—bitter, not eaten by mice, 21.
ALPACA, selection of, 20.
_Amaryllis,_ 17.
_Amaryllis vittata,_ effect of foreign pollen on, 5.
AMAUROSIS, hereditary, 12.
AMERICA, limits within which no useful plants have been furnished by, 9; —colours of feral horses in, 2; —North, native cultivated plants of, 9; —skin of feral pig from, 3; —South, variations in cattle of, 3.
AMMON, on the persistency of colour in horses, 12.
ANALOGOUS variation, 5, 22; —in horses, 5; —in the horse and ass, 2; —in fowls, 7.
—skull of, figured, 8.
“ANCON” sheep of Massachusetts, 3, 15.
ANDALUSIAN fowls, 7.
ANDALUSIAN rabbits, 4.
ANDERSON, J., on the origin of British sheep, 4; —on the selection of qualities in cattle, 20; —on the inheritance of characters from a one-eared rabbit, and —on the persistency of varieties of peas, 9; —on the production of early peas by selection, 20; —on the varieties of the potato, 9; —on crossing varieties of the melon, 11; —on reversion in the barberry, 11.
ANDERSON, Mr., on the reproduction of the weeping ash by seed, 12.
—on the cultivation of the tree pæony in China, 20.
ANDERSSON, Mr., on the Damara, Bechuana, and Namaqua cattle, 3; —on the cows of the Damaras, 24; —selection practised by the Damaras and Namaquas, 20; —on the use of grass-seeds and the roots of reeds as food in South Africa, 9.
_Anemone coronaria,_ doubled by selection, 20.
ANGINA pectoris, hereditary, occurring at a certain age, 14.
ANGLESEA, cattle of, 3.
ANGOLA sheep, 3.
ANGORA, change in hair of animals at, 23; —cats of, 1 (2); —rabbits of, 4 (2).
ANIMALS, domestication of, facilitated by fearlessness of man, 1; —refusal of wild, to breed in captivity, 18; —compound, individual peculiarities of, reproduced by budding, 11; —variation by selection in useful qualities of, 20.
ANNUAL plants, rarity of bud-variation in, 11.
ANOMALIES in the osteology of the horse, 2.
ANOMALOUS breeds of pigs, 3; —of cattle, 3.
_Anser albifrons,_ characters of, reproduced in domestic geese, 8.
_Anser canadensis,_ 18. _Anser ferus,_ the original of the domestic goose, 8; —fertility of cross of, with domestic goose, 8.
ANSON, on feral fowls in the Ladrones, 7.
ANTAGONISM between growth and reproduction, 27.
—becomes single in poor soil, 18.
ANTHERS, contabescence of, 18.
ANTIGUA, cats of, 5; —changed fleece of sheep in, 3.
ANTS, individual recognition of, 22.
APHIDES, attacking pear-trees, 21; APOPLEXY, hereditary, occurring at a certain age, 14.
APPLE, 10; —fruit of, in Swiss lake-dwellings, 9; —rendered fastigiate by heat in India, 10; —bud-variation in the, 11; —with two kinds of fruit on the same branch, 11; —artificial fecundation of, 11; —reversion in seedlings of, 13; —crossing of varieties of, 17; —growth of the, in Ceylon, 21; —winter majetin, not attacked by _ coccus,_ 21; —flower-buds of, attacked by bullfinches, 21; —American, change of, when grown in England, 23.
APRICOT, 10 (2); —glands on the leaves of, 21; —analogous variation in the, 26.
_Aquila fusca,_ copulating in captivity, 18.
ARAB boarhound, described by Harcourt, 1.
ARAUCARIAS, young, variable resistance of, to frost, 24.
ARCHANGEL pigeon, 21.
ARCTIC regions, variability of plants and shells of, 22.
_Aria vestita,_ grafted on thorns, 11.
ARISTOPHANES, fowls mentioned by, 7.
ARISTOTLE, on solid-hoofed pigs, 3; —domestic duck unknown to, 8; —on the assumption of male characters by old hens, 13.
ARNI, domestication of the, 3.
ARNOLD, Mr., experiments of pollen on the maize, 11.
ARRESTS of development, 24.
ARTERIES, increase of anastomosing branches of, when tied, 24.
