LABAT, on the tusks of feral boars in the West Indies, 5;
—on French wheat grown in the West Indies, 24;
—on the culture of the vine in the West Indies, 24.
LABURNUM, Adam’s, see Cytisus adami,;
—oak-leaved, reversion of, 11;
—pelorism in the, 26;
—Waterer’s, 11.
LACHMANN, on gemmation and fission, 27.
Lachnanthes tinctoria, 21, 25.
LACTATION, imperfect, hereditary, 12;
—deficient, of wild animals in captivity, 18.
LADRONE Islands, cattle of, 3.
LA GASCA, Prof., individual variation in wheat, 9.
LAING, Mr., resemblance of Norwegian and Devonshire cattle, 3.
LAKE-DWELLINGS, sheep of, 3;
—cattle of, 3;
—absence of the fowl in, 7;
—cultivated plants of, 9, 28 (2);
—cereals of, 9;
—peas found in, 9;
—beans found in, 9.
LAMARE-PIQUOT, observations on half-bred North American wolves, 1.
LAMBERT, A. B., on Thuja pendula or filiformis, 10.
LAMBERT family, 12, 14.
LAMBERTYE, on strawberries, 10 (2);
—five-leaved variety of Fragaria collina, 10.
LANDT, L., on sheep in the Faroe Islands, 16.
LANKESTER, RAY, on longevity, 27.
LA PLATA, wild dogs of, 1;
—feral cat from, 1.
LARCH, 24.
LARKSPURS, insect agency necessary for the full fecundation of, 12.
Larus argentatus, 18, 24.
Larus tridactylus, 24.
LASTERYE, merino sheep in different countries, 3.
LATENT characters, 13.
LATHAM, on the fowl not breeding in the extreme north, 18.
Lathyrus, 13.
Lathyrus aphaca, 26.
Lathyrus odoratus, 11 (2), 15 (2), 24.
LA TOUCHE, J. D., on a Canadian apple with dimidiate fruit, 11 (2).
“LATZ-TAUBE,” 5.
LAUGHER pigeon, 5, 6.
Laurus sassafras, 23.
LAWRENCE, J., production of a new breed of foxhounds, 1;
—occurrence of canines in mares, 2;
—on three-parts-bred horses, 2;
—on inheritance in the horse, 12 (2).
LAWSON, Mr., varieties of the potato, 9.
LAXTON, Mr., bud-variation in the gooseberry, 11;
—crossing of varieties of the pea, 11 (2);
—weakness of transmission in peas, 14;
—double-flowered peas, 18.
LAYARD, E. L., resemblance of a Caffre dog to the Esquimaux breed, 1, 23;
—crossing of the domestic cat with Felis caffra, 1;
—feral pigeons in Ascension, 6;
—domestic pigeons of Ceylon, 6;
—on Gallus stanleyi, 7;
—on black-skinned Ceylonese fowls, 7.
LE COMPTE family, blindness inherited in, 14.
LECOQ, bud-variation in Mirabilis jalapa, 11;
—hybrids of Mirabilis, 11, 18, 22;
—crossing in plants, 17;
—fecundation of Passiflora, 17;
—hybrid Gladiolus, 17;
—sterility of Ranunculus ficaria, 18;
—villosity in plants, 23;
—double asters, 24.
LE COUTEUR, J., varieties of wheat, 9;
—acclimatisation of exotic wheat in Europe, 9;
—adaptation of wheat to soil and climate, 9;
—selection of seed-corn, 9;
—evil from inter-breeding, 17;
—on change of soil, 18;
—selection of wheat, 20;
—natural selection in wheat, 21;
—cattle of Jersey, 21.
LEDGER, Mr., on the llama and alpaca, 20.
LEE, Mr., his early culture of the pansy, 10.
Leersia oryzoides, 15.
LEFOUR, period of gestation in cattle, 3.
LEGRAIN, falsified experiments of, 17.
LEGS, of fowls, effects of disuse on, 7;
—characters and variations of, in ducks, 24.
LEGUAT, cattle of the Cape of Good Hope, 3.
LEHMANN, occurrence of wild double-flowered plants near a hot spring, 18.
LEIGHTON, W. A., propagation of a weeping yew by seed, 12.
LEITNER, effects of removal of anthers, 18.
LEMMING, 18.
LEMOINE, variegated Symphytum and Phlox, 11.
LEMON, 10;
—orange fecundated by pollen of the, 11.
LEMURS, hybrid, 4.
