Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume.

* I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. W.S. Dallas for this Glossary, which has been given because several readers have complained to me that some of the terms used were unintelligible to them. Mr. Dallas has endeavoured to give the explanations of the terms in as popular a form as possible.

ABERRANT.—Forms or groups of animals or plants which deviate in important characters from their nearest allies, so as not to be easily included in the same group with them, are said to be aberrant.

ABERRATION (in Optics).—In the refraction of light by a convex lens the rays passing through different parts of the lens are brought to a focus at slightly different distances—this is called spherical aberration; at the same time the coloured rays are separated by the prismatic action of the lens and likewise brought to a focus at different distances—this is chromatic aberration.

ABNORMAL.—Contrary to the general rule.

ABORTED.—An organ is said to be aborted, when its development has been arrested at a very early stage.

ALBINISM.—Albinos are animals in which the usual colouring matters characteristic of the species have not been produced in the skin and its appendages. Albinism is the state of being an albino.

ALGÆ.—A class of plants including the ordinary sea-weeds and the filamentous fresh-water weeds.

ALTERNATION OF GENERATIONS.—This term is applied to a peculiar mode of reproduction which prevails among many of the lower animals, in which the egg produces a living form quite different from its parent, but from which the parent-form is reproduced by a process of budding, or by the division of the substance of the first product of the egg.

AMMONITES.—A group of fossil, spiral, chambered shells, allied to the existing pearly Nautilus, but having the partitions between the chambers waved in complicated patterns at their junction with the outer wall of the shell.

ANALOGY.—That resemblance of structures which depends upon similarity of function, as in the wings of insects and birds. Such structures are said to be analogous, and to be analogues of each other.

ANIMALCULE.—A minute animal: generally applied to those visible only by the microscope.

ANNELIDS.—A class of worms in which the surface of the body exhibits a more or less distinct division into rings or segments, generally provided with appendages for locomotion and with gills. It includes the ordinary marine worms, the earth-worms, and the leeches.

ANTENNÆ.—Jointed organs appended to the head in Insects, Crustacea and Centipedes, and not belonging to the mouth.

ANTHERS.—The summits of the stamens of flowers, in which the pollen or fertilising dust is produced.

APLACENTALIA, APLACENTATA or Aplacental Mammals.—See mammalia.

ARCHETYPAL.—Of or belonging to the Archetype, or ideal primitive form upon which all the beings of a group seem to be organised.

ARTICULATA.—A great division of the Animal Kingdom characterised generally by having the surface of the body divided into rings called segments, a greater or less number of which are furnished with jointed legs (such as Insects, Crustaceans and Centipedes).

ASYMMETRICAL.—Having the two sides unlike.

ATROPHIED.—Arrested in development at a very early stage.

BALANUS.—The genus including the common Acorn-shells which live in abundance on the rocks of the sea-coast.

BATRACHIANS.—A class of animals allied to the Reptiles, but undergoing a peculiar metamorphosis, in which the young animal is generally aquatic and breathes by gills. (Examples, Frogs, Toads, and Newts.)

BOULDERS.—Large transported blocks of stone generally embedded in clays or gravels.

BRACHIOPODA.—A class of marine Mollusca, or soft-bodied animals, furnished with a bivalve shell, attached to submarine objects by a stalk which passes through an aperture in one of the valves, and furnished with fringed arms, by the action of which food is carried to the mouth.

BRANCHIÆ.—Gills or organs for respiration in water.

BRANCHIAL.—Pertaining to gills or branchiæ.

CAMBRIAN SYSTEM.—A series of very ancient Palæozoic rocks, between the Laurentian and the Silurian. Until recently these were regarded as the oldest fossiliferous rocks.

CANIDÆ.—The Dog-family, including the Dog, Wolf, Fox, Jackal, &c.

CARAPACE.—The shell enveloping the anterior part of the body in Crustaceans generally; applied also to the hard shelly pieces of the Cirripedes.

CARBONIFEROUS.—This term is applied to the great formation which includes, among other rocks, the coal-measures. It belongs to the oldest, or Palæozoic, system of formations.

CAUDAL.—Of or belonging to the tail.

CEPHALOPODS.—The highest class of the Mollusca, or soft-bodied animals, characterised by having the mouth surrounded by a greater or less number of fleshy arms or tentacles, which, in most living species, are furnished with sucking-cups. (Examples, Cuttle-fish, Nautilus.)

CETACEA.—An order of Mammalia, including the Whales, Dolphins, &c., having the form of the body fish-like, the skin naked, and only the fore limbs developed.

CHELONIA.—An order of Reptiles including the Turtles, Tortoises, &c.

CIRRIPEDES.—An order of Crustaceans including the Barnacles and Acorn-shells. Their young resemble those of many other Crustaceans in form; but when mature they are always attached to other objects, either directly or by means of a stalk, and their bodies are enclosed by a calcareous shell composed of several pieces, two of which can open to give issue to a bunch of curled, jointed tentacles, which represent the limbs.

COCCUS.—The genus of Insects including the Cochineal. In these the male is a minute, winged fly, and the female generally a motionless, berry-like mass.

COCOON.—A case usually of silky material, in which insects are frequently enveloped during the second or resting-stage (pupa) of their existence. The term “cocoon-stage” is here used as equivalent to “pupa-stage.”

CŒLOSPERMOUS.—A term applied to those fruits of the Umbelliferæ which have the seed hollowed on the inner face.

COLEOPTERA.—Beetles, an order of Insects, having a biting mouth and the first pair of wings more or less horny, forming sheaths for the second pair, and usually meeting in a straight line down the middle of the back.

COLUMN.—A peculiar organ in the flowers of Orchids, in which the stamens, style and stigma (or the reproductive parts) are united.

COMPOSITÆ or COMPOSITOUS PLANTS.—Plants in which the inflorescence consists of numerous small flowers (florets) brought together into a dense head, the base of which is enclosed by a common envelope. (Examples, the Daisy, Dandelion, &c.)

CONFERVÆ.—The filamentous weeds of fresh water.

CONGLOMERATE.—A rock made up of fragments of rock or pebbles, cemented together by some other material.

COROLLA.—The second envelope of a flower usually composed of coloured, leaf-like organs (petals), which may be united by their edges either in the basal part or throughout.

CORRELATION.—The normal coincidence of one phenomenon, character, &c., with another.

CORYMB.—A bunch of flowers in which those springing from the lower part of the flower stalks are supported on long stalks so as to be nearly on a level with the upper ones.

COTYLEDONS.—The first or seed-leaves of plants.

CRUSTACEANS.—A class of articulated animals, having the skin of the body generally more or less hardened by the deposition of calcareous matter, breathing by means of gills. (Examples, Crab, Lobster, Shrimp, &c.)