ARU Islands, wild pig of, 3.
ARUM, Polynesian varieties of, 22.
_Ascaris,_ number of eggs of, 27.
ASH, varieties of the, 10; —weeping, 10; —simple-leaved, 10; —effects of graft upon the stock in the, 11; —production of the blotched Breadalbane, 11; —weeping, capricious reproduction of, by seed, 12.
_Asinus quagga,_ 2.
_Asinus tæniopus,_ the original of the domestic ass, 2.
ASPARAGUS, increased fertility of cultivated, 16.
ASS, early domestication of the, 2; —breeds of, 2; —small size of, in India, 2; —stripes of, 2 (2); —dislike of, to cross water, 6; —hybrid of the, with mare and zebra, 13; —prepotency of the, over the horse, 14; —crossed with wild ass, 20; —variation and selection of the, 21.
ASSYRIAN sculpture of a mastiff, 1.
ASTERS, 12, 24.
ASTHMA, hereditary, 12, 14.
ATAVISM. _See_ Reversion.
ATHELSTAN, his care of horses, 20.
ATKINSON, Mr., on the sterility of the Tarroo silk-moth in confinement, 18.
AUBERGINE, 15.
AUDUBON, on feral hybrid ducks, 6, 13; —on the domestication of wild ducks on the Mississippi, 8; —on the wild cock turkey visiting domestic hens, 8; —fertility of _Columba migratoria_ and _leucocephala_ in captivity, 18; AUDUBON and Bachman, on the change of coat in _Ovis montana,_ 3; AURICULA, effect of seasonal conditions on the, 23; —blooming of, 26.
AUSTRALIA, no generally useful plants derived from, 9; —useful plants of, enumerated by Hooker, 9.
AUSTRIA, heredity of character in emperors of, 14.
AUTENRIETH, on persistency of colour in horses, 12.
AVA, horses of, 2.
AYRES, W. P., on bud-variation in pelargoniums, 11.
AZARA, on the feral dogs of La Plata, 1; —on the crossing of domestic with wild cats in Paraguay, 1; —on hornlike processes in horses, 2; —on curled hair in horses, 2; —on the colours of feral horses, 2; —on the cattle of Paraguay and La Plata, 3 (3), 22; —on the increase of cattle in South America, 17; —on the growth of horns in the hornless cattle of Corrientes, 13; —on naked quadrupeds, 23; —on a race of black-skinned fowls in South America, 7, 20; —on a variety of maize, 9.
BABINGTON, C. C., on the origin of the plum, 10; —British species of the genus _ Rosa,_ 10; BACHMANN, Mr., on the turkey, 22.
_See also_ Audubon. BADGER, breeding in confinement, 18.
BAILY, Mr., on the effect of selection on fowls, 20; —on Dorking fowls, 21.
BAIRD, S., on the origin of the turkey, 8.
BAKER, Mr., on heredity in the horse, 12; —on the degeneration of the horse by neglect, 21; —orders of Henrys VII. and VIII. for the destruction of undersized mares, 20.
BAKEWELL, change in the sheep effected by, 20.
—of growth, law of, 26.
BALDHEAD (pigeon), 5.
BALDNESS, in man, inherited, 25; —with deficiency in teeth, 25 (2).
BALLANCE, Mr., on the effects of interbreeding on fowls, 17; —on variation in the eggs of fowls, 7.
_Ballota nigra,_ transmission of variegated leaves in, 11.
BAMBOO, varieties of the, 22.
BANANA, variation of the, 10, 22; —bud-variation in the, 11; —sterility of the, 22.
BANTAM fowls, 7; —Sebright, origin of, 15; —sterility of, 16.
—figure of, 5; —figure of lower jaw of, 5.
BARBS, of wheat, 9.
BARBERRY, dark or red-leaved variety, 10, 12; —reversion in suckers of seedless variety, 11.
BARBUT, J., on the dogs of Guinea, 1; —on the domestic pigeons in Guinea, 6; —fowls not native in Guinea, 7.
BARKING, acquisition of the habit of, by various dogs, 1.
BARLEY, wild, 9; —ancient variety of, 28.
BARNES, Mr., production of early peas by selection, 20.
