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3  abdomen 
 1675.546began to play with its antennæ on the abdomen first of one aphis and then of another
 1675.668the antennæ, immediately lifted up its abdomen and excreted a limpid drop of sweet
 1857.141and they have an enormously developed abdomen which secretes a sort of honey
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11  aberrant 
 1717.1618by inheritance the occasional and aberrant habit of their mother, and in their
 3173.484give to us our so-called osculant or aberrant groups. The more aberrant any form is
 3173.510osculant or aberrant groups. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must be the
 3173.672lost. And we have some evidence of aberrant forms having suffered severely from
 3173.978for example, would not have been less aberrant had each been represented by a dozen
 3173.1163does not commonly fall to the lot of aberrant genera. We can, I think, account for
 3173.1238for this fact only by looking at aberrant forms as failing groups conquered by
 3566.1033and groups of species, which are called aberrant, and which may fancifully be called
 3598.0evolved. [page] ( 491 ) INDEX. ABERRANT. A. ABERRANT groups, 429. Abyssinia
 3602.0page] ( 491 ) INDEX. ABERRANT. A. ABERRANT groups, 429. Abyssinia, plants of
 3997.8striped mule, 165. Grebe, 185. Groups, aberrant, 429. Grouse, colours of, 84. ——, red
3  aberration 
 1494.249correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural
 1604.200under nature. The correction for the aberration of light is said, on high authority
 3891.18structure of, 187. —, correction for aberration, 202. Eyes reduced in moles, 137. F
1  abhorrent 
 3470.532perfect; and if some of them be abhorrent to our ideas of fitness. We need not
1  ability 
 645.370this subject with more spirit and ability than W. Herbert, Dean of Manchester
1  abjectly 
 1761.607the species-until an ant was formed as abjectly dependent on its slaves as is the
11  abnormal 
 395.284rock-pigeon, yet are certainly highly abnormal in other parts of their structure: we
 395.794or by chance picked out extraordinarily abnormal species; and further, that these very
 411.176feral; these species having very abnormal characters in certain respects, as
 487.278further understand the frequently abnormal character of our domestic races, and
 491.274of somewhat unusual size; and the more abnormal or unusual any character was when it
 1205.835two orders of mammalia which are most abnormal in their dermal coverings, viz. Cetacea
 1205.977c.), that these are likewise the most abnormal in their teeth. I know of no case
 1245.998species. Thus, the bat's wing is a most abnormal structure in the class mammalia; but
 1267.149to doubt. Hence when an organ, however abnormal it may be, has been transmitted in
 1966.713and, as we have seen, in certain abnormal cases, even to an excess of fertility
 1992.648between their parents, exceptional and abnormal individuals sometimes are born, which
1  abnormally 
 1267.40course of time cease; and that the most abnormally developed organs may be made constant
1  abodes 
 1171.894to which the inhabitants of these dark abodes will probably have been exposed
22  aboriginal 
 333.207certainly revert in character to their aboriginal stocks. Hence it has been argued that
 333.674In many cases we do not know what the aboriginal stock was, and so could not tell
 337.529or even wholly, revert to the wild aboriginal stock. Whether or not the experiment
 359.482these had descended from a different aboriginal stock from our European cattle; and
 365.70our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd
 365.1535been produced by the crossing of a few aboriginal species; but by crossing we can get
 389.607descended from at least seven or eight aboriginal stocks; for it is impossible to make
 389.879enormous crop? The supposed aboriginal stocks must all have been rock-pigeons
 389.1184the domestic breeds. Hence the supposed aboriginal stocks must either still exist in the
 399.1629firstly, that all the several imagined aboriginal stocks were coloured and marked like
 443.196produced by a single variation from the aboriginal stock. We have proofs that this is not
 483.349do not by a strange chance possess the aboriginal stocks of any useful plants, but that
 1297.465feet,—characters not possessed by the aboriginal rock-pigeon; these then are analogous
 1333.147the horse have descended from several aboriginal species-one of which, the dun, was
 1956.114animals have descended from two or more aboriginal species, since commingled by
 1956.187by intercrossing. On this view, the aboriginal species must either at first have
 1956.750me greatly doubt, whether the several aboriginal species would at first have freely bred
 2305.201from a single stock or from several aboriginal stocks; or, again, whether certain sea
 2681.134America and Australia; and some of the aboriginal plants are identically the same at
 2994.891are not generally closely allied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but are very distinct
 3432.971very many of them are varieties or aboriginal species. There is no obvious reason
 4441.8of cats, 91. Sting of bee, 202. Stocks, aboriginal, of domestic animals, 18, Strata
6  aboriginally 
 343.956competent judges as the descendants of aboriginally distinct species. If any marked
 405.694so far as to suppose that species, aboriginally as distinct as carriers, tumblers
 419.737attended, are descended from so many aboriginally distinct species. [page] 29 CHAP. I
 515.802that the intercrossing of species, aboriginally distinct, has played an important part
 2056.450these dogs have descended from several aboriginally distinct species. Nevertheless the
 2918.842that the barren island of Ascension aboriginally possessed under half-a-dozen flowering
1  aborigines 
 3032.1534with each other and with the aborigines; and according as the immigrants were
9  aborted 
 379.30CHAP. I. touch; the oil-gland is quite aborted. Several other less distinct breeds
 1211.1514occurs, the adherent nectary is quite aborted; when the colour is absent from only
 1239.177the general subject of rudimentary and aborted organs; and I will here only add that
 3309.27of animals. Rudimentary, atrophied, or aborted organs.—Organs or parts in this strange
 3317.69may become rudimentary or utterly aborted for one, even the more important
 3323.395Rudimentary organs may be utterly aborted; and this implies, that we find in an
 3345.692and useless condition, or quite aborted, far [page] 456 SUMMARY. CHAP. XIII
 3560.225adaptive characters, rudimentary and aborted organs, &c., will cease to be
 3767.12capable of crossing, 101. —, carapace aborted, 148. —, their ovigerous frena
6  abortion 
 381.827of the œsophagus; the development and abortion of the oil-gland; the number of the
 1211.121is often accompanied with the abortion of parts of the flower. But, in some
 1211.818parts of the flower had caused their abortion; but in some Compositæ there is a
 3215.425atrophy and ultimately by the complete abortion of certain parts, by the soldering
 3343.881and we should have a case of complete abortion. The principle, also, of economy
 3359.1054of rudimentary organs and their final abortion, present to us no inexplicable
1  abound 
 584.445species which are most common, that is abound most in individuals, and the species
3  abounding 
 701.978social plants being social, that is, abounding in individuals, even on the extreme
 2367.552and lower stage to the Silurian system, abounding with new and peculiar species. Traces
 2663.1018selection. Widely-ranging species, abounding in individuals, which have already
1  abounds 
 693.492that each species, even where it most abounds, is constantly suffering enormous
39  about 
 41.52we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of
 349.201have great weight in making us doubt about the immutability of the many very
 375.360development of the carunculated skin about the head, and this is accompanied by
 413.1143is in the fifth Ægyptian dynasty, about 3000 B.C., as was pointed out to me by
 417.255much valued by Akber Khan in India, about the year 1600; never less than
 417.548has improved them astonishingly." About this same period the Dutch were as
 417.595same period the Dutch were as eager about pigeons as were the old Romans. The
 499.96noticed—namely that we know nothing about the origin or history of any of our
 1225.45Geoffroy and Goethe propounded, at about the same period, their law of
 1458.3the air rather than for flight. If about a dozen genera of birds had become
 1546.91difficulty; for they occur in only about a dozen fishes, of which several are
 1671.512I removed all the ants from a group of about a dozen aphides on a dock- [page
 1675.439seemed, by its eager way of running about, to be well aware what a rich flock it
 1743.252Another day my attention was struck by about a score of the slave-makers haunting
 1747.1123F. flava, and quickly ran away; but in about a quarter of an hour, shortly after all
 1749.259file burthened with booty, for about forty yards, to a very thick clump of
 1749.553individuals of F. fusca were rushing about in the greatest agitation, and one was
 1787.414true or parts of a sphere, and of about the diameter of a cell. It was most
 1787.694acquired the above stated width (i.e. about the width of an ordinary cell), and
 1787.750of an ordinary cell), and were in depth about one sixth of the diameter of the sphere
 1807.1292hexagonal walls, which are only about one four-hundredth of an inch in
 1807.1382the plates of the pyramidal basis being about twice as thick. By this singular manner
 1914.965doubted; for Gärtner gives in his table about a score of cases of plants which he
 2171.450reduced in size they can be rolled about by the waves, and then are more quickly
 2171.720abraded and how seldom they are rolled about! Moreover, if we follow for a few miles
 2213.201the northern to the southern Downs is about 22 miles, and the thickness of the
 2213.278the several formations is on an average about 1100 feet, as I am informed by Prof
 2307.603The Malay Archipelago is of about the size of Europe from the North Cape
 2357.313have effected, it seems to me to be about as rash in us to dogmatize on the
 2452.1149new forms has caused the extinction of about the same number of old forms. The
 2707.1573of time we know something definite about the means of distribution, we shall be
 2723.976be safer to assume that the seeds of about 10/100 plants of a flora, after having
 2729.447completely enclosed by wood in an oak about 50 years old, three dicotyledonous
 2811.485structure of a vast mound of detritus, about 800 feet in height, crossing a valley
 2843.510Hooker, that all the flowering plants, about forty-six in number, common to Tierra
 2843.1050the equator at the level of the sea was about the same with that now felt there at
 2928.114on the other hand, which lies at about the same distance from North America as
 3101.23CHAP. XIII. not trouble themselves about the physiological value of the
 3588.156bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the
40  above 
 333.402to discover on what decisive facts the above statement has so often and so boldly
 399.637thoroughly well-bred birds, all the above marks, even to the white edging of the
 711.685six years tried to raise its head above the stems of the heath, and had failed
 858.76natural selection, exemplified in the above imaginary instances, is open to the
 912.1049spread to other districts. On the above principle, nurserymen always prefer
 1245.216struck with a remark, nearly to the above effect, published by Mr. Waterhouse. I
 1273.123to adduce evidence in support of the above statement, that specific characters are
 1568.742structure has primarily arisen from the above or other unknown causes, it may at
 1737.669sanguinea. The slaves are black and not above half the size of their red masters, so
 1787.669by the time the basins had acquired the above stated width (i.e. about the width of
 2213.528in thinner masses than elsewhere, the above estimate would be erroneous; but this
 2217.95ample allowance. At this rate, on the above data, the denudation of the Weald must
 2219.145great, but it would somewhat reduce the above estimate. On the other hand, during
 2285.1170with ancient root-bearing strata, one above the other, at no less than sixty-eight
 2389.384On this view, the difficulties above discussed are greatly diminished, or
 2472.630which occur in the formations either above or below, are similarly absent at these
 2482.62of life changing simultaneously, in the above large sense, at distant parts of the
 2536.875extinct forms were to be discovered above one of the middle horizontal lines or
 2536.955or geological formations-for instance, above No. VI.—but none from beneath this line
 2550.413in character between the forms of life above and below. We must, however, allow for
 2590.466and I have shown in the publications above alluded to, that in America the law of
 2717.1156two days, when dried they floated for above 90 days, and afterwards germinated
 2717.1252of the 94 dried plants, 18 floated for above 28 days, and some of the 18 floated for
 2717.1520floated, after being dried, for above 28 days, as far as we may infer
 2745.29plants. Considering that the several above means of transport, and that several
 2787.170by wider spaces of ocean. I believe the above difficulty may be surmounted by looking
 2789.219I am strongly inclined to extend the above view, and to infer that during some
 2944.286natives) inhabiting an island situated above 300 miles from a continent or great
 3044.136are therein absent, but which occur above and below: so in space, it certainly is
 3271.83will, I believe, explain all the above specified leading facts in embryology
 3277.826their proportional differences in the above specified several points were
 3283.19in the adult state. The two principles above given seem to me to explain these facts
 3285.37Now let us apply these facts and the above two principles—which latter, though not
 3289.460in another as wings; and on the above two principles—namely of each
 3496.26CHAP. XIV. fossils in the formations above and below, is simply explained by their
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 1333.215the dun, was striped; and that the above-described appearances are all due to ancient
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 393.239rash assumption. Moreover, the several above-named domesticated breeds have been
 2651.1254shell, crab or fish is common to the above-named three approximate faunas of Eastern and
2  above-specified 
 395.101in several other cases, is, that the above-specified breeds, though agreeing generally in
 399.855of which is blue or has any of the above-specified marks, the mongrel offspring are very
1  abraded 
 2171.681showing how little they are abraded and how seldom they are rolled about
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1  abroad 
 4794.111and Reminiscences at Home and Abroad. From Early Life to Advanced Age
6  abrupt 
 443.92but the variations are here often more abrupt. No one supposes that our choicest
 2285.1748theory have existed between them, but abrupt, though perhaps very slight, changes of
 2331.64of whole groups of Allied Species.—The abrupt manner in which whole groups of species
 2345.985as I thought one more instance of the abrupt appearance of a great group of species
 3337.698species under nature ever undergo abrupt changes. I believe that disuse has been
 3927.4E., on colours of shells, 132. —on abrupt range of shells in depth, 175. ——on
7  abruptly 
 1408.157large territory, then becoming somewhat abruptly rarer and rarer on the confines, and
 1412.27VARIETIES. it is quite remarkable how abruptly, as Alph. De Candolle has observed, a
 2339.321mammals was always spoken of as having abruptly come in at the commencement of the
 2389.259chapters, may represent the apparently abruptly changed forms of life, entombed in our
 2412.141the inhabitants of a country to change abruptly, or simultaneously, or to an equal
 2428.102falsely appear to have come in abruptly; and I have attempted to give an
 2432.301lower end, not in a sharp point, but abruptly; it then gradually thickens upwards
22  absence 
 160.76with modification — Transitions — Absence or rarity of transitional varieties
 180.11OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD. On the absence of intermediate varieties at the
 180.328of geological formations — On the absence of intermediate varieties in any one
 200.86On the inhabitants of oceanic islands — Absence of Batrachians and of terrestrial
 511.1151less than others, yet the rarity or absence of distinct breeds of the cat, the
 1147.637I should prefer explaining the entire absence of the anterior tarsi in Ateuchus, and
 1153.249by Mr. Wollaston, of the almost entire absence of certain large groups of beetles
 1392.7Hybridism in separate chapters. On the absence or rarity of transitional varieties.—As
 1546.385from a common ancestor; and its absence in some of the members to its loss
 2141.11OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD. On the absence of intermediate varieties at the
 2141.318of geological formations—On the absence of intermediate varieties in any one
 2241.341feet within the recent period, than the absence of any recent deposits sufficiently
 2367.892But the difficulty of understanding the absence of vast piles of fossiliferous strata
 2385.294European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous
 2938.20into trees. With respect to the absence of whole orders on [page] 393 CHAP
 2942.483through glacial agency. This general absence of frogs, toads, and newts on so many
 2952.157of endemic bats on islands, with the absence of all terrestrial mammals. Besides
 2954.12all terrestrial mammals. Besides the absence of terrestrial mammals in relation to
 2960.175classes or sections of classes,—the absence of whole groups, as of batrachians, and
 3081.1520one or more ovaria, in the existence or absence of albumen, in the imbricate or
 3418.20more extinction. With respect to the absence of fossiliferous formations beneath the
 3508.53of peculiar species of bats, and the absence of all other mammals, on oceanic
5  absent 
 1211.1542is quite aborted; when the colour is absent from only one of the two upper petals
 2273.588the neighbouring sea, but are rare or absent in this particular deposit. It is an
 2472.660either above or below, are similarly absent at these distant points of the world
 3038.495and terrestrial mammals, should be absent from oceanic islands, whilst the most
 3044.112deposit the forms which are therein absent, but which occur above and below: so in
7  absolute 
 693.1468regions, or snow-capped summits, or absolute deserts, the struggle for life is
 1604.71Natural selection will not produce absolute perfection, nor do we always meet, as
 1634.248selection will not necessarily produce absolute perfection; nor, as far as we can judge
 1634.327can judge by our limited faculties, can absolute perfection be everywhere found. On the
 1966.443than so much inorganic dust. From this absolute zero of fertility, the pollen of
 2972.1461Archipelagos: but what an entire and absolute difference in their inhabitants! The
 3470.1063that more cases of the want of absolute perfection have not been observed. The
26  absolutely 
 160.415importance — Organs not in all cases absolutely perfect — The law of Unity of Type and
 250.1254which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects
 441.521successive generations, of differences absolutely inappreciable by an uneducated eye
 598.736with from only one to four species, are absolutely excluded from the tables. These [page
 701.129to the numbers of its enemies, is absolutely necessary for its preservation. Thus we
 713.24it for food. Here we see that cattle absolutely determine the existence of the Scotch
 719.385a seed. Many of our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of moths to remove
 1374.393importance—Organs not in all cases absolutely perfect—The law of Unity of Type and of
 1400.649they intermingle, they are generally as absolutely distinct from each other in every
 1516.165slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such
 1560.882and other animals in South America absolutely depends on their power of resisting the
 1586.352This doctrine, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory. Yet I fully admit
 1675.1424instincts cannot be considered as absolutely perfect; but as details on this and
 1731.186than his celebrated father. This ant is absolutely dependent on its slaves; without their
 1755.394and cannot even feed itself: it is absolutely dependent on its numerous slaves
 1795.872and had become perfectly flat: it was absolutely impossible, from the extreme thinness
 1829.192the hive-bee, as far as we can see, is absolutely perfect in economising wax. Thus, as I
 1843.254differing greatly from its parents, yet absolutely sterile; so that it could never have
 1883.604the fact that instincts are not always absolutely perfect and are liable to mistakes
 1914.1586the best botanists rank as varieties, absolutely sterile together; and as he came to the
 1958.286state of knowledge, be considered as absolutely universal. Laws governing the
 2006.1510as in hybridisation, is by no means absolutely governed by systematic affinity
 2602.165species, preserved in our museums, is absolutely as nothing compared with the
 3089.358character, according to Owen, which absolutely distinguishes fishes and reptiles-the
 3412.390of specimens in all our museums is absolutely as nothing compared with the countless
 3470.489nature be not, as far as we can judge, absolutely perfect; and if some of them be
2  absorbed 
 3331.1210teeth which are subsequently absorbed, can be of any service to the rapidly
 3490.208resemblance to their parents,—in being absorbed into each other by successive crosses
8  abstract 
 236.166I have been urged to publish this Abstract. I have more especially been induced to
 242.5extracts from my manuscripts. This Abstract, which I now publish, must necessarily
 260.68shall devote the first chapter of this Abstract to Variation under Domestication. We
 1309.487by some facts; and I can see no more abstract improbability in a tendency to produce
 2062.256following cases, which I will briefly abstract. The evidence is at least as good as
 2703.117I can give here only the briefest abstract of the more important facts. Change of
 2831.11a most remarkable manner. This brief abstract applies to plants alone: some strictly
 3534.98in this volume under the form of an abstract, I by no means expect to convince
2  absurd 
 365.112stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. They believe
 1494.331selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet
2  abundance 
 645.797every fact on distribution, rarity, abundance, extinction, and variation, will be
 2345.235species; from the extraordinary abundance of the individuals of many species all
7  abundant 
 701.877rare plants being sometimes extremely abundant in the few spots where they do occur
 856.103of the red clover offer in vain an abundant supply of precious nectar to the hive
 1225.534varieties of the cabbage do not yield abundant and nutritious foliage and a copious
 2046.299both with plants and animals, there is abundant evidence, that a cross between very
 2273.538sea; or, conversely, that some are now abundant in the neighbouring sea, but are rare
 2466.619precisely say why this species is more abundant in individuals than that; why this
 2707.847species. It seems to me that we have abundant evidence of great oscillations of level
4  abyssinia 
 2823.68of the Cordillera. On the mountains of Abyssinia, several European forms and some few
 2851.339forms on the mountains of Borneo and Abyssinia. I suspect that this preponderant
 3603.0ABERRANT. A. ABERRANT groups, 429. Abyssinia, plants of, 375. Acclimatisation
 5878.84Years' Residence and Adventures in Abyssinia. Woodcuts. 2 Vols. 8vo. 30s. PEEL'S
1  acaceas 
 3239.1291the first leaves of the phyllodineous acaceas, are pinnate or divided like the
2  accepted 
 552.1066of these terms has been generally accepted, is vainly to beat the air. Many of
 1956.8HYBRIDISM. CHAP. VIII. largely accepted by modern naturalists; namely, that
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 896.219enclosed within the body, that access from without and the occasional
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 5022.68Reign of George the Second, from his Accession to the death of Queen Caroline. Edited
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2  accessory 
 1211.269and even the ovary itself, with its accessory parts, differs, as has been described
 1524.313has, also, been worked in as an accessory to the auditory organs of certain fish
3  accidence 
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4  accident 
 1339.1476from what would commonly be called an accident, that I was led solely from the
 1709.300what we must in our ignorance call an accident. In some cases compulsory habit alone
 2048.669myself that this parallelism is an accident or an illusion. Both series of facts
 2749.1490their feet, which is in itself a rare accident. Even in this case, how small would the
14  accidental 
 852.563I can see no reason to doubt that an accidental deviation in the size and form of the
 1189.1452the few survivors, with care to prevent accidental crosses, and then again get seed from
 1205.761correlation, I think it can hardly be accidental, that if we pick out the two orders of
 1287.440nature, the relation can hardly be accidental. The same number of joints in the tarsi
 1438.34diate varieties will be liable to accidental extermination; and during the process
 1514.326always intently watching each slight accidental alteration in the transparent layers
 1663.904natural selection of what may be called accidental variations of instincts;—that is of
 1689.116habit and the selection of so-called accidental variations have played in modifying the
 1877.1200slight, and as we must call them accidental, variations, which are in any manner
 2233.372Manual, will bring home the truth, how accidental and rare is their preservation, far
 2713.46now say a few words on what are called accidental means, but which more properly might be
 2749.146means of transport are sometimes called accidental, but this is not strictly correct: the
 2749.224the currents of the sea are not accidental, nor is the direction of prevalent
 2886.323of their occasional transport by accidental means; like that of the live fish not
2  accidentally 
 846.1347effectually fertilised by the bees, accidentally dusted with pollen, having flown from
 1747.535making F. sanguinea; and when I had accidentally disturbed both nests, the little ants
3  accidents 
 471.252preserved during famines and other accidents, to which savages are so liable, and
 2492.383and geographical changes, or on strange accidents, but in the long run the dominant forms
 3012.285and geographical changes and for accidents of transport; and consequently for the
16  acclimatisation 
 152.119organs of flight and of vision — Acclimatisation — Correlation of growth — Compensation
 1169.20as I hear from [page] 139 CHAP. V. ACCLIMATISATION. Professor Dana; and some of the
 1173.0will probably have been exposed. Acclimatisation.—Habit is hereditary with plants, as in
 1173.204and this leads me to say a few words on acclimatisation. As it is extremely common for species
 1173.440single parent, if this view be correct, acclimatisation must be readily effected during long
 1181.20of being perfectly [page] 141 CHAP. V. ACCLIMATISATION. fertile (a far severer test) under
 1185.16into play. How much of the acclimatisation of species to any peculiar climate is
 1189.1101tender as ever it was—as proving that acclimatisation cannot be effected! The case, also, of
 3604.0groups, 429. Abyssinia, plants of, 375. Acclimatisation, 139. Affinities of extinct species
 3626.5descended from several stocks, 19. ———, acclimatisation of, 141. ——of Australia, 116. —with
 4034.16INDEX. HOOKER. Hooker, Dr., on acclimatisation of Himalayan trees, 140. ——, on flowers
 4102.13land, flora of, 381, 399. Kidney-bean, acclimatisation of, 142. Kidneys of birds, 144. Kirby
 4180.4Mice destroying bees, 74. ——, acclimatisation of, 141. Migration, bears on first
 4345.3Rats, supplanting each other, 76. —, acclimatisation of, 141. —, blind in cave, 137. Rattle
 4474.18on crossed fuci, 258. Thwaites, Mr., on acclimatisation, 140. Tierra del Fuego, dogs of
 4558.7varieties of British plants, 58. ——, on acclimatisation, 140. —, on flora of Azores
3  acclimatised 
 1177.627to different temperatures, or becoming acclimatised: thus the pines and rhododendrons
 1177.1444know that they have subsequently become acclimatised to their new homes. As I believe that
 3945.19United States, 85. ———, varieties of, acclimatised in United States, 142. [page
6  accompanied 
 313.506that long limbs are almost always accompanied by an elongated head. Some instances of
 375.388skin about the head, and this is accompanied by greatly elongated eyelids, very
 1211.100the daisy, and this difference is often accompanied with the abortion of parts of the
 1225.774of feathers on the head is generally accompanied by a diminished comb, and a large beard
 1345.407The appearance of the stripes is not accompanied by any change of form or by any other
 2032.220of general health, and is often accompanied by excess of size or great luxuriance
2  accompanying 
 988.1278diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution
 1006.4of extinction, will tend to act. The accompanying diagram will aid us in understanding
6  accord 
 2400.115succession of organic beings, better accord with the common view of the
 2412.20CHAP. X. These several facts accord well with my theory. I believe in no
 2528.54far these several facts and inferences accord with the theory of descent with
 2552.411to their periods of existence, do not accord in arrangement. The species extreme in
 2556.636this arrangement would not closely accord with the order in time of their
 2960.415into trees, &c.,—seem to me to accord better with the view of occasional
12  accordance 
 866.75so large a body of facts, showing, in accordance with the almost universal belief of
 1311.511be governed by natural selection, in accordance with the diverse habits of the species
 1725.219but their structure modified in accordance with their parasitic habits; for they
 2257.152of these views, for they are in strict accordance with the general principles inculcated
 2508.348although he finds in both a curious accordance in the numbers of the species belonging
 2512.353could be arranged in the same order, in accordance with the general succession of the form
 2777.290not have been much disturbed, and, in accordance with the principles inculcated in this
 2960.833have been more equally modified, in accordance with the paramount importance of the
 3004.630some identical species, showing, in accordance with the foregoing view, that at some
 3285.342modified through natural selection in accordance with their diverse habits. Then, from
 3295.873in the same manner with its parents, in accordance with their similar habits. Some further
 3558.953and common language will come into accordance. In short, we shall have to treat
41  according 
 499.1255more in one district than in another, according to the state of civilisation of the
 554.681geographical ranges; and lastly, according to very numerous experiments made
 729.468and all must fall to the ground according to definite laws; but how simple is
 822.812carriage and beauty to his bantams, according to his standard of beauty, I can see no
 822.988the most melodious or beautiful males, according to their standard of beauty, might
 836.369to catch rats, another mice; one cat, according to Mr. St. John, bringing home winged
 836.1376soon have to return. I may add, that, according to Mr. Pierce, there are two varieties
 940.62it comes that the flora of Madeira, according to Oswald Heer, resembles the extinct
 970.437and distinct species. Nevertheless, according to my view, varieties are species in
 1032.232for natural selection will always act according to the nature of the places which are
 1042.256varieties (w10 and z10) or two species, according to the amount of change supposed to be
 1078.688two distinct families, or even orders, according to the amount of divergent modification
 1131.420which are confined to continents are, according to Mr. Gould, brighter-coloured than
 1203.382of the head of the child. In snakes, according to Schlegel, the shape of the body and
 1217.473the seeds being in some cases, according to Tausch, orthospermous in the
 1267.317wing of the bat, it must have existed, according to my theory, for an immense period in
 1293.1168having more or less completely, according to the lapse of time, overmastered the
 1297.1388be added, namely, the common turnip. According to the ordinary view of each species
 1516.363to much-isolated species, round which, according to my theory, there has been much
 1630.497strength in the battle for life, only according to the standard of that country. Hence
 1721.27CHAP. VII. generated. I may add that, according to Dr. Gray and to some other observers
 1741.306probably in search of aphides or cocci. According to Huber, who had ample opportunities
 1771.137three, or more perfectly flat surfaces, according as the cell adjoins two, three or more
 1998.133between the same two species, for according as the one species or the other is used
 2102.280from nearly related species, follows according to Gärtner the same laws. When two
 2299.384perfected in some considerable degree. According to this view, the chance of discovering
 2323.622extremely slight degree, they would, according to the principles followed by many
 2472.888observed by several authors: so it is, according to Lyell, with the several European and
 2552.317by Dr. Falconer in two series, first according to their mutual affinities and then
 2552.363to their mutual affinities and then according to their periods of existence, do not
 2886.1628accustomed to live in fresh water; and, according to Valenciennes, there is hardly a
 2904.853great southern water-lily (probably, according to Dr. Hooker, the Nelumbium luteum) in
 3032.1185by very different forms of life; for according to the length of time which has elapsed
 3032.1277new inhabitants entered one region; according to the nature of the communication
 3032.1412either in greater or lesser numbers; according or not, as those which entered happened
 3032.1550each other and with the aborigines; and according as the immigrants were capable of
 3089.333to the mouth, the only character, according to Owen, which absolutely distinguishes
 3145.438seen to come out of the womb of a bear? According to all analogy, it would be ranked with
 3179.144cases is general and not special: thus, according to Mr. Waterhouse, of all Rodents, the
 3337.333breeds of cattle, more especially, according to Youatt, in young animals,—and the
 3592.578whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so
2  accordingly 
 1773.302as perfect as the comb of the hive-bee. Accordingly I wrote to Professor Miller, of
 2677.1099in any other organic beings; and, accordingly, we find no inexplicable cases of the
8  accords 
 952.33tent action of natural selection accords perfectly well with what geology tells
 1131.126some of the characters of such species, accords with our view that species of all kinds