CURCULIO.—The old generic term for the Beetles known as Weevils, characterised by their four-jointed feet, and by the head being produced into a sort of beak, upon the sides of which the antennæ are inserted.

CUTANEOUS.—Of or belonging to the skin.

DEGRADATION.—The wearing down of land by the action of the sea or of meteoric agencies.

DENUDATION.—The wearing away of the surface of the land by water.

DEVONIAN SYSTEM or FORMATION.—A series of Palæozoic rocks, including the Old Red Sandstone.

DICOTYLEDONS, or DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS.—A class of plants characterised by having two seed-leaves, by the formation of new wood between the bark and the old wood (exogenous growth) and by the reticulation of the veins of the leaves. The parts of the flowers are generally in multiples of five.

DIFFERENTATION.—The separation or discrimination of parts or organs which in simpler forms of life are more or less united.

DIMORPHIC.—Having two distinct forms.—DIMORPHISM is the condition of the appearance of the same species under two dissimilar forms.

DIOECIOUS.—Having the organs of the sexes upon distinct individuals.

DIORITE.—A peculiar form of Greenstone.

DORSAL.—Of or belonging to the back.

EDENTATA.—A peculiar order of Quadrupeds, characterised by the absence of at least the middle incisor (front) teeth in both jaws. (Examples, the Sloths and Armadillos.)

ELYTRA.—The hardened fore-wings of Beetles, serving as sheaths for the membranous hind-wings, which constitute the true organs of flight.

EMBRYO.—The young animal undergoing development within the egg or womb.

EMBRYOLOGY.—The study of the development of the embryo.

ENDEMIC.—Peculiar to a given locality.

ENTOMOSTRACA.—A division of the class Crustacea, having all the segments of the body usually distinct, gills attached to the feet or organs of the mouth, and the feet fringed with fine hairs. They are generally of small size.

EOCENE.—The earliest of the three divisions of the Tertiary epoch of geologists. Rocks of this age contain a small proportion of shells identical with species now living.

EPHEMEROUS INSECTS.—Insects allied to the May-fly.

FAUNA.—The totality of the animals naturally inhabiting a certain country or region, or which have lived during a given geological period.

FELIDÆ.—The Cat-family.

FERAL.—Having become wild from a state of cultivation or domestication.

FLORA.—The totality of the plants growing naturally in a country, or during a given geological period.

FLORETS.—Flowers imperfectly developed in some respects, and collected into a dense spike or head, as in the Grasses, the Dandelion, &c.

FOETAL.—Of or belonging to the foetus, or embryo in course of development.

FORAMINIFERA.—A class of animals of very low organisation and generally of small size, having a jelly-like body, from the surface of which delicate filaments can be given off and retracted for the prehension of external objects, and having a calcareous or sandy shell, usually divided into chambers and perforated with small apertures.

FOSSILIFEROUS.—Containing fossils.

FOSSORIAL.—Having a faculty of digging. The Fossorial Hymenoptera are a group of Wasp-like Insects, which burrow in sandy soil to make nests for their young.

FRENUM (pl. FRENA).—A small band or fold of skin.

FUNGI (sing. FUNGUS).—A class of cellular plants, of which Mushrooms, Toadstools, and Moulds, are familiar examples.

FURCULA.—The forked bone formed by the union of the collar-bones in many birds, such as the common Fowl.

GALLINACEOUS BIRDS.—An order of birds of which the common Fowl, Turkey, and Pheasant, are well-known examples.

GALLUS.—The genus of birds which includes the common Fowl.

GANGLION.—A swelling or knot from which nerves are given off as from a centre.

GANOID FISHES.—Fishes covered with peculiar enamelled bony scales. Most of them are extinct.

GERMINAL VESICLE.—A minute vesicle in the eggs of animals, from which the development of the embryo proceeds.

GLACIAL PERIOD.—A period of great cold and of enormous extension of ice upon the surface of the earth. It is believed that glacial periods have occurred repeatedly during the geological history of the earth, but the term is generally applied to the close of the Tertiary epoch, when nearly the whole of Europe was subjected to an arctic climate.

GLAND.—An organ which secretes or separates some peculiar product from the blood or sap of animals or plants.

GLOTTIS.—The opening of the windpipe into the œsophagus or gullet.

GNEISS.—A rock approaching granite in composition, but more or less laminated, and really produced by the alteration of a sedimentary deposit after its consolidation.

GRALLATORES.—The so-called wading-birds (storks, cranes, snipes, &c.), which are generally furnished with long legs, bare of feathers above the heel, and have no membranes between the toes.

GRANITE.—A rock consisting essentially of crystals of felspar and mica in a mass of quartz.

HABITAT.—The locality in which a plant or animal naturally lives.

HEMIPTERA.—An order or sub-order of insects, characterised by the possession of a jointed beak or rostrum, and by having the fore-wings horny in the basal portion and membranous at the extremity, where they cross each other. This group includes the various species of bugs.

HERMAPHRODITE.—Possessing the organs of both sexes.

HOMOLOGY.—That relation between parts which results from their development from corresponding embryonic parts, either in different animals, as in the case of the arm of man, the fore-leg of a quadruped, and the wing of a bird; or in the same individual, as in the case of the fore and hind legs in quadrupeds, and the segments or rings and their appendages of which the body of a worm, a centipede, &c., is composed. The latter is called serial homology. The parts which stand in such a relation to each other are said to be homologous, and one such part or organ is called the homologue of the other. In different plants the parts of the flower are homologous, and in general these parts are regarded as homologous with leaves.

HOMOPTERA.—An order or sub-order of insects having (like the Hemiptera) a jointed beak, but in which the fore-wings are either wholly membranous or wholly leathery, The Cicadæ, frog-hoppers, and Aphides, are well-known examples.

HYBRID.—The offspring of the union of two distinct species.

HYMENOPTERA.—An order of insects possessing biting jaws and usually four membranous wings in which there are a few veins. Bees and wasps are familiar examples of this group.

HYPERTROPHIED.—Excessively developed.

ICHNEUMONIDÆ.—A family of hymenopterous insects, the members of which lay their eggs in the bodies or eggs of other insects.

IMAGO.—The perfect (generally winged) reproductive state of an insect.

INDIGENES.—The aboriginal animal or vegetable inhabitants of a country or region.

INFLORESCENCE.—The mode of arrangement of the flowers of plants.

INFUSORIA.—A class of microscopic animalcules, so called from their having originally been observed in infusions of vegetable matters. They consist of a gelatinous material enclosed in a delicate membrane, the whole or part of which is furnished with short vibrating hairs (called cilia), by means of which the animalcules swim through the water or convey the minute particles of their food to the orifice of the mouth.

INSECTIVOROUS.—Feeding on insects.

INVERTEBRATA, or INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS.—Those animals which do not possess a backbone or spinal column.