BARNET, Mr., on the intercrossing of strawberries, 10; —diœciousness of the hautbois strawberry, 10; —on the Scarlet American strawberry, 20.
BARTH, Dr., use of grass-seeds as food in Central Africa, 9.
BARTLETT, A. D., on the origin of “Himalayan” rabbits by intercrossing, 4; —on the feral rabbits of Porto Santo, 4; —on geese with reversed feathers on the head and neck, 8; —on the young of the black-shouldered peacock, 8; —on a variety of the turkey, 8; —size of hybrids, 17; —on the breeding of the Felidæ in captivity, 18; BARTRAM, on the black wolf-dog of Florida, 1.
BATES, H. W., refusal of wild animals to breed in captivity, 18 (2); —sterility of American monkeys in captivity, 18; —sterility of tamed guans, 18.
BATRACHIA, regeneration of lost parts in, 27.
BEACH, raised, in Peru, containing heads of maize, 9.
BEAK, variability of, in fowls, 7; —individual differences of, in pigeons, 5; —correlation of, with the feet in pigeons, 5.
BEALE, Lionel, on the contents of cells, 27; —on the multiplication of infectious atoms, 27.
BEANS, 9; —varieties of, produced by selection, 20; —French and scarlet, variable resistance of, to frost, 24 (2); —superiority of native seed of, 24; —a symmetrical variation of scarlet, 27; —experiments on kidney, 8; —with monstrous stipules and abortive leaflets, 26.
BEARD pigeon, 5.
BEARS, breeding in captivity, 18.
BEASLEY, J., reversion in crossed cattle, 13.
BEATON, D., effect of soil upon strawberries, 10; —cross between Scotch kail and cabbage, 15; —constant occurrence of new forms among seedlings, 21; —on the doubling of the Compositæ, 24.
BECHUANA cattle, 3.
BECHSTEIN, on the burrowing of wolves, 1; —Spitz Dog, 1; —origin of the Newfoundland dog, 1; —crossing of domestic and wild swine, 3; —on the Jacobin pigeon, 5, 6; —variations in the colour of the croup in pigeons, 6; —on the German dovecot pigeon, 6; —on crossing the pigeon with _ Columba œnas, C. palumbus, Turtur —development of spurs in the silk hen, 7; —on crested birds, 7; —German superstition about the turkey, 8; —occurrence of horns in hornless breeds of sheep, 13; —hybrids of the horse and ass, 14; —crosses of tailless fowls, 15; —difficulty of pairing dove-cot and fancy pigeons, 16; —fertility of tame ferrets and rabbits, 16; —fertility of wild sow, 16; —difficulty of breeding caged birds, 18; —comparative fertility of _ Psittacus erithacus_ in captivity, 18; —on changes of plumage in captivity, 18; —liability of light-coloured cattle to the attacks of flies, 21; —want of exercise a cause of variability, 22; —effect of privation of light upon the plumage of birds, 23; BECK, Mr., constitutional differences in pelargoniums, 10.
BECKMANN, on changes in the odours of plants, 23.
BEDDOE, Dr., correlation of complexion with consumption, 25.
BEE, persistency of character of, 21, 22; —intercrossing, 17; —conveyance of pollen of peas by, 9.
BEE OPHRYS, self-fertilisation of, 15.
—fern-leaved, reversion of, 11; —weeping, non-production of, by seed, 12.
BEECHEY, horses of Loochoo Islands, 2.
BEET, 9; —increase of sugar in, by selection, 20.
BELGIAN rabbit, 4.
BELL, T., statement that white cattle have coloured ears, 3.
BELLINGERI, observations on gestation in the dog, 1 —on the fertility of dogs and cats, 16.
BELON, on high-flying pigeons in Paphlagonia, 6; —varieties of the goose, 8.
BENGUELA, cattle of, 3.
BENNETT, Dr. G., pigs of the Pacific Islands, 3, 15; —dogs of the Pacific Islands, 15; —varieties of cultivated plants in Tahiti, 22.
BENNETT, Mr., on the fallow deer, 16.
BENTHAM, G., number and origin of cultivated plants, 9; —on Phaseolus, 9; —cereals all cultivated varieties, 9; —species of the orange group, 10; —distinctions of almond and peach, 10; _Berberis wallichii,_ indifference of, to climate, 18.
