BABINGTON, C. C., on the origin of the plum, 10;
—British species of the genus Rosa, 10;
—distinctness of Viola lutea and tricolor, 10.
BACHMANN, Mr., on the turkey, 22.
See also Audubon. BADGER, breeding in confinement, 18.
“BAGADOTTEN-TAUBE,” 5.
BAILY, Mr., on the effect of selection on fowls, 20;
—on Dorking fowls, 21.
BAIRD, S., on the origin of the turkey, 8.
BAKER, Mr., on heredity in the horse, 12;
—on the degeneration of the horse by neglect, 21;
—orders of Henrys VII. and VIII. for the destruction of undersized mares, 20.
BAKEWELL, change in the sheep effected by, 20.
BALANCEMENT, 26 (2);
—of growth, law of, 26.
BALDHEAD (pigeon), 5.
BALDNESS, in man, inherited, 25;
—with deficiency in teeth, 25 (2).
BALLANCE, Mr., on the effects of interbreeding on fowls, 17;
—on variation in the eggs of fowls, 7.
Ballota nigra, transmission of variegated leaves in, 11.
BAMBOO, varieties of the, 22.
BANANA, variation of the, 10, 22;
—bud-variation in the, 11;
—sterility of the, 22.
BANTAM fowls, 7;
—Sebright, origin of, 15;
—sterility of, 16.
BARB (pigeon), 5 (2), 6, 21;
—figure of, 5;
—figure of lower jaw of, 5.
BARBS, of wheat, 9.
BARBERRY, dark or red-leaved variety, 10, 12;
—reversion in suckers of seedless variety, 11.
BARBUT, J., on the dogs of Guinea, 1;
—on the domestic pigeons in Guinea, 6;
—fowls not native in Guinea, 7.
BARKING, acquisition of the habit of, by various dogs, 1.
BARLEY, wild, 9;
—of the lake-dwellings, 9;
—ancient variety of, 28.
BARNES, Mr., production of early peas by selection, 20.
BARNET, Mr., on the intercrossing of strawberries, 10;
—diœciousness of the hautbois strawberry, 10;
—on the Scarlet American strawberry, 20.
BARTH, Dr., use of grass-seeds as food in Central Africa, 9.
BARTLETT, A. D., on the origin of “Himalayan” rabbits by intercrossing, 4;
—on the feral rabbits of Porto Santo, 4;
—on geese with reversed feathers on the head and neck, 8;
—on the young of the black-shouldered peacock, 8;
—on a variety of the turkey, 8;
—size of hybrids, 17;
—on the breeding of the Felidæ in captivity, 18;
—so-called hybrids, 25.
BARTRAM, on the black wolf-dog of Florida, 1.
BATES, H. W., refusal of wild animals to breed in captivity, 18 (2);
—sterility of American monkeys in captivity, 18;
—sterility of tamed guans, 18.
BATRACHIA, regeneration of lost parts in, 27.
BEACH, raised, in Peru, containing heads of maize, 9.
BEAK, variability of, in fowls, 7;
—individual differences of, in pigeons, 5;
—correlation of, with the feet in pigeons, 5.
BEALE, Lionel, on the contents of cells, 27;
—on the multiplication of infectious atoms, 27.
BEANS, 9;
—of Swiss lake-dwellings, 9;
—varieties of, produced by selection, 20;
—French and scarlet, variable resistance of, to frost, 24 (2);
—superiority of native seed of, 24;
—a symmetrical variation of scarlet, 27;
—experiments on kidney, 8;
—with monstrous stipules and abortive leaflets, 26.
BEARD pigeon, 5.
BEARS, breeding in captivity, 18.
BEASLEY, J., reversion in crossed cattle, 13.
BEATON, D., effect of soil upon strawberries, 10;
—on varieties of pelargonium, 10, 23 (2);
—bud-variation in Gladiolus colvilii, 11;
—cross between Scotch kail and cabbage, 15;
—hybrid gladiolus, 17;
—constant occurrence of new forms among seedlings, 21;
—on the doubling of the Compositæ, 24.
BECHUANA cattle, 3.