LACUNÆ.—Spaces left among the tissues in some of the lower animals and serving in place of vessels for the circulation of the fluids of the body.

LAMELLATED.—Furnished with lamellæ or little plates.

LARVA (pl. LARVÆ).—The first condition of an insect at its issuing from the egg, when it is usually in the form of a grub, caterpillar, or maggot.

LARYNX.—The upper part of the windpipe opening into the gullet.

LAURENTIAN.—A group of greatly altered and very ancient rocks, which is greatly developed along the course of the St. Laurence, whence the name. It is in these that the earliest known traces of organic bodies have been found.

LEGUMINOSÆ.—An order of plants represented by the common peas and beans, having an irregular flower in which one petal stands up like a wing, and the stamens and pistil are enclosed in a sheath formed by two other petals. The fruit is a pod (or legume).

LEMURIDÆ.—A group of four-handed animals, distinct from the monkeys and approaching the insectivorous quadrupeds in some of their characters and habits. Its members have the nostrils curved or twisted, and a claw instead of a nail upon the first finger of the hind hands.

LEPIDOPTERA.—An order of insects, characterised by the possession of a spiral proboscis, and of four large more or less scaly wings. It includes the well-known butterflies and moths.

LITTORAL.—Inhabiting the seashore.

LOESS.—A marly deposit of recent (Post-Tertiary) date, which occupies a great part of the valley of the Rhine.

MALACOSTRACA.—The higher division of the Crustacea, including the ordinary crabs, lobsters, shrimps, &c., together with the woodlice and sand-hoppers.

MAMMALIA.—The highest class of animals, including the ordinary hairy quadrupeds, the whales and man, and characterised by the production of living young which are nourished after birth by milk from the teats (Mammæ, Mammary glands) of the mother. A striking difference in embryonic development has led to the division of this class into two great groups; in one of these, when the embryo has attained a certain stage, a vascular connection, called the placenta, is formed between the embryo and the mother; in the other this is wanting, and the young are produced in a very incomplete state. The former, including the greater part of the class, are called Placental Mammals; the latter, or Aplacental Mammals, include the Marsupials and Monotremes (Ornithorhynchus).

MAMMIFEROUS.—Having mammæ or teats (see MAMMALIA).

MANDIBLES.—in insects, the first or uppermost pair of jaws, which are generally solid, horny, biting organs. In birds the term is applied to both jaws with their horny coverings. In quadrupeds the mandible is properly the lower jaw.

MARSUPIALS.—An order of Mammalia in which the young are born in a very incomplete state of development, and carried by the mother, while sucking, in a ventral pouch (marsupium), such as the kangaroos, opossums, &c. (see MAMMALIA).

MAXILLÆ.—in insects, the second or lower pair of jaws, which are composed of several joints and furnished with peculiar jointed appendages called palpi, or feelers.

MELANISM.—The opposite of albinism; an undue development of colouring material in the skin and its appendages.

METAMORPHIC ROCKS.—Sedimentary rocks which have undergone alteration, generally by the action of heat, subsequently to their deposition and consolidation.

MOLLUSCA.—One of the great divisions of the animal kingdom, including those animals which have a soft body, usually furnished with a shell, and in which the nervous ganglia, or centres, present no definite general arrangement. They are generally known under the denomination of “shellfish”; the cuttle-fish, and the common snails, whelks, oysters, mussels, and cockles, may serve as examples of them.

MONOCOTYLEDONS, or MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS.—Plants in which the seed sends up only a single seed-leaf (or cotyledon); characterised by the absence of consecutive layers of wood in the stem (endogenous growth), by the veins of the leaves being generally straight, and by the parts of the flowers being generally in multiples of three. (Examples, Grasses, Lilies, Orchids, Palms, &c.)

MORAINES.—The accumulations of fragments of rock brought down by glaciers.

MORPHOLOGY.—The law of form or structure independent of function.

MYSIS-STAGE.—A stage in the development of certain crustaceans (prawns), in which they closely resemble the adults of a genus (Mysis) belonging to a slightly lower group.

NASCENT.—Commencing development.

NATATORY.—Adapted for the purpose of swimming.

NAUPLIUS-FORM.—The earliest stage in the development of many Crustacea, especially belonging to the lower groups. In this stage the animal has a short body, with indistinct indications of a division into segments, and three pairs of fringed limbs. This form of the common fresh-water Cyclops was described as a distinct genus under the name of Nauplius.

NEURATION.—The arrangement of the veins or nervures in the wings of insects.

NEUTERS.—Imperfectly developed females of certain social insects (such as ants and bees), which perform all the labours of the community. Hence, they are also called workers.

NICTITATING MEMBRANE.—A semi-transparent membrane, which can be drawn across the eye in birds and reptiles, either to moderate the effects of a strong light or to sweep particles of dust, &c., from the surface of the eye.

OCELLI.—The simple eyes or stemmata of insects, usually situated on the crown of the head between the great compound eyes.

ŒSOPHAGUS.—The gullet.

OOLITIC.—A great series of secondary rocks, so called from the texture of some of its members, which appear to be made up of a mass of small EGG-LIKE calcareous bodies.

OPERCULUM.—A calcareous plate employed by many Molluscæ to close the aperture of their shell. The OPERCULAR VALVES of Cirripedes are those which close the aperture of the shell.

ORBIT.—The bony cavity for the reception of the eye.

ORGANISM.—An organised being, whether plant or animal.

ORTHOSPERMOUS.—A term applied to those fruits of the Umbelliferæ which have the seed straight.

OSCULANT.—Forms or groups apparently intermediate between and connecting other groups are said to be osculant.

OVA.—Eggs.

OVARIUM or OVARY (in plants).—The lower part of the pistil or female organ of the flower, containing the ovules or incipient seeds; by growth after the other organs of the flower have fallen, it usually becomes converted into the fruit.

OVIGEROUS.—Egg-bearing.

OVULES (of plants).—The seeds in the earliest condition.

PACHYDERMS.—A group of Mammalia, so called from their thick skins, and including the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, &c.

PALÆOZOIC.—The oldest system of fossiliferous rocks.

PALPI.—Jointed appendages to some of the organs of the mouth in insects and Crustacea.

PAPILIONACEÆ.—An order of plants (see LEGUMINOSÆ), The flowers of these plants are called papilionaceous, or butterfly-like, from the fancied resemblance of the expanded superior petals to the wings of a butterfly.

PARASITE.—An animal or plant living upon or in, and at the expense of, another organism.

PARTHENOGENESIS.—The production of living organisms from unimpregnated eggs or seeds.

PEDUNCULATED.—Supported upon a stem or stalk. The pedunculated oak has its acorns borne upon a footstool.

PELORIA or PELORISM.—The appearance of regularity of structure in the flowers of plants which normally bear irregular flowers.

