The law of sex : being an exposition of the natural law by which the sex of offspring is controlled in man and the lower animals : and giving the solution of various social problems / by George B. Starkweather.

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1883
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    INDEX. Principle of adjustment not ex- plained by cm-rent theories, 49, 153, 187, 188. —, real and natural, 20, 22, 36. —, seen in aggregates, 188. —, when it fails, 201. Pritchard, Dr., cited, 119. Proportion of sexes, affected by food prices, 22, 184. —, among animals, 17, 184. —, influenced by disease, 14,15,181. —, statistics, 12, 44, 174, 184, 202, 203. —, varies with age, 14. —, varies with race, 20, 145. Puckle, Col. J., cited, 181. Pulsation of feet as, 48. Questions of the Day (Elder), 75. Quetelet, cited, 205. Quillet, cited, 41. Rabbits, tame, have small brains, 75. Race, as affecting fertility, 73, ] 50, 217. —, as affecting sex, 20, 73, 74, 145, 147, 160, 203, 206, 217. Races, differ in brain development, 217. —, nuion of divergent, 73, 144,147, 206. Racehorses, sexes among, 19, 184. Raffaelle, 193. Reichenbach on human polarity, 99. Reproduction analogous to photo- graphy, 101. Reproductive and nervous systems connected, 122. Reproductive system and suj)e- riority, 122. Reversion to ancesti-al type. 71. Roberts, Mr. C, cited, 43, 239. —, Dr. R., cited, 195. Rockwell, Dr., 98, 103. Roman nose, 154. Rossi, Porzia di, 197. Ruling parent casts sex, 155. Rumford, Count, 214. Sand, George (Madame Dude- vant), 193, 195. Sanguine temperament 113, 211. Saxe, Marshal, 195. Scipio, P. Cornelius, 193, 195. Scott, Sir Walter, 193. Sebright, Sir John, on pigeons, 72. Secrets of Beauty, cited, 117. Seeds and ova, their potentiahties, 101, 102. Separation of sex not nature's rule, 51. . ' Sex, affected by health, nutrition, etc., 15, 43, 240. —, byinequahty of parents, 146,206. —,byoccupationof parents. 104,165. —, by race, 20, 73, 74, 144,145, 147, 160, 203, 206, 217. —, by rtrdative age, 44, 67 , 68, 174. —, among annuals, 17, 18, 24, 25, 35, 66, 67. —, among plants, 26. —, at will, by choice of wife, 222. —, —, means to, all healthful, 234. —, —, regimen to ensure, 228, 229, 231, 232, 235, 241, 243. —, influences which determine, 22, 24, 26, 35,109, 151,187,225, 226, 246, 247. —, influenced by disease, 15, 139, 246. —, influenced by adversity of j)arents, 102. —, in Oriental countries, 18. —, law of, stated, 91,101, lOG, 150. -—, must apply to animals, 19. —, laws ruling, not unknowable, 7. — mostly within control, 225. — of embryo, 4. ■ , absence of, in lowest forms of animal life, 52. —, originates in division of func- tion, 52. —, ruled by constitution and condition, 225. —, theories of, 31, 32, 33, 38, 39, 43, 47. Sexes, are in stable equilibrium, 180. —, adjustment of balance only numerical, 190. —, balance of, restored after epi- demics and war, 21, 189. —, —, adjusted by dviplicate inheri- tance, 188. —, distribution, in families, 223,225. —, equalization of, in Australia, 20, 190. —, equality of, Mr. Blackwell on, 61.