Chapter XXVIII: Concluding Remarks (4)

GAIT, inheritance of peculiarities of, ii. 6.
GALAPAGOS Archipelago, its peculiar fauna and flora, i. 9.
_Galeobdolon luteum_, pelorism in, ii. 59, 345.
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GALLS, ii. 282-284.
GALL-GNATS, ii. 283.
GALL-LIKE excrescences not inherited, ii. 23.
GALLINACEOUS birds, restricted range of large, i. 237;
general fertility of in captivity, ii. 155.
_Gallinula chloropus_, ii. 156.
_Gallinula nesiotis_, i. 287.
GALTON, Mr., fondness of savages for taming animals, i. 20, ii. 160;
cattle of Benguela, i. 88;
on hereditary talent, ii. 7.
GALLESIO, species of oranges, i. 334, 335, 336;
hybridisation of oranges, i. 336;
persistency of races in the peach, i. 339;
supposed specific distinctions of peach and nectarine, i. 340;
Bizzaria orange, i. 391;
crossing of red and white carnations, i. 393;
crossing of the orange and lemon, i. 399, ii. 365;
effect of foreign pollen on maize, i. 400;
spontaneous crossing of oranges, ii. 91;
monstrosities a cause of sterility in plants, ii. 166;
seeding of ordinarily seedless fruits, ii. 168;
sterility of the sugar cane, ii. 169;
tendency of male flowers to become double, ii. 171;
effects of selection in enlarging fruit, &c., ii. 217;
variation of the orange tree in North Italy, ii. 256;
naturalisation of the orange in Italy, ii. 309.
_Gallus æneus_, a hybrid of _G. varius_ and the domestic fowl, i. 235.
_Gallus bankiva_, probable original of domestic fowls, i. 233, 236-239,
245;
game-fowl, nearest to, i. 226;
crossed with _G. Sonneratii_, i. 234;
its character and habits, i. 235-236, ii. 109;
differences of various breeds of fowls from, i. 260;
occipital foramen of, figured, i. 261;
skull of, figured, i. 262;
cervical vertebra of, figured, i. 267;
furcula of, figured, i. 268;
reversion to, in crossed fowls, ii. 39-40;
hybrid of, with _G. varius_, i. 235, ii. 40;
number of eggs of, ii. 112.
_Gallus ferrugineus_, i. 226.
_Gallus furcatus_, i. 234.
_Gallus giganteus_, i. 235.
_Gallus Sonneratii_, characters and habits of, i. 233;
hybrids of, i. 234, ii. 45.
_Gallus Stanleyi_, hybrids of, i. 234.
_Gallus Temminckii_, probably a hybrid, i. 235.
_Gallus varius_, character and habits of, i. 234;
hybrids and probable hybrids of, i. 234-235.
GAMBIER, Lord, his early cultivation of the pansy, i. 368.
GAME-FOWL, i. 226, 250, 251, 252.
GAPES, ii. 228.
GARCILAZO de la Vega, annual hunts of the Peruvian Incas, ii. 207.
GARNETT, Mr., migratory propensities of hybrid ducks, ii. 45.
GARROD, Dr., on hereditary gout, ii. 7.
GASPARINI, a genus of pumpkins, founded on stigmatic characters, i. 359.
GAUDICHAUD, bud-variation in the pear, i. 376;
apple tree with two kinds of fruit on branch, i. 392.
GAUDRY, anomalous structure in the feet of horses, i. 50.
GAY, on _Fragaria grandiflora_, i. 351;
on _Viola lutea_ and _tricolor_, i. 368;
on the nectary of _Viola grandiflora_, i. 369.
GAYAL, domestication of the, i. 82.
GAYOT, _see_ Moll.
GÄRTNER, on the sterility of hybrids, i. 192, ii. 101;
acquired sterility of varieties of plants when crossed, i. 358;
sterility in transplanted plants, and in the lilac in Germany, ii. 164;
mutual sterility of blue and red flowers of the pimpernel, ii. 190;
supposed rules of transmission in crossing plants, ii. 68;
on crossing plants, ii. 98, 127, 130, 131;
on repeated crossing, ii. 267;
absorption of one species by another, when crossed, ii. 88;
crossing of varieties of the pea, i. 397;
crossing maize, ii. 105;
crossing of species of _Verbascum_, ii. 93, 105;
reversion in hybrids, ii. 36, 49, 50;
of _Cereus_, i. 392;
of _Tropæolum majus_ and _minus_, i. 392;
variability of hybrids, ii. 265;
variable hybrids from one variable parent, ii. 270;
graft hybrid produced by inosculation in the vine, i. 395;
effect produced by grafts on the stock, i. 394, ii. 278;
tendency of hybrid plants to produce double flowers, ii. 171;
production of perfect fruit by sterile hybrids, ii. 172;
sexual elective affinity, ii. 180;
self-impotence in _Lobelia_, _Verbascum_, _Lilium_, and _Passiflora_,
ii. 136-137;
on the action of pollen, ii. 108;
fertilisation of _Malva_, i. 402-403, ii. 363;
prepotency of pollen, ii. 187;
prepotency of transmission in species of _Nicotiana_, ii. 67;
bud-variation in _Pelargonium zonale_, i. 375;
in _Oenothera biennis_, i. 382;
in _Achillæa millefolium_, i. 408;
effect of manure on the fertility of plants, ii. 163;
on contabescence, ii. 165-166;
inheritance of plasticity, ii. 241;
villosity of plants, ii. 277.
GEESE (_anseres_) general fertility of, in captivity, ii. 157.
GEGENBAUR, on the number of digits, ii. 13.
GEMMATION and fission, ii. 358.
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GEMMULES, or cell-gemmules, ii. 374, 378-381, 384.
GENET, fertility of the, in captivity, ii. 151.
GENERATION, alternate, ii. 361, 367, 390.
GENERATION, sexual, ii. 359-364.
GENIUS, inheritance of, ii. 7.
_Gentiana amarella_, ii. 168.
GEOFFROY Saint-Hilaire, production of monstrous chickens, ii. 289;
"_Loi de l'affinité de soi pour soi_," ii. 339;
compensation of growth, ii. 342.
GEOFFROY Saint-Hilaire, Isid., origin of the dog, i. 66;
barking of a jackal, i. 27;
period of gestation and odour of the jackal, i. 30;
anomalies in the teeth of dogs, i. 34;
variations in the proportions of dogs, i. 35;
webbed feet of Newfoundland dogs, i. 39;
crossing of domestic and wild cats, i. 44;
domestication of the arni, i. 82;
supposed introduction of cattle into Europe from the East, _ibid._;
absence of interdigital pits in sheep, i. 95;
origin of the goat, i. 101;
feral geese, i. 190;
ancient history of the fowl, i. 246;
skull of the Polish fowl, i. 262;
preference of the Romans for the liver of white geese, i. 289;
polydactylism, ii. 12;
assumption of male characters by female birds, ii. 51;
supernumerary mammæ in women, ii. 58;
development of a proboscis in the pig, _ibid._;
transmission and blending of characters in hybrids, ii. 94;
refusal of animals to breed in captivity, ii. 149;
on the Guinea pig, ii. 152;
silkworms producing white cocoons, ii. 199;
on the carp, ii. 236;
on _Helix lactea_, ii. 280;
on monstrosities, ii. 254;
injury to the embryo a cause of monstrosity, ii. 269;
alteration in the coat of horses in coal mines, ii. 278;
length of the intestines in wild and tame animals, ii. 302-303;
inheritance of rudimentary limbs in the dog, ii. 315;
correlation in monstrosities, ii. 320;
supernumerary digits in man, ii. 322;
co-existence of anomalies, ii. 331;
fusion of homologous parts, ii. 341-342;
presence of hairs and teeth in ovarian tumours, ii. 370;
development of teeth on the palate in the horse, ii. 391.