BECHSTEIN, on the burrowing of wolves, 1;
—Spitz Dog, 1;
—origin of the Newfoundland dog, 1;
—crossing of domestic and wild swine, 3;
—on the Jacobin pigeon, 5, 6;
—notice of swallow-pigeons, 5;
—on a fork-tailed pigeon, 5;
—variations in the colour of the croup in pigeons, 6;
—on the German dovecot pigeon, 6;
—fertility of mongrel-pigeons, 6;
—on hybrid turtle-doves, 6;
—on crossing the pigeon with Columba œnas, C. palumbus, Turtur risoria, and T. vulgaris, 6;
—development of spurs in the silk hen, 7;
—on Polish fowls, 7 (2);
—on crested birds, 7;
—on the canary-bird, 8, 12, 18;
—German superstition about the turkey, 8;
—occurrence of horns in hornless breeds of sheep, 13;
—hybrids of the horse and ass, 14;
—crosses of tailless fowls, 15;
—difficulty of pairing dove-cot and fancy pigeons, 16;
—fertility of tame ferrets and rabbits, 16;
—fertility of wild sow, 16;
—difficulty of breeding caged birds, 18;
—comparative fertility of Psittacus erithacus in captivity, 18;
—on changes of plumage in captivity, 18;
—liability of light-coloured cattle to the attacks of flies, 21;
—want of exercise a cause of variability, 22;
—effect of privation of light upon the plumage of birds, 23;
—on a sub-variety of the monk-pigeon, 26.
BECK, Mr., constitutional differences in pelargoniums, 10.
BECKMANN, on changes in the odours of plants, 23.
BEDDOE, Dr., correlation of complexion with consumption, 25.
BEE, persistency of character of, 21, 22;
—intercrossing, 17;
—conveyance of pollen of peas by, 9.
BEE OPHRYS, self-fertilisation of, 15.
BEECH, dark-leaved, 10, 12;
—fern-leaved, reversion of, 11;
—weeping, non-production of, by seed, 12.
BEECHEY, horses of Loochoo Islands, 2.
BEET, 9;
—increase of sugar in, by selection, 20.
Begonia frigida, singular variety of, 10;
—sterility of, 18.
BELGIAN rabbit, 4.
BELL, T., statement that white cattle have coloured ears, 3.
BELL, W., bud-variation in Paritium tricuspis, 11.
BELLINGERI, observations on gestation in the dog, 1
—on the fertility of dogs and cats, 16.
BELON, on high-flying pigeons in Paphlagonia, 6;
—varieties of the goose, 8.
BENGUELA, cattle of, 3.
BENNETT, Dr. G., pigs of the Pacific Islands, 3, 15;
—dogs of the Pacific Islands, 15;
—varieties of cultivated plants in Tahiti, 22.
BENNETT, Mr., on the fallow deer, 16.
BENTHAM, G., number and origin of cultivated plants, 9;
—on Phaseolus, 9;
—cereals all cultivated varieties, 9;
—species of the orange group, 10;
—distinctions of almond and peach, 10;
—British species of Rosa, 10;
—identity of Viola lutea and tricolor, 10.
Berberis vulgaris, 11, 12.
Berberis wallichii, indifference of, to climate, 18.
BERJEAU, on the history of the dog, 1 (2).
BERKELEY, G. F., production of hen-cocks in a strain of game-fowls, 7.
BERKELEY, M. J., crossing of varieties of the pea, 11;
—effect of foreign pollen on grapes, 11;
—on hybrid plants, 17;
—analogy between pollen of highly-cultivated plants and hybrids, 22;
—on Hungarian kidney-beans, 23;
—failure of Indian wheat in England, 24.
BERNARD, inheritance of disease in the horse, 12.
BERNARD, C., independence of the organs of the body, 27;
—special affinities of the tissues, 27.
BERNHARDI, varieties of plants with laciniated leaves, 26.
Bernicla antarctica, 8.
BERTERO, on feral pigeons in Juan Fernandez, 6.
Betula alba, 12.
BEWICK, on the British wild cattle, 3.
BIANCONI, Prof., on the skulls of dogs, 1.
BIBLE, reference to breeding studs of horses in, 2;
—references to domestic pigeons in the, 6;
—indications of selection of sheep in the, 20;
—notice of mules in the, 20.
BIDWELL, Mr., on self-impotence in Amaryllis, 17.
Bignonia, self-sterility of, 17.
BIRCH, weeping, 11, 12.
BIRCH, Dr. S., on the ancient domestication of the pigeon in Egypt, 6;
—notice of bantam fowls in a Japanese encyclopædia, 7 (2).
BIRCH, WYRLEY, on silver-grey rabbits, 4 (2).
BIRDS, sterility caused in, by change of conditions, 18.
BLADDER-NUT, tendency of the, to become double, 18.
BLAINE, Mr., on wry-legged terriers, 21.