LEPORIDES, 18.
LEPSIUS, figures of ancient Egyptian dogs, 1;
—domestication of pigeons in ancient Egypt, 6.
Lepus glacialis, 4.
Lepus magellanicus, 4.
Lepus nigripes, 4.
Lepus tibetanus, 4.
Lepus variabilis, 4.
LEREBOULLET, double monsters of fishes, 26.
LESLIE, on Scotch wild cattle, 3.
LESSONA, on regrowth, 27;
—on Lepus magellanicus, 4.
LETHBRIDGE, previous impregnation, 11.
LEUCKART, on the larva of Cecidomyidæ, 27.
LEWES, G. H., on Pangenesis, 27.
LEWIS, G., cattle of the West Indies, 21.
LHERBETTE and Quatrefages, on the horses of Circassia, 16, 21.
LICHENS, sterility in, 18.
LICHTENSTEIN, resemblance of Bosjesman’s dogs to Canis mesomelas, 1;
—Newfoundland dog at the Cape of Good Hope, 1.
LIEBIG, differences in human blood, according to complexion, 23.
LIEBREICH, occurrence of pigmentary retinitis in deaf-mutes, 25.
LILACS, 18.
LILIACEÆ, contabescence in, 18.
Lilium bulbiferum and davuricum, 11.
Lilium candidum, 17.
LIMBS, regeneration of, 27.
LIMBS and head, correlated variation of, 25.
LIME, effect of, upon shells of the mollusca, 23.
LIME-TREE, changes of, by age, 10, 11.
LIMITATION, sexual, 14.
LIMITATION, supposed, of variation, 28.
Linaria, pelorism in, 13 (2), 14;
—peloric, crossed with the normal form, 14;
—sterility of, 18.
Linaria vulgaris and purpurea, hybrids of, 15.
LINDEMUTH, potato-grafting, 11.
LINDLEY, JOHN, classification of varieties of cabbages, 9;
—origin of the peach, 10;
—influence of soil on peaches and nectarines, 10;
—varieties of the peach and nectarine, 10;
—on the New Town pippin, 10;
—freedom of the Winter Majetin apple from coccus, 10;
—production of monœcious Hautbois strawberries by bud-selection, 10;
—origin of the large tawny nectarine, 11;
—bud-variation in the gooseberry, 11;
—hereditary disease in plants, 12;
—on double flowers, 18;
—seeding of ordinarily seedless fruits, 18;
—sterility of Acorus calamus, 18;
—resistance of individual plants to cold, 24.
LINNÆUS, summer and winter wheat regarded as distinct species by, 9;
—on the single-leaved strawberry, 10;
—sterility of Alpine plants in gardens, 18;
—recognition of individual reindeer by the Laplanders, 22;
—growth of tobacco in Sweden, 24.
LINNET, 18.
Linota cannabina, 18.
Linum, 18.
LION, fertility of, in captivity, 18 (2).
LIPARI, feral rabbits of, 4.
LIVINGSTONE, Dr., striped young pigs on the Zambesi, 3;
—domestic rabbits at Loanda, 4;
—use of grass-seeds as food in Africa, 9;
—planting of fruit-trees by the Batokas, 9;
—character of half-castes, 13;
—taming of animals among the Barotse, 18;
—selection practised in South Africa, 20 (2).
LIVINGSTONE, Mr., disuse a cause of drooping ears, 24.
LIZARDS, reproduction of tail in, 24.
LLAMA, selection of, 20.
LLOYD, Mr., taming of the wolf, 1;
—English dogs in northern Europe, 1;
—fertility of the goose increased by domestication, 8;
—number of eggs laid by the wild goose, 16;
—breeding of the capercailzie in captivity, 18.
LOANDA, domestic rabbits at, 4.
Loasa, hybrid of two species of, 15.
Lobelia, reversion in hybrids of, 11;
—contabescence in, 18.
Lobelia fulgens, cardinalis, and syphilitica, 17.
LOCKHART, Dr., on Chinese pigeons, 6.
LOCUST-TREE, 23.
LOISELEUR-DESLONGCHAMPS, originals of cultivated plants, 9;
—Mongolian varieties of wheat, 9;
—characters of the ear in wheat, 9;
—acclimatisation of exotic wheat in Europe, 9;
—effect of change of climate on wheat, 9;
—on the supposed necessity of the coincident variation of weeds and cultivated plants, 9;
—advantage of change of soil to plants, 18.