GEOGRAPHICAL differences of faunas, i. 10.
GEOLOGICAL succession of organisms, i. 11.
_Geranium_, ii. 59.
_Geranium phæum_ and _pyrenaicum_, ii. 258.
_Geranium pratense_, i. 379.
GERARD, asserted climatal change in Burgundian bees, i. 297.
GERARDE, on varieties of the hyacinth, i. 370.
GERSTÄCKER, on hive-bees, i. 299.
GERVAIS, Prof., origin of the dog, i. 16;
resemblance of dogs and jackals, i. 24;
taming of the jackal, i. 26;
number of teeth in dogs, i. 34;
breeds of dogs, i. 36;
on tertiary horses, i. 51;
biblical notices of horses, i. 55;
species of _Ovis_, i. 94;
wild and domestic rabbits, i. 103;
rabbits from Mount Sinai and Algeria, i. 105;
earless rabbits, i. 108;
batrachia with doubled limbs, ii. 391.
GESTATION, period of, in the dog, wolf, &c, i. 29-30;
in the pig, i. 74;
in cattle, i. 87, ii. 321;
in sheep, i. 97.
GESTURES, inheritance of peculiarities in, ii. 6.
"GHOONDOOKS" a sub-breed of fowls, i. 229.
GHOR-KHUR, ii. 42.
GILES, Mr., effect of cross-breeding in the pig, i. 404.
GIRAFFE, co-ordination of structure of, ii. 221.
GIRARD, period of appearance of permanent teeth in dogs, i. 35.
GIROU de Buzareingues, inheritance in the horse, ii. 10;
reversion by age in cattle, ii. 38;
prepotency of transmission of character in sheep and cattle, ii. 66;
on crossing gourds, ii. 108.
GISBURNE, wild cattle at, i. 84.
_Gladiolus_, i. 364;
self-impotence of hybrids of, ii. 139.
_Gladiolus colvillii_, bud-variation in, i. 382.
GLANDS, compensatory development of, ii. 300.
GLASTONBURY thorn, i. 364.
GLENNY, Mr., on the _Cineraria_, ii. 200.
GLOEDE, F., on strawberries, i. 353.
GLOGER, on the wings of ducks, ii. 298.
"GLOUGLOU" (pigeon), i. 154.
_Gloxiniæ_, peloric, i. 365, ii. 167.
GMELIN, on red cats, at Tobolsk, i. 47.
GOAT, i. 101-102, ii. 33;
polydactylism in the, ii. 14;
sexual differences in horns of, ii. 73;
valued by South Africans, ii. 207;
Thibet, ii. 278;
amount of milk and development of udders in the, ii. 300;
hornless, rudimentary bony cores in, ii. 316;
Angora, ii. 326.
GODRON, odour of the hairless Turkish dog, i. 30;
differences in the skull of dogs, i. 34;
increase of breeds of horses, i. 51;
crossing of domestic and wild swine, i. 66;
on goats, i. 101-102;
colour of the skin in fowls, i. 258;
bees of north and south of France, i. 297;
introduction of the silkworm into Europe, i. 300;
variability in the silkworm, i. 304;
supposed species of wheat, i. 312-314;
on _Ægilops triticoides_, i. 313;
variable presence of barbs in grasses, i. 314;
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colours of the seeds of maize, i. 321;
unity of character in cabbages, i. 323;
correlation of colour and odour, i. 325;
effect of heat and moisture on the cabbage, i. 325;
on the cultivated species of _Brassica_, i. 325;
on the Rouncival and sugar peas, i. 327;
variation in the numbers of peas in the same pod, i. 328;
wild vines in Spain, i. 332;
on raising peaches from seed, i. 339;
supposed specific distinctness of peach and nectarine, i. 340;
nectarine producing peaches, i. 341;
on the flower of _Corydalis_, i. 344;
origin and variations of the plum, i. 345;
origin of the cherry, i. 347;
reversion of single-leaved strawberries, i. 353;
five-leaved variety of _Fragaria collina_, i. 353;
supposed immutability of specific characters, i. 358-359;
varieties of _Robinia_, i. 361;
permanency of the simple-leaved ash, i. 362;
non-inheritance of certain mutilations, ii. 23;
wild turnips, carrots, and celery, ii. 33;
pre-potency of a goat-like ram, ii. 66;
benefit of change of soil to plants, ii. 146;
fertility of peloric flowers of _Corydalis solida_, ii. 167;
seeding of ordinarily seedless fruit, ii. 168;
sexual sterility of plants propagated by buds, &c., ii. 169;
increase of sugar in beet-root, ii. 201;
effects of selection in enlarging particular parts of plants, ii. 217;
growth of the cabbage in the tropics, ii. 277;
rejection of bitter almonds by mice, ii. 232;
influence of marshy pasture on the fleece of sheep, ii. 278;
on the ears of ancient Egyptian pigs, ii. 301;
primitive distinctness of species, ii. 415;
solid hoofed swine, ii. 429.
GOETHE, on compensation of growth, ii. 342.
GOLDFISH, i. 296-297, ii. 236.
GOMARA, on South American cats, i. 46.
GONGORA, number of seeds in the, ii. 379.
GOOSE, ancient domestication of, i. 287;
sacred to Juno in Rome, _ibid._;
inflexibility of organisation of, i. 288;
skull perforated in tufted, i. 288;
characters of breeds and sub-breeds of, i. 288-289;
variety of, from Sebastopol, i. 289, ii. 392;
feral in La Plata, i. 190;
Egyptian, hybrid of, with penguin duck, ii. 68;
spontaneous segregation of varieties of, ii. 104;
fertility of, increased by domestication, ii. 112;
decreased fertility of, in Bogota, ii. 161;
sterility of, in the Philippine Islands, ii. 162;
selection of, ii. 204;
white, preference of the Romans for the liver of, ii. 209;
persistency of character in, ii. 254;
Egyptian, change in breeding season of, ii. 304.
GOOSEBERRY, i. 354-356;
bud-variation in the, i. 376;
Whitesmith's, ii. 232.
GÖPPERT, on monstrous poppies, ii. 166.
GOSSE, P. H., feral dogs in Jamaica, i. 28;
feral pigs of Jamaica, i. 77-78;
feral rabbits of Jamaica, i. 112;
on _Columba leucocephala_, i. 183;
feral Guinea fowl in Jamaica, i. 190;
reproduction of individual peculiarities by gemmation in a coral, i.
374;
frequency of striped legs in mules, ii. 42.
GOULD, Dr., on hereditary hæmorrhage, ii. 7.
GOULD, John, origin of the turkey, i. 292.
_Goura coronata_ and _Victoriæ_, hybrids of, i. 194, ii. 155.
GOURDS, i. 357;
crossing of varieties of, ii. 108;
ancient Peruvian variety of, ii. 429.
GOUT, inheritance of, ii. 7;
period of appearance of, ii. 77.