BLAINVILLE, origin and history of the dog, 1;
—variations in the number of teeth in dogs, 1;
—variations in the number of toes in dogs, 1;
—on mummies of cats, 1;
—on the osteology of solid-hoofed pigs, 3;
—on feral Patagonian and N. American pigs, 3.
“BLASS-TAUBE,” 5
BLEEDING, hereditary, 12;
—sexual limitation of excessive, 14.
BLENDING of crossed races, time occupied by the, 15.
BLINDNESS, hereditary, 12;
—at a certain age, 14;
—associated with colour of hair, 25.
BLOODHOUNDS, degeneration of, caused by interbreeding, 17.
BLUMENBACH, on the protuberance of the skull in Polish fowls, 7;
—on the effect of circumcision, 12;
—inheritance of a crooked finger, 12;
—on badger-dogs and other varieties of the dog, 20;
—on Hydra, 24;
—on the “nisus formativus,” 24.
BLYTH, E., on the pariah dog, 1;
—hybrids of dog and jackal, 1;
—early domestication of cats in India, 1;
—origin of domestic cat, 1;
—crossing of domestic and wild cats, 1;
—on Indian cats resembling Felis chaus, 1;
—on striped Burmese ponies, 2;
—on the stripes of the ass, 2;
—on Indian wild pigs, 3;
—on humped cattle, 3;
—occurrence of Bos frontosus in Irish crannoges, 3;
—fertile crossing of zebus and common cattle, 3;
—on the species of sheep, 3;
—on the fat-tailed Indian sheep, 3;
—origin of the goat, 3;
—on rabbits breeding in India, 4;
—number of tail-feathers in fantails, 5;
—Lotan tumbler pigeons, 5;
—number of tail-feathers in Ectopistes, 2;
—on Columba affinis, 6;
—pigeons roosting in trees, 6;
—on Columba leuconota, 6;
—on Columba intermedia of Strickland, 6;
—variation in colour of croup in pigeons, 6 (3);
—voluntary domestication of rock-pigeons in India, 6;
—feral pigeons on the Hudson, 6;
—occurrence of sub-species of pigeons, 6;
—notice of pigeon-fanciers in Delhi, etc., 6;
—hybrids of Gallus sonneratii and the domestic hen, 7;
—supposed hybridity of Gallus temminckii, 7;
—variations and domestication of Gallus bankiva, 7 (2);
—crossing of wild and tame fowls in Burmah, 7;
—restricted range of the larger gallinaceous birds, 7;
—feral fowls in the Nicobar Islands, 7;
—black-skinned fowls occurring near Calcutta, 7;
—weight of Gallus bankiva, 7;
—degeneration of the turkey in India, 8, 23;
—on the colour of gold-fish, 8;
—reversion from a cross, 13;
—on the Ghor-Khur (Asinus indicus), 13;
—on Asinus hemionus, 13;
—number of eggs of Gallus bankiva, 16;
—on the breeding of birds in captivity, 18;
—co-existence of large and small breeds in the same country, 23;
—on the drooping ears of the elephant, 24;
—homology of leg and wing feathers, 25.
BOETHIUS on Scotch wild cattle, 3.
BOITARD and Corbié, on the breeds of pigeons, 5;
—Lille pouter pigeon, 5;
—notice of a gliding pigeon, 5;
—variety of the pouter pigeon, 5;
—dove-cot pigeon, 6;
—crossing pigeons, 6, 15, 17;
—sterility of hybrids of turtle-doves, 6;
—reversion of crossed pigeons, 6, 13;
—on the fantail, 6, 14;
—on the trumpeter, 14;
—prepotency of transmission in silky fantail, 14 (2);
—secondary sexual characters in pigeons, 14;
—crossing of white and coloured turtle-doves, 15;
—fertility of pigeons, 16.
BOMBYCIDÆ, wingless females of, 24.
Bombyx hesperus, 24.
Bombyx huttoni, 8.
Bombyx mori, 8.
BONAFOUS, on maize, 9. BONAPARTE, number of species of Columbidæ, 5;
—number of tail-feathers in pigeons, 5;
—size of the feet in Columbidæ, 5;
—on Columba guinea, 6;
—Columba turricola, rupestris and schimperi, 6.
Bonatea speciosa, development of ovary of, 11.
BONAVIA, Dr., growth of cauliflowers in India, 24.
BONER, Mr., semi-feral sheep, 13.
BONES, removal of portions of, 24;
—regeneration of, 24;
—growth and repair of, 27.
BONIZZI, on pigeons, 5 (2).
BONNET, on the salamander, 27;
—theory of reproduction, 27 (2).
BORCHMEYER, experiments with the seeds of the weeping ash, 12.