BERJEAU, on the history of the dog, 1 (2).
BERKELEY, G. F., production of hen-cocks in a strain of game-fowls, 7.
BERKELEY, M. J., crossing of varieties of the pea, 11; —effect of foreign pollen on grapes, 11; —on hybrid plants, 17; —analogy between pollen of highly-cultivated plants and hybrids, 22; —failure of Indian wheat in England, 24.
BERNARD, inheritance of disease in the horse, 12.
BERNARD, C., independence of the organs of the body, 27; —special affinities of the tissues, 27.
BERNHARDI, varieties of plants with laciniated leaves, 26.
BERTERO, on feral pigeons in Juan Fernandez, 6.
_Betula alba,_ 12.
BEWICK, on the British wild cattle, 3.
BIANCONI, Prof., on the skulls of dogs, 1.
BIBLE, reference to breeding studs of horses in, 2; —references to domestic pigeons in the, 6; —indications of selection of sheep in the, 20; —notice of mules in the, 20.
BIDWELL, Mr., on self-impotence in _Amaryllis,_ 17.
BIRCH, weeping, 11, 12.
BIRCH, Dr. S., on the ancient domestication of the pigeon in Egypt, 6; —notice of bantam fowls in a Japanese encyclopædia, 7 (2).
BIRCH, WYRLEY, on silver-grey rabbits, 4 (2).
BIRDS, sterility caused in, by change of conditions, 18.
BLADDER-NUT, tendency of the, to become double, 18.
BLAINE, Mr., on wry-legged terriers, 21.
BLAINVILLE, origin and history of the dog, 1; —variations in the number of teeth in dogs, 1; —variations in the number of toes in dogs, 1; —on mummies of cats, 1; —on the osteology of solid-hoofed pigs, 3; —on feral Patagonian and N. American pigs, 3.
“BLASS-TAUBE,” 5 BLEEDING, hereditary, 12; —sexual limitation of excessive, 14.
BLENDING of crossed races, time occupied by the, 15.
BLINDNESS, hereditary, 12; —associated with colour of hair, 25.
BLOODHOUNDS, degeneration of, caused by interbreeding, 17.
BLUMENBACH, on the protuberance of the skull in Polish fowls, 7; —on the effect of circumcision, 12; —inheritance of a crooked finger, 12; —on badger-dogs and other varieties of the dog, 20; —on _Hydra,_ 24; BLYTH, E., on the pariah dog, 1; —hybrids of dog and jackal, 1; —early domestication of cats in India, 1; —origin of domestic cat, 1; —crossing of domestic and wild cats, 1; —on striped Burmese ponies, 2; —on the stripes of the ass, 2; —on Indian wild pigs, 3; —on humped cattle, 3; —occurrence of _Bos frontosus_ in Irish crannoges, 3; —fertile crossing of zebus and common cattle, 3; —on the species of sheep, 3; —on the fat-tailed Indian sheep, 3; —origin of the goat, 3; —on rabbits breeding in India, 4; —number of tail-feathers in fantails, 5; —Lotan tumbler pigeons, 5; —pigeons roosting in trees, 6; —variation in colour of croup in pigeons, 6 (3); —voluntary domestication of rock-pigeons in India, 6; —feral pigeons on the Hudson, 6; —occurrence of sub-species of pigeons, 6; —notice of pigeon-fanciers in Delhi, etc., 6; —hybrids of _Gallus sonneratii_ and the domestic hen, 7; —crossing of wild and tame fowls in Burmah, 7; —restricted range of the larger gallinaceous birds, 7; —feral fowls in the Nicobar Islands, 7; —black-skinned fowls occurring near Calcutta, 7; —degeneration of the turkey in India, 8, 23; —on the colour of gold-fish, 8; —on the breeding of birds in captivity, 18; —co-existence of large and small breeds in the same country, 23; —on the drooping ears of the elephant, 24; —homology of leg and wing feathers, 25.
BOETHIUS on Scotch wild cattle, 3.