PELVIS.—The bony arch to which the hind limbs of vertebrate animals are articulated.

PETALS.—The leaves of the corolla, or second circle of organs in a flower. They are usually of delicate texture and brightly coloured.

PHYLLODINEOUS.—Having flattened, leaf-like twigs or leafstalks instead of true leaves.

PIGMENT.—The colouring material produced generally in the superficial parts of animals. The cells secreting it are called pigment-cells.

PINNATE.—Bearing leaflets on each side of a central stalk.

PISTILS.—The female organs of a flower, which occupy a position in the centre of the other floral organs. The pistil is generally divisible into the ovary or germen, the style and the stigma.

PLACENTALIA, PLACENTATA.—or PLACENTAL MAMMALS, See MAMMALIA.

PLANTIGRADES.—Quadrupeds which walk upon the whole sole of the foot, like the bears.

PLASTIC.—Readily capable of change.

PLEISTOCENE PERIOD.—The latest portion of the Tertiary epoch.

PLUMULE (in plants).—The minute bud between the seed-leaves of newly-germinated plants.

PLUTONIC ROCKS.—Rocks supposed to have been produced by igneous action in the depths of the earth.

POLLEN.—The male element in flowering plants; usually a fine dust produced by the anthers, which, by contact with the stigma effects the fecundation of the seeds. This impregnation is brought about by means of tubes (pollen-tubes) which issue from the pollen-grains adhering to the stigma, and penetrate through the tissues until they reach the ovary.

POLYANDROUS (flowers).—Flowers having many stamens.

POLYGAMOUS PLANTS.—Plants in which some flowers are unisexual and others hermaphrodite. The unisexual (male and female) flowers, may be on the same or on different plants.

POLYMORPHIC.—Presenting many forms.

POLYZOARY.—The common structure formed by the cells of the Polyzoa, such as the well-known seamats.

PREHENSILE.—Capable of grasping.

PREPOTENT.—Having a superiority of power.

PRIMARIES.—The feathers forming the tip of the wing of a bird, and inserted upon that part which represents the hand of man.

PROCESSES.—Projecting portions of bones, usually for the attachment of muscles, ligaments, &c.

PROPOLIS.—A resinous material collected by the hivebees from the opening buds of various trees.

PROTEAN.—Exceedingly variable.

PROTOZOA.—The lowest great division of the animal kingdom. These animals are composed of a gelatinous material, and show scarcely any trace of distinct organs. The Infusoria, Foraminifera, and sponges, with some other forms, belong to this division.

PUPA (pl. PUPÆ).—The second stage in the development of an insect, from which it emerges in the perfect (winged) reproductive form. In most insects the pupal stage is passed in perfect repose. The chrysalis is the pupal state of butterflies.

RADICLE.—The minute root of an embryo plant.

RAMUS.—One half of the lower jaw in the Mammalia. The portion which rises to articulate with the skull is called the ascending ramus.

RANGE.—The extent of country over which a plant or animal is naturally spread. Range in time expresses the distribution of a species or group through the fossiliferous beds of the earth’s crust.

RETINA.—The delicate inner coat of the eye, formed by nervous filaments spreading from the optic nerve, and serving for the perception of the impressions produced by light.

RETROGRESSION.—Backward development. When an animal, as it approaches maturity, becomes less perfectly organised than might be expected from its early stages and known relationships, it is said to undergo a retrogade development or metamorphosis.

RHIZOPODS.—A class of lowly organised animals (Protozoa), having a gelatinous body, the surface of which can be protruded in the form of root-like processes or filaments, which serve for locomotion and the prehension of food. The most important order is that of the Foraminifera.

RODENTS.—The gnawing Mammalia, such as the rats, rabbits, and squirrels. They are especially characterised by the possession of a single pair of chisel-like cutting teeth in each jaw, between which and the grinding teeth there is a great gap.

RUBUS.—The bramble genus.

RUDIMENTARY.—Very imperfectly developed.

RUMINANTS.—The group of quadrupeds which ruminate or chew the cud, such as oxen, sheep, and deer. They have divided hoofs, and are destitute of front teeth in the upper jaw.

SACRAL.—Belonging to the sacrum, or the bone composed usually of two or more united vertebræ to which the sides of the pelvis in vertebrate animals are attached.

SARCODE.—The gelatinous material of which the bodies of the lowest animals (Protozoa) are composed.

SCUTELLÆ.—The horny plates with which the feet of birds are generally more or less covered, especially in front.

SEDIMENTARY FORMATIONS.—Rocks deposited as sediments from water.

SEGMENTS.—The transverse rings of which the body of an articulate animal or annelid is composed.

SEPALS.—The leaves or segments of the calyx, or outermost envelope of an ordinary flower. They are usually green, but sometimes brightly coloured.

SERRATURES.—Teeth like those of a saw.

SESSILE.—Not supported on a stem or footstalk.

SILURIAN SYSTEM.—A very ancient system of fossiliferous rocks belonging to the earlier part of the Palæozoic series.

SPECIALISATION.—The setting apart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function.

SPINAL CORD.—The central portion of the nervous system in the Vertebrata, which descends from the brain through the arches of the vertebræ, and gives off nearly all the nerves to the various organs of the body.

STAMENS.—The male organs of flowering plants, standing in a circle within the petals. They usually consist of a filament and an anther, the anther being the essential part in which the pollen, or fecundating dust, is formed.

STERNUM.—The breast-bone.

STIGMA.—The apical portion of the pistil in flowering plants.

STIPULES.—Small leafy organs placed at the base of the footstalks of the leaves in many plants.

STYLE.—The middle portion of the perfect pistil, which rises like a column from the ovary and supports the stigma at its summit.

SUBCUTANEOUS.—Situated beneath the skin.

SUCTORIAL.—Adapted for sucking.

SUTURES (in the skull).—The lines of junction of the bones of which the skull is composed.

TARSUS (pl. TARSI).—The jointed feet of articulate animals, such as insects.

TELEOSTEAN FISHES.—Fishes of the kind familiar to us in the present day, having the skeleton usually completely ossified and the scales horny.

TENTACULA or TENTACLES.—Delicate fleshy organs of prehension or touch possessed by many of the lower animals.

TERTIARY.—The latest geological epoch, immediately preceding the establishment of the present order of things.

TRACHEA.—The windpipe or passage for the admission of air to the lungs.

TRIDACTYLE.—Three-fingered, or composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.

TRILOBITES.—A peculiar group of extinct crustaceans, somewhat resembling the woodlice in external form, and, like some of them, capable of rolling themselves up into a ball. Their remains are found only in the Palæozoic rocks, and most abundantly in those of Silurian age.

TRIMORPHIC.—Presenting three distinct forms.

