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WILLIAMS. 



INDEX. 



YOUATT. 



Williams, Mr., intercrossing of straw- 

 berries, i. 374. 



Williamson, Capt., degeneration of dogs 

 in India, i. 39 ; on small Indian asses, 

 i. 65. 



Williamson, Rev. W., doubling of 

 Anemone coronaria by selection, ii. 

 184. 



Willows, weeping, i. 385; reversion of 

 spiral -leaved weeping, i. 408; hy- 

 brids of, ii. 255; galls of, ii. 272, 

 273. 



Willughby, F., notice of spot pigeons, 

 i. 164; on a fantail pigeon, i. 218; 

 on tumbler pigeons, i. 219 ; on the 

 turbit, ibid. ; on the barb and carrier 

 pigeons, i. 221 ; on the hook-billed 

 duck, i. 291. 



Wilmot, Mr., on a crested white Turkey- 

 cock, i. 309 ; reversion of sheep in 

 colour, ii. 3. 



Wilson, B. 0., fertility of hybrids of 

 humped and ordinary cattle in Tas- 

 mania, i. 87. 



Wilson, Dr., prepotency of the Manx 

 over the common cat, ii. 41. 



Wilson, James, origin of dogs, i. 16. 



Wilson, Mr., on prepotency of trans- 

 mission in sheep, ii. 45 ; on the 

 breeding of bulls, ii. 180. 



Wings, proportionate length of, in dif- 

 ferent breeds of pigeons, i. 185, 186; 

 of fowls, effects of disuse on, i. 284, 

 285 ; characters and variations of, in 

 ducks, i. 299-301 ; diminution of, in 

 birds of small islands, i. 301, 302. 



Wing-feathers, number of, in pigeons, 

 i. 167 ; variability of, in fowls, i. 

 271. 



Wolf, recent existence of, in Ireland, i. 

 16 ; borking of young, i. 27 ; hybrids 

 of, with the dog, i. 33. 



Wolf-dog, black, of Florida, i. 23. 



Wolves, North American, their resem- 

 blance to dogs of the same region, i. 

 21, 22 ; burrowing of, i. 27. 



Woodbuky, Mr., crossing of the Li- 

 gurian and common hive bees, i. 

 314, ii. 107; variability of bees, L 

 314. 



Woodward, S. P., on Arctic Mollusca, 

 ii. 244. 



Wood, Willougiiby, reveHon from a 



cross, ii. 15 ; on Mr. Bates' cattle, ii. 

 96. 



Wooler, W. A., on the young of the 

 Himalayan rabbit, i. 114 ; persistency 

 of the coloured calyx in a crossed 

 polyanthus, i. 389. 



Wounds, healing of, ii. 284. 



Wright, J., production of crippled 

 calves by shorthorned cattle, ii. 97 ; 

 on selection in cattle, ii. 178 ; effect 

 of close inter-breeding on pigs, ii. 

 101 ; deterioration of game-cocks by 

 close interbreeding, ii. 105. 



Wright, Strethill, on the develop- 

 ment of the hydroida, ii. 364. 



Wyman, Dr., on Xiata cattle, and on a 

 similar malformation in the codfish, 

 i. 93; on Virginian pigs, ii. 212; 

 browsing under water, ii. 294. 



Xenophon, on the colours of hunting 



dogs, ii. 194. 

 Ximenes, Cardinal, regulations for the 



selection of rams, ii. 188. 



" Yahtj," the name of the pigeon in 

 Persia, i. 163. 



Yaks, domestication of, i. 86 ; selection 

 of white-tailed, ii. 190. 



Yam, development of axillary bulbs in 

 the, ii. 153. 



Yarrell, Mr., deficiency of teeth in 

 hairless dogs, i. 36, ii. 319 ; on ducks, 

 i. 294, ii. 250 ; characters of do- 

 mestic goose, resembling those of 

 Anser albifrons, i. 303 ; whiteness of 

 gandors, ibid. ; variations in gold- 

 fish, i. 312, 313 ; assumption of male 

 plumage by the hen-pheasant, ii. 26 ; 

 effect of castration upon the cock, ii. 

 26, 27 ; breeding of the skylark in 

 captivity, ii. 137 ; plumage of the 

 male linnet in confinement, ii. 141 ; 

 on the dingo, ii. 251. 



Yellow fever, in Mexico, ii. 266. 



Yew, fastigate, ii. 228. 



Yew, Irish, hardy in Xew York, ii. 

 299. 



Yew, weeping, i. 385 ; propagation of, 

 by seed, i. 461. 



Yolk, variations of, in the eggs of 

 ducks, i. 295. 



Youatt, Mr., hisxory of the dog, i. 17 ; 