BOITARD and Corbié, on the breeds of pigeons, 5; —Lille pouter pigeon, 5; —notice of a gliding pigeon, 5; —variety of the pouter pigeon, 5; —sterility of hybrids of turtle-doves, 6; —reversion of crossed pigeons, 6, 13; —on the trumpeter, 14; —prepotency of transmission in silky fantail, 14 (2); —secondary sexual characters in pigeons, 14; —crossing of white and coloured turtle-doves, 15; —fertility of pigeons, 16.
BOMBYCIDÆ, wingless females of, 24.
_Bombyx mori,_ 8.
BONAFOUS, on maize, 9. BONAPARTE, number of species of Columbidæ, 5; —number of tail-feathers in pigeons, 5; —size of the feet in Columbidæ, 5; _Bonatea speciosa,_ development of ovary of, 11.
BONAVIA, Dr., growth of cauliflowers in India, 24.
BONER, Mr., semi-feral sheep, 13.
BONES, removal of portions of, 24; —growth and repair of, 27.
BONIZZI, on pigeons, 5 (2).
BONNET, on the salamander, 27; BORCHMEYER, experiments with the seeds of the weeping ash, 12.
BORECOLE, 9.
BORELLI, on Polish fowls, 7.
BORNEO, fowls of, with tail-bands, 7.
BORNET, E., condition of the ovary in hybrid _Cisti,_ 11; BORROW, G., on pointers, 1.
BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, on gold-fish, 8.
_Bos,_ probable origin of European domestic cattle from three species of, 3.
_Bos frontosus,_ 3.
_Bos indicus,_ 3.
_Bos taurus,_ 3.
BOSC, heredity in foliage-varieties of the elm, 10.
BOSSE, production of double flowers from old seed, 18.
BOSSI, on breeding dark-coloured silkworms, 8.
BOSMAN, on dogs of Guinea, 1.
BOUCHARDAT, on the vine disease, 10.
BOUDIN, on local diseases, 23; —resistance to cold of dark-complexioned men, 25.
“BOULANS,” 5.
BOWEN, Prof., doubts as to the importance of inheritance, 12.
BOWMAN, Mr., hereditary peculiarities in the human eye, 12; BRACE, Mr., on Hungarian cattle, 3.
BRACTS, unusual development of, in gooseberries, 10.
BRADLEY, Mr., effect of grafts upon the stock in the ash, 11; —effect of foreign pollen upon apples, 11; —on change of soil, 18.
“BRAHMA Pootras,” a new breed of fowls, 7.
BRAIN, proportion of, in hares and rabbits, 4.
BRANDT, Dr., origin of the goat, 3; —correlation of teeth and hair, 25.
_Brassica,_ varieties of, with enlarged stems, 26.
BRAUN, A., bud-variation in the vine, 11; —in the currant, 11; —on reversion in the foliage of trees, 11; —reversion of flowers by stripes and blotches, 13; —excess of nourishment a source of variability, 22.
BRAZIL, cattle of, 3.
BREAD-FRUIT, varieties of, 22; —sterility and variability of, 22.
cyanus,_ 11; —by tubers in the dahlia, 11; —on the deafness of white cats with blue eyes, 25.
BREEDING, high, dependent on inheritance, 12 (2).
BREEDS, domestic, persistency of, 21; —extinction of, 28; —of domestic cats, 1; —of pigs produced by crossing, 3; —of cattle, 3 (2); —of goats, 3.
BRENT, B. P., number of mammæ in rabbits, 4; —habits of the tumbler pigeon, 5; —Laugher pigeon, 5; —colouring of the kite tumbler, 5; —crossing of the pigeon with _ Columba œnas,_ 6; —mongrels of the trumpeter pigeon, 14; —close interbreeding of pigeons, 17; —on stripes in chickens, 7; —on the combs of fowls, 7; —double-spurred Dorking fowls, 7; —effect of crossing on colour of plumage in fowls, 7; —-incubatory instinct of mongrels between non-setting varieties of fowls, 13; —origin of the domestic duck, 8; —fertility of the hook-billed duck, 8; —occurrence of the plumage of the wild duck in domestic breeds, 8; —voice of ducks, 8; —occurrence of a short upper mandible in crosses of hook-billed and common ducks, 8; —reversion in ducks produced by crossing, 13; —fashion in the canary, 21; —hybrids of canary and finches, 13.