 2239.192whence the sediment has been derived, accords with the belief of vast intervals of
 2426.564admit its truth; and the rule strictly accords with my theory. For as all the species
 2466.104whole groups of species become extinct, accords well with the theory of natural
 2500.141forms of life throughout the world, accords well with the principle of new species
 2576.542times. For this doctrine of Agassiz accords well with the theory of natural
 3582.137independently created. To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws
53  account 
 250.1381other, it is equally preposterous to account for the structure of this parasite
 369.0page] 20 DOMESTIC PIGEONS. CHAP. I. account for our several domestic races by this
 425.308but he would be a bold man who would account by such agencies for the differences of
 970.1194degree; but this alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of
 1183.257push the foregoing argument too far, on account of the probable origin of some of our
 1189.1708kidney-beans ever appear, for an account has been published how much more hardy
 1345.1168that the most probable hypothesis to account for the reappearance of very ancient
 1388.21mathematicians? Fourthly, how can we account for species, when crossed, being
 1580.1688only to show that, if we are unable to account for the characteristic differences of
 1833.477in the scale of nature, that we cannot account [page] 236 INSTINCT. CHAP. VII. for
 2207.189feet. Prof. Ramsay has published an account of a downthrow in Anglesea of 2300 feet
 2466.793may justly feel surprise why we cannot account for the extinction of this particular
 2508.483differ in a manner very difficult to account for, considering the proximity of the
 2558.734over the globe, will not attempt to account for the close resemblance of the
 2586.247the same latitude, would attempt to account, on the one hand, by dissimilar
 2624.182in the scale of nature; and this may account for that vague yet ill-defined
 2783.504and it may be reasonably asked how I account for the necessary degree of uniformity
 2801.224shores of the Polar Circle, will account, on the theory of modification, for
 2809.657island, tell the same story. If one account which has been published can be trusted
 2928.326know from Mr. J. M. Jones's admirable account of Bermuda, that very many North
 2978.397closely, as we know from Dr. Hooker's account, to those of America: but on the view
 3151.334life, it assumes high value; for we can account for its presence in so many forms with
 3167.443smaller and feebler groups. Thus we can account for the fact that all organisms, recent
 3173.1197of aberrant genera. We can, I think, account for this fact only by looking at
 3187.173groups in each class. We may thus account even for the distinctness of whole
 3215.170form; and then natural selection will account for the infinite diversity in structure
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 192.35Present distribution cannot be accounted for by differences in physical
 1566.461aquatic origin, may perhaps be thus accounted for. A well-developed tail having been
 1723.455males. This instinct may probably be accounted for by the fact of the hens laying a
 1863.405in the smaller workers than can be accounted for merely by their proportionally
 1924.1748fertilised hybrids may, I believe, be accounted for by close interbreeding having been
 1930.369their results may, I think, be in part accounted for by Herbert's great horticultural
 2635.35Present distribution cannot be accounted for by differences in physical
 2637.215inhabitants of various regions can be accounted for by their climatal and other
 2934.50are elsewhere. Such cases are generally accounted for by the physical conditions of the
 2942.555on so many oceanic islands cannot be accounted for by their physical conditions
 3044.362may, as I have attempted to show, be accounted for by migration at some former period
 3349.142even have been anticipated, and can be accounted for by the laws of inheritance
 3398.444or interrupted range may often be accounted for by the extinction of the species in
5  accounts 
 463.447kept in this country. By comparing the accounts given in old pigeon treatises of
 1424.491the same principle which, as I believe, accounts for the common species in each country
 3016.551for distant transportation, probably accounts for a law which has long been observed
 3331.841of nature? An eminent physiologist accounts for the presence of rudimentary organs
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6  accumulate 
 532.519materials for natural selection to accumulate, in the same manner as man can
 532.561in the same manner as man can accumulate in any given direction individual
 1139.477and natural selection will then accumulate all profitable variations, however
 2313.431epoch. Wherever sediment did not accumulate on the bed of the sea, or where it did
 2313.485the bed of the sea, or where it did not accumulate at a sufficient rate to protect organic
 3432.208given to him by nature, and thus accumulate them in any desired manner. He thus
37  accumulated 
 423.918up in their minds slight differences accumulated during many successive generations. May
 449.61there is another means of observing the accumulated effects of selection—namely, by
 479.81plants, thus slowly and unconsciously accumulated, explains, as I believe, the well-known
 788.183his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological
 798.445variation, and the modifications are accumulated by natural selection for [page
 1018.1104outer dotted lines) being preserved and accumulated by natural selection. When a dotted
 1018.1300of variation is supposed to have been accumulated to have formed a fairly well-marked
 1197.191in any one part occur, and are accumulated through natural selection, other parts
 1197.367obvious case is, that modifications accumulated solely for the good of the young or
 1263.590variability, which has continually been accumulated by natural selection for the benefit of
 1281.876secondary sexual characters have been accumulated by sexual selection, which [page
 1293.1377in the same parts having been accumulated by natural and sexual selection, and
 1398.246and such fossiliferous masses can be accumulated only where much sediment is deposited
 1454.470each being propagated, until by the accumulated effects of this process of natural
 1628.205structure could not have been slowly accumulated by means of natural selection. But we
 1845.976of structure could have been slowly accumulated by natural selection. This difficulty
 2173.603to show how slowly the mass has been accumulated. Let him remember Lyell's profound
 2213.478sedimentary deposits might have accumulated in thinner masses than elsewhere, the
 2235.887forms of life, had elsewhere been accumulated. And if in each separate territory
 2243.55safely conclude that sediment must be accumulated in extremely thick, solid, or extensive
 2247.286which then existed; or, sediment may be accumulated to any thickness and extent over a
 2249.348has come to the conclusion that it was accumulated during subsidence. I may add, that the
 2255.157thick deposits could not have been accumulated in the shallow parts, which are the
 2255.364accurately, the beds which were then accumulated will have been destroyed by being
 2259.802deposits rich in fossils have been accumulated. Nature may almost be said to have
 2279.482fossiliferous formation can only be accumulated during a period of subsidence; and to
 2315.450would be destroyed, almost as soon as accumulated, by the incessant coast-action, as we
 2367.982on my theory no doubt were somewhere accumulated before the Silurian epoch, is very
 2375.478would in all probability have been accumulated from sediment derived from their wear
 2412.420and whether the variations be accumulated to a greater or lesser amount, thus
 2418.327formations have been almost necessarily accumulated at wide and irregularly intermittent
 2506.179formations have often been accumulated over very wide spaces in the same
 3044.1844the same, and modifications have been accumulated by the same power of natural selection
 3283.538to each breed, and which have been accumulated by man's selection, have not generally
 3416.503to resist future degradation, can be accumulated only where much sediment is deposited
 3448.230relations of life, would be preserved, accumulated, and inherited? Why, if man can by
 3532.595full effects of many slight variations, accumulated during an almost infinite number of
12  accumulating 
 234.504made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts
 260.284see how great is the power of man in accumulating by his Selection successive slight
 574.517to the action of natural selection in accumulating (as will hereafter be more fully
 1663.427selection preserving and continually accumulating variations of instinct to any extent
 1709.153habit, and partly by man selecting and accumulating during successive generations, peculiar
 1883.216of life, in natural selection accumulating slight modifications of instinct to any
 2227.221of the sea, where sediment is not accumulating. I believe we are continually taking a
 2273.1110including fossil remains, have gone on accumulating within the same area during the whole
 2279.136the deposit must have gone on accumulating for a very long period, in order to
 2307.1082when most of our formations were accumulating. The Malay Archipelago is one of the
 2313.189formations which we suppose to be there accumulating. I suspect that not many of the
 3462.36As natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight, successive, favourable
26  accumulation 
 441.444in the great effect produced by the accumulation in one direction, during successive
 505.47with extreme care, to allow of the accumulation of a large amount of modification in
 641.1364beings to his own uses, through the accumulation of slight but useful variations, given
 804.557organic beings at any age, by the accumulation of profitable variations at that age
 858.548can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited
 1032.923long enough to have allowed the accumulation of a considerable amount of divergent
 1365.137for each must exist-it is the steady accumulation, through natural selection, of such
 1669.50except by the slow and gradual accumulation of numerous, slight, yet profitable
 1821.38As natural selection acts only by the accumulation of slight modifications of structure or
 1877.1141in structure can be effected by the accumulation of numerous, slight, and as we must
 2199.470the time which has elapsed during their accumulation; yet what time this must have consumed
 2199.823the currents of the sea, the process of accumulation in any one area must be extremely slow
 2201.105suffered, independently of the rate of accumulation of the degraded matter, probably offers
 2281.133has generally been intermittent in its accumulation. When we see, as is so often the case
 2285.370required an enormous period for their accumulation; yet no one ignorant of this fact would
 2285.741intervals have occurred in its accumulation. In other cases we have the plainest
 2317.152together with a contemporaneous accumulation of sediment, would exceed the average
 2335.113cases than the time required for the accumulation of each formation. These intervals will
 2418.143perhaps, be nearly the same; but as the accumulation of long-enduring fossiliferous
 2512.166have gone on slowly changing during the accumulation of the several formations and during
 2564.187closely related, is obvious. As the accumulation of each formation has often been
 2602.350to subsidence being necessary for the accumulation of fossiliferous deposits thick enough
 3378.394with, human reason, but by the accumulation of innumerable slight variations, each
 3416.212have been intermittent in their accumulation; and their duration, I am inclined to
 3526.176slowly changing by the preservation and accumulation of successive slight favourable
 3574.249at hazard and at rare intervals. The accumulation of each great fossiliferous formation
2  accumulations 
 2243.262of level. Such thick and extensive accumulations of sediment may be formed in two ways
 2339.415And now one of the richest known accumulations of fossil mammals belongs to the middle
3  accumulative 
 429.1524history. The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive
 515.1719of Change I am convinced that the accumulative action of Selection, whether applied
 1133.103tell how much of it to attribute to the accumulative action of natural selection, and how
9  accuracy 
 242.202reader reposing some confidence in my accuracy. No doubt errors will have crept in
 441.662Not one man in a thousand has accuracy of eye and judgment sufficient to
 1801.1039Huber, but I am convinced of their accuracy; and if I had space, I could show that
 2078.17analogous facts. Kölreuter, whose accuracy has been confirmed by every subsequent
 2267.995Europe been correlated with perfect accuracy. With marine animals of all kinds, we
 2307.783which have been examined with any accuracy, excepting those of the United States
 2367.465portion of the world is known with accuracy. M. Barrande has lately added another
 2729.527plants germinated: I am certain of the accuracy of this observation. Again, I can show
 3578.447so that we must not overrate the accuracy of organic change as a measure of time
2  accurate 
 1657.137comparison gives, I think, a remarkably accurate notion of the frame of mind under which
 1865.445the actual measurements, but a strictly accurate illustration: the difference was the
2  accurately 
 1781.731difficulty, that she can somehow judge accurately at what distance to stand from her
 2255.327periods of elevation; or, to speak more accurately, the beds which were then accumulated
2  accustomed 
 2886.1588salt-water fish can with care be slowly accustomed to live in fresh water; and, according
 3255.15EMBRYOLOGY. CHAP. XIII. We are so much accustomed to see differences in structure between
3  acknowledge 
 1119.262incorrect expression, but it serves to acknowledge plainly our ignorance of the cause of
 1492.241principle of natural selection, will acknowledge that every organic being is constantly
 3558.260Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between
14  acknowledged 
 272.1229species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the
 499.1032of the new sub-breed are once fully acknowledged, the principle, as I have called it, of
 616.864Now, in this same catalogue, 53 acknowledged varieties are recorded, and these range
 616.1029range over 14.3 provinces. So that the acknowledged varieties have very nearly the same
 976.223having a rather longer beak; and on the acknowledged principle that "fanciers do not and
 1434.438representative species, and likewise of acknowledged varieties), exist in the intermediate
 1638.16be strictly true. It is generally acknowledged that all organic beings have been
 1914.1139as the Leguminosæ, in which there is an acknowledged difficulty in the manipulation) half of
 3081.1047this fact; and it has been most fully acknowledged in the writings of almost every author
 3197.536one species; we use descent in classing acknowledged varieties, however different they may
 3351.1105ranking together the sexes, ages, and acknowledged varieties of the same species, however
 3450.297of creation, and varieties which are acknowledged to have been produced by secondary laws
 3490.313points,—as do the crossed offspring of acknowledged varieties. On the other hand, these
 3558.769quite possible that forms now generally acknowledged to be merely varieties may hereafter be
1  acknowledging 
 244.72prevents my having the satisfaction of acknowledging the generous assistance which I have
1  acknowledgment 
 451.452give several references to the full acknowledgment of the importance of the principle in
1  acland 
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 435.464Youatt, who was probably better acquainted with the works of agriculturalists than
 469.543existing in the mind of any one at all acquainted with the subject that the owner of
 1661.700wonderful instincts with which we are acquainted, namely, those of the hive-bee and of
 1671.335sole good of another, with which I am acquainted, is that of aphides voluntarily
 2558.645the immutability of species. He who is acquainted with the distribution of existing
6  acquire 
 250.569this world have been modified, so as to acquire that perfection of structure and
 399.925offspring are very apt suddenly to acquire these characters; for instance, I
 751.306as it seems to be difficult to acquire. All that we can do, is to keep
 1317.674nature occasionally varying so as to acquire, in some degree, the character of the
 2898.355for these latter seem immediately to acquire, as if in consequence, a very wide
 3392.866of slightly modified forms or varieties acquire from being crossed increased vigour and
41  acquired 
 337.825to reversion,—that is, to lose their acquired characters, whilst kept under unchanged
 381.1187period at which the perfect plumage is acquired varies, as does the state of the down
 796.282and in keeping that colour, when once acquired, true and constant. Nor ought we to
 1219.198for an ancient progenitor may have acquired through natural selection some one
 1386.26perfection? Thirdly, can instincts be acquired and modified through natural selection
 1462.698the natural steps by which birds have acquired their perfect power of flight; but they
 1568.959new conditions of life and with newly acquired habits. To give a few instances to
 1574.328of importance and might have been acquired through natural selection; as it is, I
 1590.962these several bones might have been acquired through natural selection, subjected
 1628.739not, in its present state, have been acquired by natural selection,—a power which
 1657.528time and states of the body. When once acquired, they often remain constant throughout
 1661.524greater number of instincts have been acquired by habit in one generation, and then
 1661.794ants, could not possibly have been thus acquired. It will be universally admitted that
 1681.632animals. But fear of man is slowly acquired, as I have elsewhere shown, by various
 1709.58that domestic instincts have been acquired and natural instincts have been lost
 1761.258slaves. When the instinct was once acquired, if carried out to a much less extent
 1785.4page] 228 INSTINCT. CHAP. VII. has acquired, through natural selection, her
 1787.656other, that by the time the basins had acquired the above stated width (i.e. about the
 1831.878transmitted by inheritance its newly acquired economical instinct to new swarms
 1837.105therefore believe that they have been acquired by independent acts of natural
 1839.1257that all its characters had been slowly acquired through natural selection; namely, by
 1843.327never have transmitted successively acquired modifications of structure or instinct
 1877.117inherited tools or weapons, and not by acquired knowledge and manufactured instruments
 1898.665them, and therefore could not have been acquired by the continued preservation of
 1898.821show that sterility is not a specially acquired or endowed quality, but is incidental
 1898.877quality, but is incidental on other acquired differences. In treating this subject
 2084.412endowment, but is incidental on slowly acquired modifications, more especially in the
 2110.627to characters which have been slowly acquired by selection. Consequently, sudden
 2337.259effected, and a few species had thus acquired a great advantage over other organisms
 3267.0page] 444 EMBRYOLOGY. CHAP. XIII. acquired a little earlier or later in life. It
 3267.360by which each species has acquired its present structure, may have
 3275.340I found that the puppies had not nearly acquired their full amount of proportional
 3275.808I find that the colts have by no means acquired their full amount of proportional
 3283.302qualities and structures have been acquired earlier or later in life, if the full
 3283.783which when twelve hours old had acquired its proper proportions, proves that
 3351.1431arrangement, with the grades of acquired difference marked by the terms
 3488.186view of instincts having been slowly acquired through natural selection we need not
 3530.613of short duration; and now that we have acquired some idea of the lapse of time, we are
 3676.20on islands, 393. Bats, how structure acquired, 180. —, distribution of, 394. Bear
 3923.23hemisphere, 376. Flight, powers of, how acquired, 182. Flowers, structure of, in
 4244.22species of, 349. Otter, habits of, how acquired, 179. Ouzel, water, 185. Owen, Prof
1  acquired-for 
 1669.266by which each complex instinct has been acquired-for these could be found only in the lineal
2  acquirement 
 1622.339is no logical impossibility in the acquirement of any conceivable degree of perfection
 3580.143a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by
2  acquirements 
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 4948.21Vols. 8vo. 42s. ——Shakspeare's Legal Acquirements Considered. 8vo. 5s. 6d. —— (GEORGE
2  acquiring 
 1131.52of habitation of other species, often acquiring in a very slight degree some of the
 3697.6Bermuda, birds of, 391. Birds acquiring fear, 212. —annually cross the Atlantic
2  acres 
 707.452by the hand of man; but several hundred acres of exactly the same nature had been
 711.187whence I could examine hundreds of acres of the unenclosed heath, and literally
24  across 
 1339.831sire, were much more plainly barred across the legs than is even the pure quagga
 1741.16SLAVE-MAKING INSTINCT. of July, I came across a community with an unusually large
 1747.1032they were much terrified when they came across the pupæ, or even the earth from the
 2677.986exceptional. The capacity of migrating across the sea is more distinctly limited in
 2681.390means of dispersal, have migrated across the vast and broken interspace. The
 2713.286wide dissemination; but for transport across the sea, the greater or less facilities
 2717.146a few days, they could not be floated across wide spaces of the sea, whether or not
 2721.97to one country might be floated across 924 miles of sea to another country
 2723.1050having been dried, could be floated across a space of sea 900 miles in width, and
 2731.195are blown by gales to vast distances across the ocean. We may I think safely assume
 2749.623would suffice for occasional transport across tracts of sea some hundred miles in
 2749.1257year, one or two land-birds are blown across the whole Atlantic Ocean, from North
 2773.654permitted their former migration across the low intervening tracts, since
 2892.1651alight on a pool or rivulet, if blown across sea to an oceanic island or to any
 2904.421and go to other waters, or are blown across the sea; and we have seen that seeds
 2928.1374far more easily than land-shells, across three or four hundred miles of open sea
 2942.960great difficulty in their transportal across the sea, and therefore why they do not
 2948.1344terrestrial mammal can be transported across a wide space of sea, but bats can fly
 2948.1389a wide space of sea, but bats can fly across. Bats have been seen wandering by day
 2966.900be floated in chinks of drifted timber across moderately wide arms of the sea. And I
 2990.496currents of the sea are rapid and sweep across the archipelago, and gales of wind are
 5346.56Rough Notes of some Rapid Journeys across the Pampas and over the Andes. Post 8vo
 5464.9SPORTS. By CHARLES ST. JOHN. JOURNEYS ACROSS THE PAMPAS. By SIR F. B. HEAD
 5630.225to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi
17  acted 
 331.750to its primary cause, which may have acted on the ovules or male element; in
 792.184very trifling importance, may thus be acted on. When we see leaf-eating insects
 1092.42natural selection has really thus acted in nature, in modifying and adapting
 1092.327and how largely extinction has acted in the world's history, geology plainly
 1297.935and tendency to variation, when acted on by similar unknown influences. In
 1353.299the same laws appear to have acted in producing the lesser differences
 1560.417differences, might assuredly be acted on by natural selection. The tail of
 1689.1714natural instincts; but they have been acted on by far less rigorous selection, and
 1709.593probably, habit and selection have acted together. We shall, perhaps, best
 1833.339that they could hardly have been acted on by natural selection; cases of
 2042.310to all living things. We see this acted on by [page] 267 CHAP. VIII. FERTILITY
 2147.203as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the
 2444.1123and in what degree, they severally acted. If the conditions had gone on, however
 3263.742is fully displayed. The cause may have acted, and I believe generally has acted
 3263.777have acted, and I believe generally has acted, even before the embryo is formed; and
 3434.57reason why the principles which have acted so efficiently under domestication
 3434.114under domestication should not have acted under nature. In the preservation of
14  acting 
 295.907by unperceived causes as to fail in acting, we need not be surprised at this
 295.992when it does act under confinement, acting not quite regularly, and producing
 325.143not be due to the same original cause acting on both; but when amongst individuals
 725.53every species, many different checks, acting at different periods of life, and
 778.113in the conditions of life, by specially acting on the reproductive system, causes or
 822.1292chiefly modified by sexual selection, acting when the birds have come to the
 1430.373forms thus produced and the old ones acting and reacting on each other. So that, in
 1871.65I believe that natural selection, by acting on the fertile parents, could form a
 2626.506produced by the laws of variation still acting round us, and preserved by Natural
 3442.536strictly limited quantity. Man, though acting on external characters alone and often
 3448.475What limit can be put to this power, acting during long ages and rigidly
 3524.274and will thus have little power of acting on an organ during early life; hence
 3574.842are produced and exterminated by slowly acting and still existing causes, and not by
 3588.381manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the
79  action 
 146.379isolation, number of individuals — Slow action — Extinction caused by Natural
 146.537any small area, and to naturalisation — Action of Natural Selection, through
 291.866other part of the organisation, to the action of any change in the conditions of life
 305.416growth, and of inheritance; for had the action of the conditions been direct, if any
 305.620we should attribute to the direct action of heat, moisture, light, food, &c., is
 309.114I think, be attributed to the direct action of the conditions of life—as, in some
 337.433have to be attributed to the direct action of the poor soil), that they would to a
 425.202perhaps, be attributed to the direct action of the external conditions of life, and
 515.119that the conditions of life, from their action on the reproductive system, are so far
 515.601may be attributed to the direct action of the conditions of life. Something
 515.1732I am convinced that the accumulative action of Selection, whether applied
 574.235cases, due merely to the long-continued action of different physical conditions in two
 574.486to one in which it differs more, to the action of natural selection in accumulating
 602.306to find the manufactory still in action, more especially as we have every
 641.1529see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is as immeasurably superior to man
 689.417mortality from epidemics with man. The action of climate seems at first sight to be
 693.405the whole effect to its direct action. But this is a very false view: we
 693.1323forms, due to the directly injurious action of climate, than we do in proceeding
 729.543simple is this problem compared to the action and reaction of the innumerable plants
 830.21a monstrosity. Illustrations of the action of Natural Selection.—In order to make
 858.298but we now very seldom hear the action, for instance, of the coast-waves
 892.528we know of no means, analogous to the action of insects and of the wind in the case
 948.81extreme slowness, I fully admit. Its action depends on there being places in the
 948.427forms having been checked. But the action of natural selection will probably
 948.893are amply sufficient wholly to stop the action of natural selection. I do not believe
 952.5page] 109 CHAP. IV. EXTINCTION. tent action of natural selection accords perfectly
 976.1221then, we see in man's productions the action of what may be called the principle of
 1102.373through inheritance and the complex action of natural selection, entailing
 1133.116of it to attribute to the accumulative action of natural selection, and how much to
 1133.516generations, and how much to the direct action of the severe climate? for it would
 1133.595appear that climate has some direct action on the hair of our domestic quadrupeds
 1139.270to lay very little weight on the direct action of the conditions of life. Indirectly
 1153.526Madeira beetles is mainly due to the action of natural selection, but combined
 1155.291This is quite compatible with the action of natural selection. For when a new
 1285.21OF VARIATION. is less rigid in its action than ordinary selection, as it does not
 1285.295will have had a wide scope for action, and may thus readily have succeeded in
 1311.597and will not be left to the mutual action of the conditions of life and of a
 1574.1130or it may possibly be due to the direct action of putrid matter; but we should be very
 1580.1468colour would be thus subjected to the action of natural selection. But we are far
 1590.1202some little allowance for the direct action of physical conditions) may be viewed
 1638.809being slightly affected by the direct action of the external conditions of life, and
 1651.291lay her eggs in other birds' nests. An action, which we ourselves should require
 1657.201of mind under which an instinctive action is performed, but not of its origin
 1657.725a well-known song, so in instincts, one action follows another by a sort of rhythm; if
 1661.27LIKE HABIT. If we suppose any habitual action to become inherited-and I think it can
 1671.282of an animal apparently performing an action for the sole good of another, with
 1675.828in this manner, showing that the action was instinctive, and not the result of
 1675.1154any animal in the world performs an action for the exclusive good of another of a
 1677.132variations, are indispensable for the action of natural selection, as many instances
 1697.271the tumbler-pigeon to tumble,—an action which, as I have witnessed, is
 2038.378in the development, or periodical action, or mutual relation of the different
 2173.32base. He who most closely studies the action of the sea on our shores, will, I
 2205.564been so completely planed down by the action of the sea, that no trace of these vast
 2219.4say three hundred million years. The action of fresh water on the gently inclined
 2219.335as land, and thus have escaped the action of the sea: when deeply submerged for
 2219.447it would, likewise, have escaped the action of the coast-waves. So that in all
 2241.1188rising of the land within the grinding action of the coast-waves. We may, I think
 2243.151in order to withstand the incessant action of the waves, when first upraised and
 2367.1134or obliterated by metamorphic action, we ought to find only small remnants
 2379.1693have undergone far more metamorphic action than strata which have always remained
 2466.474and that some check is always in action, yet seldom perceived by us, the whole
 2663.669of the former immigrants;—and on their action and reaction, in their mutual struggles
 2713.496far seeds could resist the injurious action of sea-water. To my surprise I found
 2723.472of their resistance to the injurious action of the salt-water. On the other hand he
 2745.143remain to be discovered, have been in action year after year, for centuries and tens
 2749.474for a great length of time to the action of seawater; nor could they be long
 2809.533some direct evidence of former glacial action in New Zealand; and the same plants
 2809.741we have direct evidence of glacial action in the south-eastern corner of
 2811.773the clearest evidence of former glacial action, in huge boulders transported far from
 2817.552admit as probable that the glacial action was simultaneous on the eastern and
 3032.1802be an almost endless amount of organic action and reaction,—and we should find, as we
 3063.280to turn to the diagram illustrating the action, as formerly explained, of these
 3343.286to maturity and to its full powers of action, the principle of inheritance at
 3426.434by use and disuse, and by the direct action of the physical conditions of life
 3454.239as a general rule, to find it still in action; and this is the case if varieties be
 3532.406great valleys excavated, by the slow action of the coast-waves. The mind cannot
 3566.173of use and disuse, on the direct action of external conditions, and so forth
 3588.565from the indirect and direct action of the external con- [page
 4219.11fossil birds of, 339. —, glacial action in, 373, —, crustaceans of
1  action—extinction 
 764.365isolation, number of individuals—Slow action—Extinction caused by Natural Selection—Divergence
8  actions 
 1651.101to show that several distinct mental actions are commonly embraced by this term; but
 1657.277origin. How unconsciously many habitual actions are performed, indeed not rarely in
 1689.831shepherd-dogs. I cannot see that these actions, performed without experience by the
 1689.1188of the cabbage,—I cannot see that these actions differ essentially from true instincts
 1689.1564point, we should assuredly call these actions instinctive. Domestic instincts, as
 1697.46instincts are sometimes spoken of as actions which have become inherited solely from
 1709.224generations, peculiar mental habits and actions, which at first appeared from what we
 5704.40MAURELS (JULES) Essay on the Character, Actions, and Writings of the-Duke of Wellington
12  active 
 602.246the manufactory of species has been active, we ought generally to find the
 1845.353alone when the reproductive system is active, as in the nuptial plumage of many
 3239.677in the case of larvæ, the embryos are active, and have been adapted for special
 3247.90any part of its embryonic career is active, and has to provide for itself. The
 3247.392the similarity of the larvæ or active embryos of allied animals is sometimes
 3247.662most cases, however, the larvæ, though active, still obey more or less closely the
 3251.1016organs of sense, and to reach by their active powers of swimming, a proper place on
 3255.961whether adapted to the most diverse and active habits, or quite inactive, being fed by
 3261.37embryo becomes at any period of life active and has to provide for itself;—of the
 3295.1269inheritance at corresponding ages, the active young or larvæ might easily be rendered
 3359.562as different as possible. Larvæ are active embryos, which have become specially
 3454.175the manufactory of species has been active, we might expect, as a general rule, to
1  actively 
 1361.87of new specific forms has been actively at work-there, on an average, we now
2  activity 
 3247.143to provide for itself. The period of activity may come on earlier or later in life
 3289.1253which has come to its full powers of activity and has to gain its own living; and the
