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INDEX. 



Sprengel on fertilisation in flowers, 



138 

 Starfish, reproduction of parts, 197 

 Starkweather's law of sex, 36, 37 

 Statistics on male and female births, 



35 



Steenstrup on alternation of genera- 

 tions, 200 



Stickleback, habits of, 24; secretion 

 of, 250, 251 



Sterility, 298 



Strasburger on fertilisation, 159, 

 160 ; on parthenogenesis, 181 



Summer eggs, 174 



Surinam toad, 63, 252, 253 



Sutton on embryonic hermaphro- 



Vorticella, reproduction of, 



149, 150 

 Volvox, 58, 128-130 



[29, 



ditism, 



66 



Syllids, asexual multiplication, 197 



Tadpoles, 41, 248 

 Tapeworm, life-history of, 209, 210 

 Temperance, 297, 298 

 Temperature, influence of, on sex, 



48, 49 

 Thury, theory of sex,. 34 

 Tiger-lily, 226 

 Treviranus, 301 ; on influence of 



sperm, 166, 307 

 Tunicates, asexual multiplication, 



198 ; alternation of generations, 



203 

 Twins, 210 ; sex of, 39 



Ulothrix, reproduction in, 127 



Variation, 13, 166, 167, 301, 306 

 Vines on reproduction in plants, 



126, 127 

 Viviparous animals, 248 



Wallace, sexual selection, 10-14; 



natural selection, 29, 303, 304 

 Ward, Marshall, on parasitic fungi, 



229 



Water-fleas, parthenogenesis in, 



174 



Weeping willows, 188 



Weismann on fertilisation, 161, 

 162 ; on polar bodies, 105, 107 ; 

 on use of fertilisation, 164 ; on 

 parthenogenetic ova, 181-185 ; 

 hydroids, 91, 210, 21 1 ; alternation 

 of generations, 214 ; continuity of 

 germ-plasma, 94, 95, 239-241 ; 

 on organic immortality, 258-261 ; 

 inheritance of acquired characters, 

 51, 304-306 ; variation, 306 



AATaelk, cannibalism of young, 249 



Winter eggs, 174 



Wolff", reassertion of epigenesis, 85 



Women, subjection, rights, func- 

 tions of, 267-271 



Worms, hermaphroditism in, 71 ; 

 asexual reproduction, 195-197 ; al- 

 ternation of generations, 209 



Yolk glands, 61 



Yolk-sac, 249 



Yung on sex in tadpoles, 41 



Zacharias on male and female ele- 

 ments, 114; on asexual multipli- 

 cation, 225 



Zona pellucida, 103 



Zona radiata, 103 



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