INDEX. 



GREENHOW. 



455 



manency of the simple-leaved ash, i. 

 086 ; non-inheritance of certain 

 mutilations, i. 466 ; wild turnips, 

 carrots, and celery, ii. 7 ; peloria, ii. 

 34 ; prepotency of a goat-like ram, 

 ii. 4-1 ; benefit of change of soil to 

 plants, ii. 128; fertility of peloric 

 flowers of Corydatis solida, ii. 150 ; 

 seeding of ordinarily seedless fruit, 

 ii. 152 ; sexual sterility of plants 

 propagated by buds, &c, ii. 158 ; in- 

 crease of sugar in beet-root, ii. 185 ; 

 effects of selection in enlarging par- 

 ticular parts of plants, ii. 2o2 ; 

 growth of the cabbage in the tropics, 

 ii. 267 ; rejection of bitter almonds 

 by mice, ii. 218; influence of marshy 

 pasture on the fleece of sheep, ii. 268 ; 

 on the ears of ancient Egyptian pigs, 

 ii. 291 ; primitive distinctness of 

 species, ii. 410 ; solid-hoofed swine, 

 ii. 424. 



Goethe, on compensation of growth, 

 ii. 335. 



Gold-fish, i. 312, 313, ii. 222. 



Gomara, on South American cats, i. 

 48. 



Gongora, number of seeds in the, ii. 

 373. 



Goodman, three-toed cows, i. 459. 



Goose, ancient domestication of, i. 302 ; 

 sacred to Juno in Rome, ibid. ; inflexi- 

 bility of organisation of, i. 303 ; skull 

 perforated in tufted, ibid. ; charac- 

 ters of breeds and sub-breeds of, i. 

 303, 304 ; variety of, from Sebastopol, 

 i. 304, ii. 386 : feral, in La Plata, i. 

 199 ; Egyptian, hybrid of, with pen- 

 guin duck, ii. 43 ; spontaneous 

 segregation of varieties of, ii. 82 ; 

 fertility of, increased by domestica- 

 tion, ii. 90 ; decreased fertility of, in 

 Bogota, ii. 145 ; sterility of, in the 

 Philippine Islands, ibid. ; selection 

 of, ii. 188: white, preference of the 

 Piomans for the liver of, ii. 194 ; 

 persistency of characer in, ii. 241; 

 Egyptian, change in breeding season 

 of, ii. 294. 



Gooseberrv, i. 376-378; bud-variation 

 in the, i. 400 ; Whitesmith's, ii. 

 218. 



Goppert, on monstrous poppies, ii. 1 50. 



Gosse, P. H., feral dogs in Jamaica, i. 



28; feral pigs of Jamaica, i. 80; 

 feral rabbits of Jamaica, i. 116 ; on 

 Cvlumba leucocephala, i. 192 ; feral 

 Guinea fowl in Jamaica, i. 199 ; re- 

 production of individual peculiarities 

 by gemmation in a coral, i. 398 ; 

 frequency of striped legs in mules, 

 ii. 16. 



Gould, Dr., on hereditary haemorrhage, 

 i. 451. 



Gould, John, origin of the turkey, i. 

 308. 



Goura coronata and Victories, hybrids 

 of, i. 203, ii. 138. 



Gourds, i. 381 ; crossing of varieties of, 

 ii. 86 ; ancient Peruvian variety of, 

 ii. 425. 



Gout, inheritance of, i. 451 ; period of 

 appearance of, ii. 54. 



Graba, on the pigeon of the Faroe 

 Islands, i. 19 2. 



Grafting, ii. 129 ,- effects of, ii. 246, 

 267 ; upon the stock, i. 413^1-22 ; 

 upon the variability of trees, ii. 246 ; 

 changes analogous to bud- variation 

 produced by, i. 413, 415. 



Graft-hybrids, i. 413, 417-422, ii. 360. 



Grapes, bud-variation in, i. 399 ; cross 

 of white and purple, i. 419 ; green, 

 liable to disease, ii. 330 ; effect of 

 foreign pollen on, i. 430. 



Grasses, seeds of, used as food by 

 savages, i. 324-326. 



Gray, Asa, superior wild varieties of 

 fruit-trees, i. 327 ; cultivated native 

 plants of North America, i. 329, 380 ; 

 non-variation of weeds, i. 335 ; sup- 

 posed spontaneous crossing of Cucur- 

 bitaceae, i. 480 ; pre-ordination of 

 variation, ii. 428; progeny of husked 

 form of maize, i. 339 ; wild inter- 

 mediate forms of strawberries, i. 373. 



Gray, G. K., on Columba gymnocyclus, i. 

 193. 



Gray, J. E., on Sus pliciceps, i. 72 : on 

 a variety of the gold-fish, i. 313 ; 

 hybrids of the ass and zebra, ii. 16, 

 17 ; on the breeding of animals at 

 Knowsley, ii. 131 ; on the breeding 

 of birds in captivity, ii. 140. 



Greene, J. Reay, on the development 

 of the echinodermata, ii. 362. 



Greenhow, Mr., on a Canadian web« 

 footed dog, i 41. 