Lolium temulentum, variable presence of barbs in, 9.
LONG-TAILED sheep, 3.
LOOCHOO Islands, horses of, 2.
LORD, J. K., on Canis latrans, 1.
“LORI RAJAH,” how produced, 7.
Lorius garrulus, 23.
“LOTAN” tumbler pigeon, 5.
LOUDON, J. W., varieties of the carrot, 9;
—short duration of varieties of peas, 9;
—on the glands of peach-leaves, 10;
—presence of bloom on Russian apples, 10;
—origin of varieties of the apple, 10;
—varieties of the gooseberry, 10;
—on the nut tree, 10;
—varieties of the ash, 10;
—fastigiate juniper (J. suecica), 10;
—on Ilex aquifolium ferox, 10;
—varieties of the Scotch fir, 10 (2);
—varieties of the hawthorn, 10;
—variation in the persistency of leaves on the elm and Turkish oak, 10;
—importance of cultivated varieties, 10;
—varieties of Rosa spinosissima, 10;
—variation of dahlias from the same seed, 10;
—production of Provence roses from seeds of the moss-rose, 11;
—effect of grafting the purple-leaved upon the common hazel, 11;
—intercrossing melons, 17;
—nearly evergreen Cornish variety of the elm, 24.
LOW, on the pigs of the Orkney Islands, 3.
LOW, Prof., pedigrees of greyhounds, 12;
—origin of the dog, 1;
—burrowing instinct of a half-bred dingo, 1;
—inheritance of qualities in horses, 2;
—comparative powers of English racehorses, Arabs, etc., 2;
—British breeds of cattle, 3;
—wild cattle of Chartley, 3;
—effect of abundance of food on the size of cattle, 3;
—effects of climate on the skin of cattle, 3, 25;
—on interbreeding, 17;
—selection in Hereford cattle, 20;
—formation of new breeds, 21;
—on “sheeted” cattle, 26.
LOWE, Mr., on hive bees, 8.
LOWE, Rev. Mr., on the range of Pyrus malus and P. acerba, 10.
LOWNE, Mr., monsters, 26;
—on gemmules, 27.
“LOWTUN” tumbler pigeon, 5.
Loxia pyrrhula, 5.
LUBBOCK, Sir J., developments of the Ephemeridæ, 27.
LUCAS, P., effects of cross-breeding on the female, 11;
—hereditary diseases, 12, 14 (2);
—hereditary affections of the eye, 12 (2);
—inheritance of anomalies in the human eye and in that of the horse, 12;
—inheritance of polydactylism, 12;
—morbid uniformity in the same family, 12;
—inheritance of mutilations, 12;
—persistency of cross-reversion, 13;
—persistency of character in breeds of animals in wild countries, 14;
—prepotency of transmission, 14 (2);
—supposed rules of transmission in crossing animals, 14;
—sexual limitations of transmission of peculiarities, 14 (2);
—absorption of the minority in crossed races, 15;
—crosses without blending of certain characters, 15;
—on interbreeding, 17;
—variability dependent on reproduction, 22;
—period of action of variability, 22;
—inheritance of deafness in cats, 25;
—complexion and constitution, 25.
LUCAZE-DUTHIERS, structure and growth of galls, 23.
LUCAE, Prof., on the masked pig, 3;
—on pigs, 24.
LUIZET, grafting of a peach-almond on a peach, 10.
LUTKE, cats of the Caroline Archipelago, 1.
LUXURIANCE, of vegetative organs, a cause of sterility in plants, 18 (2).
LYONNET, on the scission of Nais, 27.
Lysimachia nummularia, sterility of, 18.
Lythrum, trimorphic species of, 27.
Lythrum salicaria, 19;
—contabescence in, 18.
Lytta vesicatoria, affecting the kidneys, 27.
Macacus, species of, bred in captivity, 18.
MACAULAY, Lord, improvement of the English horse, 20.
M’CLELLAND, Dr., variability of fresh-water fishes in India, 22.
M’COY, Prof., on the dingo, 1.
MACFAYDEN, influence of soil in producing sweet or bitter oranges from the same seed, 10.
MACGILLIVRAY, domestication of the rock-dove, 6;
—feral pigeons in Scotland, 6;
—number of vertebræ in birds, 7;
—on wild geese, 8;
—number of eggs of wild and tame ducks, 16.
MACKENZIE, Sir G., peculiar variety of the potato, 9.
MACKENZIE, P., bud-variation in the currant, 11.
