436 



IKDEX 



27 ; of some parishes, 28 ; of small 

 areas, 28, 77 ; of temperate zones 

 30; cause of richness 

 35; warm temperate 

 compared, 3G; of European small 



and 

 86; 



compared, 

 of some. 



areas, o/ ; of mountains 



plains compared, 38, 40, 

 extra-European temperate, 39 



Flowering plants, peculiar British, 

 134 



Flowers, al)undance of, within Arc- 

 tic circle, 153 



Food of young birds, 142 



Forbes, Mr. H. 0., on self-fertilisa- 

 tion of orchids, 332 



Forest reserves, advantages of 

 small botanical, 79 



Fruits, colour of, 336 



Galapagos, flora of, 67 



Galton's law of heredity, 110 



Gamble, Mr. J. T., on flora of 

 Malay Peninsula, 47 



Gardner, on flora of Brazil, 77; 

 on supposed greater richness of 

 mountain floras, 80 



Gatke, Herr, on bird-migration at 

 Heligoland, 161 



Geese moulting in Arctic regions, 

 148 



Gentiana verna, one locality in 

 Britain, 26 



Geological record, account of, 203; 

 its three well-marked periods, 

 204; the teaching of. 300 



Geology, as influencing evolution, 

 188 



Germinal selection, 281, 292, 296 



Glass essential for science, 338 



(ilyptodon clavipes, skeleton of, 253 



Glyptodontid.e, extinct armadillos, 

 252 



Grant Allen on insects and colour 

 of flowers, 333 



Grey plover's nest in Arctic re- 

 gions, 156 



Griesbach, on Mediterranean flora. 

 34; on Brazilian flora, 76 



Growth, the nature of, 315; by cell- 

 division, 316; admitted to be in- 

 explicable, 371; by cell-division, 

 what it implies. 

 Dr., on 



Gunther, 

 94 



Haeckel 

 human 



ether, 7, 

 scions. 



373 

 species 



of birds. 



on consciousness, o ; on 



nature, 6; matter and 



,8; on soul-atom uncon- 



358; his carbon-theoiv of 



life, 391 



Hamites rotundity, 290 



Hardy, Mr. W. B., on complexity of 

 proteid molecule, 383 



Hartert, Dr., on peculiar British 

 birds, 135 



Hayati, Mr., on floras of Japanese 

 mountains, 39, 40 



Heat, rate of increase in deep bor- 

 ings, 194 



Heligoland and migrating birds, 

 160 



Hemsley, W. B., on flora of Central 

 America, 61 



Heredity a universal fact, 109; 

 Galton's law of. 110 



Heteroceras etnerici, 289 



Hooker, Sir Joseph, on flora of 

 British India, 47; on primary 

 floras, 65; on rich flora of Pe- 

 nang, 77; on floras of very small 

 areas, 87 



Horns as recognition-marks, 173 



Horses, extinct South American, 

 250 



Hudson, W. H., on field mice in 

 Argentina, 132 



Human character, diversity of. 426 



Hutton, Capt., on recognition- 

 marks, 178 



Huxley, Professor, on nature and 

 origin of life. 9; on matter and 

 spirit, 10; on crueltv of nature, 

 400 



Hycenodon cruentus, skeleton of, 

 242 



Hyopotamns hrachyrhynchns, skele- 

 ton of, 243 



Ichthyopterygia, 223 



Ichthyosaurus, paddles of, 224 



Ichthyosaurus communis, skeleton 

 of, 224 



Iguanodon hemissartensis, 

 of, 218; skull of, 219 



Increase in plants and 

 121 



Indo-China, estimate of flora of, 50 



Inheritance of educational results 

 would have checked diversity, 427 



Inorganic substances, varietv of, 

 416 



Inostransevia, huge carnivorous 

 reptile, skull of, 2l6 



Insect life of secondary period, 228 



Insect pests, uses of, 142 



Insects, known species of, 91; pe- 

 culiar to Britain, 135; earliest 

 known. 211; and their metamor- 

 phosis, 321 



skeleton 

 animals, 



