The origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life / by Charles Darwin.

  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Date:
1902
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    BABINOTOH. INDEX. BUZABlimoinM. B. Babington, Mr., on British plants, 58. Baer, Von, standard of highness, 161. , comparison of bee and fish, 482. ■ , embryonic similarity of the Vertebrata, 605. Baker, Sir S., on the giraffe, 278. Balancemont of gi-owth, 182. Baleen, 285. Barben-y, flowers of, 121. Barrande, M., on Silurian colonies, 454. —, on the succession of species, 467. -, on parallelism of palaeozoic formations, 470. , on afiinities of ancient species, 472. Barriers, importance of, 494. Bates, Mr., on mimetic buttei-flies, 586, 587, 588. Batrachians on islands, 546. Bats, how structure acquired, 218. , distribution of, 548. Bear, catching water-insects, 220. Beauty, how acquired, 249, 647. Bee, sting of, 255. , queen, killing rivals, 256. , Australian, extermination of, 93. Bees fertilising flowers, 90. , hive, not sucking the red clover, 117. , Ligurian, 117. -, hive, cell-making instinct. 342. —, variation in habits, 324. , parasitic, 336. -, humble, cells of, 343. Beetles, wingless, in Madeira, 169. with deficient tarsi, 168. Bentham, Mr., on British plants, 58. , on classification, 575. Berkeley, Mr., on seeds in salt water, 506. Bermuda, birds of, 544. Birds acquiring fear, 325. Birds, beautv of, 252. annually cross the Atlantic, 514. 165. , colour of, on continents, —, footsteps, and remains of, in secondary rocks, 443. -, fossil, in caves of Brazil, 485. —, of Madeu-a, Bemuda, and Galapagos, 543, 544. —, song of males, 109. — ti-ansporting seeds, 512. —, waders, 539. -, wingless, 167, 218. Bizcacha, 497. , aflBnities of, 591. Bladder for swimming, in fish, 230. Blindness of cave animals, 170. BljrthiMr., on distinctness of Indian oattle, 21. , on stiiped hemionus, 199. , on crossed geese, 374. Borrow, Mr., on the Spanish pointer, 40. Bory St. Vincent, on Batrachians, 646. Bosquet, M., on fossU Ohthamalus, 444. Boulders, erratic, on the Azores, 513. Branchiae, 231, 232. of crustaceans, 238. Braun, Prof., on the seeds of Fimia- riacese, 271. Brent, Mr., on house-txmiblers, 326. Britain, mammals of, 549. Broca, Prof., on Natural Selection, 265. Bronn, Prof., on duration of specific forms, 430. , various objections by, 265. Brown, Kobert, on classification, 571. , S6quard, on inherited muti- lations, 168. Busk, Mr., on the Polyzoa, 301. Butterflies, mimetic, 686, 587, 588. Buzareingues, on sterility of varie- ties, 402.