15  actual 
 455.956Some of these facts do not show actual selection, but they show that the
 461.362kind could never be recognised unless actual measurements or careful drawings of the
 568.451impresses the mind with the idea of an actual passage. Hence I look at individual
 618.233of such links cannot affect the actual characters of the forms which they
 1225.1322by disuse, and, on the other hand, the actual withdrawal of nutriment from one part
 1434.357namely from what we know of the actual distribution of closely allied or
 1669.195we ought to find in nature, not the actual transitional gradations by which each
 1865.409in these workers, by my giving not the actual measurements, but a strictly accurate
 2177.258maximum thickness, in most cases from actual measurement, in a few cases from
 2291.796before explained, that A might be the actual progenitor of B and C, and yet might
 2596.519and some of these fossils may be the actual progenitors of living species. It must
 2723.132for he placed the seeds in a box in the actual sea, so that they were alternately wet
 3191.1411this or that branch, though at the actual fork the two unite and blend together
 3558.681more carefully and to value higher the actual amount of difference between them. It
 3578.145as a fair measure of the lapse of actual time. A number of species, however
21  actually 
 437.27breeding. What English breeders have actually effected is proved by the enormous
 542.1217not because the intermediate links have actually been found, but because analogy leads
 778.868of isolation to check immigration, is actually necessary to produce new and unoccupied
 976.351like extremes," they both go on (as has actually occurred with tumbler-pigeons) choosing
 1323.764stripes are sometimes very obscure, or actually quite lost, in dark-coloured asses. The
 1528.363in believing that natural selection has actually converted a swimbladder into a lung, or
 1530.1147period served for respiration have been actually converted into organs of flight. In
 1560.1157is not that the larger quadrupeds are actually destroyed (except in some rare cases
 1566.111now become of very slight use; and any actually injurious deviations in their structure
 1731.648which determine the migration, and actually carry their masters in their jaws. So
 1837.300first appeared to me insuperable, and actually fatal to my whole theory. I allude to
 1932.624the individuals of certain species can actually be hybridised much more readily than
 2783.36In illustrating what, as I believe, actually took place during the Glacial period, I
 2817.409during a part at least of the period, actually simultaneous throughout the world
 2855.887and if the natives have not been actually exterminated, their numbers have been
 2968.151of the nearest mainland, without being actually the same species. Numerous instances
 3159.536misled by external appearances, actually classed an homopterous insect as a moth
 3217.969transformed into another; and we can actually see in embryonic crustaceans and in
 3233.630the one case and legs in the other—have actually been modified into skulls or jaws. Yet
 3275.236seemed almost to be the case; but on actually measuring the old dogs and their six
 3428.13domesticated productions. Man does not actually produce variability; he only [page
1  acuminata 
 1980.1094other genus; but Gärtner found that N. acuminata, which is not a particularly distinct
1  acutest 
 1484.316modified. On the other hand, the acutest observer by examining the dead body of
7  adapt 
 641.1314produce great results, and can adapt organic beings to his own uses, through
 804.965trees. Natural selection may modify and adapt the larva of an insect to a score of
 810.103to the young. In social animals it will adapt the structure of each individual for
 1418.68apply to both; and if we in imagination adapt a varying species to a very large area
 1418.131to a very large area, we shall have to adapt two varieties to two large areas, and a
 2337.100require a long succession of ages to adapt an organism to some new and peculiar
 3468.88with natural selection always ready to adapt the slowly varying descendants of each
18  adaptation 
 429.23MAN. CHAP. I. is that we see in them adaptation, not indeed to the animal's or plant's
 487.151how it is that our domestic races show adaptation in their structure or in their habits
 872.848such flowers, there is a very curious adaptation between the structure of the flower and
 1173.773a damp climate. But the degree of adaptation of species to the climates under which
 1177.383quite as much as, or more than, by adaptation to particular climates. But whether or
 1177.441climates. But whether or not the adaptation be generally very close, we have
 1183.804zones. Hence I am inclined to look at adaptation to any special climate as a quality
 1478.458nature. Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for
 1574.189that the green colour was a beautiful adaptation to hide this tree-frequenting bird from
 1574.1033is generally looked at as a direct adaptation for wallowing in putridity; and so it
 1574.1384have been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt
 2006.1051evergreen and the other deciduous, and adaptation to widely different climates, does not
 2936.256relations are more striking than the adaptation of hooked seeds for transportal by the
 3018.844the subsequent modification and better adaptation of the colonists to their new homes
 3081.585been subjected to less change in the adaptation of the species to their conditions of
 3247.220in life; but whenever it comes on, the adaptation of the larva to its conditions of life
 3438.512it comes into competition, or better adaptation in however slight a degree to the
 3774.3in checking increase of beings, 68. —, adaptation of, to organisms, 139. [page
6  adaptations 
 635.839in nature. How have all those exquisite adaptations of one part of the organisation to
 639.199breeze; in short, we see beautiful adaptations everywhere and in every part of the
 1638.714during long-past periods of time: the adaptations being aided in some cases by use and
 1638.1040through the inheritance of former adaptations, that of Unity of Type. [page
 3163.165whales are compared with fishes, being adaptations in both classes for swimming through
 3247.348in the adult animal. From such special adaptations, the similarity of the larvæ or active
54  adapted 
 250.1025tail, beak, and tongue, so admirably adapted to catch insects under the bark of
 741.955the structure of its legs, so well adapted for diving, allows it to compete with
 772.963by barriers, into which new and better adapted forms could not freely enter, we should
 778.1415native inhabitants are now so perfectly adapted to each other and to the physical
 788.382that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life
 856.811or one after the other, modified and adapted in the most perfect manner to each
 878.134other towards it, the contrivance seems adapted solely to ensure self-fertilisation
 922.639in checking the immigration of better adapted organisms, after any physical change
 922.859inhabitants to struggle for, and become adapted to, through modifica- [page] 105 CHAP
 948.384slow, and on the immigration of better adapted forms having been checked. But the
 994.264looked at as specially created and adapted for their own country. It might, also
 994.414to a few groups more especially adapted to certain stations in their new homes
 1002.62doubts that a stomach by being adapted to digest vegetable matter alone, or
 1052.82distinct country, or become quickly adapted to some quite new station, in which
 1056.752stage of descent, so as to have become adapted to many related places in the natural
 1090.1318assuring to the most vigorous and best adapted males the greatest number of offspring
 1173.549It is notorious that each species is adapted to the climate of its own home: species
 1177.1304know that these animals were strictly adapted to their native climate, but in all
 1189.420which are born with constitutions best adapted to their native countries. In treatises
 1207.25their teeth. I know of no case better adapted to show the importance of the laws of
 1293.1431natural and sexual selection, and thus adapted for secondary sexual, and for ordinary
 1365.416struggle with each other, and the best adapted to survive. [page] 171 CHAP. VI
 1400.903of modification, each has become adapted to the conditions of life of its own
 1424.749varieties of sheep to be kept, one adapted to an extensive mountainous region; a
 1442.550for life, it is clear that each is well adapted in its habits to its place in nature
 1464.92as the Crustacea and Mollusca are adapted to live on the land, and seeing that we
 1476.470of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in
 1560.583incredible that this could have been adapted for its present purpose by successive
 1606.277purpose, with the poison originally adapted to cause galls subsequently intensified
 1638.663conditions of life; or by having adapted them during long-past periods of time
 1763.259structure of a comb, so beautifully adapted to its end, without enthusiastic
 2355.66until some of the species became adapted to a cooler climate, and were enabled
 2420.206the offspring of one species might be adapted (and no doubt this has occurred in
 2713.236this or that plant is stated to be ill adapted for wide dissemination; but for
 2890.28quently become modified and adapted to the fresh waters of a distant land
 2922.396that a sufficient number of the best adapted plants and animals have not been
 2928.800former homes, and have become mutually adapted to each other; and when settled in
 2994.1108many even of the birds, though so well adapted for flying from island to island, are
 3159.1229lines of descent, may readily become adapted to similar conditions, and thus assume
 3165.47of distinct classes have often been adapted by successive slight modifications to
 3179.1601owing to the phascolomys having become adapted to habits like those of a Rodent. The
 3229.174elements, many times repeated, and have adapted them to the most diverse purposes. And
 3239.699the embryos are active, and have been adapted for special lines of life. A trace of
 3255.929The larvæ of insects, whether adapted to the most diverse and active habits
 3289.362by a long course of modification, adapted in one descendant to act as hands, in
 3331.233most parts and organs are exquisitely adapted for certain purposes, tells us with
 3470.296to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and
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 776.213of any of the species, by better adapting them to their altered conditions, would
 1092.76thus acted in nature, in modifying and adapting the various forms of life to their
 1638.560natural selection acts by either now adapting the varying parts of each being to its
 3448.690this power, in slowly and beautifully adapting each form to the most complex relations
13  adaptive 
 208.249used in classification — Analogical or adaptive characters — Affinities, general
 3055.239used in classification—Analogical or adaptive characters—Affinities, general, complex
 3075.803of the being, are ranked as merely "adaptive or analogical characters;" but to the
 3075.1396of these organs to mistake a merely adaptive for an essential character." So with
 3159.108real affinities and analogical or adaptive resemblances. Lamarck first called
 3159.1024clearly understand why analogical or adaptive character, although of the utmost
 3179.474are believed to be real and not merely adaptive, they are due on my theory to
 3197.1339we summarily reject analogical or adaptive characters, and yet use these same
 3351.618in value between analogical or adaptive characters, and characters of true
 3512.555than others for classification;—why adaptive characters, though of paramount
 3560.188of type, paternity, morphology, adaptive characters, rudimentary and aborted
 3757.3of, 111. ——, sexual, variable, 156. —, adaptive or analogical, 427. Charlock
 4114.11flowers, 451. L. Lamarck on adaptive characters, 427. Land-shells
2  adapts 
 3432.255them in any desired manner. He thus adapts animals and plants for his own benefit
 3470.45selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in
12  added 
 351.222not dispute that these capacities have added largely to the value of most of our
 1297.1354species; and to these a third may be added, namely, the common turnip. According
 2307.35Geological research, though it has added numerous species to existing and
 2367.498with accuracy. M. Barrande has lately added another and lower stage to the Silurian
 2584.1313displayed by them. Other cases could be added, as the relation between the extinct
 3069.988it seems to me that nothing is thus added to our knowledge. Such expressions as
 3171.239that the discovery of Australia has not added a single insect belonging to a new
 3171.357as I learn from Dr. Hooker, it has added only two or three orders of small size
 3566.395subject for study than one more species added to the infinitude of already recorded
 5588.92Remarks on its Antiquities; to which is added, the Demi of Attica. Second Edition
 5884.90the Miseries of Fishing. To which is added, Maxims and Hints for a Chess-player
 5932.51Insect Architecture. To which are added Chapters on the Ravages, the
1  adder 
 1592.363species, as we see in the fang of the adder, and in the ovipositor of the ichneumon
8  adding 
 778.590can certainly produce great results by adding up in any given direction mere
 790.175that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and
 1767.464old cocoons to hold honey, sometimes adding to them short tubes of wax, and
 1807.926piling up the cut-away cement, and adding fresh cement, on the summit of the
 1863.827condition. I may digress by adding, that if the smaller workers had been
 2345.940series. This was a sore trouble to me, adding as I thought one more instance of the
 3069.576common to the dog-genus, and then by adding a single sentence, a full description
 3442.648within a short period a great result by adding up mere individual differences in his
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 994.1147and thus a large proportional addition is made to the genera of these States
 1767.1465in which the young are hatched, and, in addition, some large cells of wax for holding
 3462.250non facit saltum," which every fresh addition to our knowledge tends to make more
2  additional 
 2110.543deficiency of tail or horns, or additional fingers and toes; and do not relate to
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1  adduce 
 1273.89It would be almost superfluous to adduce evidence in support of the above
3  adduced 
 242.789in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to
 1584.97between species. I might have adduced for this same purpose the differences
 1918.854with the evidence from fertility adduced by different hybridisers, or by the
1  adhere 
 2966.661hatched young occasionally crawl on and adhere to the feet of birds roosting on the
1  adherent 
 1211.1488petals; and that when this occurs, the adherent nectary is quite aborted; when the
2  adheres 
 2737.96clean, I can show that earth sometimes adheres to them: in one instance I removed
 2898.526that earth occasionally, though rarely, adheres in some quantity to the feet and beaks
4  adhering 
 2741.294and can we doubt that the earth adhering to their feet would sometimes include a
 2892.706I have twice seen these little plants adhering to its back; and it has happened to me
 2896.101fresh-water shell like a limpet) firmly adhering to it; and a water-beetle of the same
 3905.30Feet of birds, young molluscs adhering to, 385. FRUIT-TREES. Fertility of
2  adhesion 
 1159.790a reduction in their size with the adhesion of the eyelids and growth of fur over
 2016.88fundamental difference between the mere adhesion of grafted stocks, and the union of the
1  adhesive 
 1536.942size and the obliteration of their adhesive glands. If all pedunculated cirripedes
19  adjoining 
 1203.77Hard parts seem to affect the form of adjoining soft parts; it is believed by some
 1225.1230natural selection and another and adjoining part being reduced by this same process
 1225.1412to the excess of growth in another and adjoining part. I suspect, also, that some of
 1233.432compensation the reduction of some adjoining part. [page] 149 CHAP. V. CORRELATION
 1357.392it tends to draw nourishment from the adjoining parts; and every part of the structure
 1767.141in close relation to the presence of adjoining cells; and the following view may
 1767.984the composition of the bases of three adjoining cells on the opposite side. In the
 1771.676enter into the construction of three adjoining cells. It is obvious that the Melipona
 1771.794for the flat walls between the adjoining cells are not double, but are of the
 1775.322same distance from the centres of the adjoining spheres in the other and parallel layer
 1781.1153have been formed by the intersection of adjoining spheres in the same layer, she can
 1807.62the plane of intersection between two adjoining spheres. I have several specimens
 1815.633up a wall intermediate between two adjoining spheres; but, as far as I have seen
 1815.784large part both of that cell and of the adjoining cells has been built. This capacity in
 1825.1202for a wall in common even to two adjoining cells, would save some little wax
 2259.103the area of the land and of the adjoining shoal parts of the sea will be
 2994.1867subject; namely, that Madeira and the adjoining islet of [page] 403 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC
 3329.76is of greater size relatively to the adjoining parts in the embryo, than in the adult
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 1771.159flat surfaces, according as the cell adjoins two, three or more other cells. When
1  adjusting 
 1494.113all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for
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19  admirable 
 509.43with distinct species) those many admirable varieties of the strawberry which have
 548.1804as varieties in Mr. Wollaston's admirable work, but which it cannot [page
 994.551has well remarked in his great and admirable work, that floras gain by
 1877.420nature has, as I believe, effected this admirable division of labour in the communities
 1910.167works of those two conscientious and admirable observers, Kölreuter and Gärtner, who
 1964.356are chiefly drawn up from Gärtner's admirable work on the hybridisation of plants. I
 2209.360memoir on this subject. Yet it is an admirable lesson to stand on the North Downs and
 2223.154by every one. The remark of that admirable palæontologist, the late Edward Forbes
 2482.137of the world, has greatly struck those admirable observers, MM. [page] 325 CHAP. X
 2508.83in Europe. Mr. Prestwich, in his admirable Memoirs on the eocene deposits of
 2801.586crustaceans (as described in Dana's admirable work), of some fish and other marine
 2825.309the intermediate torrid regions. In the admirable 'Introduction to the Flora of New
 2863.100of the most remarkable are stated with admirable clearness by Dr. Hooker in his
 2928.316and we know from Mr. J. M. Jones's admirable account of Bermuda, that very many
 2954.1036history of this archipelago by the admirable zeal and researches of Mr. Wallace. I
 2972.481plants, as shown by Dr. Hooker in his admirable memoir on the Flora of this archipelago
 3255.1198as in that of Aphis, if we look to the admirable drawings by Professor Huxley of the
 3484.420principle of gradation throws on the admirable architectural powers of the hive-bee
 3572.296shall surely be enabled to trace in an admirable manner the former migrations of the
2  admirably 
 250.1015its feet, tail, beak, and tongue, so admirably adapted to catch insects under the bark
 3016.626observed, and which has lately been admirably discussed by Alph. de Candolle in
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 4656.78of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty:mdash; 1. A MANUAL OF SCIENTIFIC
 5686.178Published by order of the Lords of the Admiralty.) MARKHAMS (MRS.) History of England
2  admiration 
 250.653which most justly excites our admiration. Naturalists continually refer to
 1763.300to its end, without enthusiastic admiration. We hear from mathematicians that bees
6  admire 
 976.281that "fanciers do not and will not admire a medium standard, but like extremes
 1604.334the eye. If our reason leads us to admire with enthusiasm a multitude of
 1606.619the death of some few members. If we admire the truly wonderful power of scent by
 1606.723many insects find their females, can we admire the production for this single purpose
 1606.971It may be difficult, but we ought to admire the savage instinctive hatred of the
 1610.289principle of natural selection. If we admire the several ingenious contrivances, by
4  admission 
 566.754much variation,—and the truth of this admission will often be disputed by other
 1552.470non facit saltum." We meet with this admission in the writings of almost every
 2711.471such facts seem to me opposed to the admission of such prodigious geographical
 2711.864volcanic composition favour the admission that they are the wrecks of sunken
35  admit 
 365.816breeds of cattle, sheep, &c., we must admit that many domestic breeds have
 365.1105dogs of the whole world, which I fully admit have probably descended from several
 369.64domestic races by this process, we must admit the former existence of the most
 423.1157links in the long lines of descent, yet admit that many of our domestic races have
 645.500knowledge. Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal
 948.70act with extreme slowness, I fully admit. Its action depends on there being
 1351.514but other species of the genus. To admit this view is, as it seems to me, to
 1508.202not to hesitate to go further, and to admit that a structure even as perfect as the
 1528.134to the swimbladder. All physiologists admit that the swimbladder is homologous, or
 1580.1787breeds, which nevertheless we generally admit to have arisen through ordinary
 1586.395fatal to my theory. Yet I fully admit that many structures are of no direct
 1859.117of natural selection, when I do not admit that such wonderful and well
 2006.572a specially endowed quality, but will admit that it is incidental on differences in
 2054.315perfectly fertile offspring. I fully admit that this is almost invariably the case
 2165.631in natural science, yet does not admit how incomprehensibly vast have been the
 2227.310a most erroneous view, when we tacitly admit to ourselves that sediment is being
 2426.525opposed to such views as I maintain) admit its truth; and the rule strictly
 2450.122I published in 1845, namely, that to admit that species generally become rare
 2450.312ceases to exist, is much the same as to admit that sickness in the individual is the
 2526.134members of the same classes, we must admit that there is some truth in the remark
 2707.1096intervening oceanic islands. I freely admit the former existence of many islands
 2817.517to the contrary, we may at least admit as probable that the glacial action was
 2916.378already stated that I cannot honestly admit Forbes's view on continental extensions
 2918.435Hope or in Australia, we must, I think, admit that something quite independently of
 2922.352of each separate species, will have to admit, that a sufficient number of the best
 3378.599great, cannot be considered real if we admit the following propositions, namely
 3418.204geological record is imperfect all will admit; but that it is imperfect to the degree
 3418.291I require, few will be inclined to admit. If we look to long enough intervals of
 3492.6been produced by secondary laws. If we admit that the geological record is imperfect
 3498.44to geographical distribution, if we admit that there has been during the long
 3532.52cause of our natural unwillingness to admit that one species has given birth to
 3540.268a strange conclusion to arrive at. They admit that a multitude of forms, which till
 3540.522feature of true species,—they admit that these have been produced by
 3540.821those produced by secondary laws. They admit variation as a vera causa in one case
 3558.1064as those naturalists treat genera, who admit that genera are merely artificial
5  admits 
 2088.173more variable than hybrids; but Gärtner admits that hybrids from species which have
 2088.354instances of this fact. Gärtner further admits that hybrids between very closely
 2918.139continental areas: Alph. de Candolle admits this for plants, and Wollaston for
 2922.277many native productions. He who admits the doctrine of the creation of each
 3442.729his domestic productions; and every one admits that there are at least individual
26  admitted 
 325.751and commoner deviations may be freely admitted to be inheritable. Perhaps the correct
 343.734a state of nature. I think this must be admitted, when we find that there are hardly any
 552.740or Ireland, be sufficient? It must be admitted that many forms, considered by highly
 635.597of any well-marked varieties be admitted. But the mere existence of individual
 1281.94two other remarks. I think it will be admitted, without my entering on details, that
 1281.212very variable; I think it also will be admitted that species of the same group differ
 1596.416which seems to me of any weight. It is admitted that the rattlesnake has a poison-fang
 1663.23thus acquired. It will be universally admitted that instincts are as important as
 1713.19known instincts. It is now commonly admitted that the more immediate and final cause
 2209.106of the Weald. Though it must be admitted that the denudation of the Weald has
 2223.112collections are very imperfect, is admitted by every one. The remark of that
 2596.237This cannot for an instant be admitted. These huge animals have become wholly
 2677.651agency of a miracle. It is universally admitted, that in most cases the area inhabited
 2707.451by Forbes are to be trusted, it must be admitted that scarcely a single island exists
 2707.1413over them. Whenever it is fully admitted, as I believe it will some day be, that
 2711.606on the view advanced by Forbes and admitted by his many followers. The nature and
 2817.774extremity of the continent. If this be admitted, it is difficult to avoid believing
 2960.759more complete; and if modification be admitted, all the forms of life would have been
 3089.161importance, but which are universally admitted as highly serviceable in the definition
 3103.610this doctrine has very generally been admitted as true. The same fact holds good with
 3209.211of the attempt has been expressly admitted by Owen in his most interesting work on
 3271.40These two principles, if their truth be admitted, will, I believe, explain all the above
 3382.476graduated steps. There are, it must be admitted, cases of special difficulty on the
 3446.5CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION. have admitted the existence of varieties, which they
 3510.957to the African mainland. It must be admitted that these facts receive no explanation
 3554.106or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly foresee that there will
5  admitting 
 566.706will succeed in this at the expense of admitting much variation,—and the truth of this
 1494.161the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the
 2707.735of my judgment we are not authorized in admitting such enormous geographical changes
 3032.42the difficulties be not insuperable in admitting that in the long course of time the
 3532.152species, is that we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see
1  admonition 
 1948.335opposition to the constantly repeated admonition of every breeder. And in this case, it
1  adolphus's 
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1  adopt 
 3365.172that I should without hesitation adopt this view, even if it were unsupported
2  adoption 
 215.283may be extended — Effects of its adoption on the study of Natural history
 3374.275may be extended—Effects of its adoption on the study of Natural history
26  adult 
 804.436of our sheep and cattle when nearly adult;—so in a state of nature, natural
 804.1180of correlation, the structure of the adult; and probably in the case of those
 804.1440So, conversely, modifications in the adult will probably often affect the
 1090.1189egg, seed, or young, as easily as the adult. Amongst many animals, sexual selection
 1197.484concluded, affect the structure of the adult; in the same manner as any
 1197.609affects the whole organisation of the adult. The several parts of the body which
 2576.646I shall attempt to show that the adult differs from its embryo, owing to
 2576.924more and more difference to the adult. Thus the embryo comes to be left as a
 3103.108importance with those derived from the adult, for our classifications of course
 3103.327for this purpose than that of the adult, which alone plays its full part in the
 3141.396of certain cirripedes, when adult, and yet no one dreams of separating
 3141.592may differ from each other and from the adult; as he likewise includes the so-called
 3247.316as perfect and as beautiful as in the adult animal. From such special adaptations
 3247.605more, from each other than do their adult parents. In most cases, however, the
 3255.85in structure between the embryo and the adult, and likewise a close similarity in the
 3255.644at any period differ widely from the adult: thus Owen has remarked in regard to
 3257.155in structure between the embryo and the adult;—of parts in the same indivividual
 3281.231almost exactly as much as in the adult state. The two principles above given
 3295.1628to be the case with cirripedes. The adult might become fitted for sites or habits
 3301.526for classification than that of the adult. For the embryo is the animal in its
 3301.1099however much the structure of the adult may have been modified and obscured; we
 3329.119parts in the embryo, than in the adult; so that the organ at this early age is
 3329.279Hence, also, a rudimentary organ in the adult, is often said to have retained its
 3343.596and their lesser relative size in the adult. But if each step of the process of
 3359.499parts or organs, though fitted in the adult members for purposes as different as
 3518.928alike, and should be so unlike the adult forms. We may cease marvelling at the
2  adults 
 2892.371killed by sea water, as are the adults. I could not even understand how some
 3289.130other much more closely than do the adults, just as we have seen in the case of
1  advan 
 1757.487which had seized them-if it were more advan- [page] 224 INSTINCT. CHAP. VII
2  advance 
 1269.644which most naturalists would advance, namely, that specific characters are
 1552.1159she can never take a leap, but must advance by the shortest and slowest steps
10  advanced 
 1227.72cases of compensation which have been advanced, and likewise some other facts, may be
 1574.1360the skulls of young mammals have been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding
 1877.1547I am surprised that no one has advanced this demonstrative case of neuter
 1918.701here to enter on details-the evidence advanced by our best botanists on the question
 2693.878variety for species) from that lately advanced in an ingenious paper by Mr. Wallace
 2711.583period, as are necessitated on the view advanced by Forbes and admitted by his many
 2851.573numbers, and having consequently been advanced through natural selection and
 2892.1324jarred off, though at a somewhat more advanced age they would voluntarily drop off
 3378.38That many and grave objections may be advanced against the theory of descent with
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1  advanced—for 
 1189.1037have not been produced, has even been advanced—for it is now as tender as ever it was—as
2  advancement 
 53.7or proficience in both." BACON: Advancement of Learning
 1889.239of one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply
2  advancing 
 693.99which have got least food through the advancing winter, which will suffer most. When we
 1600.399are now rapidly yielding before the advancing legions of plants [page
70  advantage 
 741.699the elements of air and water. Yet the advantage of plumed seeds no doubt stands in the
 747.208number, we should have to give it some advantage over its competitors, or over the
 747.392respect to climate would clearly be an advantage to our plant; but we have reason to
 749.446for we should have to give it some advantage over a different set of competitors or
 751.64our imagination to give any form some advantage over another. Probably in no single
 770.98survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would
 778.1212one inhabitant would often give it an advantage over others; and still further
 778.1323would often still further increase the advantage. No country can be named in which all
 782.328natives might have been modified with advantage, so as to have better resisted such
 810.330of one species, without giving it any advantage, for the good of another species; and
 810.1081pigeon very short for the bird's own advantage, the process of modification would be
 824.293in successive generations, some slight advantage over other [page] 90 NATURAL SELECTION
 846.1654commence. No naturalist doubts the advantage of what has been called the
 856.180the hive-bee. Thus it might be a great advantage to the hive-bee to have a slightly
 856.550in any country, it might be a great advantage to the red clover to have a shorter or
 860.17of new organic [page] 96 ON THE ADVANTAGE. CHAP. IV. beings, or of any great and
 874.17but it must not be [page] 98 ON THE ADVANTAGE. CHAP. IV. supposed that bees would
 888.18only from flower [page] 100 ON THE ADVANTAGE. CHAP. IV. to flower on the same tree
 996.276be modified, in order to have gained an advantage over the other natives; and we may, I
 998.4have been profitable to them. The advantage of diversification in the inhabitants
 1048.259acts by the selected form having some advantage in the struggle for life over other
 1056.440that they must originally have had some advantage over most of the other species of the
 1080.227acts through one form having some advantage over other forms in the struggle for
 1080.338act on those which already have some advantage; and the largeness of any group shows
 1080.446inherited from a common ancestor some advantage in common. Hence, the struggle for the
 1159.868fur over them, might in such case be an advantage; and if so, natural selection would
 1223.75to be wafted further, might get an advantage over those producing seed less fitted
 1231.1159by slow steps, would be a decided advantage to each successive individual of the
 1237.1498each being, solely through and for its advantage. Rudimentary parts, it has been stated
 1287.1354would it is highly probable, be taken advantage of by natural and sexual selection, in
 1361.365organisation has generally been taken advantage of in giving secondary sexual
 1420.591larger areas, will have a great advantage over the intermediate variety, which
 1470.537so as to have given them a decided advantage over other animals in the battle for
 1492.424habits or structure, and thus gain an advantage over some other inhabitant of the
 1522.553might easily specialise, if any advantage were thus gained, a part or organ
 1550.93for the good of each being and taking advantage of analogous variations, has sometimes
 1552.1080selection can act only by taking advantage of slight successive variations; she
