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., on the hair-claspers of the Acaridae

Clarke, Rev. W.B., on old glaciers in Australia

Classification

Clift, Mr., on the succession of types

Climate, effects of, in checking increase of beings --adaptation of, to organisms

Climbing plants --development of

Clover visited by bees

Cobites, intestine of

Cockroach

Collections, palaeontological, poor

Colour, influenced by climate --in relation to attacks by flies

Columba livia, parent of domestic pigeons

Colymbetes

Compensation of growth

Compositae, flowers and seeds of --outer and inner florets of --male flowers of

Conclusion, general

Conditions, slight changes in, favourable to fertility

Convergence of genera

Coot

Cope, Prof., on the acceleration or retardation of the period of reproduction

Coral-islands, seeds drifted to --reefs, indicating movements of earth

Corn-crake

Correlated variation in domestic productions

Coryanthes

Creation, single centres of

Crinum

Croll, Mr., on subaerial denudation --on the age of our oldest formations --on alternate Glacial periods in the North and South

Crosses, reciprocal

Crossing of domestic animals, importance in altering breeds --advantages of --unfavourable to selection

Cruger, Dr., on Coryanthes

Crustacea of New Zealand

Crustacean, blind air-breathers

Crustaceans, their chelae

Cryptocerus

Ctenomys, blind

Cuckoo, instinct of

Cunningham, Mr., on the flight of the logger-headed duck

Currants, grafts of

Currents of sea, rate of

Cuvier on conditions of existence --on fossil monkeys

Cuvier, Fred., on instinct

Cyclostoma, resisting salt water

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