MACKINNON, Mr., horses of the Falkland Islands, 2;
—feral cattle of the Falkland Islands, 3.
MACKNIGHT, C., on interbreeding cattle, 17.
MACNAB, Mr., on seedling weeping birches, 12;
—non-production of the weeping beech by seed, 12.
MADAGASCAR, cats of, 1.
MADDEN, H., on interbreeding cattle, 17.
MADEIRA, rock pigeon of, 6.
Magnolia grandiflora, 24.
MAGNUS, Herr, on potato-grafting, 11;
—on graft-hybrids, 11 (2).
MAIZE, its unity of origin, 9;
—antiquity of, 9;
—with husked grains said to grow wild, 9;
—variation of, 7;
—irregularities in the flowers of, 9;
—persistence of varieties, 9;
—adaptation of, to climate, 9, 24;
—acclimatisation of, 24, 26;
—crossing of, 11, 16 (2);
—extinct Peruvian varieties of, 28.
MALAY fowl, 7.
MALAY Archipelago, horses of, 2;
—short-tailed cats of, 1;
—striped young wild pigs of, 3;
—ducks of, 8.
MALE, influence of, on the fecundated female, 11;
—supposed influence of, on offspring, 14.
MALE flowers, appearance of, among female flowers in maize, 9.
MALFORMATIONS, hereditary, 14.
MALINGIÉ-NOUEL, on sheep, 3;
—cross-breeding sheep, 14;
—English sheep in France, 21.
MALM, eyes of flat fish, 13.
Malva, fertilisation of, 11, 27.
Mamestra suasa, 18.
MAMMÆ, variable in number in the pig, 3;
—rudimentary, occasional full development of, in cows, 3, 24;
—four present in some sheep, 3;
—variable in number in rabbits, 4;
—latent functions of, in male animals, 13, 24.
MANGLES, Mr., annual varieties of the heartsease, 24.
MANTEGAZZA, abnormal growth of spur of cock, 27;
—on Pangenesis, 27.
MANTELL, Mr., taming of birds by the New Zealanders, 18.
MANU, domestic fowl noticed in the Institutes of, 7.
MANURE, effect of, on the fertility of plants, 18.
MANX cats, 1, 14.
MARCEL DE SERRES, fertility of the ostrich, 18.
MARIANNE Islands, varieties of Pandanus in, 22.
MARKHAM, GERVASE, on rabbits, 4, 20.
MARKHOR, probably one of the parents of the goat, 3.
MARQUAND, cattle of the Channel Islands, 3.
MARRIMPOEY, inheritance in the horse, 12.
MARROW, vegetable, 10.
MARRYATT, Capt., breeding of asses in Kentucky, 21.
MARSDEN, notice of Gallus giganteus, 7.
MARSHALL, Dr. W., on Gallus sonneratii, 7.
MARSHALL, Mr., voluntary selection of pasture by sheep, 3;
—adaptation of wheats to soil and climate, 9;
—“Dutch-buttocked” cattle, 12;
—segregation of herds of sheep, 16;
—advantage of change of soil to wheat and potatoes, 18;
—fashionable change in the horns of cattle, 20;
—sheep in Yorkshire, 21.
MARTENS, E. VON, on Achatinella, 13.
MARTIN, W. C. L., origin of the dog, 1;
—Egyptian dogs, 1;
—barking of a Mackenzie River dog, 1;
—African hounds in the Tower menagerie, 3;
—on dun horses and dappled asses, 2;
—breeds of the horse, 2;
—wild horses, 2;
—Syrian breeds of asses, 2;
—asses without stripes, 2;
—effects of cross-breeding on the female in dogs, 11;
—striped legs of mules, 13.
MARTINS, defective instincts of silkworms, 8.
MARTIUS, C., fruit-trees of Stockholm, 24.
MASON, W., bud-variation in the ash, 11.
MASTERS, Dr., on bud-variation and reversion, 11;
—potato-grafting, 11;
—on pollen within ovules, 27;
—reversion in the spiral-leaved weeping willow, 11;
—on peloric flowers, 13;
—on Opuntia, 23;
—pelorism in a clover, 26;
—position as a cause of pelorism, 26 (2).
MASTERS, Mr., persistence of varieties of peas, 9;
—reproduction of colour in hyacinths, 12;
—on hollyhocks, 16;
—selection of peas for seed, 20;
—on Hibiscus syriacus, 23;
—reversion by the terminal pea in the pod, 26.