 1560.1105into new pastures and thus gain a great advantage. It is not that the larger quadrupeds
 1568.607having a will, to give one male an advantage in fighting with another or in charming
 1568.805causes, it may at first have been of no advantage to the species, but may subsequently
 1568.868but may subsequently have been taken advantage of by the descendants of the species
 1574.876and have been subsequently taken advantage of by the plant undergoing further
 1574.1684the laws of growth, and has been taken advantage of in the parturition of the higher
 1592.178nature one species incessantly takes advantage of, and profits by, the structure of
 1616.157in greater numbers, will have a great advantage over the less numerous intermediate
 1628.417a species, have been subsequently taken advantage of by the still further modified
 1675.1249species, yet each species tries to take advantage of the instincts of others, as each
 1675.1301the instincts of others, as each takes advantage of the weaker bodily structure of
 1717.1217if the young were made more vigorous by advantage having been taken of the mistaken
 1717.1485or the fostered young would gain an advantage. And analogy would lead me to believe
 1725.751and stored by another sphex, it takes advantage of the prize, and becomes for the
 1729.83an occasional habit permanent, if of advantage to the species, and if the insect whose
 1825.1023case be no doubt that it would be an advantage to our humble-bee, if a slight
 1831.136by natural selection having taken advantage of numerous, successive, slight
 1883.754animals, but that each animal takes advantage of the instincts of others;—that the
 1898.612of hybrids could not possibly be of any advantage to them, and therefore could not have
 2323.342place, but if possessed of any decided advantage, or when further modified and improved
 2337.276a few species had thus acquired a great advantage over other organisms, a comparatively
 2412.355Whether such variability be taken advantage of by natural selection, and whether
 2452.156produced and maintained by having some advantage over those with which it comes into
 2488.201new varieties arising, which have some advantage over older forms; and those forms
 2488.287are already dominant, or have some advantage over the other forms in their own
 2500.366and to having already had some advantage over their parents or over other
 2570.121species is formed by having had some advantage in the struggle for life over other and
 2669.165independent property, and will be taken advantage of by natural selection, only so far as
 2936.1226plants alone, might readily gain an advantage by growing taller and taller and
 2994.323Undoubtedly if one species has any advantage whatever over another, it will in a
 2998.376land-shells, which no doubt had some advantage over the indigenous species. From these
 3438.396in the scale of nature. The slightest advantage in one being, at any age or during any
 3440.395charms of the males; and the slightest advantage will lead to victory. As geology
14  advantageous 
 846.1766hence we may believe that it would be advantageous to a plant to produce stamens alone in
 850.398of the sexes of our plant would be advantageous on the principle of the division of
 882.614cross with a distinct individual being advantageous or indispensable! If several varieties
 956.249preservation of variations in some way advantageous, which consequently endure. But as from
 1090.478constitution, and habits, to be advantageous to them, I think it would be a most
 1213.225attract insects, whose agency is highly advantageous in the fertilisation of plants of
 1217.77as it may at first appear: and if it be advantageous, natural selection may have come into
 1217.342impossible that they can be in any way advantageous to the plant: yet in the Umbelliferæ
 1598.369part, each will be found on the whole advantageous. After the lapse of time, under
 1628.361laws of growth, and at first in no way advantageous to a species, have been subsequently
 1683.261in certain species, which might, if advantageous to the species, give rise, through
 1825.1291it would continually be more and more advantageous to our humble-bee, if she were to make
 1825.1623Again, from the same cause, it would be advantageous to the Melipona, if she were to make
 1851.700members of the community, has been advantageous to the community: consequently the
11  advantages 
 588.552modified, will still inherit those advantages that enabled their parents to become
 828.81or charms; and have transmitted these advantages to their male offspring. Yet, I would
 988.1225competition with each other, the advantages of diversification of structure, with
 1024.261forms, will tend to inherit those advantages which made their common parent (A) more
 1024.426likewise partake of those more general advantages which made the genus to which the
 1034.136genus, will tend to partake of the same advantages which made their parent successful in
 1056.627have inherited some of the same advantages: they have also been modified and
 1438.382natural selection and gain further advantages. Lastly, looking not to any one time
 3167.101the larger genera, tend to inherit the advantages, which made the groups to which they
 3801.3importance in altering breeds, 20. —, advantages of, 96. ——unfavourable to selection
 4087.15domestic, 213. Intercrossing, advantages of, 96. Islands, oceanic
10  adventures 
 4800.82s Reign, their Gallant Deeds, Daring Adventures, and Services in the infant state of
 4842.37Bible in Spain; or the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in
 5472.0OF GERMAN LIFE. By SIR A. GORDON. ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS. By HERMANN MELVILLE
 5484.0AT WASHINGTON. By REV. G. R. GLEIG. ADVENTURES IN MEXICO. By G. F. RUXTON. PORTUGAL
 5500.0WESTERN RAILWAY. By SIR F. B. HEAD. ADVENTURES IN THE LIBYAN DESERT. By BAYLE ST. JOHN
 5712.40MELVILLES (HERMANN) Typee and Omoo; or, Adventures amongst the Marquesas and South Sea
 5878.70Narrative of Three Years' Residence and Adventures in Abyssinia. Woodcuts. 2 Vols. 8vo
 5956.45S (GEORGE F.) Travels in Mexico; with Adventures among the Wild Tribes and Animals of
 6046.11Highlands. Post 8vo. 6s. —— (BAYLE) Adventures in the Libyan Desert and the Oasis of
 6106.20Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. WAKEFIELD'S (E. J.) Adventures in New Zealand. With some Account of
3  advice 
 582.327to whom I am much indebted for valuable advice and assistance on this subject, soon
 1185.342from analogy, and from the incessant advice given in agricultural works, even in
 6136.59Man's Handbook to South Australia; with Advice to the Farmer, and Detailed Information
2  advisable 
 240.480of 1844—honoured me by thinking it advisable to publish, with Mr. Wallace's
 2006.192not in a reversed direction. It will be advisable to explain a little more fully by an
2  advocate 
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 5169.100Essay on the Office and Duties of an Advocate. Post 8vo. 12s. —— History of Napoleon
1  aërating 
 3101.774those for propelling the blood, or for aërating it, or those for propagating the race
4  aërial 
 1480.21climbs a tree! Petrels are the most aërial and oceanic of birds, yet in the quiet
 2948.884do not occur on oceanic islands, aërial mammals do occur on almost every island
 2960.278mammals notwithstanding the presence of aërial bats,—the singular proportions of
 3038.595possess their own peculiar species of aërial mammals or bats. We can see why there
16  affect 
 532.690These individual differences generally affect what naturalists consider unimportant
 618.222and the occurrence of such links cannot affect the actual characters of the forms
 717.91vegetation: this again would largely affect the insects; and this, as we just have
 772.560of climate itself, would most seriously affect many of the others. If the country were
 804.1118These modifications will no doubt affect, through the laws of correlation, the
 804.1466in the adult will probably often affect the structure of the larva; but in all
 912.288to another. The intercrossing will most affect those animals which unite for each
 1197.456will, it may safely be concluded, affect the structure of the adult; in the same
 1203.58corolla into a tube. Hard parts seem to affect the form of adjoining soft parts; it is
 1357.276parts and in external parts sometimes affect softer and internal parts. When one
 1357.564at an early age will generally affect parts subsequently developed; and there
 1580.455a mountainous country would probably affect the hind limbs from exercising them
 1580.690The shape, also, of the pelvis might affect by pressure the shape of the head of
 2213.615of doubt probably would not greatly affect the estimate as applied to the western
 3289.1190an organ, such influence will mainly affect the mature animal, which has come to
 3343.437same age, and consequently will seldom affect or reduce it in the embryo. Thus we can
35  affected 
 172.116various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by
 291.562reproductive elements having been affected prior to the act of conception. Several
 295.862their reproductive system so seriously affected by unperceived causes as to fail in
 297.418reproductive system has not been thus affected; so will some animals and plants
 303.215that the treatment of the parent has affected a bud or offset, and not the ovules or
 303.555or pollen, or to both, having been affected by the treatment of the parent prior to
 305.987exposed to certain conditions are affected in the same way, the change at first
 317.260white sheep and pigs are differently affected from coloured individuals by certain
 770.487useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection, and would be left
 1123.175and female sexual elements seem to be affected before that union takes place which is
 1123.382essentially from an ovule, is alone affected. But why, because the reproductive
 1580.643and even the head would probably be affected. The shape, also, of the pelvis might
 1638.786cases by use and disuse, being slightly affected by the direct action of the external
 1695.171known that a cross with a bull-dog has affected for many generations the courage and
 1877.1425of a community could possibly have affected the structure or instincts of the
 1896.114various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by
 1918.215fertility of pure species is so easily affected by various circumstances, that for all
 1974.68crosses and of hybrids, is more easily affected by unfavourable conditions, than is the
 2028.354their reproductive systems seriously affected. This, in fact, is [page] 265 CHAP
 2032.378male element is the most liable to be affected; but sometimes the female more than the
 2032.1312systems having been specially affected, though in a lesser degree than when
 2034.230of the general state of health, is affected by sterility in a very similar manner
 2094.1159their reproductive systems in any way affected, and they are not variable; but hybrids
 2094.1261their reproductive systems seriously affected, and their descendants are highly
 2251.142and apparently these oscillations have affected wide spaces. Consequently formations
 2506.76reason to believe that large areas are affected by the same movement, it is probable
 2506.378that large areas have invariably been affected by the same movements. When two
 2562.493of the inhabitants of the sea have been affected. On the theory of descent, the full
 2570.572that this process of improvement has affected in a marked and sensible manner the
 2809.275vegetation, that Siberia was similarly affected. Along the Himalaya, at points
 3028.199I am fully convinced simultaneously affected the whole world, or at least great
 3263.898and female sexual elements having been affected by the conditions to which either
 3263.1319horns of cross-bred cattle have been affected by the shape of the horns of either
 3398.652and geographical changes which have affected the earth during modern periods; and
 4521.37caused by reproductive system being affected by conditions of life, 8. —under nature
7  affecting 
 1139.376they seem to play an important part in affecting the reproductive system, and in thus
 1197.533the same manner as any malconformation affecting the early embryo, seriously affects the
 1323.66curious and complex case, not indeed as affecting any important character, but from
 3211.182way to the modified form, but often affecting by correlation of growth other parts of
 3263.57perhaps from monstrosities often affecting the embryo at a very early period, that
 4300.49Plants, poisonous, not affecting certain coloured animals
 4314.11of, 35. —, habits of, 213. Poison not affecting certain coloured animals, 12. ROBINIA
5  affects 
 1125.917convinced that residence near the sea affects their colours. Moquin-Tandon gives a
 1197.571affecting the early embryo, seriously affects the whole organisation of the adult
 1580.282are convinced that a damp climate affects the growth of the hair, and that with
 2126.341to that sterility which so frequently affects pure species, when their natural
 3552.432as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals; or that the poison
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 5458.18By REV. J. ABBOTT. SALE'S BRIGADE IN AFFGHANISTAN. By REV. G. R. GLEIG. LETTERS FROM
 5958.42S (LADY) Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan. Eighth Edition. Post 8vo. 12s
51  affinities 
 186.332of life throughout the world — On the affinities of extinct species to each other and to
 204.7Page 383-410 CHAPTER XIII. MUTUAL AFFINITIES OF ORGANIC BEINGS: MORPHOLOGY
 208.271Analogical or adaptive characters — Affinities, general, complex and radiating
 250.106a naturalist, reflecting on the mutual affinities of organic beings, on their
 266.1143their classification or mutual affinities, both when mature and in an embryonic
 1070.250in a slight degree. In this case, its affinities to the other fourteen new species will
 1072.416that the diagram throws light on the affinities of extinct beings, which, though
 1098.470I believe, the nature of the affinities of all organic beings may be explained
 1104.4seen illustrated in the diagram. The affinities of all the beings of the same class
 1108.355in some small degree connects by its affinities two large branches of life, and which
 1167.280similarity in their organisation and affinities might have been expected; but, as
 1167.1518to see in the cave-animals of America, affinities to the other inhabitants of that
 1171.182to give any rational explanation of the affinities of the blind cave-animals to the other
 1546.157several are widely remote in their affinities. Generally when the same organ appears
 2351.404certain much older fishes, of which the affinities are as yet imperfectly known, are
 2398.320of life throughout the world—On the affinities of extinct species to each other and to
 2510.20the same exact [page] 329 CHAP. X. AFFINITIES OF EXTINCT SPECIES. periods,—a
 2514.7stages in the two regions. On the Affinities of extinct Species to each other, and
 2514.103forms.—Let us now look to the mutual affinities of extinct and living species. They all
 2522.440the Lepidosiren, is discovered having affinities directed towards very distinct groups
 2524.20older Reptiles and [page] 331 CHAP. X. AFFINITIES OF EXTINCT SPECIES. Batrachians, the
 2538.20were before the [page] 333 CHAP. X. AFFINITIES OF EXTINCT SPECIES. discovery of the
 2544.92main facts with respect to the mutual affinities of the extinct forms of life to each
 2552.343series, first according to their mutual affinities and then according to their periods of
 2554.20in age. But [page] 335 CHAP. X. AFFINITIES OF EXTINCT SPECIES. supposing for an
 2857.108here given in regard to the range and affinities of the allied species which live in the
 3051.7CLASSIFICATION. CHAPTER XIII. MUTUAL AFFINITIES OF ORGANIC BEINGS: MORPHOLOGY
 3075.1307very clear indications of its true affinities. We are least likely in the
 3109.62often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a
 3127.441in a series, on a flat surface, the affinities which we discover in nature amongst the
 3133.76extinct and modern, by the closest affinities, and would give the filiation and
 3159.79very important distinction between real affinities and analogical or adaptive resemblances
 3159.1585is compared with another, but give true affinities when the members of [page
 3179.1731on the general nature of the affinities of distinct orders of plants. On the
 3185.148the excessively complex and radiating affinities by which all the members of the same
 3185.1005the aid of a diagram, the various affinities which they perceive between the many
 3191.41by a long, but broken, chain of affinities. Extinction has only separated groups
 3197.275that great and universal feature in the affinities of all organic beings, namely, their
 3201.9MORPHOLOGY. CHAP. XIII. lines of affinities. We shall never, probably, disentangle
 3201.83disentangle the inextricable web of affinities between the members of any one class
 3351.264radiating, and circuitous lines of affinities into one grand system; the rules
 3512.378we see how it is, that the mutual affinities of the species and genera within each
 3516.224are the most valuable of all. The real affinities of all organic beings are due to
 3546.354can be connected together by chains of affinities, and all can be classified on the same
 3605.0plants of, 375. Acclimatisation, 139. Affinities of extinct species, 329. ——of organic
 3673.4of palæozoic formations, 328. —on affinities of ancient species, 330. Barriers
 3708.4teeth, 451. Bizcacha, 349. ——, affinities of, 429. Bladder for swimming in fish
 3824.12on umbelliferæ, 146. —on general affinities, 430. ——, Alph., on low plants, widely
 3864.8DUCKWEED. Duckweed, 385. Dugong, affinities of, 414. Dung-beetles with deficient
 4255.6on succession of types, 339. —, on affinities of the dugong, 414. ——, on homologous
 4555.14the cells of bees, 225. —, on general affinities, 429. Water-ouzel, 185. Watson, Mr. H
33  affinity 
 192.114conditions — Importance of barriers — Affinity of the productions of the same
 1976.23conditions. By the term systematic affinity is meant, the resemblance between
 1980.96is largely governed by their systematic affinity. This is clearly shown by hybrids never
 1980.354the correspondence between systematic affinity and the facility of crossing is by no
 1986.474independent of their systematic affinity, or of any recognisable difference in
 1994.784not always governed by their systematic affinity or [page] 260 HYBRIDISM. CHAP. VIII
 2006.1220the capacity is limited by systematic affinity, for no one has been able to graft
 2006.1544means absolutely governed by systematic affinity. Although many distinct genera within
 2020.484as might have been expected, systematic affinity, by which every kind of resemblance and
 2032.496to a certain extent with systematic affinity, for whole groups of animals and plants
 2118.566does not strictly follow systematic affinity, but is governed by several curious and
 2126.1307extent, parallel with the systematic affinity of the forms which are subjected to
 2126.1379subjected to experiment; for systematic affinity attempts to express all kinds of
 2556.591as well as they could be in serial affinity, this arrangement would not closely
 2657.72in the foregoing statements, is the affinity of the productions of the same
 2958.345the depth of the sea and the degree of affinity of the mammalian inhabitants of islands
 2968.94to the inhabitants of islands, is their affinity to those of the nearest mainland
 2972.253have been created here; yet the close affinity of most of these birds to American
 2972.874nowhere else, bear so plain a stamp of affinity to those created in America? There is
 2978.1237commencement of the Glacial period. The affinity, which, though feeble, I am assured by
 2978.1466is at present inexplicable: but this affinity is confined to the plants, and will, I
 3032.856mysterious a manner linked together by affinity, and are likewise linked to the extinct
 3087.367serviceable in exhibiting the close affinity between Ruminants and Pachyderms
 3089.871an aid in determining the degree of affinity of this strange creature to [page
 3117.259naturalists consider as showing true affinity between any two or more species, are
 3145.733will certainly be close resemblance or affinity. As descent has universally been used
 3163.306serve as characters exhibiting true affinity between the several members of the
 3179.46to one group of animals exhibits an affinity to a quite distinct group, this
 3179.87to a quite distinct group, this affinity in most cases is general and not
 3179.396more than to another. As the points of affinity of the bizcacha to Marsupials are
 3185.542to each other by circuitous lines of affinity of various lengths (as may be seen in
 3351.662characters, and characters of true affinity; and other such rules;—all naturally
 3560.122The terms used by naturalists of affinity, relationship, community of type
1  affirm 
 1863.324specimens of these workers, I can affirm that the eyes are far more rudimentary
1  affirmative 
 1343.151was, as we have seen, answered in the affirmative. What now are we to say to these
7  afford 
 532.477are highly important for us, as they afford materials for natural selection to
 962.262that it is the common species which afford the greatest number of recorded
 2375.160one oceanic island is as yet known to afford even a remnant of any palæozoic or
 3129.198arrangement of the races of man would afford the best classification of the various
 3247.754embryonic resemblance. Cirripedes afford a good instance of this: even the
 3406.319not every collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and
 3454.353the species of the larger genera, which afford the greater number of varieties or
6  afforded 
 258.489be, of variation under domestication, afforded the best and safest clue. I may venture
 483.216inhabited by quite uncivilised man, has afforded us a single plant worth culture. It is
 1317.581form. But the best evidence is afforded by parts or organs of an important and
 2843.231humid and hottest districts will have afforded an asylum to the tropical natives. The
 2843.373line of the Cordillera, seem to have afforded two great lines of invasion: and it is
 3530.755record is so perfect that it would have afforded us plain evidence of the mutation of
1  affording 
 3075.1262of an animal, I have always regarded as affording very clear indications of its true
2  affords 
 1918.1015that neither sterility nor fertility affords any clear distinction between species
 2759.130which, as we shall immediately see, affords a simple explanation of these facts. We
2  afghanistan 
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1  afghans 
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19  africa 
 455.690passages in Pliny. The savages in South Africa match their draught cattle by colour
 455.877by the negroes of the interior of Africa who have not associated with Europeans
 1865.297nest of the driver ant (Anomma) of West Africa. The reader will perhaps best
 2355.144enabled to double the southern capes of Africa or Australia, and thus reach other and
 2590.937more closely related in its mammals to Africa than it is at the present time
 2643.83tracts of land in Australia, South Africa, and western South America, between
 2643.585are to the productions of Australia or Africa under nearly the same climate
 2645.650between the inhabitants of Australia, Africa, and South America under the same
 2651.1107a hemisphere we come to the shores of Africa; and over this vast space we meet with
 2655.26and the eastern shores of Africa, on almost exactly opposite meridians
 2657.932ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude
 2707.221have been connected with Europe or Africa, and Europe likewise with America
 2823.417in the intertropical parts of Africa. On the Himalaya, and on the isolated
 2972.1572Verde Islands are related to those of Africa, like those of the Galapagos to America
 2976.78and the Cape de Verde Islands from Africa; and that such colonists would be
 2978.308Land, though standing nearer to Africa than to America, are related, and that
 5247.42S (JAMES) Wanderings in Northern Africa, Benghazi, Cyrene, the Oasis of Siwah
 5630.67Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of Sixteen Years
 5630.140Years Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good
3  african 
 2928.542peculiar bird, and many European and African birds are almost every year blown there
 3510.905the Cape de Verde archipelago and other African islands to the African mainland. It
 3510.928and other African islands to the African mainland. It must be admitted that
76  after 
 234.599could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to
 252.69Creation' would, I presume, say that, after a certain unknown number of [page
 272.788obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and
 371.108to study some special group, I have, after deliberation, taken up domestic pigeons
 493.410value which would now be set on them, after several breeds have once fairly been
 582.661Dr. Hooker permits me to add, that after having carefully read my manuscript
 608.416and most experienced observers, and, after deliberation, they concur in this view
 856.781become, either simultaneously or one after the other, modified and adapted in the
 878.84towards the pistil, or slowly move one after the other towards it, the contrivance
 896.8CHAP. IV. OF INTERCROSSING. failed, after consultation with one of the highest
 922.658of better adapted organisms, after any physical change, such as of climate
 942.868of each species will thus be checked: after physical changes of any kind
 976.866as forming two sub-breeds; finally, after the lapse of centuries, the sub-breeds
 1004.0and incomplete stage of development. After the foregoing discussion, which ought
 1018.683all to appear simultaneously, but often after long intervals of time; nor are they
 1020.182represented ten thousand generations. After a thousand generations, species (A) is
 1026.152the next thousand generations. And after this interval, variety a1 is supposed
 1026.576length of time; some of the varieties, after each thousand generations, producing
 1032.875and might have been inserted anywhere, after intervals long enough to have allowed
 1040.0given off any fresh branches or races. After ten thousand generations, species (A
 1042.161I) has produced, by analogous steps, after ten thousand generations, either two
 1046.28CHARACTER. tween the horizontal lines. After fourteen thousand generations, six new
 1161.603Silliman thought that it regained, after living some days in the light, some
 1167.1140By the time that an animal had reached, after numberless generations, the deepest
 1219.274one modification in structure, and, after thousands of generations, some other
 1305.70fact that characters should reappear after having been lost for many, perhaps for
 1305.367a dozen or even a score of generations. After twelve generations, the proportion of
 1305.1000has been lost in a breed, reappears after a great number of generations, the most
 1305.1108not that the offspring suddenly takes after an ancestor some hundred generations
 1398.403will concur only rarely, and after enormously long intervals. Whilst the
 1562.115importance to an early progenitor, and, after having been slowly perfected at a
 1598.383be found on the whole advantageous. After the lapse of time, under changing
 1675.60their attendance during several hours. After this interval, I felt sure that the
 1743.961the tyrants, who perhaps fancied that, after all, they had been victorious in their
 1747.1159in about a quarter of an hour, shortly after all the little yellow ants had crawled
 1781.1090but this is no difficulty, that after hexagonal prisms have been formed by
 1809.136of bees all work together; one bee after working a short time at one cell going
 1932.1034first flowers soon ceased to grow, and after a [page] 251 CHAP. VIII. STERILITY
 2026.856differently circumstanced before and after birth: when born and living in a
 2110.1003agree with Dr. Prosper Lucas, who, after arranging an enormous body of facts
 2227.639of a formation conformably covered, after an enormous interval of time, by
 2249.250have been surprised to note how author after author, in treating of this or that
 2351.1209had a similarly confined range, and after having been largely developed in some
 2402.43species have appeared very slowly, one after another, both on the land and in the
 2426.231degree. A group does not reappear after it has once disappeared; or its
 2434.689of species gradually disappear, one after another, first from one spot, then from
 2486.27THE WORLD. de Verneuil and d'Archiac. After referring to the parallelism of the
 2564.561of these periods; but we ought to find after intervals, very long as measured by
 2586.126areas mean? He would be a bold man, who after comparing the present climate of
 2592.555nearly the same manner and degree. But after very long intervals of time and after
 2592.593after very long intervals of time and after great geographical changes, permitting
 2616.334in the struggle for existence. Hence, after long intervals of time, the productions
 2651.1047islands as halting-places, until after travelling over a hemisphere we come to
 2687.466be offered of many such cases. But after some preliminary remarks, I will
 2713.576that out of 87 kinds, 64 germinated after an immersion of 28 days, and a few
 2717.1359So that as 64/87 seeds germinated after an immersion of 28 days; and as
 2717.1497in the foregoing experiment) floated, after being dried, for above 28 days, as far
 2723.1008of about 10/100 plants of a flora, after having been dried, could be floated
 2735.64by trial, the germination of seeds; now after a bird has found and devoured a large
 2735.641and owls bolt their prey whole, and after an interval of from twelve to twenty
 2735.893hemp, clover, and beet germinated after having been from twelve to twenty-one
 2735.1014of prey; and two seeds of beet grew after having been thus retained for two days
 2735.1386storks, and pelicans; these birds after an interval of many hours, either
 2745.155be discovered, have been in action year after year, for centuries and tens of
 2839.1157other hand, the temperate productions, after migrating nearer to the equator, though
 2904.158though they reject many other kinds after having swallowed them; even small fish
 2904.312Herons and other birds, century after century, have gone on daily devouring
 2924.559species occasionally arriving after long intervals in a new and isolated
 2966.1103these shells was the Helix pomatia, and after it had again hybernated I put it in sea
 3044.1486world, or to those which have changed after having migrated into distant quarters
 3173.1100but such richness in species, as I find after some investigation, does not commonly
 3263.382cannot positively tell, until some time after the animal has been born, what its
 3277.187of various breeds, within twelve hours after being hatched; I carefully measured the
 3492.257intervals; and the amount of change, after equal intervals of time, is widely
 3492.818descendants, causes the forms of life, after long intervals of time, to appear as if
 3554.410species. This I feel sure, and I speak after experience, will be no slight relief
10  afterwards 
 457.462to get as good dogs as he can, and afterwards breeds from his own best dogs, but he
 1472.422generally change first and structure afterwards; or whether slight modifications of
 1675.341their antennæ; but not one excreted. Afterwards I allowed an ant to visit them, and it
 2669.478other, migrate in a body into a new and afterwards isolated country, they will be little
 2717.229they were injured by the salt-water. Afterwards I tried some larger fruits, capsules
 2717.908dried, they floated for 90 days and afterwards when planted they germinated; an
 2717.1056it floated for 85 days, and the seeds afterwards germinated: the ripe seeds of
 2717.1175they floated for above 90 days, and afterwards germinated. Altogether out of the
 2904.553in pellets or in excrement, many hours afterwards. When I saw the great size of the seeds
 3325.147often be detected in the embryo, but afterwards wholly disappear. It is also, I believe
68  again 
 393.377of them must have been carried back again into their native country; but not one
 393.575has become feral in several places. Again, all recent experience shows that it is
 399.1095mottled brown and black birds; these I again crossed together, and one grandchild of
 505.1829and raised seedlings from them, and again picked out the best seedlings and bred
 532.0the form would be called a variety. Again, we have many slight differences which
 568.224arrive at the rank of species; or, again, between sub-species and well-marked
 578.317fluctuating forms. The term variety, again, in comparison with mere individual
 590.344on the side of the larger genera. This, again, might have been anticipated; for the
 590.1179the genera to which the species belong. Again, plants low in the scale of
 594.78plants higher in the scale; and here again there is no close relation to the size
 641.0in every part of the organic world. Again, it may be asked, how is it that
 717.71of South America) the vegetation: this again would largely affect the insects; and
 735.85decrease in numbers and disappear. So again with the varieties of sheep: it has
 836.975with the parent-form of wolf. Or, again, the wolves inhabiting a mountainous
 856.472on to the stigmatic surface. Hence, again, if humble-bees were to become rare in
 936.69understand some facts which will be again alluded to in our chapter on
 946.311into a continental area, there will again be severe competition: the most
 946.560of the renewed continent will again be changed; and again there will be a
 946.582continent will again be changed; and again there will be a fair field for natural
 970.1083and the offspring of this variety again to differ from its parent in the very
 976.489or with shorter and shorter beaks. Again, we may suppose that at an early period
 1072.326our chapter on Geology, have to refer again to this subject, and I think we shall
 1139.33V. the conditions of life must act. Again, innumerable instances are known to
 1173.696a tropical climate, or conversely. So again, many succulent plants cannot endure a
 1189.1481to prevent accidental crosses, and then again get seed from these seedlings, with the
 1205.567the future colour of their plumage; or, again, the relation between the hair and
 1219.527in some necessary manner. So, again, I do not doubt that some apparent
 1287.698in the two sexes of the same species: again in fossorial hymenoptera, the manner of
 1516.422there has been much extinction. Or again, if we look to an organ common to all
 1580.882increase the size of the chest; and again correlation would come into play
 1586.764changes of no direct use. So again characters which formerly were useful
 1671.0can be shown to occur in nature. Again as in the case of corporeal structure
 1675.1356weaker bodily structure of others. So again, in some few cases, certain instincts
 1795.754to go on working for a short time, and again examined the cell, and I found that the
 1825.1583cells, and much wax would be saved. Again, from the same cause, it would be
 1843.117being inherited by its offspring, which again varied and were again selected, and so