UMBELLIFERÆ.—An order of plants in which the flowers, which contain five stamens and a pistil with two styles, are supported upon footstalks which spring from the top of the flower stem and spread out like the wires of an umbrella, so as to bring all the flowers in the same head (umbel) nearly to the same level. (Examples, Parsley and Carrot.)

UNGULATA.—Hoofed quadrupeds.

UNICELLULAR.—Consisting of a single cell.

VASCULAR.—Containing blood-vessels.

VERMIFORM.—Like a worm.

VERTEBRATA or VERTEBRATE ANIMALS.—The highest division of the animal kingdom, so called from the presence in most cases of a backbone composed of numerous joints or vertebræ, which constitutes the centre of the skeleton and at the same time supports and protects the central parts of the nervous system.

WHORLS.—The circles or spiral lines in which the parts of plants are arranged upon the axis of growth.

WORKERS.—See neuters.

ZOËA-STAGE.—The earliest stage in the development of many of the higher Crustacea, so called from the name of Zoëa applied to these young animals when they were supposed to constitute a peculiar genus.

ZOOIDS.—In many of the lower animals (such as the Corals, Medusæ, &c.) reproduction takes place in two ways, namely, by means of eggs and by a process of budding with or without separation from the parent of the product of the latter, which is often very different from that of the egg. The individuality of the species is represented by the whole of the form produced between two sexual reproductions; and these forms, which are apparently individual animals, have been called zooids.

Coot, 142.

Cope, Prof., on the acceleration or retardation of the period of reproduction, 149.

Coral-islands, seeds drifted to, 326. —, reefs, indicating movements of earth, 326.

Corn-crake, 143.

Correlated variation in domestic productions, 9.

Coryanthes, 154.

Creation, single centres of, 320.

Crinum, 238.

Crosses, reciprocal, 244.

Crossing of domestic animals, importance in altering breeds, 15. —, advantages of, 76, 77. —, unfavourable to selection, 80.

Crüger, Dr., on Coryanthes, 154.

Crustacea of New Zealand, 338.

Crustacean, blind, 110. air-breathers, 152.

Crustaceans, their chelæ, 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. —, on fossil monkeys, 283, 284.

Cuvier, Fred., on instinct, 205.

Cyclostoma, resisting salt water, 353.

Dawson, Dr., on eozoon, 287.

Degradation of rocks, 266.

Development of ancient forms, 307.

Devonian system, 305.

Dianthus, fertility of crosses, 243.

Dimorphism in plants, 35, 252.

Dirt on feet of birds, 328.

Dispersal, means of, 323. —, during Glacial period, 330.

Distribution, geographical, 316. —, means of, 323.

Disuse, effect of, under nature, 108.

Diversification of means for same general purpose, 153.

Division, physiological, of labour, 89.

Divergence of character, 86.

Dog, resemblance of jaw to that of the Thylacinus, 374.

Domestication, variation under, 5.

Double flowers, 230.

Downing, Mr., on fruit-trees in America, 66.

Dragon-flies, intestines of, 147.

Drift-timber, 326.

Driver-ant, 232.

Drones killed by other bees, 164.

Duckweed, 344.

Dugong, affinities of, 365.

Dung-beetles with deficient tarsi, 108.

Dyticus, 345.

Earl, Mr., W., on the Malay Archipelago, 351.

Ears, drooping, in domestic animals, 8. —, rudimentary, 400.

Earth, seeds in roots of trees, 326. —, charged with seeds, 328.

Echinodermata, their pedicellariæ, 191.

Eciton, 230.

Economy of organisation, 117.

Edentata, teeth and hair, 115. —, fossil species of, 417.

Edwards, Milne, on physiological division of labour, 89. —, on gradations of structure, 156.

Edwards, on embryological characters, 368.

Eggs, young birds escaping from, 68.

Egypt, productions of, not modified, 169.

Electric organs, 150.

Elephant, rate of increase, 51. —, of Glacial period, 113.

Embryology, 386.

Eozoon Canadense, 287.

Epilipsy inherited, 108.

Existence, struggle for, 48. —, condition of, 167.

Eye, structure of, 144. —, correction for aberration, 163.

Eyes, reduced, in moles, 110.

Falkland Islands, wolf of, 351.

Faults, 268.

Faunas, marine, 317.

Fear, instinctive, in birds, 211.

Feet of birds, young molluscs adhering to, 345.

Fertilisation variously effected, 154, 161.

Fir-trees destroyed by cattle, 56. —, pollen of, 164.

Flat-fish, their structure, 186.

Flight, powers of, how acquired, 140.

Flint-tools, proving antiquity of man, 13.

Flower, Prof., on the larynx, 190. —, on Halitherium, 302. —, on the resemblance between the jaws of the dog and Thylacinus, 375. —, on the homology of the feet of certain marsupials, 382.

Flysch formation, destitute of organic remains, 271.

Forbes, Mr. D., on glacial action in the Andes, 335.

Forests, changes in, in America, 58.

Forms, lowly organised, long enduring, 99.

Frena, ovigerous, of cirripedes, 148.

Fresh-water productions, dispersal of, 343.

Fries on species in large genera being closely allied to other species, 45.

Frigate-bird, 142.

Frogs on islands, 350.

Fuci, crossed, 249, 343.

Fur, thicker in cold climates, 107.

Furze, 388.

Galapagos Archipelago, birds of, 348. —, productions of, 353, 355.

Galaxias, its wide range, 343.

Galeopithecus, 139.

Game, increase of, checked by vermin, 55.

Gaudry, Prof., on intermediate genera of fossil mammals in Attica, 301.

Geese, fertility when crossed, 307. —, upland, 142.

Geikie, Mr., on subaërial denudation, 267.

Genealogy, important in classification, 369.

Generations, alternate, 387.

Geographical distribution, 316.

Geography, ancient, 427.

Geology, future progress of, 427. —, imperfection of the record, 427.

Gervais, Prof., on Typotherium, 302.

Giraffe, tail of, 157. —, structure of, 177.

Glacial period, 330. —, affecting the North and South, 335.

Glands, mammary, 189.

Gmelin, on distribution, 330.

Godwin-Austin, Mr., on the Malay Archipelago, 280.

Goethe, on compensation of growth, 117.

Gomphia, 174.

Gooseberry, grafts of, 246.

Gould, Dr. Aug. A., on land-shells, 353.

Gourds, crossed, 258.

Graba, on the Uria lacrymans, 72.

Grafting, capacity of, 245, 246.

Granite, areas of denuded, 274.

Grasses, varieties of, 88.

Gray, Dr. J.E., on striped mule, 128.

Grebe, 142.

Grimm, on asexual reproduction, 387.

Groups, aberrant, 378.

Grouse, colours of, 66. —, red, a doubtful species, 38.

Growth, compensation of, 117.

Haast, Dr., on glaciers of New Zealand, 335.

