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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:
1872
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Credit: The origin of species by means of natural selection, or The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life / by Charles Darwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Monstrosities, 33. Moquin-Tandon, on sea-side plants, 107. Morphology, 382. Morren, on the leaves of Oxalis, 197. Moths, hybrid, 240. Mozart, musical powers of, 206. Mud, seeds in, 345. Mules, striped, 129. Müller, Adolf, on the instincts of the cuckoo, 213. Müller, Dr. Ferdinand, on Alpine Australian plants, 337. Müller, Fritz, on dimorphic crus taceans, 35, 233. , on the lancelet, 99. ■ r, on air-breathing crustaceans, 152. , on climbing plants, 197. , on the self-sterility of orchids, 238. , on embryology in relation to classification, 368. , on the metamorphoses of crus taceans, 390, 395. , on terrestrial and fresh-water organisms not undergoing any me tamorphosis, 394. Multiplication of species not indefi nite, 101. Murchison, Sir R., on the forma tions of Russia, 272. , on azoic formations, 286. , on extinction, 293. Murie, Dr., on the modification of the skull in old age, 149. Murray, Mr. A., on cave-insects, 111. Mustela vison, 138. Myanthus, 372. Myrmecocystus, 231. Myrmica, eyes of, 232. N. Nhgeli, on morphological characters, Ì70. Nails, rudimentary, 400. Nathusius, Yon, on pigs, 159. Natural history, future progress of, 426. selection, 62. system, 364. Naturalisation of forms distinct from the indigenous species, 89. Naturalisation in New Zealand, 163. Naudin, on analogous variations in gourds, 125. , on hybrid gourds, 258. , on reversion, 260. Nautilus, Silurian, 286. Nectar of plants, 73. Nectaries, how formed, 73. Nelumbium luteum, 346. Nests, variation in, 208, 228, 234. Neuter insects, 230, 231. Newman, Col., on humble-bees, 57. New Zealand, productions of, not perfect, 163. , naturalised products of, 309. , fossil birds of, 310. , glaciers of, 335. , crustaceans of, 338. , algae of, 338. , flora of, 354. , number of plants of, 374. Newton, Sir I., attacked for irre- ligion, 421. , Prof., on earth attached to a partridge’s foot, 328. Nicotiana, crossed varieties of, 258. , certain species very sterile, 243. Nitsche, Dr., on the Polyzoa, 193. Noble, Mr., on fertility of Rhodo dendron, 239. Nodules, phosphatic, in azoic rocks, 287. 0. Oaks, variability of, 40. (Enonis, small imperfect flowers of, 173. Onites appelles, 108. Orchids, fertilisation of, 154. , the development of their flowers, 195. , forms of, 372. Orchis, pollen of, 151. Organisation, tendency to advance, S7. Organs of extreme perfection, 143. , electric, of fishes, 150. of little importance, 156. , homologous, 382. , rudiments of, and nascent, 397. Ornithorhynchus, 83, 367. , mammae of, 190. Ostrich not capable of flight, 180.