dogs, i. 36 ; proportions 

 of intestines in wild and domestic 

 cats, i. 50, ii. 292. 



Daudin, on white rabbits, ii. 215. 



Davy, Dr., on sheep in the West Indies, 

 i. 102. 



Dawkins, W. Bovd, history of the dog, 

 i. 15; origin of cattle, i. 85; early 

 domestication of Bos lonjifrons in 

 Britain, ibid. 



Deaf-mutes, non-heredity in, i. 465. 



Deafness, inheritance of, ii. 55. 



Dean, potato-grafting, i. 421. 



Debt, wild hybrids of common and 

 musk ducks, ii. 20. 



De Candolle, Alph., number and 

 origin of cultivated plants, i. 323, 324, 

 395 ; regions which have furnished 

 no useful plants, i. 327 ; wild wheat, 

 i. 329, 330 ; wild rye and oats, i. 329 ; 

 antiquity of varieties of wheat, i. 333 ; 

 apparent inefficacy of selection in 

 wheat, i. 335 ; origin and cultivation 



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of maize, i. 338, ii. 321 ; colours of 

 seeds of maize, i. 839 ; varieties and 

 origin of the cabbage, i. 342, 343 ; 

 origin of the garden-pea, i. 345 ; on 

 the vine, i. 352, ii. 298 ; cultivated 

 species of the orange group, i. 355 ; 

 probable Chinese origin of the peach, 

 i. 357 ; on the peach and nectarine, 

 i. 361, 363 ; varieties of the peach, i. 

 363 ; origin of the apricot, i. 365 ; 

 origin and varieties of the plum, i. 

 367 ; origin of the cherry, i. 368 ; 

 varieties of the gooseberry, i. 376 ; 

 selection practised with forest-trees, 

 i. 384 ; wild fastigate oak, i. 385 ; 

 dark-leaved varieties of trees, ibid. ; 

 conversion of stamens into pistils in 

 the poppy, i. 389 ; variegated foliage, 

 i. 390 ; heredity of white hyacinths, 

 i. 395, 463 ; changes in oaks depen- 

 dent on age, i. 413 ; inheritance of 

 anomalous characters, i. 462 ; varia- 

 tion of plants in their native countries, 

 ii. 244; deciduous bushes becoming 

 evergreen in hot climates, ii. 295 ; 

 antiquity of races of plants, ii. 425. 



De Candolle, P., non-variability of 

 monotypic genera, ii. 253 ; relative 

 development of root and seed in 

 Eaphanus sativus, ii. 335. 



Decaisne, on the cultivation of the 

 wild carrot, i. 344 ; varieties of the 

 pear, i. 372 ; intercrossing of straw- 

 berries, i. 373 ; fruit of the apple, i. 

 432 ; sterility of Lysimachia nummu- 

 laria, ii. 154; tender variety of the 

 peach, ii. 299. 



Deer, assumption of horns by female, 

 ii. 26 ; imperfect development of 

 horns in a, on a voyage, ii. 141. 



Deer, fallow, ii. 81. 



Deerhound, Scotch, difference in size 

 of the sexes of, ii. 49 ; deterioration 

 of, ii. 100. 



Degeneration of high-bred races, 

 under neglect, ii. 225. 



De Jonghe, J., on strawberries, i. 374, 

 ii. 229; soft-barked pears, ii. 217; 

 on accumulative variation, ii. 249 ; 

 resistance of blossoms to frost, ii. 297. 



Delamer. E. S., on rabbits, i. Ill, 

 116. 



Delphinium ajacis, i. 464. 



Delphinium consolida, i. 463, 464. 