Häckel, Prof., on classification and the lines of descent, 381.

Hair and teeth, correlated, 115.

Halitherium, 302.

Harcourt, Mr. E.V., on the birds of Madeira, 348.

Hartung, M., on boulders in the Azores, 328.

Hazel-nuts, 325.

Hearne, on habits of bears, 141.

Heath, changes in vegetation, 55.

Hector, Dr., on glaciers of New Zealand, 335.

Heer, Oswald, on ancient cultivated plants, 13. —, on plants of Madeira, 83.

Helianthemum, 174.

Helix, resisting salt water, 353.

Helix pomatia, 353.

Helmholtz, M., on the imperfection of the human eye, 163.

Helosciadium, 325.

Hemionus, striped, 128.

Hensen, Dr., on the eyes of Cephalopods, 152.

Herbert, W., on struggle for existence, 49. —, on sterility of hybrids, 238.

Hermaphrodites crossing, 76.

Heron eating seed, 346.

Heron, Sir R., on peacocks, 70.

Heusinger, on white animals poisoned by certain plants, 9.

Hewitt, Mr., on sterility of first crosses, 249.

Hildebrand, Prof., on the self-sterility of Corydalis, 238.

Hilgendorf, on intermediate varieties, 275.

Himalaya, glaciers of, 335. —, plants of, 337.

Hippeastrum, 238.

Hippocampus, 189.

Hofmeister, Prof., on the movements of plants, 197.

Holly-trees, sexes of, 73.

Hooks on palms, 158. —, on seeds, on islands, 349.

Hopkins, Mr., on denudation, 274.

Hornbill, remarkable instinct of, 234.

Horns, rudimentary, 400.

Horse, fossil in La Plata, 294. —, proportions of, when young, 392.

Horses destroyed by flies in Paraguay, 56. —, striped, 128.

Horticulturists, selection applied by, 23.

Huber on cells of bees, 224.

Hudson, Mr., on the Ground-woodpecker of La Plata, 142. —, on the Molothrus, 215.

Humble-bees, cells of, 221.

Hunter, J., on secondary sexual characters, 119.

Hutton, Captain, on crossed geese, 240.

Hybrids and mongrels compared, 259.

Hybridism, 235.

Hydra, structure of, 147.

Hymenoptera, fighting, 69.

Hymenopterous insect, diving, 142.

Hyoseris, 173.

Ibla, 118.

Icebergs transporting seeds, 329.

Increase, rate of, 50.

Individuals, numbers favourable to selection, 80. —, many, whether simultaneously created, 322.

Inheritance, laws of, 10. —, at corresponding ages, 10, 67.

Instinct, 205. —, , not varying simultaneously with structure, 229.

Instincts, domestic, 209.

Intercrossing, advantages of, 76, 251.

Islands, oceanic, 347.

Isolation favourable to selection, 81.

Japan, productions of, 334.

Java, plants of, 337.

Jones, Mr. J.M., on the birds of Bermuda, 348.

Jordain, M., on the eye-spots of star fishes, 144.

Jukes, Prof., on subaërial denudation, 267.

Jussieu on classification, 367.

Kentucky, caves of, 111.

Kerguelen-land, flora of, 341, 354.

Kidney-bean, acclimatisation of, 114.

Kidneys of birds, 115.

Kirby, on tarsi deficient in beetles, 108.

Knight, Andrew, on cause of variation, 5.

Lamarck, on adaptive characters, 373.

Lancelet, 99. —, , eyes of, 145.

Landois, on the development of the wings of insects, 148.

Languages, classification of, 371.

Lankester, Mr. E. Ray, on longevity, 169. —, on homologies, 385.

Lapse, great, of time, 266.

Larvæ, 388, 389.

Laurel, nectar secreted by the leaves, 73.

Laurentian formation, 287.

Laws of variation, 106.

Leech, varieties of, 59.

Leguminosæ, nectar secreted by glands, 73.

Leibnitz’ attack on Newton, 421.

Lepidosiren, 83, 303. —, , limbs in a nascent condition, 398, 399.

Lewes, Mr. G.H., on species not having changed in Egypt, 169. —, on the Salamandra atra, 397. —, on many forms of life having been at first evolved, 425.

Life, struggle for, 49.

Lingula, Silurian, 286.

Linnæus, aphorism of, 365.

Lion, mane of, 69. —, young of, striped, 388.

Lobelia fulgens, 57, 77.

Lobelia, sterility of crosses, 238.

Lockwood, Mr., on the ova of the Hippocampus, 189.

Locusts transporting seeds, 327.

Logan, Sir W., on Laurentian formation, 287.

Lowe, Rev. R.T., on locusts visiting Madeira, 327.

Lowness, of structure connected with variability, 118. —, related to wide distribution, 359.

Lucas, Dr. P., on inheritance, 9. —, on resemblance of child to parent, 261.

Lund and Clausen, on fossils of Brazil, 310.

Lyell, Sir C., on the struggle for existence, 49. —, on modern changes of the earth, 75. —, on terrestrial animals not having been developed on islands, 180. —, on a carboniferous land-shell, 271. —, on strata beneath Silurian system, 287. —, on the imperfection of the geological record, 289. —, on the appearance of species, 289. —, on Barrande’s colonies, 291. —, on tertiary formations of Europe and North America, 298. —, on parallelism of tertiary formations, 301. —, on transport of seeds by icebergs, 328. —, on great alternations of climate, 342. —, on the distribution of fresh-water shells, 345. —, on land-shells of Madeira, 357.

Lyell and Dawson, on fossilized trees in Nova Scotia, 278.

Lythrum salicaria, trimorphic, 254.

Macleay, on analogical characters, 373.

Macrauchenia, 302.

McDonnell, Dr., on electric organs, 150.

Magpie tame in Norway, 209.

Males, fighting, 69.

Maize, crossed, 257.

Malay Archipelago, compared with Europe, 280. —, mammals of, 352.

Malm, on flat-fish, 186.

Malpighiaceæ, small imperfect flowers of, 173.

Malpighiaceæ, 367.

Mammæ, their development, 189. —, rudimentary, 397.

Mammals, fossil, in secondary formation, 283. —, insular, 351.

Man, origin of, 428.

Manatee, rudimentary nails of, 400.

Martens, M., experiment on seeds, 325.

Martin, Mr. W.C., on striped mules, 129.

Masters, Dr., on Saponaria, 174.

Matteucci, on the electric organs of rays, 150.

Matthiola, reciprocal crosses of, 244.

Maurandia, 197.

Means of dispersal, 323.

Melipona domestica, 220.

Merrill, Dr., on the American cuckoo, 212.

Metamorphism of oldest rocks, 287.

Miller, Prof., on the cells of bees, 221, 224.

Mirabilis, crosses of, 243.

Missel-thrush, 59.