BORECOLE, 9.
BORELLI, on Polish fowls, 7.
BORNEO, fowls of, with tail-bands, 7.
BORNET, E., condition of the ovary in hybrid Cisti, 11;
—self-impotence of hybrid Cisti, 17.
BORROW, G., on pointers, 1.
BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, on gold-fish, 8.
Bos, probable origin of European domestic cattle from three species of, 3.
Bos frontosus, 3.
Bos indicus, 3.
Bos longifrons, 3 (3).
Bos primigenius, 3 (2), 17. Bos sondaicus, 20.
Bos taurus, 3.
Bos trochoceros, 3.
BOSC, heredity in foliage-varieties of the elm, 10.
BOSSE, production of double flowers from old seed, 18.
BOSSI, on breeding dark-coloured silkworms, 8.
BOSMAN, on dogs of Guinea, 1.
BOUCHARDAT, on the vine disease, 10.
BOUDIN, on local diseases, 23;
—resistance to cold of dark-complexioned men, 25.
“BOULANS,” 5.
“BOUTON d’Alep,” 23.
BOWEN, Prof., doubts as to the importance of inheritance, 12.
BOWMAN, Mr., hereditary peculiarities in the human eye, 12;
—hereditary cataract, 14.
BRACE, Mr., on Hungarian cattle, 3.
Brachycome iberidifolia, 22.
BRACTS, unusual development of, in gooseberries, 10.
BRADLEY, Mr., effect of grafts upon the stock in the ash, 11;
—effect of foreign pollen upon apples, 11;
—on change of soil, 18.
“BRAHMA Pootras,” a new breed of fowls, 7.
BRAIN, proportion of, in hares and rabbits, 4.
BRANDT, Dr., origin of the goat, 3;
—correlation of teeth and hair, 25.
Brassica, varieties of, with enlarged stems, 26.
Brassica asperifolia, 26.
Brassica napus, 9.
Brassica oleracea, 9.
Brassica rapa, 9, 18.
BRAUN, A., bud-variation in the vine, 11;
—in the currant, 11;
—in Mirabilis jalapa, 11;
—in Cytisus adami, 11;
—on reversion in the foliage of trees, 11;
—spontaneous production of Cytisus purpureo-elongatus, 11;
—reversion of flowers by stripes and blotches, 13;
—excess of nourishment a source of variability, 22.
BRAZIL, cattle of, 3.
BREAD-FRUIT, varieties of, 22;
—sterility and variability of, 22.
BREE, W. T., bud-variation in Geranium pratense and Centaurea cyanus, 11;
—by tubers in the dahlia, 11;
—on the deafness of white cats with blue eyes, 25.
BREEDING, high, dependent on inheritance, 12 (2).
BREEDS, domestic, persistency of, 21;
—artificial and natural, 28 (2);
—extinction of, 28;
—of domestic cats, 1;
—of pigs produced by crossing, 3;
—of cattle, 3 (2);
—of goats, 3.
BREHM, on Columba amaliæ, 6.
BRENT, B. P., number of mammæ in rabbits, 4;
—habits of the tumbler pigeon, 5;
—Laugher pigeon, 5;
—colouring of the kite tumbler, 5;
—crossing of the pigeon with Columba œnas, 6;
—mongrels of the trumpeter pigeon, 14;
—close interbreeding of pigeons, 17;
—opinion on Aldrovandi’s fowls, 7;
—on stripes in chickens, 7;
—on the combs of fowls, 7;
—double-spurred Dorking fowls, 7;
—effect of crossing on colour of plumage in fowls, 7;
—-incubatory instinct of mongrels between non-setting varieties of fowls, 13;
—origin of the domestic duck, 8;
—fertility of the hook-billed duck, 8;
—occurrence of the plumage of the wild duck in domestic breeds, 8;
—voice of ducks, 8;
—occurrence of a short upper mandible in crosses of hook-billed and common ducks, 8;
—reversion in ducks produced by crossing, 13;
—variation of the canary-bird, 8;
—fashion in the canary, 21;
—hybrids of canary and finches, 13.
BRICKELL, on raising nectarines from seed, 4;
—on the horses of North Carolina, 24.
BRIDGES, Mr., on the dogs of Tierra del Fuego, 1;
—on the selection of dogs by the Fuegians, 20.
BRIDGMAN, W. K., reproduction of abnormal ferns, 11.
BROCA, P., on the intercrossing of dogs, 1 (2);
—on hybrids of hare and rabbit, 4;
—on the rumpless fowl, 7;
—on the character of half-castes, 13;
—degree of fertility of mongrels, 16;
—sterility of descendants of wild animals bred in captivity, 18.