GRABA, on the pigeon of the Faroe islands, i. 183.
GRAFTING, ii. 147;
effects of, ii. 259, 278;
upon the stock, i. 394-395;
upon the variability of trees, ii. 259;
changes analogous to bud-variation produced by, i. 387, 389.
GRAFT-HYBRIDS, i. 390-391, 394-397, ii. 364-365.
GRAPES, bud-variation in, i. 375;
cross of white and purple, i. 393;
green, liable to disease, ii. 336;
effect of foreign pollen on, i. 400.
GRASSES, seeds of, used as food by savages, i. 307-309.
GRAY, Asa, superior wild varieties of fruit-trees, i. 310;
cultivated native plants of North America, i. 312, 357;
non-variation of weeds, i. 317;
supposed spontaneous crossing of pumpkins, i. 399;
pre-ordination of variation, ii. 432;
progeny of husked form of maize, i. 320;
wild intermediate forms of strawberries, i. 352.
GRAY, G. R., on _Columba gymnocyclus_, i. 184.
GRAY, J. E., on _Sus pliciceps_, i. 70;
on a variety of the gold-fish, i. 297;
hybrids of the ass and zebra, ii. 42-43;
on the breeding of animals at Knowsley, ii. 149;
on the breeding of birds in captivity, ii. 157.
GREENE, J. Reay, on the development of the echinodermata, ii. 367.
GREENHOW, Mr., on a Canadian web-footed dog, i. 39.
GREENING, Mr., experiments on _Abraxas grossulariata_, ii. 280.
GREGSON, Mr., experiments on _Abraxas grossulariata_, ii. 280.
GREY, Sir George, preservation of seed-bearing plants by the Australian
savages, i. 310;
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detestation of incest by Australian savages, ii. 123.
GREYHOUNDS, sculptured on Egyptian monuments, and in the Villa of
Antoninus, i. 17;
modern breed of, i. 41;
crossed with the bulldog, by Lord Orford, ii. 95;
co-ordination of structure of, due to selection, ii. 221-222;
Italian, ii. 227.
GREYNESS, inherited at corresponding periods of life, ii. 77.
GRIEVE, Mr., on early-flowering dahlias, i. 370.
GRIGOR, Mr., acclimatisation of the Scotch fir, ii. 310.
GROOM-NAPIER, C. O., on the webbed feet of the otter-hound, i. 40.
"GROSSES-GORGES" (pigeons), i. 137.
GROUND-TUMBLER, Indian, i. 150.
GROUSE, fertility of, in captivity, ii. 156.
GRÖNLAND, hybrids of _Ægilops_ and wheat, ii. 110.
_Grus montigresia_, _cinerea_, and _Antigone_, ii. 156.
GUANACOS, selection of, ii. 207.
GUANS, general fertility of, in captivity, ii. 156.
GUELDER-ROSE, ii. 185.
GUELDERLAND fowls, i. 230.
GUIANA, selection of dogs by the Indians of, ii. 206.
GUINEA FOWL, i. 294;
feral in Ascension, and Jamaica, i. 190, ii. 33;
indifference of to change of climate, ii. 161.
GUINEA pig, ii. 24, 152.
GÜLDENSTADT, on the jackal, i. 25.
GULL, herring, breeding in confinement, ii. 157.
GULLS, general sterility of, in captivity, ii. 157.
_Gulo_, sterility of, in captivity, ii. 152.
GÜNTHER, A., on tufted ducks and geese, i. 274;
on the regeneration of lost parts in batrachia, ii. 15.
GURNEY, Mr., owls breeding in captivity, ii. 154;
appearance of "black-shouldered" among ordinary peacocks, i. 291.

HABIT, influence of, in acclimatisation, ii. 312-315.
HABITS, inheritance of, ii. 395.
HÄCKEL, on cells, ii. 370;
on the double reproduction of medusæ, ii. 384;
on inheritance, ii. 397.
HACKLES, peculiarities of, in fowls, i. 254.
HAIR, on the face, inheritance of, in man, ii. 4;
peculiar lock of, inherited, ii. 5;
growth of, under stimulation of skin, ii. 326;
homologous variation of, ii. 325;
development of, within the ears and in the brain, ii. 391.
HAIR and teeth, correlation of, ii. 326-328.
HAIRY family, corresponding period of inheritance in, ii. 77.
HALF-CASTES, character of, ii. 46.
HALF-LOP rabbits, figured and described, i. 107-108;
skull of, i. 119.
_Haliætus leucocephalus_, copulating in captivity, ii. 154.
HALLAM, Col., on a two-legged race of pigs, ii. 4.
HAMBURGH fowl, i. 227, 261;
figured, i. 228.
HAMILTON, wild cattle of, i. 84.
HAMILTON, Dr., on the assumption of male plumage by the hen pheasant, ii.
51.
HAMILTON, F. Buchanan, on the shaddock, i. 335;
varieties of Indian cultivated plants, ii. 256.
HANCOCK, Mr., sterility of tamed birds, ii. 155-157.
HANDWRITING, inheritance of peculiarities in, ii. 6.
HANMER, Sir J., on selection of flower seeds, ii. 204.
HANSELL, Mr., inheritance of dark yolks in duck's eggs, i. 281.
HARCOURT, E. V., on the Arab boar-hound, i. 17;
aversion of the Arabs to dun-coloured horses, i. 55.
HARDY, Mr., effect of excess of nourishment on plants, ii. 257.
HARE, hybrids of, with rabbit, i. 105;
sterility of the, in confinement, ii. 152;
preference of, for particular plants, ii. 232.
HARE-LIP, inheritance of, ii. 24.
HARLAN, Dr., on hereditary diseases, ii. 7.
HARMER, Mr., on the number of eggs in a codfish, ii. 379.
HARVEY, Mr., monstrous red and white African bull, i. 91.
HARVEY, Prof., singular form of _Begonia frigida_, i. 365-366;
effects of cross-breeding on the female, i. 404;
monstrous saxifrage, ii. 166.
HASORA wheat, i. 313.
HAUTBOIS strawberry, i. 353.
HAWKER, Col., on call or decoy ducks, i. 281.
HAWTHORN, varieties of, i. 360-364;
pyramidal, i. 361;
pendulous hybridised, ii. 18;
changes of, by age, i. 364, 387;
bud-variation in the, i. 377;
flower buds of, attacked by bullfinches, ii. 232.
HAYES, Dr., character of Esquimaux dogs, i. 21-22.
HAYWOOD, W., on the feral rabbits of Porto Santo, i. 114.
HAZEL, purple-leaved, i. 362, 395, ii. 330.
HEAD of wild boar and Yorkshire pig, figured, i. 72.
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HEAD and limbs, correlated variability of, ii. 323.
HEADACHE, inheritance of, ii. 79.
HEARTSEASE, i. 368-369;
change produced in the, by transplantation, i. 386;
reversion in, ii. 31, 47;
effects of selection on, ii. 200;
scorching of, ii. 229;
effects of seasonal conditions on the, ii. 274;
annual varieties of the, ii. 305.
HEAT, effect of, upon the fleece of sheep, i. 98.
HEBER, Bishop, on the breeding of the rhinoceros in captivity, ii. 150.
HEBRIDES, cattle of the, i. 80;
pigeons of the, i. 183.