Mistletoe, complex relations of, 2.

Mocking-thrush of the Galapagos, 357.

Modification of species, not abrupt, 424.

Moles, blind, 110.

Molothrus, habits of, 215.

Mongrels, fertility and sterility of, 255. —, and hybrids compared, 259.

Monkeys, fossil, 284, 285.

Monachanthus, 372.

Mons, Van, on the origin of fruit-trees, 21.

Monstrosities, 33.

Moquin-Tandon, on sea-side plants, 107.

Morphology, 382.

Morren, on the leaves of Oxalis, 197.

Moths, hybrid, 240.

Mozart, musical powers of, 206.

Mud, seeds in, 345.

Mules, striped, 129.

Müller, Adolph, on the instincts of the cuckoo, 213.

Müller, Dr. Ferdinand, on Alpine Australian plants, 337.

Multiplication of species not indefinite, 101.

Murie, Dr., on the modification of the skull in old age, 149.

Murray, Mr. A., on cave-insects, 111.

Mustela vison, 138.

Myanthus, 372.

Myrmecocystus, 231.

Myrmica, eyes of, 232.

Nägeli, on morphological characters, 170.

Nails, rudimentary, 400.

Nathusius, Von, on pigs, 159.

Naturalisation of forms distinct from the indigenous species, 89. —, in New Zealand, 163.

Nautilus, Silurian, 286.

Nectar of plants, 73.

Nectaries, how formed, 73.

Nelumbium luteum, 346.

Nests, variation in, 208, 228, 234.

Neuter insects, 230, 231.

Newman, Col., on humble-bees, 57.

Newton, Prof., on earth attached to a partridge’s foot, 328.

Newton, Sir I., attacked for irreligion, 421.

Nicotiana, crossed varieties of, 258. —, certain species very sterile, 243.

Nitsche, Dr., on the Polyzoa, 193.

Noble, Mr., on fertility of Rhododendron, 239.

Nodules, phosphatic, in azoic rocks, 287.

Oaks, variability of, 40.

Œnonis, small imperfect flowers of, 173.

Onites apelles, 108.

Orchis, pollen of, 151.

Organisation, tendency to advance, 97.

Ornithorhynchus, 83, 367. —, mammæ of, 190.

Otter, habits of, how acquired, 138.

Ouzel, water, 142.

Pacific Ocean, faunas of, 317.

Pacini, on electric organs, 151.

Paley, on no organ formed to give pain, 163.

Pallas, on the fertility of the domesticated descendants of wild stocks, 241.

Palm with hooks, 158.

Papaver bracteatum, 174.

Paraguay, cattle destroyed by flies, 56.

Parasites, 215.

Partridge, with ball of dirt attached to foot, 328.

Parts greatly developed, variable, 119.

Parus major, 141.

Passiflora, 238.

Peaches in United States, 66.

Pear, grafts of, 246.

Pedicellariæ, 191.

Pelargonium, flowers of, 166. —, sterility of, 239.

Peloria, 116.

Pelvis of women, 115.

Period, glacial, 330.

Petrels, habits of, 142.

Phasianus, fertility of hybrids, 240.

Pheasant, young, wild, 211.

Pictet, Prof., on groups of species suddenly appearing, 282. —, on rate of organic change, 291. —, on continuous succession of genera, 293. —, on change in latest tertiary forms, 278. —, on close alliance of fossils in consecutive formations, 306. —, on early transitional links, 283.

Pierce, Mr., on varieties of wolves, 71.

Pigs, black, not affected by the paint-root, 9. —, modified by want of exercise, 159.

Pistil, rudimentary, 397.

Pleuronectidæ, their structure, 186.

Plumage, laws of change in sexes of birds, 70.

Plums in the United States, 66.

Pointer dog, origin of, 25. —, habits of, 210.

Poison not affecting certain coloured animals, 9.

Poison, similar effect of, on animals and plants, 425.

Pollen of fir-trees, 164. —, transported by various means, 154, 161.

Pollinia, their development, 195.

Polyzoa, their avicularia, 193.

Poole, Col., on striped hemionus, 128.

Potemogeton, 346.

Pouchet, on the colours of flat-fish, 188.

Prestwich, Mr., on English and French eocene formations, 300.

Proctotrupes, 142.

Proteolepas, 118.

Proteus, 112.

Psychology, future progress of, 428.

Pyrgoma, found in the chalk, 284.

Quagga, striped, 129.

Quatrefages, M., on hybrid moths, 240.

Quercus, variability of, 40.

Quince, grafts of, 246.

Rabbit, disposition of young, 211.

Races, domestic, characters of, 12.

Race-horses, Arab, 26. —, English, 323.

Radcliffe, Dr., the electrical organs of the torpedo, 150.

Ramond, on plants of Pyrenees, 331.

Ramsay, Mr., on instincts of cuckoo, 213.

Ratio of increase, 50.

Rattle-snake, 162.

Reason and instinct, 205.

Recapitulation, general, 404.

Reciprocity of crosses, 243.

Record, geological, imperfect, 264.

Rengger, on flies destroying cattle, 56.

Reproduction, rate of, 50.

Resemblance, protective, of insects, 181. —, to parents in mongrels and hybrids, 260.

Reversion, law of inheritance, 11. —, in pigeons, to blue colour, 127.

Rhododendron, sterility of, 239.

Richard, Prof., on Aspicarpa, 367.

Richardson, Sir J., on structure of squirrels, 139. —, on fishes of the southern hemisphere, 338.

Robinia, grafts of, 246.

Rodents, blind, 110.

Rogers, Prof., Map of N. America, 274.

Rudimentary organs, 397.

Rudiments important for classification, 367.

Rütimeyer, on Indian cattle, 14, 241.

Sageret, on grafts, 246.

Salamandra atra, 397.

Saliva used in nests, 228.

Salmons, males fighting, and hooked jaws of, 69.

Salt-water, how far injurious to seeds, 325. —, not destructive to land-shells, 353.

Salter, Mr., on early death of hybrid embryos, 249.

Salvin, Mr., on the beaks of ducks, 184.

Saurophagus sulphuratus, 141.

Schacht, Prof., on Phyllotaxy, 173.

Schiödte, on blind insects, 110. —, on flat-fish, 186.

Schlegel, on snakes, 115.

Schöbl, Dr., on the ears of mice, 172.

Scott, Mr. J., on the self-sterility of orchids, 238. —, on the crossing of varieties of verbascum, 258.

Sea-water, how far injurious to seeds, 325. —, not destructive to land-shells, 325.

Sebright, Sir J., on crossed animals, 15.

Sedgwick, Prof., on groups of species suddenly appearing, 282.

Seedlings destroyed by insects, 53.

Sexes, relations of, 69.

Sexual characters variable, 123. —, selection, 69.

Shrew-mouse, 373.

