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INDEX 541 Bates, Mr., on mimetic butterflies, 46s, 466. Batrachians on islands, 435. Bats, how structure acquired, 186. ' , distribution of, 437. Bear, catcliing water-insects, 188. Beauty, how acquired, 209, 511. Bee, sting of, 214. , queen, killing rivals, 214. , Australian, extermination of, 90. Bees fertilising flowers, 88. • , hive, not sucking the red clover, 108. I , Ligurian, 108. , hive, cell-making instinct, 279. , variation in habits, 266. -, parasitic, 275. humble, cells of, 280. Beetles, wingless, in Maderia, 148. with deficient tarsi, 148. Bentham, Mr., on British plants, 63. , on classification, 457. Berkeley, Mr., on seeds in salt water, 405- Bermuda, birds of, 433. Birds acquiring fear, 266. , beauty of, 212. annually cross the Atlantic, 410. -, colour of, on continents, 146. — , footsteps, and remains of, in secondary rocks, 357. fossil, in caves of Brazil, 388. of Madeira, Bermuda, and Galapagos, 433. Birds, song of males, 102. transporting seeds, 409. • , waders, 430. , wingless, 147, 186, 187. Bizcacha, 398. , affinities of, 469. Bladder for swimming, in fish, 195. Blindness of cave animals, 150. Blyth, Mr., on distinctness of Indian cattle, 35. , on striped hemionus, 171. , on crossed geese, 304. Borrow, Mr., on the Spanish pointer, Bory St. Vincent, on Batrachians, 435- Bosquet, M., on fossil Chthamalus, 357- Boulders, erratic, on the Azores, 308. BranchiK, 196, 197. of crustaceans, 20:. Braun, Prof., on the seeds of Fuma- riaceae, 226. Brent, Mr., on house-tumblers, 268. Britain, mammals of, 437. Broca, Prof., on Natural Selection, 222. Bronn, Prof., on duration of specific forms, 347. f , various objections by, 222. Brown,^ Robert, on classification, 453. , Sequard, on inherited mutila- tions, 148. Busk, Mr., on the Polyzoa, 248. I'utterflies, mimetic, 465, 466. Buzareingues, on sterility of varie- ties, 325. Cabbage, varieties of, crossed, 112. Calceolaria, 303. Canary-birds, sterility of hybrids, 303- Cape de Verde islands, productions of, 440. , plants of, on mountains, 420. Cape of Good Hope, plants of, 140, 432. Carpenter, Dr.. on foraminifera, 385. Carthamus, 225. Catasctum, 204, 461. Cats, with blue eyes, deaf, 29. , variation in habits of, 267. curline; tail when going to spring, 213. Cattle destroying fir-trees, 86. destroyed by flies in Paraguay, 86. , breeds of, locally extinct, 121. fertility of Indian and Euro- pean breeds, 304. , Indian, 35, 305. Cave, inhabitants of, blind, 150. Cecidomyia, 478. Celts, proving antiquity of man, 35. Centres of Creation, 400. Cephalopoda, structures of eyes, 200. , development of, 482. Cercopithecus, tail of, 243. Ceroxylus laceratus, 236. Cervulus, 304. Cetacea, teeth and hair, 156. , development of the whalebone, 236. Cetaceans, 236. Ceylon, plants of, 420. Chalk formation, 373. Characters, divergence of, 121. , sexual, variable, 161, 165. —— , adaptive or analogical, 462. Charlock, 90. Checks to increase, 83. , mutual, 85. Chela of Crustaceans, 248. Chickens, instinctive tameness of 269. Chironomus, its asexual reproduction, 478. Chthamalina;, 341. Chthamalus, cretacean species of, 357- Circumstances favourable to selec- tion of domestic products, 53. —— to n.itural selection, 114. Cirripedes capable of crossing, 113. , carapace aborted, 159.