HEER, O., on the plants of the Swiss lake-dwellings, i. 309, ii. 215,
427;
on the cereals, i. 317-319;
on the peas, i. 326;
on the vine growing in Italy in the bronze age, i. 332.
_Helix lactea_, ii. 280.
_Hemerocallis fulva_ and _flava_, interchanging by bud-variation, i. 386.
HEMLOCK yields no conicine in Scotland, ii. 274.
HEMP, differences of, in various parts of India, ii. 165;
climatal difference in products of, ii. 274.
HEMPSEED, effect of, upon the colour of birds, ii. 280.
HERMAPHRODITE flowers, occurrence of, in Maize, i. 321.
HEN, assumption of male characters by the, ii. 51, 54;
development of spurs in the, ii. 318.
"HENNIES," or hen-like male fowls, i. 252.
HENRY, T. A., a variety of the ash produced by grafting, i. 394;
crossing of species of _Rhododendron_ and _Arabis_, i. 400.
HENSLOW, Prof., individual variation in wheat, i. 314;
bud-variation in the Austrian bramble rose, i. 381;
partial reproduction of the weeping ash by seed, ii. 19.
HEPATICA, changed by transplantation, i. 386.
HERBERT, Dr., variations of _Viola grandiflora_, i. 368;
bud-variation in camellias, i. 377;
seedlings from reverted _Cytisus Adami_, i. 388;
crosses of Swedish and other turnips, ii. 93;
on hollyhocks, ii. 107;
breeding of hybrids, ii. 131;
self-impotence in hybrid hippeastrums, ii. 138-139;
hybrid _Gladiolus_, ii. 139;
on _Zephyranthes candida_, ii. 164;
fertility of the crocus, ii. 165;
on contabescence, ii. 165;
hybrid _Rhododendron_, ii. 265.
HERCULANEUM, figure of a pig found in, i. 67.
HERON, Sir R., appearance of "black-shouldered" among ordinary peacocks,
i. 290-291;
non-inheritance of monstrous characters by goldfish, i. 296;
crossing of white and coloured Angora rabbits, ii. 92;
crosses of solid-hoofed pigs, ii. 93.
_Herpestes fasciatus_ and _griseus_, ii. 151.
HEUSINGER, on the sheep of the Tarentino, ii. 227;
on correlated constitutional peculiarities, ii. 337.
HEWITT, Mr., reversion in bantam cocks, i. 240;
degeneration of silk fowls, i. 243;
partial sterility of hen-like male fowls, i. 252;
production of tailed chickens by rumpless fowls, i. 259;
on taming and rearing wild ducks, i. 278-279, ii. 233, 262-263;
conditions of inheritance in laced Sebright bantams, ii. 22;
reversion in rumpless fowls, ii. 31;
reversion in fowls by age, ii. 39;
hybrids of pheasant and fowl, ii. 45, 68;
assumption of male characters by female pheasants, ii. 51;
development of latent characters in a barren bantam hen, ii. 54;
mongrels from the silk-fowl, ii. 67;
effects of close interbreeding on fowls, ii. 124-125;
on feathered-legged bantams, ii. 323.
HIBBERT, Mr., on the pigs of the Shetland Islands, i. 70.
HIGHLAND cattle, descended from _Bos longifrons_, i. 81.
HILDEBRAND, Dr., on the fertilisation of _Orchideæ_, i. 402-403;
occasional necessary crossing of plants, ii. 90;
on _Primula sinensis_ and _Oxalis rosea_, ii. 132;
on _Corydalis cava_, ii. 132-133.
HILL, R., on the Alco, i. 31;
feral rabbits in Jamaica, i. 112;
feral peacocks in Jamaica, i. 190;
variation of the Guinea fowl in Jamaica, i. 294;
sterility of tamed birds in Jamaica, ii. 155, 157.
HIMALAYA, range of gallinaceous birds in the, i. 237.
HIMALAYAN rabbit, i. 107, 108-111;
skull of, i. 120.
HIMALAYAN sheep, i. 95.
HINDMARSH, Mr., on Chillingham cattle, i. 84.
"HINKEL-TAUBE," i. 142-143.
HINNY and mule, difference of, ii. 67-68.
_Hipparion_, anomalous resemblance to in horses, i. 50.
_Hippeastrum_, hybrids of, ii. 138-139.
HIVE-BEES, ancient domestication of, i. 297;
breeds of, i. 298;
smaller when produced in old combs, i. 297;
variability in, i. 298;
crossing of Ligurian and common, i. 299.
"HOCKER-TAUBE," i. 141.
HOBBS, Fisher, on interbreeding pigs, ii. 121.
HODGKIN, Dr., on the attraction of foxes by a female Dingo, i. 31;
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origin of the Newfoundland dog, i. 42;
transmission of a peculiar lock of hair, ii. 5.
HODGSON, Mr., domestication of _Canis primævus_, i. 26;
development of a fifth digit in Thibet mastiffs, i. 35;
number of ribs in humped cattle, i. 79;
on the sheep of the Himalaya, i. 95;
presence of four mammæ in sheep, _ibid._;
arched nose in sheep, i. 96;
measurements of the intestines of goats, i. 102;
presence of interdigital pits in goats, _ibid._;
disuse a cause of drooping ears, ii. 301.
HOFACKER, persistency of colour in horses, i. 51, ii. 21;
production of dun horses from parents of different colours, i. 59;
inheritance of peculiarities in handwriting, ii. 6;
heredity in a one-horned stag, ii. 12;
on consanguineous marriages, ii. 123.
HOG, Red River, ii. 150.
HOGG, Mr., retardation of breeding in cows by hard living, ii. 112.
HOLLAND, Sir H., necessity of inheritance, ii. 2;
on hereditary diseases, ii. 7;
hereditary peculiarity in the eyelid, ii. 8;
morbid uniformity in the same family, ii. 17;
transmission of hydrocele through the female, ii. 52;
inheritance of habits and tricks, ii. 395.
HOLLY, varieties of the, i. 360, 362;
bud-reversion in, i. 384;
yellow-berried, ii. 19, 230.
HOLLYHOCK, bud-variation in, i. 378;
non-crossing of double varieties of, ii. 107;
tender variety of the, ii. 310.
HOMER, notice of Geese, i. 287;
breeding of the horses of Æneas, ii. 202.
HOMOLOGOUS parts, correlated variability of, ii. 322-331, 354-355;
fusion of, ii. 393;
affinity of, ii. 339-342.
HOOFS, correlated with hair in variation, ii. 325.
HOOK-BILLED DUCK, skull figured, i. 282.
HOOKER, Dr. J. D., forked shoulder-stripe in Syrian asses, i. 63;
voice of the cock in Sikkim, i. 259;
use of Arum-roots as food, i. 307;
native useful plants of Australia, i. 311;
wild walnut of the Himalayas, i. 356;
variety of the plane tree, i. 362;
production of _Thuja orientalis_ from seeds of _T. pendula_, i. 362;
singular form of _Begonia frigida_, i. 365;
reversion in plants run wild, ii. 33;
on the sugar-cane, ii. 169;
on Arctic plants, ii. 256;
on the oak grown at the Cape of Good Hope, ii. 274;
on _Rhododendron ciliatum_, ii. 277;
stock and mignonette, perennial in Tasmania, ii. 305.
HOPKIRK, Mr., bud-variation in the rose, i. 381;
in _Mirabilis jalapa_, i. 382;
in _Convolvulus tricolor_, i. 408.