Silene, infertility of crosses, 243.

Silliman, Prof., on blind rat, 110.

Sirenia, their affinities, 302.

Sitaris, metamorphosis of, 394.

Skulls of young mammals, 159, 384.

Slave-making instinct, 216.

Smith, Col. Hamilton, on striped horses, 129.

Smith, Dr., on the Polyzoa, 193.

Smith, Mr. Fred., on slave-making ants, 217. —, on neuter ants, 231.

Snake with tooth for cutting through egg-shell, 214.

Somerville, Lord, on selection of sheep, 23.

Sorbus, grafts of, 246.

Sorex, 373.

Spaniel, King Charles’ breed, 25.

Specialisation of organs, 98.

Spencer, Lord, on increase in size of cattle, 26.

Spencer, Mr. Herbert, on the first steps in differentiation, 100. —, on the tendency to an equilibrium in all forces, 252.

Sphex, parasitic, 216.

Spiders, development of, 390.

Sports in plants, 8.

Sprengel, C.C., on crossing, 76. —, on ray-florets, 116.

Squalodon, 302.

Squirrels, gradations in structure, 139.

Staffordshire, heath, changes in, 55.

Stag-beetles, fighting, 69.

Star fishes, eyes of, 144. —, their pedicellariæ, 192.

St. Helena, productions of, 347.

St. Hilaire, Aug., on variability of certain plants, 174. —, on classification, 368.

St. John, Mr., on habits of cats, 209.

Sting of bee, 163.

Stocks, aboriginal, of domestic animals, 14.

Strata, thickness of, in Britain, 268, 269.

Stripes on horses, 128.

Structure, degrees of utility of, 159.

Struggle for existence, 48.

Succession, geological, 290. —, of types in same areas, 310.

Swallow, one species supplanting another, 59.

Swaysland, Mr., on earth adhering to the feet of migratory birds, 328.

Swifts, nests of, 228.

Swim-bladder, 148.

Switzerland, lake habitations of, 13.

System, natural, 364.

Tanais, dimorphic, 36.

Tarsi deficient, 108.

Tausch, Dr., on umbelliferæ, 173.

Teeth and hair correlated, 115. —, rudimentary, in embryonic calf, 397, 420.

Tegetmeier, Mr., on cells of bees, 222, 226.

Temminck, on distribution aiding classification, 369.

Tendrils, their development, 196.

Thompson, Sir W., on the age of the habitable world, 286. —, on the consolidation of the crust of the earth, 409.

Thouin, on grafts, 246.

Thuret, M., on crossed fuci, 243.

Thwaites, Mr., on acclimatisation, 112.

Thylacinus, 374.

Tierra del Fuego, dogs of, 211. —, plants of, 341.

Timber-drift, 326.

Time, lapse of, 266. —, by itself not causing modification, 81.

Titmouse, 141.

Toads on islands, 350.

Tobacco, crossed varieties of, 258.

Tomes, Mr., on the distribution of bats, 351.

Transitions in varieties rare, 134.

Traquair, Dr., on flat-fish, 188.

Trautschold, on intermediate varieties, 275.

Trees on islands belong to peculiar orders, 350. —, with separated sexes, 78.

Trifolium pratense, 57, 75. —, incarnatum, 75.

Trigonia, 296.

Trilobites, 286. —, sudden extinction of, 297.

Trimen, Mr., on imitating-insects, 377.

Trimorphism in plants, 35, 252.

Troglodytes, 234.

Tuco-tuco, blind, 110.

Tumbler pigeons, habits of, hereditary, 210. —, young of, 392.

Turkey-cock, tuft of hair on breast, 70.

—, naked skin on head, 158. —, young of, instinctively wild, 265.

Turnip and cabbage, analogous variations of, 125.

Type, unity of, 166, 167.

Types, succession of, in same areas, 310.

Typotherium, 302.

Udders enlarged by use, 8. —, rudimentary, 397.

Ulex, young leaves of, 388.

Umbelliferæ, flowers and seeds of, 116. —, outer and inner florets of, 173.

Unity of type, 166, 167.

Uria lacrymans, 72.

Use, effects of, under domestication, 8. —, effects of, in a state of nature, 108.

Utility, how far important in the construction of each part, 159.

Valenciennes, on fresh-water fish, 344.

Variability of mongrels and hybrids, 259.

Variation, under domestication, 5. —, caused by reproductive system being affected by conditions of life, 7. —, under nature, 33. —, laws of, 106. —, correlated, 9, 114, 159.

Variations appear at corresponding ages, 10, 67. —, analogous in distinct species, 124.

Verbascum, sterility of, 238. —, varieties of, crossed, 258.

Verlot, M., on double stocks, 230.

Verneuil, M. de, on the succession of species, 299.

Vibracula of the Polyzoa, 193.

Viola, small imperfect flowers of, 173. —, tricolor, 57.

Virchow, on the structure of the crystalline lens, 145.

Virginia, pigs of, 66.

Volcanic islands, denudation of, 268.

Vulture, naked skin on head, 158.

Wading-birds, 375.

Wagner, Dr., on Cecidomyia, 387.

Wagner, Moritz, on the importance of isolation, 81.

Walsh, Mr. B.D., on phytophagic forms, 38. —, on equal variability, 125.

Water, fresh, productions of, 343.

Water-hen, 143.

Water-ouzel, 142.

Watson, Mr. H.C., on range of varieties of British plants, 37, 46. —, on acclimatisation, 112. —, on flora of Azores, 328. —, on rarity of intermediate varieties, 136. —, on Alpine plants, 331. —, on convergence, 100. —, on the indefinite multiplication of species, 101.

Weale, Mr., on locusts transporting seeds, 327.

Web of feet in water-birds, 142.

Weismann, Prof., on the causes of variability, 6. —, on rudimentary organs, 400.

West Indian islands, mammals of, 352.

Westwood, on species in large genera being closely allied to others, 45. —, on the tarsi of Engidæ, 124. —, on the antennæ of hymenopterous insects, 366.

Whales, 182.

Wheat, varieties of, 88.

White Mountains, flora of, 330.

Whittaker, Mr., on lines of escarpment, 267.

Wichura, Max, on hybrids, 249, 251, 260.

Wolf crossed with dog, 210. —, of Falkland Isles, 351.

Wolves, varieties of, 71.

Woodcock with earth attached to leg, 328.

Woodpecker, habits of, 141. —, green colour of, 158.

World, species changing simultaneously throughout, 297.

Wrens, nest of, 234.

Wright, Mr. Chauncey, on the giraffe, 178. —, on abrupt modifications, 203.

Wyman, Prof., on correlation of colour and effects of poison, 9. —, on the cells of the bee, 22.

Zanthoxylon, 174.

Zebra, stripes on, 128.

Zeuglodon, 302.