LIZARDS. 



INDEX. 



LUCAS. 



465 



Lizards, reproduction of tail in, ii. 284. j 



Llama, selection of, ii. 192. 



Lloyd, Mr., taming of the wolf, i. 27 ; 

 English dogs- in northern Europe, i. 

 37 ; fertility of the goose increased 

 by domestication, i. 303 ; number of 

 eggs laid by the wild goose, ii. 91 ; 

 breeding of the capercailzie in cap- 

 tivity, ii. 139. 



Loanda, domestic rabbits at, i. 116. 



Loasa, hybrid of two species of, ii. 76. 



Lobelia, reversion in hybrids of, i. 425 ; 

 contabescence in, ii. 149. 



Lobelia fulgens, cardinalis, and syphili- 

 tica, ii. 117. 



Lockhart, Dr., on Chinese pigeons, i. 

 216. 



LOCCST-TREE, ii. 264. 



Loiseletjr-Deslongchamps, origi nals 

 of cultivated plants, i. 324 ; Mon- 

 golian varieties of wheat, i. 331 ; 

 characters of the ear in wheat, ibid. ; 

 acclimatisation of exotic wheat in 

 Europe, i. 332 ; effect of change of 

 climate on wheat, i. 334 ; on the sup- 

 posed necessity of the coincident 

 variation of weeds and cultivated 

 plants, i. 335 ; advantage of change 

 of soil to plants, ii. 128. 



Lolium temulentum, variable presence 

 of barbs in, i. 331. 



Long- tailed sheep, i. 98. 



Loochoo Islands, horses of, i. 56. 



Lord, J. K., on Canis latrans, i. 22. 



" Lori rajah," how produced, i. 269. 



Lorius garrulus, ii. 269. 



" Lotan " tumbler pigeon, i. 157. 



Loudon, J. W., varieties of the carrot, 

 i. 345 ; short duration of varieties of 

 peas, i. 348 ; on the glands of peach- 

 leaves, i. 364 ; presence of bloom on 

 Russian apples, i. 370 ; origin of 

 varieties of the apple, i. 372 ; varie- 

 ties of the gooseberry, i. 376 ; on 

 the nut tree, i. 379 ; varieties of the 

 ash, i. 384; fastigate juniper (./. 

 suecica'), i. 385 ; on Ilex aquifolium 

 ferox, ibid. ; varieties of the Scotch 

 fir, i. 386, 387 ; varieties of the 

 hawthorn, i. 387 ; variation in the 

 persistency of leaves on the elm and 

 Turkish oak, i. 386 ; importance of 

 cultivated varieties, i. 387 ; varieties 

 Mi Rosa spinosissima, i. 391 ; variation 



of dahlias from the same seed, i. 394 ; 

 production of Provence roses from 

 seeds of the moss rose, i. 405 ; effect 

 of grafting the purple-leaved upon 

 the common hazel, i. 419; inter- 

 crossing melons, ii. 110; nearly 

 evergreen Cornish variety of the elm, 

 ii. 301. 



Low, G., on the pigs of the Orkney 

 Islands, i. 74. 



Low, Prof., pedigrees of greyhounds, i. 

 447 ; origin of the dog, i. 16 ; bur- 

 rowing instinct of a half-bred dingo, 

 i. 28 ; inheritance of qualities in 

 horses, i. 53 ; comparative powers of 

 English race-horses, Arabs, &c, i. 57 ; 

 British breeds of cattle, i. 83; wild 

 cattle of Chartley, i. 88 ; effect of 

 abundance of food on the size of 

 cattle, i. 95 ; effects of climate on the 

 skin of cattle, i. 96, ii. 319 ; on inter- 

 breeding, ii. 95 ; selection in Hereford 

 cattle, ii. 199 ; formation of new 

 breeds, ii. 231 ; on " sheeted" cattle, 

 ii. 341. 



Lowe, Mr., on hive bees, i. 316. 



Lowe, Rev. Mr., on the range of Pyms 

 malus and P. acerba, i. 370. 



Lowne, Mr., monsters, ii. 333 ; on 

 gemmules, ii. 372. 



" Lowtun " tumbler pigeon, i. 157. 



Loxia pyrrhula, ii. 137. 



Lubbock, Sir J., developments of the 

 Ephemeridae, ii. 361. 



Lucas, P., effects of cross-breeding on 

 the female, i. 436 ; hereditary diseases, 

 i. 451, ii. 54, 55 ; hereditary affections 

 of the eye, i. 453, 454 ; inheritance of 

 anomalies in the human eye and in 

 that ot' the horse, i. 454 ; inheritance 

 of polydactylism, i. 458 ; morbid 

 uniformity in the same family, i. 

 459; inheritance of mutilations, i. 

 469 ; persistency of cross-reversion, 

 ii. 9 ; persistency of character in 

 breeds of animals in wild countries, 

 ii. 39 ; prepotency of transmission, ii. 

 40, 44 ; supposed rules of trans- 

 mission in crossing animals, ii. 44 ; 

 sexual limitations of transmission of 

 peculiarities, ii. 48, 49 ; absorption of 

 the minority in crossed races, ii. 65 ; 

 crosses without blending of certain 

 characters, ii. 69 ; on interbreeding, 