HORNBEAM, heterophyllous, i. 362.
HORNED fowl, i. 229;
skull figured, i. 265.
HORNLESS cattle in Paraguay, i. 89.
HORNS of sheep, i. 95;
correlation of, with fleece in sheep, ii. 326;
correlation of, with the skull, ii. 333;
rudimentary in young polled cattle, ii. 315;
of goats, i. 102.
HORSES, in Swiss lake-dwellings, i. 49;
different breeds of, in Malay Archipelago, i. 49;
anomalies in osteology and dentition of, i. 50;
mutual fertility of different breeds, i. 51;
feral, i. 51;
habit of scraping away snow, i. 53;
mode of production of breeds of, i. 54;
inheritance and diversity of colour in, i. 55;
dark stripes in, i. 56-61, ii. 351;
dun-coloured, origin of, i. 59;
colours of feral, i. 60-61;
effect of fecundation by a Quagga on the subsequent progeny of, i.
403-404;
inheritance of peculiarities in, ii. 10-11;
polydactylism in, ii. 14;
inheritance of colour in, ii. 21;
inheritance of exostoses in legs of, ii. 23;
reversion in, ii. 33, 41;
hybrids of, with ass and zebra, ii. 42;
prepotency of transmission in the sexes of, ii. 65;
segregation of, in Paraguay, ii. 102;
wild species of, breeding in captivity, ii. 150;
curly, in Paraguay, ii. 205, 325;
selection of, for trifling characters, ii. 209;
unconscious selection of, ii. 212-213;
natural selection in Circassia, ii. 225;
alteration of coat of, in coal-mines, ii. 278;
degeneration of, in the Falkland Islands, ii. 278;
diseases of, caused by shoeing, ii. 300;
feeding on meat, ii. 305;
white and white-spotted, poisoned by mildewed vetches, ii. 337;
analogous variations in the colour of, ii. 349;
teeth developed on palate of, ii. 391;
of bronze period in Denmark, ii. 427.
HORSE-CHESNUT, early, at the Tuileries, i. 362;
tendency to doubleness in, ii. 168.
HORSE-RADISH, general sterility of the, ii. 170.
"HOUDAN," a French sub-breed of fowls, i. 229.
HOWARD, C., on an Egyptian monument, i. 17;
on crossing sheep, ii. 95, 120.
HUC, on the Emperor Khang-hi, ii. 205;
Chinese varieties of the bamboo, ii. 256.
HUMBOLDT, A., character of the Zambos, ii. 47;
parrot speaking the language of an extinct tribe, ii. 154;
on _Pulex penetrans_, ii. 275.
HUMIDITY, injurious effect of, upon horses, i. 53.
HUMPHREYS, Col., on Ancon sheep, i. 100.
HUNGARIAN cattle, i. 80.
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HUNTER, John, period of gestation in the dog, i. 29;
on secondary sexual characters, i. 179;
fertile crossing of _Anser ferus_ and the domestic goose, i. 288;
inheritance of peculiarities in gestures, voice, &c., ii. 6;
assumption of male characters by the human female, ii. 51;
period of appearance of hereditary diseases, ii. 78;
graft of the spur of a cock upon its comb, ii. 296;
on the stomach of _Larus tridentatus_, ii. 302;
double-tailed lizards, ii. 341.
HUNTER, W., evidence against the influence of imagination upon the
offspring, ii. 264.
HUTTON, Capt., on the variability of the silk moth, i. 303;
on the number of species of silkworms, i. 300;
markings of silkworms, i. 302;
domestication of the rock-pigeon in India, i. 185;
domestication and crossing of _Gallus bankiva_, i. 236.
HUTCHINSON, Col., liability of dogs to distemper, i. 35.
HUXLEY, Prof., on the transmission of polydactylism, ii. 13;
on unconscious selection, ii. 194;
on correlation in the mollusca, ii. 320;
on gemmation and fission, ii. 359;
development of star-fishes, ii. 366.
HYACINTHS, i. 370-371;
bud-variation in, i. 385;
graft-hybrid by union of half bulbs of, i. 395;
white, reproduced by seed, ii. 20;
red, ii. 229, 336;
varieties of, recognisable by the bulb, ii. 251.
HYACINTH, feather, ii. 185, 316.
_Hyacinthus orientalis_, i. 370.
_Hybiscus syriacus_, ii. 286.
HYBRIDS, of hare and rabbit, i. 105;
of various species of _Gallus_, i. 234-236;
of almond, peach, and nectarine, i. 339;
naturally produced, of species of _Cytisus_, i. 390;
from twin-seed of _Fuchsia coccinea_ and _fulgens_, i. 391;
reversion of, i. 392-394, ii. 36, 48-50;
from mare, ass, and zebra, ii. 42;
of tame animals, wildness of, ii. 44-46;
female instincts of sterile male, ii. 52;
transmission and blending of characters in, ii. 92-95;
breed better with parent species than with each other, ii. 131;
self-impotence in, ii. 138-140;
readily produced in captivity, ii. 151.
HYBRIDISATION, singular effects of, in oranges, i. 336;
of cherries, i. 347;
difficulty of, in _Cucurbitæ_, i. 358;
of roses, i. 366.
HYBRIDISM, ii. 178-191;
the cause of a tendency to double flowers, ii. 171;
in relation to pangenesis, ii. 385.
HYBRIDITY in cats, i. 44-45;
supposed of peach and nectarine, i. 342.
_Hydra_, i. 374, ii. 293, 359.
HYDRANGEA, colour of flowers of, influenced by alum, ii. 277.
HYDROCELE, ii. 52.
HYDROCEPHALUS, ii. 295.
_Hypericum calycinum_, ii. 170.
_Hypericum crispum_, ii. 227, 337.
HYPERMETAMORPHOSIS, ii. 367.
HYPERMETROPIA, hereditary, ii. 8.

ICHTHYOPTERYGIA, number of digits in the, ii. 16.
_Ilex aquifolium_, ii. 19.
IMAGINATION, supposed effect of, on offspring, ii. 263.
_Imatophyllum miniatum_, bud-variation in, i. 385.
INCEST, abhorred by savages, ii. 123-124.
INCUBATION, by crossed fowls of non-sitting varieties, ii. 43-44.
INDIA, striped horses of, i. 58;
pigs of, i. 66, 67, 76;
breeding of rabbits in, i. 112;
cultivation of pigeons in, i. 205-206.
INDIVIDUAL variability in pigeons, i. 158-160.
INGLEDEW, Mr., cultivation of European vegetables in India, ii. 169.
"INDISCHE Taube," ii. 144.
INHERITANCE, ii. 1-84, 371-373, 395, 397-402;
doubts entertained of by some writers, ii. 3;
importance of to breeders, 3-4;
evidence of, derived from statistics of chances, 5;
of peculiarities in man, 5-7, 12-16;
of disease, 7-8, 17;
of peculiarities in the eye, 8-10;
of deviations from symmetry, 12;
of polydactylism, 12-16;
capriciousness of, 17-22, 27;
of mutilations, 22-24;
of congenital monstrosities, 24;
causes of absence of, 24-26;
by reversion or atavism, 28-61;
its connexion with fixedness of character, 62-64;
affected by prepotency of transmission of character, 65-71;
limited by sex, 71-75;
at corresponding periods of life, 75-80;
summary of the subject of, 80-84;
laws of, the same in seminal and bud varieties, i. 409;
of characters in the horse, i. 10-11;
in cattle, i. 87;
in rabbits, i. 107;
in the peach, i. 339;
in the nectarine, i. 340;
in plums, i. 347;
in apples, i. 350;
in pears, i. 351;
in the pansy, i. 369;
of primary characters of _Columba livia_ in crossed pigeons, i. 201;
of peculiarities of plumage in pigeons, i. 160-161;
of peculiarities of foliage in trees, i. 362;
effects of, in varieties of the cabbage, i. 325.