MASTIFF, sculptured on an Assyrian monument, 1, 28;
—Tibetan, 1, 23.
MATTHEWS, PATRICK, on forest trees, 21.
Matthiola annua, 11 (2), 15.
Matthiola incana, 11 (2).
MAUCHAMP merino sheep, 3.
MAUDUYT, crossing of wolves and dogs in the Pyrenees, 1.
MAUND, Mr., crossed varieties of wheat, 17.
MAUPERTUIS, axiom of “least action,” 1.
MAURITIUS, importation of goats into, 3.
MAW, G., effects of change of climate, 24;
—correlation of contracted leaves and flowers in pelargoniums, 25 (2).
MAWZ, fertility of Brassica rapa, 18.
Maxillaria, self-fertilised capsules of, 17.
Maxillaria atro-rubens, fertilisation of, by M. squalens, 17.
MAXIMOWICZ, direct action of pollen, 11.
MAYERS, on gold-fish in China, 8.
MAYES, M., self-impotence in Amaryllis, 17.
MECKEL, on the number of digits, 12;
—correlation of abnormal muscles in the leg and arm, 25.
MEDUSÆ, development of, 27 (2).
MEEHAN, Mr., weeping peach, 12;
—effects of parasites, 23;
—comparison of European and American trees, 23.
Meles taxus, 18.
MELONS, 10 (2);
—mongrel supposed to be produced from a twin-seed, 11;
—crossing of varieties of, 11, 16, 17;
—inferiority of, in Roman times, 20;
—changes in, by culture and climate, 23;
—serpent, correlation of variations in, 25;
—analogous variations in, 26.
MEMBRANES, false, 24 (2).
MÉNÉTRIES, on the stomach of Strix grallaria, 24.
MENINGITIS, tubercular, inherited, 14.
MERRICK, potato-grafting, 11.
METAGENESIS, 27.
METAMORPHOSIS, 27.
METAMORPHOSIS and development, 27 (2).
METZGER, on the supposed species of wheat, 9 (2);
—tendency of wheat to vary, 9;
—variation of maize, 9 (2);
—cultivation of American maize in Europe, 9, 26;
—on cabbages, 9;
—acclimatisation of Spanish wheat in Germany, 12;
—advantage of change of soil to plants, 18;
—on rye, 22;
—cultivation of different kinds of wheat, 22.
MEXICO, dog from, with tan spots on the eyes, 1;
—colours of feral horses in, 2.
MEYEN, on seeding of bananas, 18.
MICE, grey and white, colours of, not blended by crossing, 15;
—rejection of bitter almonds by, 21;
—naked, 23.
MICHAUX, F., roan-coloured feral horses of Mexico, 2;
—origin of domestic turkey, 8;
—on raising peaches from seed, 10.
MICHEL, F., selection of horses in mediæval times, 20;
—horses preferred on account of slight characters, 20.
MICHELY, effects of food on caterpillars, 23;
—on Bombyx hesperus, 25.
MICROPHTHALMIA, associated with defective teeth, 25.
MIDDENS, Danish, remains of dogs in, 1, 28.
MIGNONETTE, 21, 24.
MILLET, 10.
MILLS, J., diminished fertility of mares when first turned out to grass, 18.
MILNE-EDWARDS, on the development of the crustacea, 27.
MILNE-EDWARDS, A., on a crustacean with a monstrous eye-peduncle, 27.
Milvus niger, 18.
Mimulus luteus, 17.
MINOR, W. C., gemmation and fission in annelids, 27.
Mirabilis, fertilisation of, 27;
—hybrids of, 17, 18, 22.
Mirabilis jalapa, 11 (2).
Mirabilis longiflora, 15.
Mirabilis vulgaris, 15.
Misocampus and Cecidomyia, 1.
MITCHELL, Dr., effects of the poison of the rattlesnake, 23.
MITFORD, Mr., notice of the breeding of horses by Erichthonius, 20.
MIVART, Mr., rudimentary organs, 24.
MOCCAS Court, weeping oak at, 12.
MOGFORD, horses poisoned by fool’s parsley, 25.
MÖLLER, L., effects of food on insects, 23.
MOLE, white, 25.
MOLL and Gayot, on cattle, 3, 15, 20.
MOLLUSCA, change in shells of, 23.
MONKE, Lady, culture of the pansy by, 10.
MONKEYS, rarely fertile in captivity, 18.
MONNIER, identity of summer and winter wheat, 9.
MONSTERS, double, 26 (2).
