INDEX. 



445 



Cattle, breeds of, locally extinct, 86. 

 , fertility of Indian and European 



breeds, 241. 



, Indian, 14, 241. 



Cave, inhabitants of, blind, 110. 

 Cecidomyia, 387. 



Celts, proving antiquity of man, 13. 

 Centres of creation, 320. 

 Cephalopoda;, structure of eyes, 151. 



, development of, 390. 



Cercopithecus, tail of, 189. 



Ceroxylus laceratus, 182. 



Cervulus, 240. 



Cetacea, teeth and hair, 115. 



, development of the whalebone, 



182. 

 Cetaceans, 182. 

 Ceylon, plants of, 338. 

 Chalk formation, 297. 

 Characters, divergence of, 86. 



, sexual, variable, 119, 123. 



, adaptive or analogical, 373. 



Charlock, 59. 



Checks to increase, 53. 



, mutual, 55. 



Chelae of Crustaceans, 193. 

 Chickens, instinctive tameness of, 211. 

 Chironomus, its asexual reproduction, 



387. 

 ChthamalinaB, 271. 

 Chthamalus, cretacean species of, 284. 

 Circumstances favourable to selection 



of domestic products, 29. 



to natural selection, 80. 



Cirripedes capable of crossing, 79. 



, carapace aborted, 118. 



, their ovigerous frena, 148. 



, fossil, 284. 



, larvae of, 389. 



Claparede, Prof., on the hair-claspers 



of the Acaridse, 153. 

 Clarke, Kev. W. B., on old glaciers in 



Australia, 335. 

 Classification, 363. 

 Clift, Mr., on the succession of types, 



310. 

 Climate, effects of, in checking in- 

 crease of beings, 54. 

 , adaptation of, to organisms, 



112. 

 Climbing plants, 147. 



, development of, 196. 



Clover visited by bees, 75. 

 Cobites, intestine of, 147. 



Cockroach, 59. 



Collections, palaeontologies 1, poor, 

 270. 



Colour, influenced by climate, 107. 



, in relation to attacks by flies, 



159. 



Columba livia, parent of domestic 

 pigeons, 17. 



Colymbetes, 345. 



Compensation of growth, 117. 



Composite, flowers and seeds of, 116. 



, outer and inner florets of, 173. 



, male flowers of, 398. 



Conclusion, general, 421. 



Conditions, slight changes in, favour- 

 able to fertility, 251. 



Convergence of genera, 100. 



Coot, 142. 



Cope, Prof., on the acceleration or 

 retardation of the period of repro- 

 duction, 149. 



Coral-islands, seeds drifted to, 326. 



reefs, indicating movements of 



earth, 326. 



Corn-crake, 143. 



Correlated variation in domestic pro- 

 ductions, 9. 



Coryanthes, 154. 



Creation, single centres of, 320. 



Crinum, 238. 



Croll, Mr., on subaerial denudation, 

 267, 269. 



, on the age of our oldest form- 

 ations, 286. 



, on alternate Glacial periods in 



the North and South, 336. 



Crosses, reciprocal, 244. 



Crossing of domestic animals, import- 

 ance in altering breeds, 15. 



, advantages of, 76, 77. 



, unfavourable to selection, 80^ 



Cr tiger, Dr., on Coryanthes, 154. 



Crustacea of New Zealand, 338. 



Crustacean, blind, 110. 



air-breathers, 152. 



Crustaceans, their chela 1 , 193. 



Cryptocerus, 231. 



Ctenomys, blind, 110. 



Cuckoo, instinct of, 205, 212. 



Cunningham, Mr., on the flight of 

 the logger-headed duck, 108. 



Currants, grafts of, 246. 



Currents of sea, rate of, 325. 



Cuvier.on conditions of existence, 205 



