BOETHIUS on Scotch wild cattle.
BOITARD and Corbie, on the breeds of pigeons. -Lille pouter pigeon. -notice of a gliding pigeon. -variety of the pouter pigeon. -dovecote pigeon. -crossing pigeons. -sterility of hybrids of turtle-doves. -reversion of crossed pigeons. -on the fantail. -on the trumpeter. -prepotency of transmission in silky fantail. -secondary sexual characters in pigeons. -crossing of white and coloured turtle-doves. -fertility of pigeons.
BOMBYCIDAE, wingless females of.
Bombyx hesperus.
Bombyx huttoni.
Bombyx mori.
BONAFOUS, on maize.
BONAPARTE, number of species of Columbidae. -number of tail-feathers in pigeons. -size of the feet in Columbidae. -on Columba guinea. -Columba turricola, rupestris and schimperi.
Bonatea speciosa, development of ovary of.
BONAVIA, Dr., growth of cauliflowers in India.
BONER, Mr., semi-feral sheep.
BONES, removal of portions of. -regeneration of. -growth and repair of.
BONIZZI, on pigeons.
BONNET, on the salamander. -theory of reproduction.
BORCHMEYER, experiments with the seeds of the weeping ash.
BORECOLE.
BORELLI, on Polish fowls.
BORNEO, fowls of, with tail-bands.
BORNET, E., condition of the ovary in hybrid Cisti. -self-impotence of hybrid Cisti.
BORROW, G., on pointers.
BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, on gold-fish.
Bos, probable origin of European domestic cattle from three species of.
Bos frontosus.
Bos indicus.
Bos longifrons.
Bos primigenius.
Bos sondaicus.
Bos taurus.
Bos trochoceros.
BOSC, heredity in foliage-varieties of the elm.
BOSSE, production of double flowers from old seed.
BOSSI, on breeding dark-coloured silkworms.
BOSMAN, on dogs of Guinea.
BOUCHARDAT, on the vine disease.
BOUDIN, on local diseases. -resistance to cold of dark-complexioned men.
"BOULANS."
"BOUTON d'Alep."
BOWEN, Prof., doubts as to the importance of inheritance.
BOWMAN, Mr., hereditary peculiarities in the human eye. -hereditary cataract.
BRACE, Mr., on Hungarian cattle.
Brachycome iberidifolia.
BRACTS, unusual development of, in gooseberries.
BRADLEY, Mr., effect of grafts upon the stock in the ash. -effect of foreign pollen upon apples. -on change of soil.
"BRAHMA Pootras," a new breed of fowls.
BRAIN, proportion of, in hares and rabbits.
BRANDT, Dr., origin of the goat. -correlation of teeth and hair.
Brassica, varieties of, with enlarged stems.
Brassica asperifolia.
Brassica napus.
Brassica oleracea.
Brassica rapa.
BRAUN, A., bud-variation in the vine. -in the currant. -in Mirabilis jalapa. -in Cytisus adami. -on reversion in the foliage of trees. -spontaneous production of Cytisus purpureo-elongatus. -reversion of flowers by stripes and blotches. -excess of nourishment a source of variability.
BRAZIL, cattle of.
BREAD-FRUIT, varieties of. -sterility and variability of.
BREE, W.T., bud-variation in Geranium pratense and Centaurea cyanus. -by tubers in the dahlia. -on the deafness of white cats with blue eyes.
BREEDING, high, dependent on inheritance.
BREEDS, domestic, persistency of. -artificial and natural. -extinction of. -of domestic cats. -of pigs produced by crossing. -of cattle. -of goats.
BREHM, on Columba amaliae.
BRENT, B.P., number of mammae in rabbits. -habits of the tumbler pigeon. -Laugher pigeon. -colouring of the kite tumbler. -crossing of the pigeon with Columba oenas. -mongrels of the trumpeter pigeon. -close interbreeding of pigeons. -opinion on Aldrovandi's fowls. -on stripes in chickens. -on the combs of fowls. -double-spurred Dorking fowls. -effect of crossing on colour of plumage in fowls. -incubatory instinct of mongrels between non-setting varieties of fowls. -origin of the domestic duck. -fertility of the hook-billed duck. -occurrence of the plumage of the wild duck in domestic breeds. -voice of ducks. -occurrence of a short upper mandible in crosses of hook-billed and common ducks. -reversion in ducks produced by crossing. -variation of the canary-bird. -fashion in the canary. -hybrids of canary and finches.