 1843.139offspring, which again varied and were again selected, and so onwards. But with the
 1944.940hybrids, should be perfectly fertile. Again, with respect to the fertility in
 1956.854have produced quite fertile hybrids. So again there is reason to believe that our
 1992.543rare exceptions extremely sterile. So again amongst hybrids which are usually
 2022.858do not penetrate the stigmatic surface. Again, the [page] 264 HYBRIDISM. CHAP. VIII
 2046.118soil or climate to another, and back again. During the convalescence of animals
 2046.253any change in the habits of life. Again, both with plants and animals, there is
 2267.656not elsewhere previously existed. So again when we find a species disappearing
 2299.1040and ultimately to new species; and this again would greatly lessen the chance of our
 2305.224or from several aboriginal stocks; or, again, whether certain sea-shells inhabiting
 2373.914on which sediment was not deposited, or again as the bed of an open and unfathomable
 2480.733those of the southern hemisphere. So, again, several highly competent observers
 2500.424parents or over other species; these again spreading, varying, and producing new
 2643.306and floras more utterly dissimilar. Or again we may compare the productions of South
 2729.557of the accuracy of this observation. Again, I can show that the carcasses of birds
 2928.1011little liable to modification. Madeira, again, is inhabited by a wonderful number of
 2936.714elytra of many insular beetles. Again, islands often possess trees or bushes
 2966.1116was the Helix pomatia, and after it had again hybernated I put it in sea-water for
 3081.1402some cases seems to be entirely lost." Again in another work he says, the genera of
 3087.0organ within the same group of beings. Again, no one will say that rudimentary or
 3173.870very distinct from each other, which again implies extinction. The genera
 3247.969the case in an unmistakeable manner. So again the two main divisions of cirripedes
 3251.457parasitic crustaceans. To refer once again to cirripedes: the larvæ in the first
 3251.1234converted into prehensile organs; they again obtain a well-constructed mouth; but
 3255.825parts of the embryo are completed;" and again in spiders, "there is nothing worthy to
 3263.1263reproductive element of one parent. Or again, as when the horns of cross-bred cattle
 3269.365or imago states of the silk-moth; or, again, in the horns of almost full-grown
 3275.399amount of proportional difference. So, again, I was told that the foals of cart and
 3315.621males, and having secreted milk. So again there are normally four developed and
 3321.346pollen out of the surrounding anthers. Again, an organ may become rudimentary for
 3337.1093ultimately lost the power of flying. Again, an organ useful under certain
 3406.532may be urged against my theory. Why, again, do whole groups of allied species
18  against 
 647.432a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it
 858.160objections which were at first urged against Sir Charles Lyell's noble views on "the
 890.204but that nature has largely provided against it by giving to trees a strong tendency
 1586.97lately made by some naturalists, against the utilitarian doctrine that every
 1604.602of the bee as perfect, which, when used against many attacking animals, cannot be
 1612.113and objections which may be urged against my theory. Many of them are very grave
 1877.1599demonstrative case of neuter insects, against the well-known doctrine of Lamarck
 2143.83objections which might be justly urged against the views maintained in this volume
 2147.587gravest objection which can be urged against my theory. The explanation lies, as I
 2259.857may almost be said to have guarded against the frequent discovery of her
 2307.462the many objections which may be urged against my views. Hence it will be worth while
 2373.89may be truly urged as a valid argument against the views here entertained. To show
 2753.445as it seems to me, is no valid argument against what would be effected by occasional
 2839.1576could not have presented a firm front against intruders, that a certain number of the
 2984.869the islands may be used as an argument against my views; for it may be asked, how has
 3378.47and grave objections may be advanced against the theory of descent with modification
 3406.508the many objections which may be urged against my theory. Why, again, do whole groups
 3420.91difficulties which may justly be urged against my theory; and I have now briefly
2  agamemnon 
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11  agassiz 
 1171.590animals should be very anomalous, as Agassiz has remarked in regard to the blind
 2331.210palæontologists, for instance, by Agassiz, Pictet, and by none more forcibly than
 2351.525that the whole of them did appear, as Agassiz believes, at the commencement of the
 2385.535palæontologists, namely Cuvier, Owen, Agassiz, Barrande, Falconer, E. Forbes, &c
 2576.0could not have foreseen this result. Agassiz insists that ancient animals resemble
 2576.534recent times. For this doctrine of Agassiz accords well with the theory of natural
 2759.29CHAP. XI. in this same belief, had not Agassiz and others called vivid attention to
 3103.469great naturalists, Milne Edwards and Agassiz, that embryonic characters are the most
 3239.362given, than a circumstance mentioned by Agassiz, namely, that having forgotten to
 3301.1541descendants,—our existing species. Agassiz believes this to be a law of nature
 3607.0species, 329. ——of organic beings, 411. Agassiz on Amblyopsis, 139. —on groups of
5  agencies 
 305.724impression is, that with animals such agencies have produced very little direct effect
 425.324be a bold man who would account by such agencies for the differences of a dray and race
 2446.133being checked by unperceived injurious agencies; and that these same unperceived
 2446.175and that these same unperceived agencies are amply sufficient to cause rarity
 2904.18fresh-water animals. Other and unknown agencies probably have also played a part. I
18  agency 
 250.1279separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from
 828.188all such sexual differences to this agency: for we see peculiarities arising and
 878.228it is useful for this end: but, the agency of insects is often required to cause
 994.21OF CHARACTER. plants through man's agency in foreign lands. It might have been
 1213.208florets serve to attract insects, whose agency is highly advantageous in the
 1610.422plants are fertilised through insect agency, can we consider as equally perfect the
 1942.395alone are fairly treated, for by insect agency the several individuals of the same
 2450.59either locally or wholly, through man's agency. I may repeat what I published in
 2677.612subsequent migration, and calls in the agency of a miracle. It is universally
 2855.1388continental forms, naturalised by man's agency. I am far from supposing that all
 2861.235another becomes naturalised by man's agency in a foreign land; why one ranges twice
 2892.918shells from the other. But another agency is perhaps more effectual: I suspended
 2902.344plants was not very great. The same agency may have come into play with the eggs
 2942.462may be explained through glacial agency. This general absence of frogs, toads
 2954.937of certain mammals through man's agency; but we shall soon have much light
 2994.648many species, naturalised through man's agency, have spread with astonishing rapidity
 3337.754I believe that disuse has been the main agency; that it has led in successive
 3432.721process of selection has been the great agency in the production of the most distinct
1  agent 
 3448.56under nature variability and a powerful agent always ready to act and select, why
1  agents 
 2731.52can hardly fail to be highly effective agents in the transportation of seeds. I could
1  age—rudimentary 
 3055.543and being inherited at a corresponding age—RUDIMENTARY ORGANS; their origin explained—Summary
1  age—the 
 3289.598being inherited at a corresponding late age—the fore-limbs in the embryos of the
3  aggregate 
 1438.275in greater numbers will, in the aggregate, present more variation, and thus be
 3095.182less importance. The value indeed of an aggregate of characters is very evident in
 3095.682constant. The importance of an aggregate of characters, even when none are
3  aggregated 
 1767.1593and of nearly equal sizes, and are aggregated into an irregular mass. But the
 1825.1397and more regular, nearer together, and aggregated into a mass, like the cells of the
 3151.805And we know that such correlated or aggregated characters have especial value in
1  agitated 
 1737.870out, and like their masters are much agitated and defend the nest: when the nest is
1  agitation 
 1749.575were rushing about in the greatest agitation, and one was [page] 223 CHAP. VII
1  agouti 
 2657.1023same plains of La Plata, we see the agouti and bizcacha, animals having nearly the
7  agree 
 538.278and hardly two naturalists can agree which forms to rank as species and
 2086.523varieties. And, on the other hand, they agree most closely in very many important
 2110.968produced. On the whole I entirely agree with Dr. Prosper Lucas, who, after
 2307.850the United States of America. I fully agree with Mr. Godwin-Austen, that the
 2637.529land is almost continuous, all authors agree that one of the most fundamental
 3163.384the whale family; for these cetaceans agree in so many characters, great and small
 3478.243generic characters in which they all agree? Why, for instance, should the colour
2  agreeing 
 395.132that the above-specified breeds, though agreeing generally in constitution, habits
 898.166and even of the same genus, though agreeing closely with each other in almost their
3  agreement 
 560.65cases, will bring naturalists to an agreement how to rank doubtful forms. Yet it must
 1486.177habits and structure not at all in agreement. What can be plainer than that the
 1638.179unity of type is meant that fundamental agreement in structure, which we see in organic
1  agrees 
 413.155in Europe and in India; and that it agrees in habits and in a great number of
6  agricultural 
 429.1098elegant; when we compare the host of agricultural, culinary, orchard, and flower-garden
 804.222the many varieties of our culinary and agricultural plants; in the caterpillar and cocoon
 968.343short-horns" (I quote the words of an agricultural writer) "as if by some murderous
 1185.358and from the incessant advice given in agricultural works, even in the ancient
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 435.660of selection as "that which enables the agriculturist, not only to modify the character of
 3135.1063in classing varieties: thus the great agriculturist Marshall says the horns are very useful
12  aided 
 248.115who for the last fifteen years has aided me in every possible way by his large
 369.359be modified by occasional crosses, if aided by the careful selection of those
 505.1907bred from them, then, there appeared (aided by some [page] 42 SUMMARY ON VARIATION
 515.1051of selection, has, no doubt, largely aided in the formation of new sub-breeds; but
 1159.206to gradual reduction from disuse, but aided perhaps by natural selection. In South
 1161.818have been reduced by natural selection aided by use and disuse, so in the case of
 1522.1217perform all the work by itself, being aided during the process of modification by
 1536.775but which, likewise, very slightly aided the act of respiration, have been
 1626.211the one having been perfected whilst aided by the other, must often have largely
 1638.732periods of time: the adaptations being aided in some cases by use and disuse, being
 1761.376which, as we have seen, is less aided by its slaves than the same species in
 3520.8of well-developed branchiæ. Disuse, aided sometimes by natural selection, will
2  aiding 
 1574.1399advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt they
 4467.25Temminck on distribution aiding classification, 419. Thouin on grafts
2  air-breathing 
 1622.762has apparently been converted into an air-breathing lung. The same organ having performed
 3518.985cease marvelling at the embryo of an air-breathing mammal or bird having branchial slits
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2  albinism 
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 2110.491which have suddenly appeared-such as albinism, melanism, deficiency of tail or horns
1  albino 
 1323.646and outline. A white ass, but not an albino, has been described without either
1  albumen 
 3081.1531ovaria, in the existence or absence of albumen, in the imbricate or valvular
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3  alight 
 1486.452which has all its four toes webbed, alight on the surface of the sea. On the other
 2892.1613hundred miles, and would be sure to alight on a pool or rivulet, if blown across
 2898.875open ocean; they would not be likely to alight on the surface of the sea, so that the
1  alighting 
 1492.716living on the dry land or most rarely alighting on the water; that there should be long
17  alike 
 369.931generations, hardly two of them will be alike, and then the extreme difficulty, or
 449.558of the cabbage are, and how extremely alike the flowers; how unlike the flowers of
 449.631flowers of the heartsease are, and how alike the leaves; how much the fruit of the
 1197.713at an early embryonic period, are alike, seem liable to vary in an allied
 1275.254than those parts which are closely alike in the several species? I do not see
 2128.67known to be varieties, or sufficiently alike to be considered as varieties, and
 2657.652similarly constructed, but not quite alike, with eggs coloured in nearly the same
 2803.276cannot say that they have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly
 3069.250those living objects which are most alike, and for separating those which are
 3117.661and separating objects more or less alike. But I must explain my meaning more
 3139.318same group, because allied in blood and alike in some other respects. If it could be
 3221.68are at an early stage of growth exactly alike. How inexplicable are these facts on
 3239.191purposes, are in the embryo exactly alike. The embryos, also, of distinct animals
 3257.309being at this early period of growth alike;—of embryos of different species within
 3315.1242and the perfect pistil are essentially alike in nature. An organ serving for two
 3518.605of parts or organs, which were alike in the early progenitor of each class
 3518.893and fishes should be so closely alike, and should be so unlike the adult
1  alimentary 
 1522.266wholly distinct functions; thus the alimentary canal respires, digests, and excretes
5  alive 
 659.965end of the fifth century there would be alive fifteen million elephants, descended
 982.523on new kinds of prey, either dead or alive; some inhabiting new stations, climbing
 1108.217chance has been favoured and is still alive on its summit, so we occasionally see
 1159.473were frequently blind; one which I kept alive was certainly in this condition, the
 3191.864may be supposed to be still alive; and the links to be as fine as those
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3  alliance 
 3502.600of some few plants, and the close alliance of many others, on the most distant
 3502.714climates; and likewise the close alliance of some of the inhabitants of the sea
 4289.13succession of genera, 316. ——, on close alliance of fossils in consecutive formations
123  allied 
 272.328and is very numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare
 339.124and compare them with species closely allied together, we generally perceive in each
 343.387in nature to which they are nearest allied. With these exceptions (and with that
 349.249immutability of the many very closely allied and natural species—for instance, of
 375.940singularly short tails. The barb is allied to the carrier, but, instead of a very
 425.125either from one or from several allied species. Some little effect may
 441.94except sometimes amongst closely allied sub-breeds. And when a cross has been
 566.843When, moreover, he comes to study allied forms brought from countries not now
 616.373those species which are very closely allied to other species, and in so far
 616.660but which he considers as so closely allied to other species as to be of doubtful
 616.1131range, as have those very closely allied forms, marked for me by Mr. Watson as
 622.489are apt to be closely, but unequally, allied together, forming little clusters round
 622.574certain species. Species very closely allied to other species apparently have
 737.901should be most severe between allied forms, which fill nearly the same place
 994.181land would generally have been closely allied to the indigenes; for these are
 1060.359The new species, moreover, will be allied to each other in a widely different
 1167.446the two continents are not more closely allied than might have been anticipated from
 1171.71European cave-insects are very closely allied to those of the surrounding country. It
 1197.746are alike, seem liable to vary in an allied manner: we see this in the right and
 1245.106in comparison with the same part in allied species, tends to be highly variable
 1245.951with the same part in closely allied species. Thus, the bat's wing is a most
 1293.638these same characters between closely allied species;—that secondary sexual and
 1297.119assumes some of the characters of an allied species, or reverts to some of the
 1317.745of the same part or organ in an allied species. I have collected a long list
 1361.651with the same part or organ in the allied species, must have gone through an
 1400.291at successive intervals with closely allied or representative species, evidently
 1400.795inhabited by each. By my theory these allied species have descended from a common
 1414.32If I am right in believing that allied or representative species, when
 1420.249liable to the inroads of closely allied forms existing on both sides of it. But
 1434.388of the actual distribution of closely allied or representative species, and likewise
 1448.208habits and structures in closely allied species of the same genus; and of
 1612.749and intermediate gradations. Closely allied species, now living on a continuous
 1723.225origin of a singular instinct in the allied group of ostriches. For several hen
 1885.117as by that common case of closely allied, but certainly distinct, species, when
 1924.338and as the parent-species, or other allied hybrids, generally grow in the same
 1976.224and which differ little in the allied species. Now the fertility of first
 1980.264and on the other hand, by very closely allied species generally uniting with facility
 1980.467of cases could be given of very closely allied species which will not unite, or only
 2006.1349and, on the other hand, closely allied species, and varieties of the same
 2022.763is placed on the stigma of a distantly allied species, though the pollen-tubes
 2040.596is that in two cases, in some respects allied, sterility is the common result,—in the
 2042.77a similar parallelism extends to an allied yet very different class of facts. It
 2088.395that hybrids between very closely allied species are more variable than those
 2096.288any two species, although most closely allied to each other, are [page
 2126.296of two distinct species, seems closely allied to that sterility which so frequently
 2153.147from this species or from some other allied species, such as C. oenas. So with
 2265.74closely graduated varieties between the allied species which lived at its commencement
 2297.25THE CHAP. IX. yet are far more closely allied to each other than are the species
 2331.44sudden appearance of whole groups of Allied Species.—The abrupt manner in which
 2359.38On the sudden appearance of groups of Allied Species in the lowest known
 2359.116strata.—There is another and allied difficulty, which is much graver. I
 2432.776and the production of a number of allied forms must be slow and gradual,—one
 2458.661caused its extermination; and if many allied forms be developed from the successful
 2458.780their places; and it will generally be allied forms, which will suffer from some
 2464.393yield their places will commonly be allied, for they will partake of some
 2480.1452fossil remains in some degree allied, and from not including those forms
 2498.208and as these inferior forms would be allied in groups by inheritance, whole groups
 2500.584and victorious forms, will generally be allied in groups, from inheriting some
 2528.688a small family; b14 and f14 a closely allied family or sub-family; and o14, e14, m
 2564.669long as measured geologically, closely allied forms, or, as they have been called by
 2584.137from the Australian caves were closely allied to the living marsupials of that
 2590.743southern half was formerly more closely allied, than it is at present, to the northern
 2592.319next succeeding period of time, closely allied though in some degree modified
 2596.78suppose that the megatherium and other allied huge monsters have left behind them in
 2596.397many extinct species which are closely allied in size and in other characters to the
 2596.818succeeding formation there be six other allied or representative genera with the same
 2604.218formerly have connected the closely allied or representative species, found in the
 2616.154long run tend to people the world with allied, but modified, descendants; and these
 2622.293consecutive formations are more closely allied to each other, than are those of remote
 2657.535each other. He hears from closely allied, yet distinct kinds of birds, notes
 2693.1054and time with a pre-existing closely allied species." And I now know from
 2695.98do not directly bear on another allied question,—namely whether all the
 2773.70remarked by Ramond, are more especially allied to the plants of northern Scandinavia
 2781.922and some few are distinct yet closely allied or representative species. In
 2799.252distinct species; and a host of closely allied or representative forms which are
 2801.281of modification, for many closely allied forms now living in areas completely
 2801.543more striking case of many closely allied crustaceans (as described in Dana's
 2819.197present distribution of identical and allied species. In America, Dr. Hooker has
 2819.464points are; and there are many closely allied species. On the lofty mountains of
 2851.163that many more identical plants and allied forms have apparently migrated from the
 2857.126to the range and affinities of the allied species which live in the northern and
 2869.397distribution both of the same and of allied forms of life can be explained. The
 2880.446classes, an enormous range, but allied species prevail in a remarkable manner
 2886.1198this same conclusion. With respect to allied fresh-water fish occurring at very
 2892.63shells have a very wide range, and allied species, which, on my theory, are
 2916.124the individuals both of the same and of allied species have descended from a single
 2954.317of the same mammiferous species or of allied species in a more or less modified
 2954.709and they are inhabited by closely allied or identical quadrupeds. No doubt some
 2984.52specifically distinct, to be closely allied to those of the nearest continent, we
 2994.201view of the probability of closely allied species invading each other's territory
 2994.877new countries are not generally closely allied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but are
 3004.525them be ever so distant, many closely allied or representative species occur, there
 3006.224points of the world of other species allied to it, is shown in another and more
 3032.137of the same species, and likewise of allied species, have proceeded from some one
 3081.777almost shown by the one fact, that in allied groups, in which the same organ, as we
 3109.387at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so
 3111.150in very large groups of closely allied forms. Temminck insists on the utility
 3113.639first overlooked, but because numerous allied species, with slightly different grades
 3119.291the several branches or groups, though allied in the same degree in blood to their
 3119.729suppose the letters A to L to represent allied genera, which lived during the Silurian
 3135.1611keep the forms together which were allied in the greatest number of points. In
 3139.298are kept in the same group, because allied in blood and alike in some other
 3239.864birds of the same genus, and of closely allied genera, often resemble each other in
 3247.410of the larvæ or active embryos of allied animals is sometimes much obscured; and
 3271.343are really varieties most closely allied, and have probably descended from
 3323.151in other respects. Moreover, in closely allied species, the degree to which the same
 3351.805which are considered by naturalists as allied, together with their modification
 3404.318another district occupied by a closely allied species, we have no just right to
 3404.712will be liable to be supplanted by the allied forms on either hand; and the latter
 3406.558theory. Why, again, do whole groups of allied species appear, though certainly they
 3454.583species of smaller genera. The closely allied species also of the larger genera
 3484.843we can understand how it is that allied species, when placed under considerably
 3496.698intermediate between existing and allied groups. Recent forms are generally
 3496.1012the law of the long endurance of allied forms on the same continent,—of
 3496.1215and the extinct will naturally be allied by descent. Looking to geographical
 3510.25of creation. The existence of closely allied or representative species in any two
 3510.239find that wherever many closely allied species inhabit two areas, some
 3510.346both still exist. Wherever many closely allied yet distinct species occur, many
 3568.91the same species, and all the closely allied species of most genera, have within a
 3617.28fish, 139. America, North, productions allied to those of Europe, 371. ——, boulders
 3940.47species in large genera being closely allied to other species, 57. Frigate-bird
 4565.50species in large genera being closely allied to others, 57. ——on the tarsi of Engidæ
 4898.50LORD) Memoir of the Operations of the Allied Armies under Prince Schwarzenberg and
5  allies 
 160.252widely different from those of their allies — Organs of extreme perfection — Means
 2412.1194differ considerably from their nearest allies on the continent of Europe, whereas the
 2458.195from any one species, the nearest allies of that species, i.e. the species of
 3095.307remarked, a species may depart from its allies in several characters, both of high
 3153.125important characteristics, from its allies, and yet be safely classed with them
1  allies—organs 
 1374.242widely different from those of their allies—Organs of extreme perfection—Means of
2  alligators 
 816.1033of battle descends, I know not; male alligators have been described as fighting
 3615.0Algæ of New Zealand, 376. Alligators, males, fighting, 88. Amblyopsis, blind
4  all-important 
 487.30On the view here given of the all-important part which selection by man has played
 1412.272the physical conditions of life as the all-important elements of distribution, these facts
 2287.6very slight, changes of form. It is all-important to remember that naturalists have
 2412.1743of competition, and on that of the many all-important relations of organism to organism, that
1  allocating 
 3101.113they use in defining a group, or in allocating any particular species. If they find a
6  allow 
 447.86for hardly any one is so careless as to allow his worst animals to breed. In regard
 505.34sufficient, with extreme care, to allow of the accumulation of a large amount
 784.961wool to the same climate. He does not allow the most vigorous males to struggle for
 2408.1568midst of an older formation, and then allow the pre-existing fauna to reappear; but
 2550.448life above and below. We must, however, allow for the entire extinction of some
 3317.212plants, the office of the pistil is to allow the pollen-tubes to reach the ovules
8  allowance 
 272.133species and varieties, if he makes due allowance for our profound ignorance in regard to
 1245.754error, but I hope that I have made due allowance for them. It should be understood that
 1590.1177living creature (making some little allowance for the direct action of physical
 1669.586I have been surprised to find, making allowance for the instincts of animals having
 2213.1091will at first appear much too small an allowance; but it is the same as if we were to
 2217.63for the whole length would be an ample allowance. At this rate, on the above data, the
 2331.1313the United States. We do not make due allowance for the enormous intervals of time
 3020.104to show, that if we make due allowance for our ignorance of the full effects
2  allowances 
 2550.690successive formations. Subject to these allowances, the fauna of each geological period
 3026.136one parent-source; if we make the same allowances as before for our ignorance, and
14  allowed 
 234.624bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and
 505.1042their quality may be, will generally be allowed to breed, and this will effectually
 685.219perished from the other species being allowed to grow up freely. The amount of food
 735.606half a dozen generations, if they were allowed to struggle together, like beings in a
 782.135naturalised productions, that they have allowed foreigners to take firm possession of
 884.81onion, and of some other plants, be allowed to seed near each other, a large
 946.140the old inhabitants; and time will be allowed for the varieties in each to become
 982.245If its natural powers of increase be allowed to act, it can succeed in increasing
 1032.911after intervals long enough to have allowed the accumulation of a considerable
 1675.354but not one excreted. Afterwards I allowed an ant to visit them, and it
 1795.698I put the comb back into the hive, and allowed the bees to go on working for a short
 1942.457of the same hybrid variety are allowed to freely cross with each other, and
 2703.779even continents together, and thus have allowed terrestrial productions to pass from
 3032.1328the nature of the communication which allowed certain forms and not others to enter
3  allowing 
 816.692offspring. Sexual selection by always allowing the victor to breed might surely give
 1707.342done for the instinctive purpose of allowing, as we see in wild ground-birds, their
 1801.332make equal spherical hollows, but never allowing the spheres to break into each other
3  allows 
 673.605fluctuating amount of food, for it allows them rapidly to increase in number. But
 741.975its legs, so well adapted for diving, allows it to compete with other aquatic
 1450.443skin, which serves as a parachute and allows them to glide through the air to an
5  allude 
 313.137briefly mentioned. I will here only allude to what may be called correlation of
 590.882side of the larger genera. I will here allude to only two causes of obscurity. Fresh
 1472.606habits it will suffice merely to allude to that of the many British insects
 1837.337actually fatal to my whole theory. I allude to the neuters or sterile females in
 2359.159difficulty, which is much graver. I allude to the manner in which numbers of
13  alluded 
 333.7due to the male element. Having alluded to the subject of reversion, I may here
 566.124the pigeon or poultry-fancier before alluded to, with the amount of difference in
 842.639as will hereafter be more fully alluded to), would produce very vigorous
 846.495of the sexes of plants, presently to be alluded to. Some holly-trees bear only male
 936.75some facts which will be again alluded to in our chapter on geographical
 956.101chapter on Geology; but it must be here alluded to from being intimately connected with
 1141.42of Use and Disuse.—From the facts alluded to in the first chapter, I think there
 1462.590of the grades of wing-structure here alluded to, which perhaps may all have resulted
 1580.1633laws of variation; and I have here alluded to them only to show that, if we are
 2028.145very different. I have more than once alluded to a large body of facts, which I have
 2046.525I believe, indeed, from the facts alluded to in our fourth chapter, that a
 2590.472I have shown in the publications above alluded to, that in America the law of
 2789.31epoch. Believing, from reasons before alluded to, that our continents have long
1  allusions 
 582.905much brevity, is rather perplexing, and allusions cannot be avoided to the "struggle for
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 240.57the Malay archipelago, has arrived at almost exactly the same general conclusions
 266.144we shall then see how Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of
 313.228Any change in the embryo or larva will almost certainly entail changes in the mature
 313.492Breeders believe that long limbs are almost always accompanied by an elongated head
 317.675augmenting, any peculiarity, he will almost certainly unconsciously modify other
 325.441the child, the mere doctrine of chances almost compels us to attribute its
 337.1336breeds, and esculent vegetables, for an almost infinite number of generations, would
 359.911I should value more than that of almost any one, thinks that all the breeds of
 375.548faced tumbler has a beak in outline almost like that of a finch; and the common
 413.496from distant countries, we can make an almost perfect series between the extremes of
 435.101to realise what they have done, it is almost necessary to read several of the many
 435.312quite plastic, which they can model almost as they please. If I had space I could
 435.515with the works of agriculturalists than almost any other individual, and who was
 437.154and these have now been exported to almost every quarter of the world. The
 477.1045result is concerned, has been followed almost unconsciously. It has consisted in
 485.97it should not be overlooked that they almost always have to struggle for their own
 505.97of a large amount of modification in almost any desired direction. But as
 511.991such breeds as we do sometimes see are almost always imported from some other country
 526.636act of creation. The term "variety" is almost equally difficult to define; but here
 526.705but here community of descent is almost universally implied, though it can
 536.124these main nerves in Coccus, which may almost be compared to the irregular branching
 560.407his attention, varieties of it will almost universally be found recorded. These
 566.1013doubtful forms, he will have to trust almost entirely to analogy, and his
 616.1208as doubtful species, but which are almost universally ranked by British botanists
 665.101clothing square leagues of surface almost to the exclusion of all other plants
 667.21their new homes. In a state of nature almost every plant produces seed, and amongst
 679.63and the number of the species will almost instantaneously increase to any amount
 693.1511deserts, the struggle for life is almost exclusively with the elements. That
 731.316feeding quadrupeds. But the struggle almost invariably will be most severe between
 731.574species, the struggle will generally be almost equally severe, and we sometimes see
 772.207numbers of its inhabitants would almost immediately undergo a change, and some
 836.490another hunting on marshy ground and almost nightly catching woodcocks or snipes
 858.677being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation
 866.95facts, showing, in accordance with the almost universal belief of breeders, that with
 872.626together that self-fertilisation seems almost inevitable. Many flowers, on the other
 898.202agreeing closely with each other in almost their whole organisation, yet are not
 908.799be large, its several districts will almost certainly present different conditions
 940.792scale. These anomalous forms may almost be called living fossils; they have
 956.954specific forms goes on perpetually and almost indefinitely increasing, numbers
 982.1803variety of grass is annually sowing almost countless seeds; and thus, as it may be
 1102.114these round other points, and so on in almost endless cycles. On the view that each
 1147.817their progenitors; for as the tarsi are almost always lost in many dung-feeding
 1153.235insisted on by Mr. Wollaston, of the almost entire absence of certain large groups
 1153.362and which groups have habits of life almost necessitating frequent flight;—these
 1237.1287to cut all sorts of things may be of almost any shape; whilst a tool for some
 1249.527and I am fully convinced that the rule almost invariably holds good with cirripedes
 1273.67chapter on Classification. It would be almost superfluous to adduce evidence in
 1305.907see to the contrary, transmitted for almost any number of generations. When a
 1351.684a mere mockery and deception; I would almost as soon believe with the old and
 1406.188Geology would lead us to believe that almost every continent has been broken up into
 1412.436But when we bear in mind that almost every species, even in its metropolis
 1438.144through natural selection, they will almost certainly be beaten and supplanted by
 1472.530habits; both probably often change almost simultaneously. Of cases of changed
 1476.24CHAP. VI. seen climbing branches, almost like a creeper; it often, like a shrike
 1514.786generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural selection will
 1546.1132same in Orchis and Asclepias,—genera almost as remote as possible amongst flowering
 1552.499with this admission in the writings of almost every experienced naturalist; or, as
 1596.670to warn its prey to escape. I would almost as soon believe that the cat curls the
 1612.643the very process of natural selection almost implies the continual supplanting and
 1628.28We are far too ignorant, in almost every case, to be enabled to assert
 1669.891Natura non facit saltum" applies with almost equal force to instincts as to bodily
 1707.516domestication, for the mother-hen has almost lost by disuse the power of flight
 1833.389natural selection; cases of instincts almost identically the same in animals so
 1853.204but from each other, sometimes to an almost incredible degree, and are thus divided
 1910.215observers, Kölreuter and Gärtner, who almost devoted their lives to this subject
 1924.196I cannot doubt the correctness of this almost universal belief amongst breeders
 1956.1164must either give up the belief of the almost universal sterility of distinct species
 1980.1044largely crossed than the species of almost any other genus; but Gärtner found that
 1992.761pure parents; and these hybrids are almost always utterly sterile, even when the
 2042.136class of facts. It is an old and almost universal belief, founded, I think, on
 2046.212see that great benefit is derived from almost any change in the habits of life. Again
 2054.334offspring. I fully admit that this is almost invariably the case. But if we look to
 2110.416seem chiefly confined to characters almost monstrous in their nature, and which
 2207.539of these facts impresses my mind almost in the same manner as does the vain
 2213.1691length; and we must remember that almost all strata contain harder layers or
 2241.74formations of each region are almost invariably intermittent; that is, have
 2257.32Thus the geological record will almost necessarily be rendered intermittent. I
 2259.826have been accumulated. Nature may almost be said to have guarded against the
 2293.596find that the embedded fossils, though almost universally ranked as specifically
 2315.432formation would be destroyed, almost as soon as accumulated, by the
 2351.858the world at this same period. It is almost superfluous to remark that hardly any
 2363.72progenitors of these orders, they would almost certainly have been long ago supplanted
 2385.280appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of
 2418.308subsiding, our formations have been almost necessarily accumulated at wide and
 2418.619but only an occasional scene, taken almost at hazard, in a slowly changing drama
 2420.451be identically the same; for both would almost certainly inherit different characters
 2424.272for the newly-formed fantail would be almost sure to inherit from its new progenitor
 2452.268extinction of less-favoured forms almost inevitably follows. It is the same with
 2458.1372and a few members of the great and almost extinct group of Ganoid fishes still
 2468.30species. On the Forms of Life changing almost simultaneously throughout the World
 2468.175the fact, that the forms of life change almost simultaneously throughout the world
 2562.186those inhabiting the sea, have changed almost simultaneously throughout the world
 2576.815process, whilst it leaves the embryo almost unaltered, continually adds, in the
 2610.478The extinction of old forms is the almost inevitable consequence of the
 2637.287and other physical conditions. Of late, almost every author who has studied the
 2637.396The case of America alone would almost suffice to prove its truth: for if we
 2637.498parts where the circumpolar land is almost continuous, all authors agree that one
 2637.940marshes, lakes, and great rivers, under almost every temperature. There is hardly a
 2645.382in the northern parts, where the land almost joins, and where, under a slightly
 2645.725same latitude: for these countries are almost as much isolated from each other as is
 2655.37and the eastern shores of Africa, on almost exactly opposite meridians of longitude
 2671.537have supervened since ancient times, almost any amount of migration is possible
 2689.382progenitor. If it can be shown to be almost invariably the case, that a region, of
 2707.344over every ocean, and have united almost every island to some mainland. If
 2707.1837separate, have been continuously, or almost continuously, united [page
 2711.167marine faunas on the opposite sides of almost every continent,—the close relation of
 2711.813with continents. Nor does their almost universally volcanic composition favour
 2713.351or less facilities may be said to be almost wholly unknown. Until I tried, with Mr
 2741.134facts could be given showing that soil almost everywhere is charged with seeds
 2749.1206they could not endure our climate. Almost every year, one or two land-birds are
 2753.660fully stocked with inhabitants. On almost bare land, with few or no destructive
 2759.195of these facts. We have evidence of almost every conceivable kind, organic and
 2773.559on distant mountain-summits, we may almost conclude without other evidence, that a
 2787.862that under the Polar Circle there is almost continuous land from western Europe
 2789.389same plants and animals inhabited the almost continuous circumpolar land; and that
 2793.742the Old and New Worlds will have been almost continuously united by land, serving as
 2813.161the world. But we have good evidence in almost every case, that the epoch was included
 2855.620endemic Alpine forms; but these have almost everywhere largely yielded to the more
 2869.63passage has speculated, in language almost identical with mine, on the effects of
 2869.1081surviving in the mountain-fastnesses of almost every land, which serve as a record
 2882.339would follow from this capacity as an almost necessary consequence. We can here
 2886.154the species often range widely and almost capriciously; for two river-systems
 2928.560and many European and African birds are almost every year blown there, as I am
 2948.911islands, aërial mammals do occur on almost every island. New Zealand possesses two
 2966.78of one of the cases of difficulty. Almost all oceanic islands, even the most
 2972.0GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. CHAP. XII. almost every product of the land and water
 2978.53facts could be given: indeed it is an almost universal rule that the endemic
 2978.937becomes an anomaly. But this difficulty almost disappears on the view that both New
 2984.685so near each other that they would almost certainly receive immigrants from the
 2994.547their own places and keep separate for almost any length of time. Being familiar with
 3032.1769conditions of life,—there would be an almost endless amount of organic action and
 3081.124this cause it has partly arisen, that almost all naturalists lay the greatest stress
 3081.739determine its classificatory value, is almost shown by the one fact, that in allied
 3081.1079fully acknowledged in the writings of almost every author. It will suffice to quote
 3095.382of high physiological importance and of almost universal prevalence, and yet leave us
 3113.183they seem to be, at least at present, almost arbitrary. Several of the best
 3151.664having different habits, we may feel almost sure, on the theory of descent, that
 3159.1111to the welfare of the being, are almost valueless to the systematist. For
 3167.199and their parents dominant, they are almost sure to spread widely, and to seize on
 3185.819by the aid of a genealogical tree, and almost impossible to do this without this aid
 3197.103the struggle for existence, and which almost inevitably induces extinction and
 3203.920organs: the parts may change to almost any extent in form and size, and yet
 3217.612legs in crustaceans. It is familiar to almost every one, that in a flower the
 3269.388silk-moth; or, again, in the horns of almost full-grown cattle. But further than
 3275.206and this, judging by the eye, seemed almost to be the case; but on actually
 3281.198other breeds, in all its proportions, almost exactly as much as in the adult state
 3384.20can be mastered. With respect to the almost universal sterility of species when
 3384.124forms so remarkable a contrast with the almost universal fertility of varieties when
 3426.884may continue to be inherited for an almost infinite number of generations. On the
 3438.163be most severe between them; it will be almost equally severe between the varieties of
 3460.365in character, together with the almost inevitable contingency of much
 3492.463in the history of the organic world, almost inevitably follows on the principle of
 3510.189formerly inhabited both areas; and we almost invariably find that wherever many
 3530.500species were immutable productions was almost unavoidable as long as the history of
 3532.617variations, accumulated during an almost infinite number of generations
 3566.12of natural history become! A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be
 3574.1010of organic change is one which is almost independent of altered and perhaps
 3588.492with Reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability
56  alone 
 242.322in trusting to good authorities alone. I can here give only the general
 321.483this principle by theoretical writers alone. When a [page] 13 CHAP. I. UNDER
 327.422one sex to both sexes or to one sex alone, more commonly but not exclusively to
 327.671or in a much greater degree, to males alone. A much more important rule, which I
 365.394many sheep, and several goats in Europe alone, and several even within Great Britain
 719.828of our clovers; but humble-bees alone visit the common red clover (Trifolium
 747.547destroyed by the rigour of the climate alone. Not until we reach the extreme
 822.1477ages or seasons, either by the males alone, or by the males and females; but I
 846.1809to a plant to produce stamens alone in one flower or on one whole plant
 846.1864or on one whole plant, and pistils alone in [page] 94 NATURAL SELECTION. CHAP
 856.40clover, which is visited by humble-bees alone; so that whole fields of the red clover
 864.1318trust to some general considerations alone. In the first place, I have collected
 870.12IV. OF INTERCROSSING. these facts alone incline me to believe that it is a
 970.1176and in a greater degree; but this alone would never account for so habitual and
 1002.97adapted to digest vegetable matter alone, or flesh alone, draws most nutriment
 1002.113digest vegetable matter alone, or flesh alone, draws most nutriment from these
 1078.99explained, to the formation of genera alone. If, in our diagram, we suppose the
 1090.1429give characters useful to the males alone, in their struggles with other males
 1123.376differ essentially from an ovule, is alone affected. But why, because the
 1219.648orders, are entirely due to the manner alone in which natural selection can act. For
 1237.1204has to serve for one special purpose alone. In the same way that a knife which has
 1434.576they tend to connect. From this cause alone the interme- [page] 179 CHAP. VI
 1522.650two functions, for one function alone, and thus wholly change its nature by
 1574.30remarks. If green woodpeckers alone had existed, and we did not know that
 1701.160and hunt best. On the other hand, habit alone in some cases has sufficed; no animal
 1703.209wish to sit on their eggs. Familiarity alone prevents our seeing how universally and
 1709.341In some cases compulsory habit alone has sufficed to produce such inherited
 1717.497probably have to be fed by the male alone. But the American cuckoo is in this
 1741.461masters in making the nest, and they alone open and close the doors in the morning
 1755.780care of the larvæ, and the masters alone go on slave-making expeditions. In
 1755.1065the community. In England the masters alone usually leave the nest to collect
 1839.935and in instinct. As far as instinct alone is concerned, the prodigious difference
 1845.315to one sex, but to that short period alone when the reproductive system is active
 1853.651Cryptocerus, the workers of one caste alone carry a wonderful sort of shield on
 1859.630neuters in the same nest, but in a few alone; and that by the long-continued
 1877.1491instincts of the fertile members, which alone leave descendants. I am surprised that
 1942.355beds of the same hybrids, and such alone are fairly treated, for by insect
 2102.6experiments made by Kölreuter. These alone are the unimportant differences, which
 2110.85the supposed fact, that mongrel animals alone are born closely like one of their
 2385.1391this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three
 2514.660either to the living or to the extinct alone, the series is far less perfect than if
 2558.518are distinct in each stage. This fact alone, from its generality, seems to have
 2596.1194two or three species of two or three alone of the six older genera will have been
 2608.106the formations of any one great region alone, as that of Europe, are considered; he
 2637.384to this conclusion. The case of America alone would almost suffice to prove its truth
 2663.65is simply inheritance, that cause which alone, as far as we positively know, produces
 2681.616species have been produced on one side alone, and have not been able to migrate to
 2683.122having been produced in one area alone, and having subsequently migrated from
 2831.38This brief abstract applies to plants alone: some strictly analogous facts could be
 2936.1197to compete with herbaceous plants alone, might readily gain an advantage by
 3095.737even when none are important, alone explains, I think, that saying of
 3103.340purpose than that of the adult, which alone plays its full part in the economy of
 3263.1169disease, which appears in old age alone, has been communicated to the offspring
 3301.1704It can be proved true in those cases alone in which the ancient state, now
 3339.304Or an organ might be retained for one alone of its [page] 455 CHAP. XIII
 3442.566though acting on external characters alone and often capriciously, can produce
22  along 
 375.1433has the feathers so much reversed along the back of the neck that they form a
 1141.683duck of South America can only flap along the surface of the water, and has its
 1741.162masters leaving the nest, and marching along the same road to a tall Scotch-fir-tree
 1793.252as far as the eye could judge, exactly along the planes of imaginary intersection
 1793.828between the basins, by stopping work along the intermediate planes or planes of
 1807.18OF THE HIVE-BEE. position-that is, along the plane of intersection between two
 1831.409and to build up and excavate the wax along the planes of intersection. The bees
 2167.21we see around us. It is good to wander along lines of sea-coast, when formed of
 2171.555sand, or mud. But how often do we see along the bases of retreating cliffs rounded
 2171.864we find that it is only here and there, along a short length or round a promontory
 2205.340told by faults,—those great cracks along which the strata have been upheaved on
 2207.69extends for upwards of 30 miles, and along this line the vertical displacement of
 2213.1189one yard in height to be eaten back along a whole line of coast at the rate of
 2213.1632suffers degradation at the same time along its whole indented length; and we must
 2241.439for even a short geological period. Along the whole west coast, which is
 2241.701A little reflection will explain why along the rising coast of the western side of
 2801.170earlier period, was nearly uniform along the continuous shores of the Polar
 2809.285that Siberia was similarly affected. Along the Himalaya, at points 900 miles apart
 2817.984temperature was at the same time lower along certain broad belts of longitude. On
 2823.1069as I hear from Dr. Hooker, extend along the heights of the peninsula of Malacca
 2886.1817of a fresh-water group might travel far along the shores of the sea, and subse
 3123.1522All the descendants of the genus F, along its whole line of descent, are supposed
1  alphabetical 
 5860.69Peerage of England. Exhibiting, under Alphabetical Arrangement, the Origin, Descent, and
1  alphabetically 
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24  alpine 
 530.10II. VARIATION UNDER NATURE. plants on Alpine summits, or the thicker fur of an
 792.268and bark-feeders mottled-grey; the alpine ptarmigan white in winter, the red
 1412.81De Candolle has observed, a common alpine species disappears. The same fact has
 2657.1266peaks of the Cordillera and we find an alpine species of bizcacha; we look to the
 2755.169of miles of lowlands, where the Alpine species could not possibly exist, is
 2761.773with snow and ice, and their former Alpine inhabitants would descend to the plains
 2769.183thus also understand the fact that the Alpine plants of each mountain-range are more
 2769.449have been due south and north. The Alpine plants, for example, of Scotland, as
 2773.418manner the present distribution of the Alpine and Arctic productions of Europe and
 2777.414to much modification. But with our Alpine productions, left isolated from the
 2781.231have become mingled with ancient Alpine species, which must have existed on the
 2781.694the case; for if we compare the present Alpine plants and animals of the several great
 2795.673for far more modification than with the Alpine productions, left isolated, within a
 2833.332polar towards equatorial latitudes, the Alpine or mountain floras really become less
 2855.591period they were stocked with endemic Alpine forms; but these have almost everywhere
 3000.464mountain, in every lake and marsh. For Alpine species, excepting in so far as the
 3000.692thus we have in South America, Alpine humming-birds, Alpine rodents, Alpine
 3000.714in South America, Alpine humming-birds, Alpine rodents, Alpine plants, &c., all of
 3000.730Alpine humming-birds, Alpine rodents, Alpine plants, &c., all of strictly American
 3018.194ranging widely,—such facts, as alpine, lacustrine, and marsh productions
 3829.10on winged seeds, 146. ——, —, on Alpine species suddenly becoming rare
 3994.7of intermediate varieties, 176. ——, on Alpine plants, 365. ——, Dr. J. E., on striped
 4205.19Mules, striped, 165. Müller, Dr. F., on Alpine Australian plants, 375. Murchison, Sir
 4560.7on flora of Azores, 363. ——, on Alpine plants, 367, 376. ——, on rarity of
51  already 
 339.189perceive in each domestic race, as already remarked, less uniformity of character
 511.173races,—at least, in a country which is already stocked with other races. In this
 588.421of the country, the species which are already dominant will be the most likely to
 608.797now manufacturing, many of the species already manufactured still to a certain extent
 651.186of the same and other kinds which already clothe the ground. The missletoe is
 681.1028suffer most from germinating in ground already thickly stocked with other plants
 693.789in numbers, and, as each area is already fully stocked with inhabitants, the
 741.783the closest relation to the land being already thickly clothed by other plants; so
 816.1462The males of carnivorous animals are already well armed; though to them and to
 850.280degree under nature, then as pollen is already carried regularly from flower to flower
 920.39which unite for each birth; but I have already attempted to show that we have reason
 934.92complex from the large number of already existing species; and if some of these
 934.1115forms produced on large areas, which already have been victorious over many
 956.378of all organic beings, each area is already fully stocked with inhabitants, it
 1046.190In each genus, the species, which are already extremely different in character, will
 1080.320it will chiefly act on those which already have some advantage; and the largeness
 1092.257given in the following chapters. But we already see how it entails extinction; and how
 1139.319the conditions of life. Indirectly, as already remarked, they seem to play an
 1315.926or from analogous variation) which already occur in some other members of the same
 1412.1054competition; and as these species are already defined objects (however they may have
 1420.50existing in lesser numbers would, as already remarked, run a greater chance of being
 1434.307varieties will, from reasons already assigned (namely from what we know of
 1476.498if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no
 1536.1024had become extinct, and they have already suffered far more extinction than have
 1657.1442stage, so that much of its work was already done for it, far from feeling the
 1657.1664off, and thus tried to complete the already finished work. [page] 209 CHAP. VII
 1725.700that when this insect finds a burrow already made and stored by another sphex, it
 1781.76we could slightly modify the instincts already possessed by the Melipona, and in
 1781.368not be very surprising, seeing that she already does so to a certain extent, and seeing
 1781.602her cells in level layers, as she already does her cylindrical cells; and we must
 1781.844are making their spheres; but she is already so far enabled to judge of distance
 1924.634would be injurious to their fertility, already lessened by their hybrid origin. I am
 1966.12apply to both kingdoms. It has been already remarked, that the degree of fertility
 2143.655manner on the presence of other already defined organic forms, than on climate
 2460.221period, we must remember what has been already said on the probable wide intervals of
 2488.256older forms; and those forms, which are already dominant, or have some advantage over
 2492.48and far-spreading species, which already have invaded to a certain extent the
 2494.458and that severe competition with many already existing forms, would be highly
 2500.349owing to inheritance, and to having already had some advantage over their parents
 2663.780organism to organism being, as I have already often remarked, the most important of
 2663.1055abounding in individuals, which have already triumphed over many competitors in
 2910.291of the species, however few, already occupying any pond, yet as the number
 2916.340distant points of the globe. I have already stated that I cannot honestly admit
 2924.510been expected on my theory, for, as already explained, species occasionally
 3239.19is explained. Embryology.—It has already been casually remarked that certain
 3426.803believe that a modification, which has already been inherited for many generations
 3448.866to me to be in itself probable. I have already recapitulated, as fairly as I could
 3478.674can understand this fact; for they have already varied since they branched off from a
 3538.409much flexibility of mind, and who have already begun to doubt on the immutability of
 3566.422more species added to the infinitude of already recorded species. Our classifications
 4862.0occasionally in demy 8vo. Volumes. Already Published. GOLDSMITHS WORKS. Edited by
1  altar 
 5552.22Fcap. 1s. 6d. —Approach to the Holy Altar. Extracted from his "Manual of Prayer
5  alter 
 713.858feral, and this would certainly greatly alter (as [page] 73 CHAP. III. MUTUAL CHECKS
 908.165But when many men, without intending to alter the breed, have a nearly common
 2060.1098the same manner, and does not wish to alter their general habits of life. Nature
 2514.1086many fossil links, that he has had to alter the whole classification of these two
 3211.754there will be no tendency to alter the framework of bones or the relative
2  alteration 
 1514.337watching each slight accidental alteration in the transparent layers; and
 1514.404layers; and carefully selecting each alteration which, under varied circumstances, may
1  alterations 
 1514.743bodies, variation will cause the slight alterations, generation will multiply them almost
10  altered 
 393.524is the rock-pigeon in a very slightly altered state, has become feral in several
 461.922spaniel, and has probably been slowly altered from it. It is known that the English
 776.236by better adapting them to their altered conditions, would tend to be preserved
 1070.199the form of (F), either unaltered or altered only in a slight degree. In this case
 1500.486of descent, in an unaltered or little altered condition. Amongst existing Vertebrata
 2532.37modified in relation to its slightly altered conditions of life, and yet retain
 3129.502be that some very ancient language had altered little, and had given rise to few new
 3129.705descended from a common race) had altered much, and had given rise to many new
 3574.1032is one which is almost independent of altered and perhaps suddenly altered physical
 3574.1061of altered and perhaps suddenly altered physical conditions, namely, the mutual
3  altering 
 457.553no wish or expectation of permanently altering the breed. Nevertheless I cannot [page
 3432.458him at the time, without any thought of altering the breed. It is certain that he can
 3800.44of domestic animals, importance in altering breeds, 20. —, advantages of
3  alternate 
 2255.277could this have happened during the alternate periods of elevation; or, to speak more
 3141.637as he likewise includes the so-called alternate generations of Steenstrup, which can
 3416.597subsiding bed of the sea. During the alternate periods of elevation and of stationary
2  alternately 
 1819.394making hexagonal cells, if she work alternately on the inside and outside of two or
 2723.162in the actual sea, so that they were alternately wet and exposed to the air like really
2  alternations 
 2869.115with mine, on the effects of great alternations of climate on geographical distribution
 4149.12of seeds by icebergs, 363. —, on great alternations of climate, 382. —, on the distribution
2  alternative 
 1956.369under domestication. This latter alternative seems to me the most probable, and I am
 2026.361perish at an early period. This latter alternative has not been sufficiently attended to
59  although 
 258.598of the high value of such studies, although they have been very commonly neglected
 272.701past geological epochs in its history. Although much remains obscure, and will long
 343.90character; by which I mean, that, although differing from each other, and from the
 399.1694and marked like the rock-pigeon, although no other existing species is thus
 413.257with all the domestic breeds. Secondly, although an English carrier or short-faced
 511.860habits, cannot be matched, and, although so much valued by women and children
 511.1059some other country, often from islands. Although I do not doubt that some domestic
 653.908no prudential restraint from marriage. Although some species may [page] 64 HIGH RATE
 687.582be less game than at present, although hundreds of thousands of game animals
 792.0from what they formerly were. Although natural selection can act only through
 842.1718to flower, and a cross thus effected, although nine-tenths of the pollen were
 890.320sexes. When the sexes are separated, although the male and female flowers may be
 928.121area, such as an oceanic island, although the total number of the species
 930.0and this we are incapable of doing. Although I do not doubt that isolation is of
 934.830concurred. Finally, I conclude that, although small isolated areas probably have been
 1034.838the descendants will not be increased; although the amount [page] 120 NATURAL
 1084.1416of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Although extremely few of the most ancient
 1139.140keeping true, or not varying at all, although living under the most opposite climates
 1361.1672of their ancient progenitors. Although new and important modifications may not
 1456.303furnished with an extensor muscle. Although no graduated links of structure, fitted
 1486.545grebes and coots are eminently aquatic, although their toes are only bordered by
 1508.302might be formed by natural selection, although in this case he does not know any of
 1538.0ova from being washed out of the sack? Although we must be extremely cautious in
 1546.1315organ, it should be observed that, although the general appearance and function of
 1552.0to inheritance from the same ancestor. Although in many cases it is most difficult to
 1566.63transmitted in nearly the same state, although now become of very slight use; and any
 1596.272produced through natural selection. Although many statements may be found in works
 1622.0and petrels with the habits of auks. Although the belief that an organ so perfect as
 1675.1087excrete for the sole good of the ants. Although I do not believe that any animal in the
 1725.536shown good reason for believing that although the Tachytes nigra generally makes its
 1737.79information on this and other subjects. Although fully trusting to the statements of
 1747.279as has been described by Mr. Smith. Although so small a species, it is very
 1936.561as Lobelia, Passiflora and Verbascum. Although the plants in these experiments
 1936.634appeared perfectly healthy, and although both the ovules and pollen of the same
 1950.0be lost in a very few generations. Although I do not know of any thoroughly well
 1956.455I am inclined to believe in its truth, although it rests on no direct evidence. I
 2006.1554governed by systematic affinity. Although many distinct genera within the same
 2016.18their own pollen. We thus see, that although there is a clear and fundamental
 2020.769species has been a special endowment; although in the case of crossing, the difficulty
 2066.352near each other in his garden; and although these plants have separated sexes, they
 2096.266insists that when any two species, although most closely allied to each other, are
 2265.319are rare, they may be here passed over. Although each formation has indisputably
 2267.0to the following considerations. Although each formation may mark a very long
 2508.312stages in England with those in France, although he finds in both a curious accordance
 2651.1197defined and distinct marine faunas. Although hardly one shell, crab or fish is
 2737.0were always killed by this process. Although the beaks and feet of birds are
 2849.177latitudes of the opposite hemisphere. Although we have reason to believe from
 2904.922Nelumbium luteum) in a heron's stomach; although I do not know the fact, yet analogy
 2910.188will have a good chance of succeeding. Although there will always be a struggle for
 2924.0fully and perfectly than has nature. Although in oceanic islands the number of kinds
 2978.821related to South America, which, although the next nearest continent, is so
 2998.111of which live in crevices of stone; and although large quantities of stone are annually
 3159.1044why analogical or adaptive character, although of the utmost importance to the welfare
 3197.448of both sexes and of all ages, although having few characters in common, under
 3470.222at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have
 3502.858by the whole intertropical ocean. Although two areas may present the same physical
 3534.0almost infinite number of generations. Although I am fully convinced of the truth of
 3544.600of nourishment from the mother's womb? Although naturalists very properly demand a full
 3578.836of the world, as at present known, although of a length quite incomprehensible by
6  altogether 
 383.0to a slight degree from each other. Altogether at least a score of pigeons might be
 435.739of his flock, but to change it altogether. It is the magician's wand, by means of
 1825.613or on quite distinct causes, and so be altogether independent of the quantity of honey
 2199.8making altogether 72,584 feet; that is, very nearly
 2717.1198days, and afterwards germinated. Altogether out of the 94 dried plants, 18 floated
 2902.24PRODUCTIONS. of many kinds, and were altogether 537 in number; and yet the viscid mud
90  always 
 208.203Classification of varieties — Descent always used in classification — Analogical or
 242.269have crept in, though I hope I have always been cautious in trusting to good
 313.499believe that long limbs are almost always accompanied by an elongated head. Some
 371.59Domestic Pigeon.—Believing that it is always best to study some special group, I
 381.691of the nostrils, of the tongue (not always in strict correlation with the length
 477.1087unconsciously. It has consisted in always cultivating the best known variety
 485.104not be overlooked that they almost always have to struggle for their own food, at
 499.1112it, of unconscious selection will always tend,—perhaps more at one period than
 505.1601this plant. No doubt the strawberry had always varied since it was cultivated, but the
 511.998as we do sometimes see are almost always imported from some other country, often
 542.1074hybrid nature of the intermediate links always remove the difficulty. In very many
 608.317as far as my imperfect results go, they always confirm the view. I have also consulted
 645.1246by birds and beasts of prey; we do not always bear in mind, that though food may be
 675.80to keep the foregoing considerations always in mind—never to forget that every
 737.122in habits and constitution, and always in structure, the struggle will
 816.685leaving offspring. Sexual selection by always allowing the victor to breed might
 830.729so be preserved or selected,—provided always that they retained strength to master
 864.185obvious that two individuals must always unite for each birth; but in the case
 884.975reverse, for a plant's own pollen is always prepotent over foreign pollen; but to
 908.595as might be, natural selection will always tend to preserve all the individuals
 912.33terbalanced by natural selection always tending to modify all the individuals
 912.1077On the above principle, nurserymen always prefer getting seed from a large body