BROCCOLI, 9;
—rudimentary flowers in, 24;
—tenderness of, 24.
BROMEHEAD, W., doubling of the Canterbury Bell by selection, 20.
BROOMFIELD, Dr., sterility of the ivy and Acorus calamus, 18.
Bromus secalinus, 9.
BRONN, H. G., bud variation in Anthemis, 11;
—effects of cross-breeding on the female, 11;
—on heredity in a one-horned cow, 12;
—propagation of a pendulous peach by seed, 12;
—absorption of the minority in crossed races, 15;
—on the crossing of horses, 15;
—fertility of tame rabbits and sheep, 16;
—changes of plumage in captivity, 18;
—on the dahlia, 22.
BRONZE period, dog of, 1.
BROWN, C. M., prepotency of a greyhound, 14.
BROWN, G., variations in the dentition of the horse, 2.
BROWN-SÉQUARD, Dr., inheritance of artificially-produced epilepsy in the guinea-pig, 12;
—inherited effects of injuries, 12.
Brunswigia, 17.
BRUSSELS sprouts, 9, 28.
Bubo maximus, 18.
BUCKLAND, F., on oysters, 23;
—number of eggs in a codfish, 27.
BUCKLE, Mr., doubts as to the importance of inheritance, 12.
BUCKLEY, Miss, carrier-pigeons roosting in trees, 6.
BUCKMAN, Prof., cultivation of Avena fatua, 9;
—cultivation of the wild parsnip, 9, 20, 23;
—reversion in the parsnip, 13.
BUCKWHEAT, injurious when in flower to white pigs, 25.
BUD and seed, close analogy of, 11.
BUD-REVERSION, 13.
BUDS, adventitious, 27.
BUD-VARIATION, 11, 22, 23 (3);
—contrasted with seminal reproduction, 11;
—peculiar to plants, 11;
—in the peach, 10;
—in plums, 11;
—in the cherry, 11;
—in grapes, 11;
—in the gooseberry and currant, 11;
—pear and apple, 11;
—and in the banana, camellia, hawthorn, Azalea indica, and Paritium tricuspis, 11;
—in the hollyhock and pelargonium, 11;
—in Geranium pratense and the chrysanthemum, 11;
—in roses, 10, 11;
—in sweet williams, carnations, pinks, stocks, and snapdragons, 11 (2);
—in wall-flowers, cyclamen, Œnothera biennis, Gladiolus colvillii, fuchsias, and Mirabilis jalapa, 11;
—in foliage of various trees, 11;
—cryptogamic plants, 11;
—by suckers in Phlox and barberry, 11;
—by tubers in the potato, 11;
—in the dahlia, 11;
—by bulbs in hyacinths, Imatophyllum miniatum, and tulips, 11;
—in Tigridia conchiflora, 11;
—in Hemerocallis, 11;
—doubtful cases, 11;
—in Cytisus adami, 11;
—summary of observations on, 11.
BUFFON, on crossing the wolf and dog, 1;
—increase of fertility by domestication, 16;
—improvement of plants by unconscious selection, 20;
—theory of reproduction, 27.
Bulimus, 13.
BULL, apparent influence of, on offspring, 14.
BULLACE, 10.
BULLDOG, degeneration of, in India, 1;
—recent modifications of, 1.
BULLFINCH, breeding in captivity, 18;
—attacking flower-buds, 21.
BULT, Mr., on the length of pouter pigeons, 6.
“BUNDTNERSCHWEIN,” 3.
BUNTING, reed, in captivity, 18.
BURDACH, crossing of domestic and wild animals, 3;
—aversion of the wild boar to barley, 24.
BURKE, Mr., inheritance in the horse, 12.
Burlingtonia, 17.
BURMAH, cats of, 1.
BURMESE ponies, striped, 2.
BURNES, Sir A., on the Karakool sheep, 3, 23;
—varieties of the vine in Cabool, 10;
—hawks, trained in Scinde, 18;
—pomegranates producing seed, 18.
BURR, FEARING, potato-grafting, 11.
BURTON CONSTABLE, wild cattle at, 3.
“BURZEL-TAUBEN,” 5.
BUSSORAH carrier, 5.
Buteo vulgaris, copulation of, in captivity, 18.
BUTTERFLIES, polymorphic, 27.
BUXTON, Mr., parrots breeding in Norfolk, 18.
BUZAREINGUES, GIROU DE, inheritance of tricks, 12.