INSANITY, inheritance of, ii. 7, 78.
INSECTS, regeneration of lost parts in, ii. 15, 294;
agency of, in fecundation of larkspurs, ii. 21;
effect of changed conditions upon, ii. 157;
sterile neuter, ii. 186-187;
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monstrosities in, ii. 269, 391.
INSTINCTS, defective, of silkworms, i. 304.
INTERBREEDING, close, ill effects of, ii. 114-131, 175.
INTERCROSSING, of species, as a cause of variation, i. 188;
natural, of plants, i. 336;
of species of Canidæ and breeds of dogs, i. 31-33;
of domestic and wild cats, i. 44-45;
of breeds of pigs, i. 71, 78;
of cattle, i. 83;
of varieties of cabbage, i. 324;
of peas, i. 326, 329-330;
of varieties of orange, i. 336;
of species of strawberries, i. 351-352;
of _Cucurbitæ_, i. 357-358;
of flowering plants, i. 364;
of pansies, i. 368.
INTERDIGITAL pits, in goats, i. 102.
INTERMARRIAGES, close, ii. 122-123.
INTESTINES, elongation of, in pigs, i. 73;
relative measurements of parts of, in goats, i. 102;
effects of changed diet on, ii. 302.
_Ipomoea purpurea_, ii. 128.
IRELAND, remains of _Bos frontosus_ and _longifrons_ found in, i. 81.
IRIS, hereditary absence of the, ii. 9;
hereditary peculiarities of colour of the, ii. 9-10.
IRISH, ancient, selection practised by the, ii. 203.
IRON period, in Europe, dog of, i. 18.
ISLANDS, oceanic, scarcity of useful plants on, i. 311.
ISLAY, pigeons of, i. 183.
ISOLATION, effect of, in favour of selection, ii. 233-234.
ITALY, vine growing in, during the bronze period, i. 332.
IVY, sterility of, in the north of Europe, ii. 170.

JACK, Mr., effect of foreign pollen on grapes, i. 400.
JACKAL, i. 24, 27, 30;
hybrids of, with the dog, i. 32;
prepotency of, over the dog, ii. 67.
JACOBIN pigeon, i. 154, 208.
JACQUEMET-BONNEFORT, on the mulberry, i. 334.
JAGUAR, with crooked legs, i. 17.
JAMAICA, feral dogs of, i. 28;
feral pigs of, i. 77;
feral rabbits of, i. 112.
JAPAN, horses of, i. 53.
JAPANESE pig (figured), i. 69.
JARDINE, Sir W., crossing of domestic and wild cats, i. 44.
JARVES, J., silkworm in the Sandwich islands, i. 301.
JAVA, Fantail pigeon in, i. 148.
JAVANESE ponies, i. 53, 59.
JEMMY BUTTON, i. 309.
JENYNS, L., whiteness of ganders, i. 288;
sunfish-like variety of the goldfish, i. 297.
JERDON, J. C., number of eggs laid by the pea-hen, ii. 112;
origin of domestic fowl, i. 237.
JERSEY, arborescent cabbages of, i. 323.
JESSAMINE, i. 394.
JEITTELES, Hungarian sheep-dogs, i. 24;
crossing of domestic and wild cats, i. 44.
JOHN, King, importation of stallions from Flanders by, ii. 203.
JOHNSON, D., occurrence of stripes on young wild pigs in India, i. 76.
JORDAN, A., on Vibert's experiments on the vine, i. 332;
origin of varieties of the apple, i. 350;
varieties of pears found wild in woods, ii. 260.
JOURDAN, parthenogenesis in the silk moth, ii. 364.
JUAN DE NOVA, wild dogs on, i. 27.
JUAN FERNANDEZ, dumb dogs on, i. 27.
_Juglans regia_, i. 356-357.
JUKES, Prof., origin of the Newfoundland dog, i. 42.
JULIEN, Stanislas, early domestication of pigs in China, i. 68;
antiquity of the domestication of the silk-worm in China, i. 300.
JUMPERS, a breed of fowls, i. 230.
JUNIPER, variations of the, i. 361, 364.
_Juniperus suecica_, i. 361.
_Jussiæa grandiflora_, ii. 170.
JUSSIEU, A. de, structure of the pappus in _Carthamus_, ii. 316.

KAIL, Scotch, reversion in, ii. 32.
"KALA-PAR" pigeon, i. 142.
KALES, i. 323.
KALM, P., on maize, i. 322, ii. 307;
introduction of wheat into Canada, i. 315;
sterility of trees growing in marshes and dense woods, ii. 170.
"KALMI Lotan," tumbler pigeon, i. 151.
KANE, Dr., on Esquimaux dogs, i. 21.
KARAKOOL sheep, i. 98.
KARKEEK, on inheritance in the horse, ii. 10.
"KARMELITEN Taube," i. 156.
KARSTEN on _Pulex penetrans_, ii. 275.
KATTYWAR horses, i. 58.
KEELEY, R., pelorism in _Galeobdolon luteum_, ii. 59.
KERNER on the culture of Alpine plants, ii. 163.
KESTREL, breeding in captivity, ii. 154.
"KHANDÉSI," i. 141.
KHANG-HI, selection of a variety of rice by, ii. 205.
KIANG, ii. 43.
KIDD, on the canary bird, i. 77, ii. 275.
KIDNEY Bean, i. 371;
varieties of, ii. 256, 275.
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KIDNEYS, compensatory development of the, ii. 300;
fusion of the, ii. 341;
shape of, in birds, influenced by the form of the pelvis, ii. 344.
KING, Col., domestication of rock doves from the Orkneys, i. 184, 185.
KING, P. S., on the Dingo, i. 21, 28.
KIRBY and Spence, on the growth of galls, ii. 283.
KIRGHISIAN sheep, i. 98.
KITE, breeding in captivity, ii. 154.
KLEINE, variability of bees, i. 298.
KNIGHT, Andrew, on crossing horses of different breeds, i. 51;
crossing varieties of peas, i. 326, ii. 129;
persistency of varieties of peas, i. 329;
origin of the peach, i. 338;
hybridisation of the morello by the Elton cherry, i. 347;
on seedling cherries, _ibid._;
variety of the apple not attacked by coccus, i. 349;
intercrossing of strawberries, i, 351, 352;
broad variety of the cock's comb, i. 365;
bud variation in the cherry and plum, i. 375;
crossing of white and purple grapes, i. 393;
experiments in crossing apples, i. 402, ii. 129;
hereditary disease in plants, ii. 11;
on interbreeding, ii. 116;
crossed varieties of wheat, ii. 130;
necessity of intercrossing in plants, ii. 175;
on variation, ii. 256, 257;
effects of grafting, i. 387, ii. 278;
bud-variation in a plum, ii. 289;
compulsory flowering of early potatoes, ii. 343;
correlated variation of head and limbs, ii. 323.
