Dana, Prof., on blind cave-animals --on relations of crustaceans of Japan --on crustaceans of New Zealand

Dawson, Dr., on eozoon

De Candolle, Aug. Pyr., on struggle for existence --on umbelliferae --on general affinities

De Candolle, Alph., on the variability of oaks --on low plants, widely dispersed --on widely-ranging plants being variable --on naturalisation --on winged seeds --on Alpine species suddenly becoming rare --on distribution of plants with large seeds --on vegetation of Australia --on fresh-water plants --on insular plants

Degradation of rocks

Denudation, rate of --of oldest rocks --of granite areas

Development of ancient forms

Devonian system

Dianthus, fertility of crosses

Dimorphism in plants

Dirt on feet of birds

Dispersal, means of --during Glacial period

Distribution, geographical --means of

Disuse, effect of, under nature

Diversification of means for same general purpose

Division, physiological, of labour

Divergence of character

Dog, resemblance of jaw to that of the Thylacinus

Dogs, hairless, with imperfect teeth --descended from several wild stocks --domestic instincts of --inherited civilisation of --fertility of breeds together --of crosses --proportions of body in different breeds, when young

Domestication, variation under

Double flowers

Downing, Mr., on fruit-trees in America

Dragon-flies, intestines of

Drift-timber

Driver-ant

Drones killed by other bees

Duck, domestic, wings of, reduced --beak of --logger-headed

Duckweed

Dugong, affinities of

Dung-beetles with deficient tarsi

Dyticus

Earl, Mr., W., on the Malay Archipelago

Ears, drooping, in domestic animals --rudimentary

Earth, seeds in roots of trees --charged with seeds

Echinodermata, their pedicellariae

Eciton

Economy of organisation

Edentata, teeth and hair --fossil species of

Edwards, Milne, on physiological division of labour --on gradations of structure

Edwards, on embryological characters

Eggs, young birds escaping from

Egypt, productions of, not modified

Electric organs

Elephant, rate of increase --of Glacial period

Embryology

Eozoon Canadense

Epilipsy inherited

Existence, struggle for --condition of

Extinction, as bearing on natural selection --of domestic varieties

Eye, structure of --correction for aberration

Eyes, reduced, in moles

Fabre, M., on hymenoptera fighting --on parasitic sphex --on Sitaris

Falconer, Dr., on naturalisation of plants in India --on elephants and mastodons --and Cautley on mammals of sub-Himalayan beds

Falkland Islands, wolf of

Faults

Faunas, marine

Fear, instinctive, in birds

Feet of birds, young molluscs adhering to

Fertilisation variously effected

Fertility of hybrids --from slight changes in conditions --of crossed varieties

Fir-trees destroyed by cattle --pollen of

Fish, flying --teleostean, sudden appearance of --eating seeds --fresh-water, distribution of

Fishes, ganoid, now confined to fresh water --ganoid, living in fresh water --electric organs of --of southern hemisphere

Flight, powers of, how acquired

Flint-tools, proving antiquity of man

Flower, Prof., on the larynx --on Halitherium --on the resemblance between the jaws of the dog and Thylacinus --on the homology of the feet of certain marsupials

Flowers, structure of --in relation to crossing --of composite and umbelliferae --beauty of --double

Flysch formation, destitute of organic remains

Forbes, Mr. D., on glacial action in the Andes

Forbes, E., on colours of shells --on abrupt range of shells in depth --on poorness of palaeontological collections --on continuous succession of genera --on continental extensions --on distribution during Glacial period --on parallelism in time and space

Forests, changes in, in America

Formation, Devonian --Cambrian --intermittent --thickness of, in Britain

Formica --rufescens --sanguinea --flava, neuter of

Forms, lowly organised, long enduring

Frena, ovigerous, of cirripedes

Fresh-water productions, dispersal of

Fries on species in large genera being closely allied to other species

Frigate-bird

Frogs on islands

Fruit-trees, gradual improvement of --in United States --varieties of, acclimatised in United States

Fuci, crossed

Fur, thicker in cold climates

Furze

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