BRICKELL, on raising nectarines from seed, 4; —on the horses of North Carolina, 24.
BRIDGES, Mr., on the dogs of Tierra del Fuego, 1; —on the selection of dogs by the Fuegians, 20.
BRIDGMAN, W. K., reproduction of abnormal ferns, 11.
BROCA, P., on the intercrossing of dogs, 1 (2); —on hybrids of hare and rabbit, 4; —on the rumpless fowl, 7; —on the character of half-castes, 13; —degree of fertility of mongrels, 16; —sterility of descendants of wild animals bred in captivity, 18.
BROMEHEAD, W., doubling of the Canterbury Bell by selection, 20.
BROOMFIELD, Dr., sterility of the ivy and _Acorus calamus,_ 18.
BRONN, H. G., bud variation in _Anthemis,_ 11; —effects of cross-breeding on the female, 11; —propagation of a pendulous peach by seed, 12; —absorption of the minority in crossed races, 15; —on the crossing of horses, 15; —fertility of tame rabbits and sheep, 16; —changes of plumage in captivity, 18; —on the dahlia, 22.
BRONZE period, dog of, 1.
BROWN, C. M., prepotency of a greyhound, 14.
BROWN, G., variations in the dentition of the horse, 2.
BROWN-SÉQUARD, Dr., inheritance of artificially-produced epilepsy in the guinea-pig, 12; —inherited effects of injuries, 12.
_Brunswigia,_ 17.
BRUSSELS sprouts, 9, 28.
_Bubo maximus,_ 18.
BUCKLAND, F., on oysters, 23; —number of eggs in a codfish, 27.
BUCKLE, Mr., doubts as to the importance of inheritance, 12.
BUCKLEY, Miss, carrier-pigeons roosting in trees, 6.
BUCKMAN, Prof., cultivation of _Avena fatua,_ 9; —cultivation of the wild parsnip, 9, 20, 23; —reversion in the parsnip, 13.
BUCKWHEAT, injurious when in flower to white pigs, 25.
BUD and seed, close analogy of, 11.
BUD-REVERSION, 13.
BUDS, adventitious, 27.
—contrasted with seminal reproduction, 11; —peculiar to plants, 11; —in the peach, 10; —in plums, 11; —in the cherry, 11; —in grapes, 11; —in the gooseberry and currant, 11; —pear and apple, 11; —and in the banana, camellia, hawthorn, _Azalea indica,_ and —in the hollyhock and pelargonium, 11; —in roses, 10, 11; —in sweet williams, carnations, pinks, stocks, and snapdragons, 11 (2); —in wall-flowers, cyclamen, _ Œnothera biennis, Gladiolus —in foliage of various trees, 11; —by suckers in _Phlox_ and barberry, 11; —by tubers in the potato, 11; —in the dahlia, 11; —by bulbs in hyacinths, _ Imatophyllum miniatum,_ and tulips, 11; —summary of observations on, 11.
BUFFON, on crossing the wolf and dog, 1; —increase of fertility by domestication, 16; —improvement of plants by unconscious selection, 20; —theory of reproduction, 27.
_Bulimus,_ 13.
BULL, apparent influence of, on offspring, 14.
BULLACE, 10.
BULLDOG, degeneration of, in India, 1; —recent modifications of, 1.
BULLFINCH, breeding in captivity, 18; BULT, Mr., on the length of pouter pigeons, 6.
BUNTING, reed, in captivity, 18.
BURDACH, crossing of domestic and wild animals, 3; —aversion of the wild boar to barley, 24.
BURKE, Mr., inheritance in the horse, 12.
_Burlingtonia,_ 17.
BURMAH, cats of, 1.
BURMESE ponies, striped, 2.
BURNES, Sir A., on the Karakool sheep, 3, 23; —varieties of the vine in Cabool, 10; —hawks, trained in Scinde, 18; —pomegranates producing seed, 18.
BURR, FEARING, potato-grafting, 11.
BURTON CONSTABLE, wild cattle at, 3.
“BURZEL-TAUBEN,” 5.
BUSSORAH carrier, 5.
_Buteo vulgaris,_ copulation of, in captivity, 18.