KNOX, Mr., breeding of the eagle owl in captivity, ii. 154.
KOCH, degeneracy in the turnip, i. 325.
KOHLRABI, i. 323.
KÖLREUTER, reversion in hybrids, i. 392, ii. 36;
acquired sterility of crossed varieties of plants, i. 358, ii. 101;
absorption of _Mirabilis vulgaris_ by _M. longiflora_, ii. 88;
crosses of species of _Verbascum_, ii. 93, 107;
on the hollyhock, ii. 107;
crossing varieties of tobacco, ii. 108;
benefits of crossing plants, ii. 130, 131, 175-176;
self-impotence in _Verbascum_, ii. 136, 141;
effects of conditions of growth upon fertility in _Mirabilis_, ii. 164;
great development of tubers in hybrid plants, ii. 172;
inheritance of plasticity, ii. 241;
variability of hybrids of _Mirabilis_, ii. 265;
repeated crossing a cause of variation, ii. 267-268;
number of pollen-grains necessary for fertilization, ii. 363.
"KRAUSESCHWEIN," i. 67.
KROHN, on the double reproduction of Medusæ, ii. 384.
"KROPF-TAUBEN," i. 137.

LABAT, on the tusks of feral bears in the West Indies, i. 77;
on French wheat grown in the West Indies, ii. 307;
on the culture of the vine in the West Indies, ii. 308.
LABURNUM, Adam's, see _Cytisus Adami_;
oak-leaved, reversion of, i. 382;
pelorism in the, ii. 346;
Waterer's, i. 390.
LACHMANN, on gemmation and fission, ii. 358.
_Lachnanthes tinctoria_, ii. 227, 336.
LACTATION, imperfect, hereditary, ii. 8;
deficient, of wild animals in captivity, ii. 158.
LADRONE islands, cattle of, i. 86.
LAING, Mr., resemblance of Norwegian and Devonshire cattle, i. 82.
LAKE-DWELLINGS, sheep of, i. 94, ii. 427;
cattle of, ii. 427;
absence of the fowl in, i. 246;
cultivated plants of, i. 309, ii. 427, 429;
cereals of, i. 317-319;
peas found in, i. 326;
beans found in, i. 330.
LAMARE-PIQUOT, observations on half-bred North American wolves, i. 22.
LAMBERT, A. B., on _Thuja pendula_ or _filiformis_, i. 362.
LAMBERT family, ii. 4, 76.
LAMBERTYE on strawberries, i. 351, 352;
five-leaved variety of _Fragaria collina_, i. 353.
LANDT, L., on sheep in the Faroe islands, ii. 103.
LA PLATA, wild dogs of, i. 27;
feral cat from, i. 47.
LARCH, ii. 310.
LARKSPURS, insect agency necessary for the full fecundation of, ii. 21.
_Larus argentatus_, ii. 157.
_Larus tridactylus_, ii. 302.
LASTERYE, merino sheep in different countries, i. 99.
LATENT characters, ii. 51-56.
LATHAM, on the fowl not breeding in the extreme north, ii. 161.
_Lathyrus_, ii. 38.
_Lathyrus aphaca_, ii. 343.
_Lathyrus odoratus_, ii. 20, 91, 93, 311, 393.
LA TOUCHE, J. D., on a Canadian apple with dimidiate fruit, i. 392-393.
"LATZ-TAUBE," i. 154.
LAUGHER pigeon, i. 155, 207.
_Laurus sassafras_, ii. 274.
LAWRENCE, J., production of a new breed of fox-hounds, i. 40;
occurrence of canines in mares, i. 50;
on three-parts-bred horses, i. 54;
on inheritance in the horse, ii. 10-11.
LAWSON, Mr., varieties of the potato, i. 330.
LAXTON, Mr., bud-variation in the gooseberry, i. 376;
crossing of varieties of the pea, i. 397-398;
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double-flowered peas, ii. 168.
LAYARD, E. L., resemblance of a Caffre dog to the Esquimaux breed, i. 25,
ii. 286;
crossing of the domestic cat with _Felis Caffra_, i. 44;
feral pigeons in Ascension, i. 190;
domestic pigeons of Ceylon, i. 206;
on _Gallus Stanleyi_, i. 234;
on black-skinned Ceylonese fowls, i. 256.
LE COMPTE family, blindness inherited in, ii. 78.
LECOQ, bud-variation in _Mirabilis jalapa_, i. 382;
hybrids of _Mirabilis_, i. 393, ii. 169, 265;
crossing in plants, ii. 127;
fecundation of _Passiflora_, ii. 137;
hybrid _Gladiolus_, ii. 139;
sterility of _Ranunculus ficaria_, ii. 170;
villosity in plants, ii. 277;
double asters, ii. 316.
LE COUTEUR, J., varieties of wheat, i. 313-315;
acclimatisation of exotic wheat in Europe, i. 315;
adaptation of wheat to soil and climate, i. 316;
selection of seed-corn, i. 318;
on change of soil, ii. 147;
selection of wheat, ii. 200;
natural selection in wheat, ii. 233;
cattle of Jersey, ii. 234.
LEDGER, Mr., on the Llama and Alpaca, ii. 208.
LEE, Mr., his early culture of the pansy, i. 368.
_Leersia oryzoides_, ii. 91.
LEFOUR, period of gestation in cattle, i. 87.
LEGS, of fowls, effects of disuse on, i. 270-272;
characters and variations of, in ducks, i. 284-288;
fusion of, ii. 341.
LEGUAT, cattle of the Cape of Good Hope, i. 88.
LEHMANN, occurrence of wild double-flowered plants near a hot spring, ii.
168.
LEIGHTON, W. A., propagation of a weeping yew by seed, ii. 19.
LEITNER, effects of the removal of anthers, ii. 167.
LEMMING, ii. 152.
LEMOINE, variegated _Symphytum_ and _Phlox_, i. 384.
LEMON, i. 334, 335;
orange fecundated by pollen of the, i. 399.
LEMURS, hybrid, ii. 153.
LEPORIDES, ii. 98-99, 152.
LEPSIUS, figures of ancient Egyptian dogs, i. 17;
domestication of pigeons in ancient Egypt, i. 204.
_Leptotes_, ii. 134.
_Lepus glacialis_, i. 111.
_Lepus magellanicus_, i. 112.
_Lepus nigripes_, i. 108.
_Lepus tibetanus_, i. 111.
_Lepus variabilis_, i. 111.
LEREBOULLET, double monsters of fishes, ii. 340.
LESLIE, on Scotch wild cattle, i. 85.
LESSON, on _Lepus magellanicus_, i. 112.
LEUCKART on the larva of Cecidomyidæ, ii. 360.
LEWIS, G., cattle of the West Indies, ii. 229.
LHERBETTE and Quatrefages, on the horses of Circassia, ii. 102, 225.
LIEBIG, differences in human blood, according to complexion, ii. 276.
LIEBREICH, occurrence of pigmentary retinitis in deaf-mutes, ii. 328.
LICHENS, sterility in, ii. 171.
LICHTENSTEIN, resemblance of Bosjesman's dogs to _Canis mesomelas_, i.
25;
Newfoundland dog at the Cape of Good Hope, i. 36.
LILACS, ii. 164.
LILIACEÆ, contabescence in, ii. 165.
_Lilium candidum_, ii. 137.