MONSTROSITIES, occurrence of, in domesticated animals and cultivated plants, 10, 22;
—due to persistence of embryonic conditions, 13;
—occurring by reversion, 13;
—a cause of sterility, 18;
—caused by injury to the embryo, 22.
MOOR, J. H., deterioration of the horse in Malasia, 2.
MOORCROFT, Mr., on Hasora wheat, 9;
—selection of white-tailed yaks, 20;
—melon of Kaschmir, 23;
—varieties of the apricot cultivated in Ladakh, 10;
—varieties of the walnut cultivated in Kaschmir, 27.
MOORE, Mr., on breeds of pigeons, 5 (2), 6 (3);
—on ground tumblers, 6.
MOORUK, fertility of, in captivity, 18.
MOQUIN-TANDON, original form of maize, 9;
—variety of the double columbine, 10;
—peloric flowers, 13;
—position as a cause of pelorism in flowers, 26;
—tendency of peloric flowers to become irregular, 14;
—on monstrosities, 22;
—correlation in the axis and appendages of plants, 25;
—fusion of homologous parts in plants, 26;
—on a bean with monstrous stipules and abortive leaflets, 26;
—conversion of parts of flowers, 27.
MORLOT, dogs of the Danish Middens, 1;
—sheep and horse of the Bronze period, 28.
Mormodes ignea, 13.
MOROCCO, estimation of pigeons in, 6.
MORREN, grafts of Abutilon, 11;
—on pelorism, 13;
—in Calceolaria, 26;
—non-coincidence of double flowers and variegated leaves, 18.
MORRIS, Mr., breeding of the kestrel in captivity, 18.
MORSE, Dr., digits of birds, 25.
MORTON, Lord, effect of fecundation by a quagga on an Arab mare, 11.
MORTON, Dr., origin of the dog, 1.
Morus alba, 10.
MOSCOW, rabbits of, 4 (2);
—effects of cold on pear-trees at, 24.
MOSSES, sterility in, 18;
—retrogressive metamorphosis in, 27.
MOSS-ROSE, probable origin of, from Rosa centifolia, 11;
—Provence roses produced from seeds of, 11.
MOSTO, Cada, on the introduction of rabbits into Porto Santo, 4.
MOT-MOT, mutilation of feathers inherited, 12.
MOTTLING of fruits and flowers, 11.
MOUNTAIN-ASH, 21.
MOUSE, Barbary, 18.
“MÖVEN-TAUBE,” 5.
MOWBRAY, Mr., on the eggs of game fowls, 7;
—early pugnacity of game cocks, 7;
—diminished fecundity of the pheasant in captivity, 18.
MOWBRAY, Mr., reciprocal fecundation of Passiflora alata and racemosa, 17.
MULATTOS, character of, 13.
MULBERRY, 10, 22.
MULE and hinny, differences in the, 14.
MULES, striped colouring of, 13;
—obstinacy of, 13;
—production of, among the Romans, 16;
—noticed in the Bible, 20.
MÜLLER, FRITZ, reproduction of orchids, 17;
—development of crustacea, 27;
—direct action of pollen, 11;
—self-sterile bignonia, 17.
MÜLLER, H., on the face and teeth in dogs, 1, 3, 26.
MÜLLER, J., tendency to variation, 22;
—atrophy of the optic nerve consequent on destruction of the eye, 24;
—on gemmation and fission, 27;
—identity of ovules and buds, 27;
—special affinities of the tissues, 27.
MÜLLER, MAX, antiquity of agriculture, 21.
MULTIPLICITY of origin of pigeons, hypotheses of, discussed, 6.
MUNIZ, F., on Niata cattle, 3.
MUNRO, R., on the fertilisation of orchids, 17;
—reproduction of Passiflora alata, 17;
—self-sterile Passiflora, 17.
“MURASSA” pigeon, 5.
MURIE, Dr., size of hybrids, 17.
MURPHY, J. J., the structure of the eye not producible by selection, 20.
Mus alexandrinus, 15 (2).
Musa sapientium, chinensis and cavendishii, 11.
Muscari comosum, 19, 24.
MUSCLES, effects of use on, 24.
MUSK duck, feral hybrid of, with the common duck, 6.
MUTILATIONS, inheritance or non-inheritance of, 12, 27 (2).
MYATT, on a five-leaved variety of the strawberry, 10.
MYOPIA, hereditary, 12.
MYRIAPODA, regeneration of lost parts in, 24, 27.