 948.28species. That natural selection will always act with extreme slowness, I fully
 948.715and variation itself is apparently always a very slow process. The process will
 948.1003do believe that natural selection will always act very slowly, often only at long
 972.7and species of the same genus. As has always been my practice, let us seek light on
 986.141of any one species of grass would always have the best chance of succeeding and
 988.304and individual must be severe, we always find great diversity in its inhabitants
 1032.221descendant; for natural selection will always act according to the nature of the
 1147.824for as the tarsi are almost always lost in many dung-feeding beetles, they
 1217.239structure of the seeds, which are not always correlated with any differences in the
 1233.43as I believe, natural selection will always succeed in the long run in reducing and
 1261.318is rapidly going on, there may always be expected to be much variability in
 1331.243considered as purely-bred. The spine is always striped; the legs are generally barred
 1424.96forms existing in larger numbers will always have a better chance, within any given
 1470.695of structure in a fossil condition will always be less, from their having existed in
 1514.289we must suppose that there is a power always intently watching each slight
 1566.165deviations in their structure will always have been checked by natural selection
 1580.379horns are correlated. Mountain breeds always differ from lowland breeds; and a
 1604.102produce absolute perfection, nor do we always meet, as far as we can judge, with this
 1612.508the process of natural selection will always be very slow, and will act, at any one
 1725.29eggs. Many bees are parasitic, and always lay their eggs in the nests of bees of
 1767.1687to notice, is that these cells are always made at that degree of nearness to each
 1781.898enabled to judge of distance, that she always describes her spheres so as to
 1795.305has appeared to me that the bees do not always succeed in working at exactly the same
 1801.567gnaw into this from the opposite sides, always working circularly as they deepen each
 1803.179correct; the first commencement having always been a little hood of wax; but I will
 1807.500which the bees build is curious; they always make the first rough wall from ten to
 1807.884wall is left in the middle; the masons always piling up the cut-away cement, and
 1807.1035thin wall steadily growing upward; but always crowned by a gigantic coping. From all
 1819.482three cells commenced at the same time, always standing at the proper relative
 1851.280I do not doubt that a breed of cattle, always yielding oxen with extraordinarily long
 1883.597hand, the fact that instincts are not always absolutely perfect and are liable to
 1914.298there is any degree of sterility. He always compares the maximum number of seeds
 1936.351it during several subsequent years, and always with the same result. This result has
 1974.217innately variable; for it is not always the same when the same two species are
 1992.381character between their two parents, always closely resemble one of them; and such
 1992.768parents; and these hybrids are almost always utterly sterile, even when the other
 1994.453variable. That it is by no means always the same in degree in the first cross
 1994.748cross between any two species is not always governed by their systematic affinity
 2006.1101to widely different climates, does not always prevent the two grafting together. As
 2046.796kept under the same conditions of life, always induces weakness and sterility in the
 2078.558crossed with the Nicotiana glutinosa, always yielded hybrids not so sterile as those
 2118.750between the same two species. It is not always equal in degree in a first cross and in
 2149.29record. In the first place it should always be borne in mind what sort of
 2149.303this is a wholly false view; we should always look for forms intermediate between
 2163.146ancient species; and so on backwards, always converging to the common ancestor of
 2339.294ago, the great class of mammals was always spoken of as having abruptly come in at
 2351.1353suppose that the seas of the world have always been so freely open from south to north
 2379.1723action than strata which have always remained nearer to the surface. The
 2383.49been heated under great pressure, have always seemed to me to require some special
 2446.21competitor. It is most difficult always to remember that the increase of every
 2466.464inordinately, and that some check is always in action, yet seldom perceived by us
 2735.1584Certain seeds, however, were always killed by this process. Although the
 2767.272seize on the cleared and thawed ground, always ascending higher and higher, as the
 2910.208of succeeding. Although there will always be a struggle for life between the
 3055.195Classification of varieties—Descent always used in classification—Analogical or
 3067.352which, from its familiarity, does not always sufficiently strike us, is in my
 3075.1243habits and food of an animal, I have always regarded as affording very clear
 3081.352important is generally, but by no means always, true. But their importance for
 3095.589however important that may be, has always failed; for no part of the organisation
 3101.542St. Hilaire. If certain characters are always found correlated with others, though no
 3203.969extent in form and size, and yet they always remain connected together in the same
 3223.618formed of many parts, consequently always have fewer legs; or conversely, those
 3263.515plainly in our own children; we cannot always tell whether the child will be tall or
 3398.343very long periods of time there will always be a good chance for wide migration by
 3448.62nature variability and a powerful agent always ready to act and select, why should we
 3468.72in number, with natural selection always ready to adapt the slowly varying
 3518.696principle of successive variations not always supervening at an early age, and being
 3532.137and distinct species, is that we are always slow in admitting any great change of
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 1171.644in regard to the blind fish, the Amblyopsis, and as is the case with the blind
 3607.11of organic beings, 411. Agassiz on Amblyopsis, 139. —on groups of species suddenly
 3616.0Alligators, males, fighting, 88. Amblyopsis, blind fish, 139. America, North
105  america 
 234.131of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the
 548.1180of those birds and insects in North America and Europe, which differ very slightly
 552.596asked, will suffice? if that between America and Europe is ample, will that between
 665.321Himalaya, which have been imported from America since its discovery. In such cases, and
 681.648in regard to the feral animals of South America. Here I will make only a few remarks
 717.41I have observed in parts of South America) the vegetation: this again would
 1141.661state. The logger-headed duck of South America can only flap along the surface of the
 1159.251perhaps by natural selection. In South America, a burrowing rodent, the tuco-tuco, or
 1167.549of the other inhabitants of North America and Europe. On my view we must suppose
 1167.1509still to see in the cave-animals of America, affinities to the other inhabitants of
 1442.631Look at the Mustela vison of North America, which has webbed feet and which
 1472.859Saurophagus sulphuratus) in South America, hovering over one spot and then
 1476.245breaking them like a nuthatch. In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne
 1478.587in the chinks of the bark? Yet in North America there are woodpeckers which feed
 1560.874of cattle and other animals in South America absolutely depends on their power of
 1669.684observed except in Europe and North America, and for no instinct being known
 1885.408how it is that the thrush of South America lines its nest with mud, in the same
 1885.550the male wrens (Troglodytes) of North America, build "cock-nests," to roost in, like
 1956.653indigenous domestic dogs of South America, all are quite fertile together; and
 2233.211in the carboniferous strata of North America. In regard to mammiferous remains, a
 2235.549formations; so it is in North America, and in many other parts of the world
 2241.753coast of the western side of South America, no extensive formations with recent or
 2249.458formation on the west coast of South America, which has been bulky enough to resist
 2273.153earlier in the palæozoic beds of North America than in those of Europe; time having
 2273.1448changes occurred in other parts of America during this space of time. When such
 2305.289shells inhabiting the shores of North America, which are ranked by some conchologists
 2307.833excepting those of the United States of America. I fully agree with Mr. Godwin-Austen
 2315.531as we now see on the shores of South America. During the periods of subsidence there
 2339.738have been discovered in India, South America, and in Europe even as far back as the
 2371.142territories in Russia and in North America, do not support the view, that the
 2373.647existing continents of Europe and North America. But we do not know what was the state
 2379.1830of the world, for instance in South America, of bare metamorphic rocks, which
 2440.632by the Spaniards into South America, has run wild over the whole country
 2444.802of the domestic horse in South America, that under more favourable conditions
 2472.0CHAP. X. THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. America, in equatorial South America, in Tierra
 2472.29WORLD. America, in equatorial South America, in Tierra del Fuego, at the Cape of
 2472.788of Russia, Western Europe and North America, a similar parallelism in the forms of
 2480.529compared with those now living in South America or in Australia, the most skilful
 2480.1072the present day on the shores of North America would hereafter be liable to be classed
 2480.1382modern beds, of Europe, North and South America, and Australia, from containing fossil
 2486.199we turn our attention to North America, and there discover a series of
 2584.197marsupials of that continent. In South America, a similar relationship is manifest
 2586.197of Australia and of parts of South America under the same latitude, would attempt
 2590.343have been solely produced in South America. For we know that Europe in ancient
 2590.492publications above alluded to, that in America the law of distribution of terrestrial
 2590.597different from what it now is. North America formerly partook strongly of the
 2596.130monsters have left behind them in South America the sloth, armadillo, and anteater, as
 2596.473to the species still living in South America; and some of these fossils may be the
 2596.1475is the case of the Edentata of South America, still fewer genera and species will
 2637.376come to this conclusion. The case of America alone would almost suffice to prove its
 2643.109South Africa, and western South America, between latitudes 25º and 35º, we
 2643.352we may compare the productions of South America south of lat. 35º with those north of
 2645.668of Australia, Africa, and South America under the same latitude: for these
 2651.194and western shores of South and Central America; yet these great faunas are separated
 2651.321of Panama. Westward of the shores of America, a wide space of open ocean extends
 2651.1314faunas of Eastern and Western America and the eastern Pacific islands, yet
 2677.1497common to Europe and Australia or South America? The conditions of life are [page
 2681.95and plants have become naturalised in America and Australia; and some of the
 2707.254or Africa, and Europe likewise with America. Other authors have thus hypothetically
 2749.1010would never bring seeds from North America to Britain, though they might and do
 2749.1301the whole Atlantic Ocean, from North America to the western shores of Ireland and
 2755.635Mountains, in the United States of America, are all the same with those of
 2759.319period, central Europe and North America suffered under an Arctic climate. The
 2765.444on a little earlier or later in North America than in Europe, so will the southern
 2773.462and Arctic productions of Europe and America, that when in other regions we find the
 2783.447mountains and on the plains of North America and Europe; and it may be reasonably
 2787.934Europe, through Siberia, to eastern America. And to this continuity of the
 2793.273between the productions of North America and Europe,—a relationship which is
 2793.534that the productions of Europe and America during the later tertiary stages were
 2801.485and western shores of temperate North America; and the still more striking case of
 2803.170of the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the
 2803.415for instance, certain parts of South America with the southern continents of the Old
 2811.11corner of Australia. Looking to America; in the northern half, ice-borne
 2811.342In the Cordillera of Equatorial South America, glaciers once extended far below their
 2817.618the eastern and western sides of North America, in the Cordillera under the equator
 2819.216of identical and allied species. In America, Dr. Hooker has shown that between
 2819.517On the lofty mountains of equatorial America a host of peculiar species belonging to
 2843.599and to Europe still exist in North America, which must have lain on the line of
 2851.69insisted on by Hooker in regard to America, and by Alph. de Candolle in regard to
 2867.288as I believe, the southern shores of America, Australia, New Zealand have become
 2928.149at about the same distance from North America as the Galapagos Islands do from South
 2928.196as the Galapagos Islands do from South America, and which has a very peculiar soil
 2968.362and 600 miles from the shores of South America. Here [page] 398 GEOGRAPHICAL
 2972.903a stamp of affinity to those created in America? There is nothing in the conditions of
 2972.1611Africa, like those of the Galapagos to America. I believe this grand fact can receive
 2976.34by formerly continuous land, from America; and the Cape de Verde Islands from
 2978.323standing nearer to Africa than to America, are related, and that very closely, as
 2978.418from Dr. Hooker's account, to those of America: but on the view that this island has
 2978.805but it is also plainly related to South America, which, although the next nearest
 2978.996the view that both New Zealand, South America, and other southern lands were long ago
 3000.683lowlands;—thus we have in South America, Alpine humming-birds, Alpine rodents
 3004.335blind animals inhabiting the caves of America and of Europe. Other analogous facts
 3010.337varieties of the same species inhabit America and Europe, and the species thus has an
 3032.715latitudes, for instance in South America, the inhabitants of the plains and
 3446.412forms in Europe and North America. If then we have under nature
 3476.385animals inhabiting the dark caves of America and Europe. In both varieties and
 3488.69same instincts; why the thrush of South America, for instance, lines her nest with mud
 3496.1091marsupials in Australia, of edentata in America, and other such cases,—is intelligible
 3617.0Amblyopsis, blind fish, 139. America, North, productions allied to those of
 3850.32Downing, Mr., on fruit-trees in America, 85. Downs, North and South
 3933.24and space, 409. Forests, changes in, in America, 74. Formation, Devonian
 4041.34on relations of flora of South America, 379. —, on flora of the Antarctic
 4146.46tertiary formations of Europe and North America, 323. —, on parallelism of tertiary
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 548.1563with another, and with those from the American mainland, I was much struck how
 725.630this! Every one has heard that when an American forest is cut down, a very different
 1167.206having been separately created for the American and European caverns, close similarity
 1167.601Europe. On my view we must suppose that American animals, having ordinary powers of
 1167.1681And this is the case with some of the American cave-animals, as I hear from [page
 1717.512to be fed by the male alone. But the American cuckoo is in this predicament; for she
 1717.676time. It has been asserted that the American cuckoo occasionally lays her eggs in
 1717.1044European cuckoo had the habits of the American cuckoo; but that occasionally she laid
 1723.307ostriches, at least in the case of the American species, unite and lay first a few eggs
 1723.625days. This instinct, however, of the American ostrich has not as yet been perfected
 2056.255dogs with foxes, or that certain South American indigenous domestic dogs do not readily
 2241.243many hundred miles of the South American coasts, which have been upraised
 2273.252required for their migration from the American to the European seas. In examining the
 2472.944with the several European and North American tertiary deposits. Even if the few
 2584.508in such numbers, are related to South American types. This relationship is even more
 2590.286Australia; or that Edentata and other American types should have been solely produced
 2637.678Worlds; yet if we travel over the vast American continent, from the central parts of
 2657.783are inhabited by one species of Rhea (American ostrich), and northward the plains of
 2657.1179of Rodents, but they plainly display an American type of structure. We ascend the lofty
 2657.1403the coypu and capybara, rodents of the American type. Innumerable other instances could
 2657.1496If we look to the islands off the American shore, however much they may differ in
 2657.1640all peculiar species, are essentially American. We may look back to past ages, as
 2657.1723shown in the last chapter, and we find American types then prevalent on [page
 2661.4DISTRIBUTION. CHAP. XI. the American continent and in the American seas. We
 2661.34XI. the American continent and in the American seas. We see in these facts some deep
 2795.445in the one great region with the native American productions, and have had to compete
 2928.367of Bermuda, that very many North American birds, during their great annual
 2948.1477over the Atlantic Ocean; and two North American species either regularly or
 2954.1532fathoms in depth, and here we find American forms, but the species and even the
 2972.80bears the unmistakeable stamp of the American continent. There are twenty-six land
 2972.288affinity of most of these birds to American species in every character, in their
 2972.700yet feels that he is standing on American land. Why should this be so? why should
 2972.1153closely the conditions of the South American coast: in fact there is a considerable
 3000.766Alpine plants, &c., all of strictly American forms, and it is obvious [page
 3510.728of Juan Fernandez, and of the other American islands being related in the most
 3510.833plants and animals of the neighbouring American mainland; and those of the Cape de
 3722.16killing pigeons, 362. Brewer, Dr., on American cuckoo, 217. Britain, mammals of
 4243.4habit of laying eggs together, 218. ——, American, two species of, 349. Otter, habits of
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 2460.142close of the palæozoic period and of Ammonites at the close of the secondary period
 3620.0modern formations on west coast, 290. Ammonites, sudden extinction of, 321. Anagallis
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 260.708next chapter the Struggle for Existence amongst all organic beings throughout the world
 317.140many remarkable cases could be given amongst animals and plants. From the facts
 325.168original cause acting on both; but when amongst individuals, apparently exposed to the
 325.345appears in the parent—say, once amongst several million individuals—and it
 343.806are hardly any domestic races, either amongst animals or plants, which have not been
 441.78to this practice, except sometimes amongst closely allied sub-breeds. And when a
 493.522might, and indeed do now, arise amongst pigeons, which are rejected as faults
 538.382may instance Rubus, Rosa, and Hieracium amongst plants, several genera of insects, and
 548.896a difference of 139 doubtful forms! Amongst animals which unite for each birth, and
 635.196has been seen in the last chapter that amongst organic beings in a state of nature
 667.59almost every plant produces seed, and amongst animals there are very few which do not
 699.422in part through facility of diffusion amongst the crowded animals, been
 749.79or animal is placed in a new country amongst new competitors, though the climate may
 818.0for victory, as the sword or spear. Amongst birds, the contest is often of a more
 920.636uniformity of character can be retained amongst them, as long as their conditions of
 964.853see the same process of extermination amongst our domesticated productions, through
 1090.1196seed, or young, as easily as the adult. Amongst many animals, sexual selection will
 1432.139in which many forms, more especially amongst the classes which unite for each birth
 1440.424former existence could be found only amongst fossil remains, which are preserved, as
 1456.81which formerly was falsely ranked amongst bats. It has an extremely wide flank
 1500.505unaltered or little altered condition. Amongst existing Vertebrata, we find but a
 1522.158kind. Numerous cases could be given amongst the lower animals of the same organ
 1546.1161genera almost as remote as possible amongst flowering plants. In all these cases of
 1669.725and for no instinct being known amongst extinct species, how very generally
 1924.220of this almost universal belief amongst breeders. Hybrids are seldom raised by
 1992.549exceptions extremely sterile. So again amongst hybrids which are usually intermediate
 3006.511it would be difficult to prove it. Amongst mammals, we see it strikingly displayed
 3081.1784from Connarus." To give an example amongst insects, in one great division of the
 3095.1554this genus should still be retained amongst the Malpighiaceæ. This case seems to me
 3113.338value. Instances could be given amongst plants and insects, of a group of forms
 3127.480affinities which we discover in nature amongst the beings of the same group. Thus, on
 3159.441mammals and fishes, is analogical. Amongst insects there are innumerable instances
 3382.128have been perfected, more especially amongst broken and failing groups of organic
 5712.51HERMANN) Typee and Omoo; or, Adventures amongst the Marquesas and South Sea Islands
114  amount 
 260.142We shall thus see that a large amount of hereditary modification is at least
 285.1020of life to cause any appreciable amount of variation; and that when the
 309.55of structure. Nevertheless some slight amount of change may, I think, be attributed
 309.186as, in some cases, increased size from amount of food, colour from particular kinds
 345.32When we attempt to estimate the amount of structural difference between the
 365.1208doubt that there has been an immense amount of inherited variation. Who can believe
 417.708in explaining the immense amount of variation which pigeons have
 429.372variety of the wild Dipsacus; and this amount of change may have suddenly arisen in a
 479.8they could anywhere find. A large amount of change in our cultivated plants
 505.71to allow of the accumulation of a large amount of modification in almost any desired
 538.226which the species present an inordinate amount of variation; and hardly two
 558.339is, as it seems to me, an overwhelming amount of experimental evidence, showing that
 562.226varieties; for he knows nothing of the amount and kind of variation to which the
 566.145fancier before alluded to, with the amount of difference in the forms which he is
 604.374to come to a determination by the amount of difference between them, judging by
 604.447judging by analogy whether or not the amount suffices to raise one or both to the
 604.518both to the rank of species. Hence the amount of difference is one very important
 608.146to insects, that in large genera the amount of difference between the species is
 608.917from each other by a less than usual amount of difference. Moreover, the species
 610.701varieties and species; namely, that the amount of difference between varieties, when
 618.319and except, secondly, by a certain amount of [page] 59 CHAP. II. RESEMBLE
 622.170forms have not been discovered; but the amount of difference considered necessary to
 673.582which depend on a rapidly fluctuating amount of food, for it allows them rapidly to
 679.102almost instantaneously increase to any amount. The face of Nature may be compared to
 687.4being allowed to grow up freely. The amount of food for each species of course
 778.508Not that, as I believe, any extreme amount of variability is necessary; as man can
 906.43an extremely intricate subject. A large amount of inheritable and diversified
 906.327will compensate for a lesser amount of variability in each individual, and
 908.406of selection, notwithstanding a large amount of crossing with inferior animals. Thus
 954.136selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite
 970.1231account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties
 988.46of the principle, that the greatest amount of life can be supported by great
 1018.1255a small numbered letter, a sufficient amount of variation is supposed to have been
 1032.954the accumulation of a considerable amount of divergent variation. As all the
 1034.851will not be increased; although the amount [page] 120 NATURAL SELECTION. CHAP. IV
 1040.302their common parent. If we suppose the amount of change between each horizontal line
 1040.616to be more numerous or greater in amount, to convert these three forms into well
 1042.273z10) or two species, according to the amount of change supposed to be represented be
 1054.59be assumed to represent a considerable amount of modification, species (A) and all
 1060.172of natural selection, the extreme amount of difference in character between
 1078.141If, in our diagram, we suppose the amount of change represented by each
 1078.705or even orders, according to the amount of divergent modification supposed to
 1173.88as in the period of flowering, in the amount of rain requisite for seeds to
 1249.996these valves present a marvellous amount of diversification: the homologous
 1249.1118wholly unlike in shape; and the amount of variation in the individuals of
 1257.1294of the pigeon; see what a prodigious amount of difference there is in the beak of
 1263.218part has undergone an extraordinary amount of modification, since the period when
 1263.471one geological period. An extraordinary amount of modification implies an unusually
 1263.540an unusually large and long-continued amount of variability, which has continually
 1281.395compare, for instance, the amount of difference between the males of
 1281.527are strongly displayed, with the amount of difference between their females
 1285.392the species of the same group a greater amount of difference in their sexual
 1293.576sexual characters, and the great amount of difference in these same characters
 1361.707must have gone through an extraordinary amount of modification since the genus arose
 1398.179and extensive to withstand an enormous amount of future degradation; and such
 1500.554Vertebrata, we find but a small amount of gradation in the structure of the
 1763.471shape to hold the greatest possible amount of honey, with the least possible
 1851.992been repeated, until that prodigious amount of difference between the fertile and
 1865.349reader will perhaps best appreciate the amount of difference in these workers, by my
 1877.1082that with animals, as with plants, any amount of modification in structure can be
 1877.1316or habit having come into play. For no amount of exercise, or habit, or volition, in
 1982.53able to point out what kind, or what amount, of difference in any recognisable
 2046.574in our fourth chapter, that a certain amount of crossing is indispensable even with
 2062.187evidence of the existence of a certain amount of sterility in the few following cases
 2088.640for several generations an extreme amount of variability in their offspring is
 2126.939distinct causes; for both depend on the amount of difference of some kind between the
 2157.344its descendants had undergone a vast amount of change; and the principle of
 2165.185will not have sufficed for so great an amount of organic change, all changes having
 2177.106has elsewhere suffered. And what an amount of degradation is implied by the
 2201.8area must be extremely slow. But the amount of denudation which the strata have in
 2247.619enough, when upraised, to resist any amount of degradation, may be formed. I am
 2269.62all kinds, we may safely infer a large amount of migration during climatal and other
 2273.679lesson to reflect on the ascertained amount of migration of the inhabitants of
 2279.713must nearly have counterbalanced the amount of subsidence. But this same movement
 2279.982between the supply of sediment and the amount of subsidence is probably a rare
 2285.1562species were to undergo a considerable amount of modification during any one
 2291.157when they meet with a somewhat greater amount of difference between any two forms
 2373.389and of the United States; and from the amount of sediment, miles in thickness, of
 2408.886there are exceptions to this rule. The amount of organic change, as Pictet has
 2412.455be accumulated to a greater or lesser amount, thus causing a greater or lesser
 2412.496thus causing a greater or lesser amount of modification in the varying species
 2418.41members of the same class the average amount of change, during long and equal
 2418.404intervals; consequently the amount of organic change exhibited by the
 2494.577into new territories. A certain amount of isolation, recurring at long
 2502.534of each region underwent a considerable amount of modification and extinction, and
 2508.901nevertheless he finds a surprising amount of difference in the species. If the
 2550.578forms by immigration, and for a large amount of modification, during the long and
 2671.548since ancient times, almost any amount of migration is possible. But in many
 2699.361simultaneously changing, and the whole amount of modification will not have been due
 2701.95selected as presenting the greatest amount of difficulty on the theory of "single
 2787.1099climate, I attribute the necessary amount of uniformity in the sub-arctic and
 2839.261period will have been ample for any amount of migration. As the cold came slowly
 2839.857animals can withstand a considerable amount of cold, many might have escaped
 2916.41selected as presenting the greatest amount of difficulty, on the view that all the
 2954.1605even the genera are distinct. As the amount of modification in all cases depends to
 2984.1848their arrival), we find a considerable amount [page] 401 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS
 3032.1784life,—there would be an almost endless amount of organic action and reaction,—and we
 3119.228in order to be natural; but that the amount of difference in the several branches
 3123.647belong to Silurian genera. So that the amount or value of the differences between
 3147.276a certain, and sometimes a considerable amount of modification, may not this same
 3211.702serve as a wing: yet in all this great amount of modification there will be no
 3229.234most diverse purposes. And as the whole amount of modification will have been effected
 3275.360had not nearly acquired their full amount of proportional difference. So, again
 3275.828have by no means acquired their full amount of proportional difference. As the
 3412.223has not been time sufficient for any amount of organic change; for the lapse of
 3426.614but we may safely infer that the amount has been large, and that modifications
 3442.459is quite incapable of proof, that the amount of variation under nature is a strictly
 3454.511they differ from each other by a less amount of difference than do the species of
 3482.530from a common progenitor, an unusual amount of variability and modification, and
 3492.239and at successive intervals; and the amount of change, after equal intervals of
 3530.108variation; it cannot be proved that the amount of variation in the course of long ages
 3546.707necessarily implies an enormous amount of modification in the descendants
 3558.688and to value higher the actual amount of difference between them. It is quite
 3578.29XIV. others; it follows, that the amount of organic change in the fossils of
1  amounting 
 996.388that diversification of structure, amounting to new generic differences, would have
1  amounts 
 1494.181distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of
8  ample 
 552.618if that between America and Europe is ample, will that between the Continent and
 707.307on the estate of a relation where I had ample means of investigation, there was a
 864.644I have the materials prepared for an ample discussion. All vertebrate animals, all
 1741.334or cocci. According to Huber, who had ample opportunities for observation, in
 2217.57for the whole length would be an ample allowance. At this rate, on the above
 2839.247centuries, this period will have been ample for any amount of migration. As the
 2886.1432and in such cases there will have been ample time for great geographical changes
 3012.222that in such cases there will have been ample time for great climatal and
1  amplified 
 1004.62which ought to have been much amplified, we may, I think, assume that the
3  amply 
 501.262mere individual differences are not amply [page] 41 CHAP. I. CIRCUMSTANCES
 948.857exclaim that these several causes are amply sufficient wholly to stop the action of
 2446.188these same unperceived agencies are amply sufficient to cause rarity, and finally
1  amputated 
 3331.1359of lime? When a man's fingers have been amputated, imperfect nails sometimes appear on
2  anagallis 
 1914.1509the common red and blue pimpernels (Anagallis arvensis and cœrulea), which the best
 3621.0Ammonites, sudden extinction of, 321. Anagallis, sterility of, 247. Analogy of
15  analogical 
 208.235Descent always used in classification — Analogical or adaptive characters — Affinities
 554.170from geographical distribution, analogical variation, hybridism, &c., have been
 566.252and he has little general knowledge of analogical variation in other groups and in other
 3024.896the importance of barriers and from the analogical distribution of sub-genera, genera, and
 3075.815are ranked as merely "adaptive or analogical characters;" but to the consideration
 3159.94distinction between real affinities and analogical or adaptive resemblances. Lamarck first
 3159.429both these mammals and fishes, is analogical. Amongst insects there are innumerable
 3159.1010descent, we can clearly understand why analogical or adaptive character, although of the
 3159.1510that the very same characters are analogical when one class or order is compared
 3163.110of the body and fin-like limbs are only analogical when whales are compared with fishes
 3179.1550suspected that the resemblance is only analogical, owing to the phascolomys having become
 3197.1325a distinct group, we summarily reject analogical or adaptive characters, and yet use
 3351.604the wide opposition in value between analogical or adaptive characters, and characters
 3757.15sexual, variable, 156. —, adaptive or analogical, 427. Charlock, 76, Checks to increase
 4160.11in Nova Scotia, 296. M. Macleay on analogical characters, 427. Madeira, plants of
3  analogies 
 622.768And we can clearly understand these analogies, if species have once existed as