LIMBS, regeneration of, ii. 376-377.
LIMBS and head, correlated variation of, ii. 323.
LIME, effect of, upon shells of the mollusca, ii. 280.
LIME tree, changes of by age, i. 364, 387.
LIMITATION, sexual, ii. 71-75.
LIMITATION, supposed, of variation, ii. 416.
_Linaria_, pelorism in, ii. 58, 61, 346;
peloric, crossed with the normal form, ii. 70;
sterility of, ii. 166.
_Linaria vulgaris_ and _purpurea_, hybrids of, ii. 94.
LINDLEY, John, classification of varieties of cabbages, i. 324;
origin of the peach, i. 338;
influence of soil on peaches and nectarines, i. 340;
varieties of the peach and nectarine, i. 343;
on the New Town pippin, i. 349;
freedom of the Winter Majetin apple from coccus, i. 349;
production of monoecious Hautbois strawberries by bud-selection, i.
353;
origin of the large tawny nectarine, i. 375;
bud-variation in the gooseberry, i. 376;
hereditary disease in plants, ii. 11;
on double flowers, ii. 167;
seeding of ordinarily seedless fruits, ii. 168;
sterility of _Acorus calamus_, ii. 170;
resistance of individual plants to cold, ii. 309.
LINNÆUS, summer and winter wheat regarded as distinct species by, i. 315;
on the single-leaved strawberry, i. 353;
sterility of Alpine plants in gardens, ii. 163;
recognition of individual reindeer by the Laplanders, ii. 251;
growth of tobacco in Sweden, ii. 307.
LINNET, ii. 158.
_Linota cannabina_, ii. 158.
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LINUM, ii. 165.
LION, fertility of, in captivity, ii. 150, 151.
LIPARI, feral rabbits of, i. 113.
LIVINGSTONE, Dr., striped young pigs on the Zambesi, i. 77;
domestic rabbits at Loanda, i. 112;
use of grass-seeds as food in Africa, i. 308;
planting of fruit-trees by the Batokas, i. 309;
character of half-castes, ii. 46;
taming of animals among the Barotse, ii. 160;
selection practised in South Africa, ii. 207, 209.
LIVINGSTONE, Mr., disuse a cause of drooping ears, ii. 301.
LIZARDS, reproduction of tail in, ii. 294;
with a double tail, ii. 341.
LLAMA, selection of, ii. 208.
LLOYD, Mr., taming of the wolf, i. 26;
English dogs in northern Europe, i. 36;
fertility of the goose increased by domestication, i. 288;
number of eggs laid by the wild goose, ii. 112;
breeding of the capercailzie in captivity, ii. 156.
LOANDA, domestic rabbits at, i. 112.
_Loasa_, hybrid of two species of, ii. 98.
_Lobelia_, reversion in hybrids of, ii. 392;
contabescence in, ii. 166.
_Lobelia fulgens_, _cardinalis_, and _syphilitica_, ii. 136.
LOCKHART, Dr., on Chinese pigeons, i. 206.
LOCUST-TREE, ii. 274.
LOISELEUR-DESLONGCHAMPS, originals of cultivated plants, i. 307;
Mongolian varieties of wheat, i. 313;
characters of the ear in wheat, i. 314;
acclimatisation of exotic wheat in Europe, i. 315;
effect of change of climate on wheat, i. 316;
on the supposed necessity of the coincident variation of weeds and
cultivated plants, i. 317;
advantage of change of soil to plants, ii. 146.
_Lolium temulentum_, variable presence of barbs in, i. 314.
LONG-TAILED sheep, i. 94, 95.
LOOCHOO islands, horses of, i. 53.
LORD, J. K., on Canis latrans, i. 22.
"LORI RAJAH," how produced, ii. 280.
_Lorius garrulus_, ii. 280.
"LOTAN," tumbler pigeon, i. 150.
LOUDON, J. W., varieties of the carrot, i. 326;
short duration of varieties of peas, i. 329;
on the glands of peach-leaves, i. 343;
presence of bloom on Russian apples, i. 349;
origin of varieties of the apple, i. 350;
varieties of the gooseberry, i. 354;
on the nut tree, i. 357;
varieties of the ash, i. 360;
fastigate juniper (_J. suecica_), i. 361;
on _Ilex aquifolium ferox_, i. 362;
varieties of the Scotch fir, i. 363;
varieties of the hawthorn, _ibid._;
variation in the persistency of leaves on the elm and Turkish oak, i.
363;
importance of cultivated varieties, _ibid._;
varieties of _Rosa spinosissima_, i. 367;
variation of dahlias from the same seed, i. 370;
production of Provence roses from seeds of the moss rose, i. 380;
effect of grafting the purple-leaved upon the common hazel, i. 395;
nearly evergreen Cornish variety of the elm, ii. 310.
LOW, G., on the pigs of the Orkney islands, i. 70.
LOW, Prof., pedigrees of greyhounds, ii. 3;
origin of the dog, i. 10;
burrowing instinct of a half-bred Dingo, i. 28;
inheritance of qualities in horses, i. 51;
comparative powers of English race-horses, Arabs, &c., i. 54;
British breeds of cattle, i. 80;
wild cattle of Chartley, i. 84;
effect of abundance of food on the size of cattle, i. 91;
effects of climate on the skin of cattle, i. 92, ii. 326;
on interbreeding, ii. 116;
selection in Hereford cattle, ii. 214;
formation of new breeds, ii. 244;
on "sheeted" cattle, ii. 349.
LOWE, Mr., on hive bees, i. 299.
LOWE, REV. Mr., on the range of _Pyrus malus_ and _P. acerba_, i. 348.
"LOWTAN" tumbler pigeon, i. 150.
_Loxia pyrrhula_, ii. 154.
LUBBOCK, Sir J., developments of the Ephemeridæ, ii. 366.
LUCAS, P., effects of cross-breeding on the female, i. 404;
hereditary diseases, ii. 7, 78-79;
hereditary affections of the eye, ii. 9-10;
inheritance of anomalies in the human eye and in that of the horse, ii.
10, 11;
inheritance of polydactylism, ii. 13;
morbid uniformity in the same family, ii. 17;
inheritance of mutilations, ii. 23;
persistency of cross-reversion, ii. 35;
persistency of character in breeds of animals in wild countries, ii.
64;
prepotency of transmission, ii. 65, 68;
supposed rules of transmission in crossing animals, ii. 68;
sexual limitations of transmission of peculiarities, ii. 72-73;
absorption of the minority in crossed races, ii. 88;
crosses without blending of certain characters, ii. 92;
on interbreeding, ii. 116;
variability dependent on reproduction, ii. 250;
period of action of variability, ii. 260;
inheritance of deafness in cats, ii. 329;
complexion and constitution, ii. 335.
LUCAZE-DUTHIERS, structure and growth of galls, ii. 282-284.
LUIZET, grafting of a peach-almond on a peach, i. 338.
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LÜTKE, cats of the Caroline Archipelago, i. 47.
LUXURIANCE, of vegetative organs, a cause of sterility in plants, ii.
168-171.
LYONNET, on the scission of _Nais_, ii. 358.
_Lysimachia nummularia_, sterility of, ii. 170.
_Lythrum_, trimorphic species of, ii. 400.
_Lythrum salicaria_, ii. 183;
contabescence in, ii. 166.
_Lytta vesicatoria_, affecting the kidneys, ii. 380.