HAIR and teeth, correlation of.

HAIRY family, corresponding period of inheritance in.

HALF-CASTES, character of.

HALF-LOP rabbits, figured and described. -skull of.

Haliaetus leucocephalus, copulating in captivity.

HALLAM, Col., on a two-legged race of pigs.

HALLET, Major, selection in cereals. -on pedigree wheat.

HAMBURGH fowl. -figured.

HAMILTON, wild cattle of.

HAMILTON, Dr., on the assumption of male plumage by the hen pheasant.

HAMILTON, F. BUCHANAN, on the shaddock. -varieties of Indian cultivated plants.

HANCOCK, Mr., sterility of tamed birds.

HANDWRITING, inheritance of peculiarities in.

HANMER, Sir J., on selection of flower-seeds.

HANSELL, Mr., inheritance of dark yolks in duck's eggs.

HARCOURT, E.V., on the Arab boar-hound. -aversion of the Arabs to dun-coloured horses.

HARDY, Mr., effect of excess of nourishment on plants.

HARE, hybrids of, with rabbit. -sterility of the, in confinement. -preference of, for particular plants.

HARE-LIP, inheritance of.

HARLAN, Dr., on hereditary diseases.

HARTMAN, on the wild ass.

HARVEY, Mr., monstrous red and white African bull.

HARVEY, Prof., singular form of Begonia frigida. -effects of cross-breeding on the female. -monstrous saxifrage.

HASORA wheat.

HAUTBOIS strawberry.

HAWKER, Col., on call or decoy ducks.

HAWTHORN, varieties of. -pyramidal. -pendulous hybridised. -changes of, by age. -bud-variation in the. -flower buds of, attacked by bullfinches.

HAYES, Dr., character of Esquimaux dogs.

HAYWOOD, W., on the feral rabbits of Porto Santo.

HAZEL, purple-leaved.

HEAD of wild boar and Yorkshire pig, figured.

HEAD and limbs, correlated variability of.

HEADACHE, inheritance of.

HEARTSEASE. -change produced in the, by transplantation. -reversion in. -effects of selection on. -scorching of. -effects of seasonal conditions on the. -annual varieties of the.

HEAT, effect of, upon the fleece of sheep.

HEBER, Bishop, on the breeding of the rhinoceros in captivity.

HEBRIDES, cattle of the. -pigeons of the.

HEER, O., on the plants of the Swiss lake-dwellings. -on the cereals. -on the peas. -on the vine growing in Italy in the Bronze age.

HEIMANN, potato-grafting.

Helix lactea.

Hemerocallis fulva and flava, interchanging by bud-variation.

HEMLOCK, yields no conicine in Scotland.

HEMP, differences of, in various parts of India. -climatal difference in products of.

HEMPSEED, effect of, upon the colour of birds.

HERMAPHRODITE flowers, occurrence of, in maize.

HEN, assumption of male characters by the. -development of spurs in the.

"HENNIES," or hen-like male fowls.

HENRY, T.A., a variety of the ash produced by grafting. -crossing of species of Rhododendron and Arabis.

HENSLOW, Prof., individual variation in wheat. -bud-variation in the Austrian bramble rose. -partial reproduction of the weeping ash by seed.

HEPATICA, changed by transplantation.

HERBERT, Dr., variations of Viola grandiflora. -bud-variation in camellias. -seedlings from reverted Cytisus adami. -crosses of Swedish and other turnips. -on hollyhocks. -breeding of hybrids. -self-impotence in hybrid hippeastrums. -hybrid Gladiolus. -on Zephyranthes candida. -fertility of the crocus. -on contabescence. -hybrid Rhododendron.

HERCULANEUM, figure of a pig found in.

HERON, Sir R., appearance of "black-shouldered" among ordinary peacocks. -non-inheritance of monstrous characters by gold-fish. -crossing of white and coloured Angora rabbits. -crosses of solid-hoofed pigs.

Herpestes fasciatus and griseus.

HEUSINGER, on the sheep of the Tarentino. -on correlated constitutional peculiarities.

HEWITT, Mr., reversion in bantam cocks. -degeneration of silk fowls. -partial sterility of hen-like male fowls. -production of tailed chickens by rumpless fowls. -on taming and rearing wild ducks. -conditions of inheritance in laced Sebright bantams. -reversion in rumpless fowls. -reversion in fowls by age. -hybrids of pheasant and fowl. -assumption of male characters by female pheasants. -development of latent characters in a barren bantam hen. -mongrels from the silk fowl. -effects of close interbreeding on fowls. -on feather-legged bantams.

Charles Darwin

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