BUTTERFLIES, polymorphic, 27.
BUXTON, Mr., parrots breeding in Norfolk, 18.
BUZAREINGUES, GIROU DE, inheritance of tricks, 12.
CABANIS, pears grafted on the quince, 22.
CABBAGE, 9; —varieties of, 9; —unity of character in flowers and seeds of, 9; —cultivated by ancient Celts, 9; —classification of varieties of, 9; —origin of, 9; —increased fertility of, when cultivated, 16; —growth of, in tropical countries, 23.
CABOOL, vines of, 10.
CABRAL, on early cultivation in Brazil, 9.
CACTUS, growth of cochineal on, in India, 23.
CÆSAR, _Bos primigenius_ wild in Europe in the time of, 3; —notice of fowls in Britain, 7; —notice of the importation of horses by the Celts, 20.
CAFFRE fowls, 7.
CAFFRES, different kinds of cattle possessed by the, 3.
“CÁGIAS” a breed of sheep, 3.
—effects of seasonal conditions on, 23; —peloric flowers in, 26.
CALDWELL, J., sporting of sugar-cane, 11.
“CALONGOS,” a Columbian breed of cattle, 3.
CALVER, Mr., on a seedling peach producing both peaches and nectarines, 10.
CALYX, segments of the, converted into carpels, 27.
CAMEL, its dislike to crossing water, 6.
—recognition of varieties of, 22; —variety in, hardiness of, 24.
CAMERON, D, on the cultivation of Alpine plants, 18.
CAMERONN, Baron, value of English blood in racehorses, 12.
CANARY-BIRD, 8; —conditions of inheritance in, 12; —hybrids of, 13; —period of perfect plumage in, 14; —diminished fertility of, 18; —standard of perfection in, 20; —analogous variation in, 26.
CANCER, heredity of, 12, 14.
CANFIELD, Dr., on horses with curled hair, 2; —on feral horses in North America, 2.
CANINE teeth, development of the, in mares, 24.
_Canis alopex,_ 1.
_Canis aureus,_ 1.
_Canis cancrivorus,_ domesticated and crossed in Guiana, 1.
_Canis fulvus,_ 1.
_Canis ingæ,_ the naked Peruvian dog, 1.
_Canis latrans,_ 1; —resemblance of, to the Hare Indian dog, 1; —one of the original stocks, 1.
_Canis lupus,_ var. _occidentalis,_ resemblance of, to North American dogs, 1; —crossed with dogs, 1; —one of the original stocks, 1.
_Canis primævus,_ tamed by Mr. Hodgson, 1.
_Canis sabbar,_ 1.
_Canis simensis,_ possible original of greyhounds, 1.
_Canis thaleb,_ 1.
CANNING, A. S. G., the japanned peacock, 8.
CANTERBURY Bell, doubled by selection, 20.
CAPE of Good Hope, different kinds of cattle at the, 3; —no useful plants derived from the, 9.
CAPERCAILZIE, breeding in captivity, 18.
_Capra ægagrus_ and _C. falconeri,_ probable parents of domestic goat, 3.
CAPSICUM, 10.
CARDAN, on a variety of the walnut, 10; —on grafted walnuts, 22.
CARDOON, 13.
_Carex rigida,_ local sterility of the, 18.
CARLIER, early selection of sheep, 20.
CARLISLE, Sir A., inheritance of peculiarities, 12 (2).
“CARME” pigeon, 5.
CARNATION, bud-variation in, 11; —striped, produced by crossing red and white, 12; —effect of conditions of life on the, 23.
CARNIVORA, general fertility of, in captivity, 18.
CAROLINE Archipelago, cats of, 1.
CARP, 21.
CARPELS, variation of, in cultivated Cucurbitaceæ, 10.
CARPENTER, W. B., regeneration of bone, 24; —number of eggs in an _Ascaris,_ 27.
CARR, Mr., effect of changed conditions, 17.
CARRIÈRE, origin of radish, 9; —intermediate form between the almond and the peach, 10; —bud-variation in the vine, 11; —bud-variation in the rose, 11; CARROT, wild, effects of cultivation on the, 9; —reversion in the, 13; —run wild, 13; —increased fertility of cultivated, 16; —experiments on the, 23; —acclimatisation of the, in India, 24.
