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INDEX. 



HOMOLOGOUS. 



i. 251 ; degeneration of silk fowls, i. 

 255 ; partial sterility of hen-like 

 male fowls, i. 265 ; production of 

 tailed chickens by rumpless fowls, i. 

 271; on taming and rearing wild 

 ducks, i. 292, ii. 219, 250 ; conditions 

 of inheritance in laced Seb:~ ght ban- 

 tams, i. 465 ; reversion in lumpless 

 fowls, ii. 4 ; reversion in fowls by 

 age, ii. 13 ; hybrids of pheasant and 

 fowl, ii. 19, 43; assumption of male 

 characters by female pheasants, ii. 

 26 ; development of latent characters 

 in a barren bantam hen, ii. 29 ; 

 mongrels from the silk-fowl, ii. 42 ; 

 effects of close inter-breeding on fowls, 

 ii. 105, 106 ; on feather-legged 

 bantams, ii. 314. 



Hibbert, Mr., on the pigs of the Shet- 

 land Islands, i. 74. 



Hibiscus. See Paritiun. 



Highland cattle, descended from Bos 

 lonjifrons, i. 85. 



HlLDEBRAND, Dr., on graft-hybrids 

 with the potato, i. 420 ; on the in- 

 fluence of pollen on the mother-plant, 

 i. 430 ; on the fertilisation of Orchidece, 

 i. 434, 435 ; occasional necessary cross- 

 ing of plants, ii. 68 ; on seeds not 

 fitted for distribution, i. 330 ; potato- 

 grafting, i. 420 ; crossing of varieties, 

 ii. 83 ; on Primula sinensis and Oxalis 

 rosea, ii. 113; on Co-ydalis cava, ii. 

 113,114. 



Hill, R., on the Alco, i. 32; feral 

 rabbits in Jamaica, i. 116; feral pea- 

 cocks in Jamaica, i. 200 ; variation of 

 the Guinea fowl in Jamaica, i. 310; 

 sterility of tamed birds in Jamaica, 

 ii. 138,' 140. 



Himalaya, range of gallinaceous birds 

 in the, i. 249. 



Himalayan rabbit, i. 112, 113-115; 

 skull of, i. 125. 



Himalayan sheep, i. 98. 



IIiNDMARSii, Mr., on Chillingham cattle, 

 i. 88. 



" Hinkel-Taube," i. 149, 150. 



II inn Y and mule, difference of, ii. 43. 



Hipparion, anomalous resemblance to, La 

 horses, i. 52. 



Hippeastrurn, hybrids of, ii. 120, 121. 



Hive-bees, ancient domestication of, i. 

 313 ; breeds of, i. 314 ; smaller when 



produced in old combs, ibid. ; varia- 

 bility in, i. 315 ; crossing of Liguriaa 

 and common, ibid. 



Hobbs, Fisher, on interbreeding pigs, ii. 

 100. 



" Hocker-Taube," i. 148. 



Hodgkin, Dr.pon the attraction of foxes 

 by a female Dingo, i. 32 ; origin of 

 the Newfoundland dog, i. 44; trans- 

 mission of a peculiar lock of hair, i. 

 449. 



Hodgson, Mr., domestication of Canis 

 primcevus, i. 27 ; development of a 

 fifth digit in Thibet mastiffs, i. 37 ; 

 number of ribs in humped cattle, i. 

 83 ; on the sheep of the Himalaya, 

 i. 98 ; presence of four mammas in 

 sheep, i. 99 ; arched nose in sheep, 

 ibid. ; measurements of the intestines 

 of goats, 1. 106 ; presence of inter- 

 digital pits in goats, ibid. ; disuse a 

 cause of drooping ears, ii. 291. 



Hofacker, persistency of colour in 

 horses, i. 53, i. 464 ; production of 

 dun horses from parents of different 

 colours, i. 62 ; inheritance of peculi- 

 arities in handwriting, i. 450 ; heredity 

 in a one horned stag, i. 456 ; on 

 consanguineous marriages, ii. 103. 



Hoffman, Prof., on Paphaaus, i. 345. 



Hog, Red River, ii. 133. 



Hogg, Mr., retardation of breeding in 

 cows by hard living, ii. 90. 



Holland, Sir H., necessity of in- 

 heritance, i. 446 ; on hereditary 

 diseases, i 451 ; hereditary pecu- 

 liarity in the eyelid, i. 452 ; morbid 

 uniformity in the same family, i. 459 ; 

 transmission of hydrocele through 

 the female, ii. 27 ; inheritance of 

 habits and tricks, ii. 389. 



Holly, varieties of the, i. 384, 385 ; 

 bud-reversion in, i. 409; yellow- 

 berried, i. 462, ii. 216. 



Hollyhock, bud-variation in, i. 402 ; 

 non-crossing of doub'e varieties of. 

 Ii. 85 ; tender variety of the, ii. 

 301. 



Homer, notice of ge?se, i. 302 ; breed- 

 ing of the horses of ./Eneas, ii. 186. 



Homologous parts, correlated varia- 

 bility of, ii. 314-325, 346,347; 

 fusion of, ii. 333 ; affinity of, ii 

 333, 334. 



