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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882

"The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition"

, on seeds in salt-water
Bermuda, birds of
Birds acquiring fear
--beauty of
--annually cross the Atlantic
--colour of, on continents
--footsteps, and remains of, in secondary rocks
--fossil, in caves of Brazil
--of Madeira, Bermuda, and Galapagos
--song of males
--transporting seeds
--waders
--wingless
Bizcacha, affinities of
Bladder for swimming, in fish
Blindness of cave animals
Blyth, Mr., on distinctness of Indian cattle
--on striped Hemionus
--on crossed geese
Borrow, Mr., on the Spanish pointer
Bory St. Vincent, on Batrachians
Bosquet, M., on fossil Chthamalus
Boulders, erratic, on the Azores
Branchiae
--of crustaceans
Braun, Prof., on the seeds of Fumariaceae
Brent, Mr., on house-tumblers
Britain, mammals of
Broca, Prof., on Natural Selection
Bronn, Prof., on duration of specific forms
--various objections by
Brown, Robert, on classification
Brown-Sequard, on inherited mutilations
Busk, Mr., on the Polyzoa
Butterflies, mimetic
Buzareingues, on sterility of varieties
Cabbage, varieties of, crossed
Calceolaria
Canary-birds, sterility of hybrids
Cape de Verde Islands, productions of
--plants of, on mountains
Cape of Good Hope, plants of
Carpenter, Dr., on foraminifera
Carthemus
Catasetum
Cats, with blue eyes, deaf
--variation in habits of
--curling tail when going to spring
Cattle destroying fir-trees
--destroyed by flies in Paraguay
--breeds of, locally extinct
--fertility of Indian and European breeds
--Indian
Cave, inhabitants of, blind
Cecidomyia
Celts, proving antiquity of man
Centres of creation
Cephalopodae, structures of eyes
--development of
Cercopithecus, tail of
Ceroxylus laceratus
Cervulus
Cetacea, teeth and hair
--development of the whalebone
Cetaceans
Ceylon, plants of
Chalk formation
Characters, divergence of
--sexual, variable
--adaptive or analogical
Charlock
Checks to increase
--mutual
Chelae of Crustaceans
Chickens, instinctive tameness of
Chironomus, its asexual reproduction
Chthamalinae
Chthamalus, cretacean species of
Circumstances favourable to selection of domestic products
--to natural selection
Cirripedes capable of crossing
--carapace aborted
--their ovigerous frena
--fossil
--larvae of
Claparede, Prof.


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