_Carthamus,_ abortion of the pappus in, 24.
CARTIER, cultivation of native plants in Canada, 9.
CARYOPHYLLACEÆ, frequency of contabescence in the, 18.
CASPARY, bud-variation in the moss-rose, 11; —on the ovules and pollen of _ Cytisus,_ 11; —differently-coloured flowers in the wild _Viola lutea,_ 11; CASTELNAU, on Brazilian cattle, 3.
CASTRATION, assumption of female characters caused by, 13 (2).
CAT, domestic, 1; —early domestication and probable origin of the, 1 (2); —intercrossing of, with wild species, 1 (2); —variations of, 1; —feral, 1, 13; —anomalous, 1; —black, indications of stripes in young, 13; —tortoiseshell, 14; —effects of crossing in, 15; —fertility of, 16; —difficulty of selection in, 21 (2); —length of intestines in, 24; —white with blue eyes, deafness of, 25; —with tufted ears, 26.
CATARACT, hereditary, 12, 14.
CATERPILLARS, effect of changed food on, 23.
CATLIN, G., colour of feral horses in North America, 2.
CATON, Judge, wild turkey, 16.
CATTLE, European, their probable origin from three original species, 3; —humped, or zebus, 3; —wild, of Chillingham, Hamilton, Chartley, Burton Constable, and Gisburne, 1, 17; —South African breeds of, 3; —South American breeds of, 3, 20; —effects of food and climate on, 3; —effects of selection on, 3 (2); —hornless, production of horns in, 25; —reversion in, when crossed, 13; —wildness of hybrid, 13; —short-horned, prepotency of, 14; —wild, influence of crossing and segregation on, 15; —of Falkland Islands, 16; —mutual fertility of all varieties of, 16; —effects of interbreeding on, 17 (2); —shorthorn, sterility of, 17; —effects of careful selection on, 20 (2); —naked, of Columbia, 20; —crossed with wild banteng in Java, 20; —with reversed hair in Banda Oriental, 20; —selection of trifling characters in, 20; —fashion in, 20; —similarity of best races of, 21; —unconscious selection in, 20; —effects of natural selection on anomalous breeds of, 21 (2); —light-coloured, attacked by flies, 21, 25; —Jersey, rapid improvement of, 21; —effects of disuse of parts in, 24; —rudimentary horns in, 24; —supposed influence of humidity on the hair of, 25; —white spots of, liable to disease, 25; —supposed analogous variation in, 26; CAULIFLOWER, 9; —free-seeding of, in India, 21; —rudimentary flowers in, 24.
CAVALIER pigeon, 15.
_Cavia aperea,_ 18.
CAY (_Cebus azaræ_), sterility of, in confinement, 18.
_Cebus azaræ,_ 18.
CEDARS of Lebanon and Atlas, 10.
—run wild, 13.
CELL-THEORY, 27.
CELSUS, on the selection of seed-corn, 9, 20.
CELTS, early cultivation of the cabbage by the, 9; —selection of cattle and horses by the, 20.
_Cenchrus,_ seeds of a, used as food, 9.
CEPHALOPODA, spermatophores of, 27.
_Cercoleptes,_ sterility of, in captivity, 18.
_Cercopithecus,_ breeding of a species of, in captivity, 18.
CEREALS, 9 (2); —of the Neolithic period in Switzerland, 9; —adaptation of, to soils, 24.
_Cereus,_ 13.
_Cereus speciosissimus_ and _phyllanthus,_ reversion in hybrids of, 11.
_Cervus dama,_ 17.
CETACEA, correlation of dermal system and teeth in the, 25.
CEYLON, cats of, 1; CHAMISSO, on seeding bread-fruit, 18.
CHANNEL Islands, breeds of cattle in, 3.
CHAPMAN, Professor, peach-trees producing nectarines, 10.
CHAPUIS, F., sexual peculiarities in pigeons, 5; —effect produced by first male upon the subsequent progeny of the female, 11; —sterility of the union of some pigeons, 18.
CHARACTERS, fixity of, 21; —continued divergence of, 21; —antagonistic, 27.
CHARDIN, abundance of pigeons in Persia, 6.