 622.863have thus originated: whereas, these analogies are utterly inexplicable if each
 3159.792is hardly more fanciful than the analogies which have been drawn by some authors
47  analogous 
 152.466Species of the same genus vary in an analogous manner — Reversions to long-lost
 828.490or attractive to the females. We see analogous cases under nature, for instance, the
 892.511element; for we know of no means, analogous to the action of insects and of the
 976.70We shall here find something analogous. A fancier is struck by a pigeon having
 978.34But how, it may be asked, can any analogous principle apply in nature? I believe it
 1042.144a second species (I) has produced, by analogous steps, after ten thousand generations
 1117.450Species of the same genus vary in an analogous manner—Reversions to long lost
 1177.936observed similar facts in Ceylon, and analogous observations have been made by Mr. H. C
 1217.643his main divisions of the order on analogous differences. Hence we see that
 1297.25OF VARIATION. Distinct species present analogous variations; and a variety of one
 1297.504aboriginal rock-pigeon; these then are analogous variations in two or more distinct
 1297.779that no one will doubt that all such analogous variations are due to the several races
 1297.1018the vegetable kingdom we have a case of analogous variation, in the enlarged stems, or
 1297.1271be not so, the case will then be one of analogous variation in two so-called distinct
 1303.259case of reversion, and not of a new yet analogous variation appearing in the several
 1311.166that they would occasionally vary in an analogous manner; so that a variety of one
 1315.198domestic breeds were reversions or only analogous variations; but we might have inferred
 1315.745character, and what are new but analogous variations, yet we ought, on my theory
 1315.899either from reversion or from analogous variation) which already occur in some
 1361.1547will naturally tend to present analogous variations, and these same species may
 1361.1746may not arise from reversion and analogous variation, such modifications will add
 1510.244the eye has been formed by a somewhat analogous process. But may not this inference be
 1544.130shown that Rays have an organ closely analogous to the electric apparatus, and yet do
 1550.106of each being and taking advantage of analogous variations, has sometimes modified in
 1584.45of the precise cause of the slight analogous differences between species. I might
 1914.1670to the same conclusion in several other analogous cases; it seems to me that we may well
 1980.1265other species of Nicotiana. Very many analogous facts could be given. No one has been
 2014.301to a certain extent parallel. Something analogous occurs in grafting; for Thouin found
 2076.114inclined to suspect that they present analogous facts. Kölreuter, whose accuracy has
 2120.563endowed with various and somewhat analogous degrees of difficulty in being grafted
 2227.1663genus Chiton offers a partially analogous case. With respect to the terrestrial
 2486.239America, and there discover a series of analogous phenomena, it will appear certain that
 2590.976Africa than it is at the present time. Analogous facts could be given in relation to the
 2643.623Africa under nearly the same climate. Analogous facts could be given with respect to
 2825.378Flora of New Zealand,' by Dr. Hooker, analogous and striking facts are given in regard
 2831.59applies to plants alone: some strictly analogous facts could be given on the
 2928.1484insects in Madeira apparently present analogous facts. Oceanic islands are sometimes
 2954.1349the same on both sides; we meet with analogous facts on many islands separated by
 2978.5their original birthplace. Many analogous facts could be given: indeed it is an
 2990.101and in a lesser degree in some analogous instances, is that the new species
 3004.364caves of America and of Europe. Other analogous facts could be given. And it will, I
 3207.119mandibles, and two pairs of maxillæ. Analogous laws govern the construction of the
 3271.159But first let us look at a few analogous cases in domestic varieties. Some
 3378.353not by means superior to, though analogous with, human reason, but by the
 3554.76on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can
 4502.20young, wild, 216. Turnip and cabbage, analogous variations of, 159. Type, unity of
 4525.3at corresponding ages, 14, 86. —, analogous in distinct species, 159. Varieties
18  analogy 
 542.1250have actually been found, but because analogy leads the observer to suppose either
 566.1032will have to trust almost entirely to analogy, and his difficulties will rise to a
 604.420of difference between them, judging by analogy whether or not the amount suffices to
 622.708of large genera present a strong analogy with varieties. And we can clearly
 1185.310influence I must believe, both from analogy, and from the incessant advice given in
 1454.25HABITS. become modified, and all analogy would lead us to believe that some at
 1717.1500young would gain an advantage. And analogy would lead me to believe, that the
 1859.450case, we may safely conclude from the analogy of ordinary variations, that each
 1956.698all are quite fertile together; and analogy makes me greatly doubt, whether the
 2323.109of miles beyond its confines; and analogy leads me to believe that it would be
 2444.662we might have felt certain from the analogy of all other mammals, even of the slow
 2904.959although I do not know the fact, yet analogy makes me believe that a heron flying to
 3145.455of the womb of a bear? According to all analogy, it would be ranked with bears; but
 3323.485or plant no trace of an organ, which analogy would lead us to expect to find, and
 3552.0plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely
 3552.134descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless
 3552.591oak-tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings
 3622.0of, 321. Anagallis, sterility of, 247. Analogy of variations, 159. Ancylus
11  ancestor 
 327.332grandmother or other much more remote ancestor; why a peculiarity is often transmitted
 403.262that the child ever reverts to some one ancestor, removed by a greater number of
 1080.432species have inherited from a common ancestor some advantage in common. Hence, the
 1305.457to use a common expression, of any one ancestor, is only 1 in 2048; and yet, as we see
 1305.1117the offspring suddenly takes after an ancestor some hundred generations [page
 1311.864know the exact character of the common ancestor of a group, we could not distinguish
 1546.367presence to inheritance from a common ancestor; and its absence in some of the members
 1550.294in common to inheritance from the same ancestor. Although in many cases it is most
 2163.178always converging to the common ancestor of each great class. So that the number
 3151.759have been inherited from a common ancestor. And we know that such correlated or
 3163.541and structure of limbs from a common ancestor. So it is with fishes. As members of
4  ancestors 
 1119.824which the parents and their more remote ancestors have been exposed during several
 1500.126ought to look exclusively to its lineal ancestors; but this is scarcely ever possible
 1669.319these could be found only in the lineal ancestors of each species-but we ought to find in
 3263.958to which either parent, or their ancestors, have been exposed. Nevertheless an
5  ancestral 
 337.150revert in some of their characters to ancestral forms, it seems to me not improbable
 399.1405well-known principle of reversion to ancestral characters, if all the domestic breeds
 1311.781occasionally exhibit reversions to lost ancestral characters. As, however, we never know
 1520.47we should have to look to very ancient ancestral forms, long since become extinct. We
 1590.1293as having been of special use to some ancestral form, or as being now of special use to
99  ancient 
 186.431On the state of development of ancient forms — On the succession of the same
 357.53animals is, that we find in the most ancient records, more especially on the
 357.694pretend to say how long before these ancient periods, savages, like those of Tierra
 393.848were so thoroughly domesticated in ancient times by half-civilized man, as to be
 455.308selection I find distinctly given in an ancient Chinese encyclopædia. Explicit rules
 455.1055animals was carefully attended to in ancient times, and is now attended to by the
 725.758that the trees now growing on the ancient Indian mounds, in the Southern United
 968.211it is historically known that the ancient black cattle were displaced by the long
 1076.34the extinct species lived at very ancient epochs when the branching lines of
 1078.964from one species of a still more ancient and unknown genus. We have seen that
 1084.1167this view of extremely few of the more ancient species having transmitted descendants
 1084.1451Although extremely few of the most ancient species may now have living and
 1171.780I am only surprised that more wrecks of ancient life have not been preserved, owing to
 1185.390in agricultural works, even in the ancient Encyclopædias of China, to be very cau
 1219.170are simply due to inheritance; for an ancient progenitor may have acquired through
 1333.258described appearances are all due to ancient [page] 165 CHAP. V. LAWS OF VARIATION
 1345.1205to account for the reappearance of very ancient characters, is-that there is a tendency
 1361.1651to some of the characters of their ancient progenitors. Although new and important
 1520.39passed, we should have to look to very ancient ancestral forms, long since become
 1530.120by ordinary generation from an ancient prototype, of which we know nothing
 1530.1099is probable that organs which at a very ancient period served for respiration have been
 1546.520organs had been inherited from one ancient progenitor thus provided, we might have
 1717.980nests. Now let us suppose that the ancient progenitor of our European cuckoo had
 2163.108turn been similarly connected with more ancient species; and so on backwards, always
 2249.28be formed. I am convinced that all our ancient formations, which are rich in fossils
 2249.404subsidence. I may add, that the only ancient tertiary formation on the west coast of
 2285.1137feet thick in Nova Scotia, with ancient root-bearing strata, one above the
 2323.488When such varieties returned to their ancient homes, as they would differ from their
 2331.1236multiplied before they invaded the ancient archipelagoes of Europe and of the
 2359.706from any known animal. Some of the most ancient Silurian animals, as the Nautilus
 2367.1050epoch, is very great. If these most ancient beds had been wholly worn away by
 2398.417species—On the state of development of ancient forms—On the succession of the same
 2514.263on the principle of descent. The more ancient any form is, the more, as a general
 2520.727each other by a dozen characters, the ancient members of the same two groups would be
 2522.36It is a common belief that the more ancient a form is, by so much the more it tends
 2528.957something in common from their ancient and common progenitor. On the principle
 2528.1179more it will generally differ from its ancient progenitor. Hence we can understand the
 2528.1246can understand the rule that the most ancient fossils differ most from existing forms
 2540.425diverged. Thus it comes that ancient and extinct genera are often in some
 2556.265corresponding lengths of time: a very ancient form might occasionally last much
 2562.46by the physical conditions of the ancient areas having remained nearly the same
 2566.31find. On the state of Development of Ancient Forms.—There has been much discussion
 2566.129forms are more highly developed than ancient. I will not here enter on this subject
 2570.62on my theory, be higher than the more ancient; for each new species is formed by
 2570.702forms of life, in comparison with the ancient and beaten forms; but I can see no way
 2576.21this result. Agassiz insists that ancient animals resemble to a certain extent
 2578.83of picture, preserved by nature, of the ancient and less modified condition of each
 2590.379America. For we know that Europe in ancient times was peopled by numerous
 2618.56how it is that all the forms of life, ancient and recent, make together one grand
 2618.233divergence of character, why the more ancient a form is, the more it generally
 2618.309differs from those now living. Why ancient and extinct forms often tend to fill up
 2618.529them a little closer together. The more ancient a form is, the more often, apparently
 2618.669groups now distinct; for the more ancient a form is, the more nearly it will be
 2624.347If it should hereafter be proved that ancient animals resemble to a certain extent
 2671.522which will have supervened since ancient times, almost any amount of migration
 2781.223probability have become mingled with ancient Alpine species, which must have existed
 2809.446Hooker saw maize growing on gigantic ancient moraines. South of the equator, we have
 2886.1378some fresh-water fish belong to very ancient forms, and in such cases there will
 2948.516many volcanic islands are sufficiently ancient, as shown by the stupendous degradation
 3012.103bear in mind that some are extremely ancient, and must have branched off from a
 3063.686class, for all have descended from one ancient but unseen parent, and, consequently
 3075.331It might have been thought (and was in ancient times thought) that those parts of the
 3129.481one. Yet it might be that some very ancient language had altered little, and had
 3173.211modification, how it is that the more ancient forms of life often present characters
 3179.639bizcacha, branched off from some very ancient Marsupial, which will have had a
 3179.1026more of the character of its ancient progenitor than have other Rodents; and
 3185.749between the numerous kindred of any ancient and noble family, even by the aid of a
 3187.321animals—by the belief that many ancient forms of life have been utterly lost
 3191.1140parents; or these parents from their ancient and unknown progenitor. Yet the natural
 3211.854several parts. If we suppose that the ancient progenitor, the archetype as it may be
 3301.1391us the structure of their less modified ancient progenitors, we can clearly see why
 3301.1435progenitors, we can clearly see why ancient and extinct forms of life should
 3301.1723true in those cases alone in which the ancient state, now supposed to be represented
 3305.204that the supposed law of resemblance of ancient forms of life to the embryonic stages
 3307.225in the many descendants from some one ancient progenitor, at a very early period in
 3410.51somewhere have been deposited at these ancient and utterly unknown epochs in the world
 3496.392the groups which have descended from an ancient progenitor have generally diverged in
 3496.606and thus we can see why the more ancient a fossil is, the oftener it stands in
 3496.793being, in some vague sense, higher than ancient and extinct forms; and they are in so
 3566.1134will aid us in forming a picture of the ancient forms of life. Embryology will reveal
 3572.628some light can be thrown on ancient geography. The noble science of
 3632.19Anomma, 240. Antarctic islands, ancient flora of, 399. Antirrhinum, 161. Ants
 3673.18formations, 328. —on affinities of ancient species, 330. Barriers, importance of
 3834.39of oldest rocks, 308. Development of ancient forms, 336. Devonian system
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 126.308and Origin — Principle of Selection anciently followed, its Effects — Methodical and
 283.292and Origin—Principle of Selection anciently followed, its Effects—Methodical and
 353.27varied. In the case of most of our anciently domesticated animals and plants, I do
 483.547that given to the plants in countries anciently civilised. In regard to the domestic
 1315.694what cases are reversions to an anciently existing character, and what are new
 3426.1094still occasionally produced by our most anciently domesticated productions. Man does not
1  ancients 
 6078.50S (H. S.) Political Experience of the Ancients, in its bearing on Modern Times. Fcap
1  ancon 
 429.525is known to have been the case with the ancon sheep. But when we compare the dray
2  ancylus 
 2896.50that a Dyticus has been caught with an Ancylus (a fresh-water shell like a limpet
 3623.0of, 247. Analogy of variations, 159. Ancylus, 386. Animals, not domesticated from
1  andalusia 
 5157.37FORD'S (RICHARD) Handbook for Spain, Andalusia, Ronda, Valencia, Catalonia, Granada
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 285.798probability in the view propounded by Andrew Knight, that this variability may be
 864.490view, I may add, was first suggested by Andrew Knight. We shall presently see its
 4105.8deficient in beetles, 135. Knight, Andrew, on cause of variation, 7. Kölreuter on
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 1779.204of the hexagonal prisms will have every angle identically the same with the best
 1813.800as when two pieces of comb met at an angle, how often the bees would entirely pull
 3089.425and reptiles-the inflection of the angle of the jaws in Marsupials-the manner in
 3151.78be-let it be the mere inflection of the angle of the jaw, the manner in which an
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 1763.901how they can make all the necessary angles and planes, or even perceive when they
 1767.841three rhombs. These rhombs have certain angles, and the three which form the pyramidal
 1815.720they never gnaw away and finish off the angles of a cell till a large part both of
 1831.590than they know what are the several angles of the hexagonal prisms and of the
2  anglesea 
 2207.215published an account of a downthrow in Anglesea of 2300 feet; and he informs me that he
 2918.639plants, and the little island of Anglesea 764, but a few ferns and a few
1  angling 
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81  animal 
 264.84of Malthus, applied to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms. As many more
 291.951Nothing is more easy than to tame an animal, and few things more difficult than to
 311.732effect of use. Not a single domestic animal can be named which has not in some
 313.274certainly entail changes in the mature animal. In monstrosities, the correlations
 351.351possibly know, when he first tamed an animal, whether it would vary in succeeding
 393.652it is most difficult to get any wild animal to breed freely under domestication
 435.588who was himself a very good judge of an animal, speaks of the principle of selection
 471.137of their domestic animals, yet any one animal particularly useful to them, for any
 505.1164important point of all, is, that the animal or plant should be so highly useful to
 530.51summits, or the thicker fur of an animal from far northwards, would not in some
 560.275been struck with the fact, that if any animal or plant in a state of nature be highly
 653.772with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms; for in this
 673.836of cases is an early one. If an animal can in any way protect its own eggs or
 673.1374in all cases, the average number of any animal or plant depends only indirectly on the
 681.446better known than any other animal. This subject has been ably treated by
 723.724credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might
 749.45also, we can see that when a plant or animal is placed in a new country amongst new
 796.371that the occasional destruction of an animal of any particular colour would produce
 824.65that when the males and females of any animal have the same general habits of life
 892.195found a single case of a terrestrial animal which fertilises itself. We can
 896.136a single case of an hermaphrodite animal with the organs of reproduction so
 900.194suspect that, both in the vegetable and animal kingdoms, an occasional intercross with
 914.260the same area, varieties of the same animal can long remain distinct, from haunting
 982.719the descendants of our carnivorous animal became, the more places they would be
 982.803enabled to occupy. What applies to one animal will apply throughout all time to all
 1084.1385classes in each main division of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Although
 1108.264its summit, so we occasionally see an animal like the Ornithorhynchus or Lepidosiren
 1159.666of the eyes must be injurious to any animal, and as eyes are certainly not
 1167.1120total darkness." By the time that an animal had reached, after numberless
 1231.1259in the struggle for life to which every animal is exposed, each individual Proteolepas
 1257.490animals, if any part, or the whole animal, be neglected and no selection be
 1331.779in the foal than in the full-grown animal. Without here entering on further
 1349.99thousands of generations, and I see an animal striped like a zebra, but perhaps
 1380.33Secondly, is it possible that an animal having, for instance, the structure and
 1380.148been formed by the modification of some animal with wholly different habits? Can we
 1442.182how, for instance, a land carnivorous animal could have been converted into one with
 1442.263with aquatic habits; for how could the animal in its transitional state have
 1442.752and form of tail; during summer this animal dives for and preys on fish, but during
 1472.191easy for natural selection to fit the animal, by some modification of its structure
 1486.128felt surprise when he has met with an animal having habits and structure not at all
 1494.730in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then
 1522.389in the fish Cobites. In the Hydra, the animal may be turned inside out, and the
 1566.531tail having been formed in an aquatic animal, it might subsequently come to be
 1618.226formed by natural selection from an animal which at first could only glide through
 1628.602retained (as the tail of an aquatic animal by its terrestrial descendants), though
 1651.390us to perform, when performed by an animal, more especially by a very young one
 1671.250One of the strongest instances of an animal apparently performing an action for the
 1675.1122Although I do not believe that any animal in the world performs an action for the
 1701.197alone in some cases has sufficed; no animal is more difficult to tame than the
 1701.278young of the wild rabbit; scarcely any animal is tamer than the young of the tame
 1839.1150ant or other neuter insect had been an animal in the ordinary state, I should have
 1851.104fat to be well marbled together; the animal has been slaughtered, but the breeder
 1883.117are of the highest importance to each animal. Therefore I can see no difficulty
 1883.741good of other animals, but that each animal takes advantage of the instincts of
 1944.472any case of a perfectly fertile hybrid animal can be considered as thoroughly well
 1948.563and sisters in the case of any pure animal, which from any cause had the least
 2032.907till he tries, whether any particular animal will breed under confinement or any
 2359.681differed greatly from any known animal. Some of the most ancient Silurian
 2486.527on general laws which govern the whole animal kingdom." M. Barrande has made forcible
 2522.391for every now and then even a living animal, as the Lepidosiren, is discovered
 2578.127and less modified condition of each animal. This view may be true, and yet it may
 2677.747is continuous; and when a plant or animal inhabits two points so distant from
 3075.1228related to the habits and food of an animal, I have always regarded as affording
 3159.360the dugong, which is a pachydermatous animal, and the whale, and between both these
 3209.431pleased the Creator to construct each animal and plant. The explanation is manifest
 3231.486find in the other great classes of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Naturalists
 3239.441to ticket the embryo of some vertebrate animal, he cannot now tell whether it be that
 3247.40The case, however, is different when an animal during any part of its embryonic career
 3247.322and as beautiful as in the adult animal. From such special adaptations, the
 3251.335In some cases, however, the mature animal is generally considered as lower in the
 3261.155a higher organisation than the mature animal, into which it is developed. I believe
 3263.392tell, until some time after the animal has been born, what its merits or form
 3263.1404parent. For the welfare of a very young animal, as long as it remains in its mother's
 3283.355or later in life, if the full-grown animal possesses them. And the cases just
 3289.874from the fore-limbs in the mature animal; the limbs in the latter having
 3289.1208influence will mainly affect the mature animal, which has come to its full powers of
 3301.555of the adult. For the embryo is the animal in its less modified state; and in so
 3301.665of its progenitor. In two groups of animal, however much they may at present
 3323.441and this implies, that we find in an animal or plant no trace of an organ, which
 3357.216on the same pattern in each individual animal and plant. On the principle of
 3524.595believe, that the teeth in the mature animal were reduced, during successive
3  animal's 
 429.53in them adaptation, not indeed to the animal's or plant's own good, but to man's use
 435.241Breeders habitually speak of an animal's organisation as something quite plastic
 810.540A structure used only once in an animal's whole life, if of high importance to it
1  animalcules 
 5684.33s. MANTELLS (GIDEON A.) Thoughts on Animalcules; or, the Invisible World, as revealed
292  animals 
 140.128Rapid increase of naturalised animals and plants — Nature of the checks to
 140.298individuals — Complex relations of all animals and plants throughout nature — Struggle
 258.218that a careful study of domesticated animals and of cultivated plants would offer
 266.750of Instinct, or the mental powers of animals, thirdly, Hybridism, or the infertility
 285.102of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes
 285.343on the vast diversity of the plants and animals which have been cultivated, and which
 289.185new varieties: our oldest domesticated animals are still capable of rapid improvement
 291.1103the male and female unite. How many animals there are which will not breed, though
 295.96are which determine the reproduction of animals under confinement, I may just mention
 295.159I may just mention that carnivorous animals, even from the tropics, breed in this
 295.540on the one hand, we see domesticated animals and plants, though often weak and
 297.441not been thus affected; so will some animals and plants withstand domestication or
 305.711difficult: my impression is, that with animals such agencies have produced very little
 311.127from one climate to another. In animals it has a more marked effect; for
 311.912of the muscles of the ear, from the animals not being much alarmed by danger, seems
 317.148remarkable cases could be given amongst animals and plants. From the facts collected by
 317.391teeth; long-haired and coarse-haired animals are apt to have, as is asserted, long
 339.66varieties or races of our domestic animals and plants, and compare them with
 343.814any domestic races, either amongst animals or plants, which have not been ranked
 351.64that man has chosen for domestication animals and plants having an extraordinary
 351.658I cannot doubt that if other animals and plants, equal in number to our
 353.50of most of our anciently domesticated animals and plants, I do not think it is
 357.16VARIATION. CHAP. I. of our domestic animals is, that we find in the most ancient
 365.1260variation. Who can believe that animals closely resembling the Italian
 405.289one case of the hybrid offspring of two animals clearly distinct being themselves
 419.533the breeders of the various domestic animals and the cultivators of plants, with
 435.200to this subject, and to inspect the animals. Breeders habitually speak of an animal
 437.88proved by the enormous prices given for animals with a good pedigree; and these have
 443.809deviate from the proper standard. With animals this [page] 33 CHAP. I.METHODICAL
 447.102is so careless as to allow his worst animals to breed. In regard to plants, there
 455.44periods of English history choice animals were often imported, and laws were
 455.473it is clear that the colour of domestic animals was at that early period attended to
 455.575cross their dogs with wild canine animals, to improve the breed, and they
 455.1018they show that the breeding of domestic animals was carefully attended to in ancient
 457.342and breed from the best individual animals, is more important. Thus, a man who
 471.116of the offspring of their domestic animals, yet any one animal particularly useful
 471.311savages are so liable, and such choice animals would thus generally leave more
 471.487going on. We see the value set on animals even by the barbarians of Tierra del
 485.26civilised. In regard to the domestic animals kept by uncivilised man, it should not
 499.396care than usual in matching his best animals and thus improves them, and the
 511.15thirty or forty years. In the case of animals with separate sexes, facility in
 511.1102I do not doubt that some domestic animals vary less than others, yet the rarity
 515.49on the origin of our Domestic Races of animals and plants. I believe that the
 515.1201greatly exaggerated, both in regard to animals and to those plants which are
 548.904of 139 doubtful forms! Amongst animals which unite for each birth, and which
 552.93entomologists. Even Ireland has a few animals, now generally regarded as varieties
 633.122increase—Rapid increase of naturalised animals and plants—Nature of the checks to
 633.282of individuals—Complex relations of all animals and plants throughout nature—Struggle
 647.261success in leaving progeny. Two canine animals in a time of dearth, may be truly said
 659.636to be the slowest breeder of all known animals, and I have taken some pains to
 661.163astonishingly rapid increase of various animals in a state of nature, when
 661.334is the evidence from our domestic animals of many kinds which have run wild in
 665.447supposes that the fertility of these animals or plants has been suddenly and
 667.67every plant produces seed, and amongst animals there are very few which do not
 667.175confidently assert, that all plants and animals are tending to increase at a
 667.456familiarity with the larger domestic animals tends, I think, to mislead us: we see
 681.631more especially in regard to the feral animals of South America. Here I will make only
 681.775of the chief points. Eggs or very young animals seem generally to suffer most, but this
 687.181food, but the serving as prey to other animals, which determines the average numbers
 687.621although hundreds of thousands of game animals are now annually killed. On the other
 695.305nor resist destruction by our native animals. [page] 70 CHECKS TO INCREASE. CHAP
 699.442of diffusion amongst the crowded animals, been disproportionably favoured: and
 713.486lays its eggs in the navels of these animals when first born. The increase of these
 719.62more instance showing how plants and animals, most remote in the scale of nature
 729.168between insects, snails, and other animals with birds and beasts of prey—all
 729.593reaction of the innumerable plants and animals which have determined, in the course of
 735.430of any one of our domestic plants or animals have so exactly the same strength
 741.1089and to escape serving as prey to other animals. The store of nutriment laid up within
 747.252over its competitors, or over the animals which preyed on it. On the confines of
 747.472to believe that only a few plants or animals range so far, that they are destroyed
 784.1061does not rigidly destroy all inferior animals, but protects during each varying
 810.87in relation to the young. In social animals it will adapt the structure of each
 816.1361between the males of polygamous animals, and these seem oftenest provided with
 816.1450weapons. The males of carnivorous animals are already well armed; though to them
 828.283to the male sex in our domestic animals (as the wattle in male carriers, horn
 830.240case of a wolf, which preys on various animals, securing some by craft, some by
 830.876might be compelled to prey on other animals. I can see no more reason to doubt this
 836.59in the proportional numbers of the animals on which our wolf preyed, a cub might
 836.292the natural tendencies of our domestic animals; one cat, for instance, taking to catch
 864.94a short digression. In the case of animals and plants with separated sexes, it is
 864.677for an ample discussion. All vertebrate animals, all insects, and some other large
 864.730insects, and some other large groups of animals, pair for each birth. Modern research
 864.1012But still there are many hermaphrodite animals which certainly do not habitually pair
 866.142universal belief of breeders, that with animals and plants a cross between different
 892.34Turning for a very brief space to animals: on the land there are some
 892.429the medium in which terrestrial animals live, and the nature of the fertilising
 892.649could be effected with terrestrial animals without the concurrence of two
 892.712of two individuals. Of aquatic animals, there are many self-fertilising
 898.84anomaly that, in the case of both animals and plants, species of the same family
 908.270all try to get and breed from the best animals, much improvement and modification
 908.439large amount of crossing with inferior animals. Thus it will be in nature; for within
 912.301intercrossing will most affect those animals which unite for each birth, which
 912.410breed at a very quick rate. Hence in animals of this nature, for instance in birds
 912.627only occasionally, and likewise in animals which unite for each birth, but which
 914.34Even in the case of slow-breeding animals, which unite for each birth, we must
 916.214act far more efficiently with those animals [page] 104 CIRCUMSTANCES FAVOURABLE
 920.145intercrosses take place with all animals and with all plants. Even if these take
 968.84new breeds of cattle, sheep, and other animals, and varieties of flowers, take the
 976.1036slowly become greater, the inferior animals with intermediate characters, being
 982.39We can clearly see this in the case of animals with simple habits. Take the case of a
 982.427on places at present occupied by other animals: some of them, for instance, being
 988.931a simultaneous rotation. Most of the animals and plants which live close round any
 996.43considering the nature of the plants or animals which have struggled successfully with
 1002.237land, the more widely and perfectly the animals and plants are diversified for
 1002.394there supporting themselves. A set of animals, with their organisation but little
 1090.1209as easily as the adult. Amongst many animals, sexual selection will give its aid to
 1098.619to overlook from familiarity—that all animals and all plants throughout all time and
 1125.170is extremely small in the case of animals, but perhaps rather more in that of
 1133.225Thus, it is well known to furriers that animals of the same species have thicker and
 1141.134little doubt that use in our domestic animals strengthens and enlarges certain parts
 1141.420we know not the parent-forms; but many animals have structures which can be explained
 1159.721eyes are certainly not indispensable to animals with subterranean habits, a reduction
 1161.30disuse. It is well known that several animals, belonging to the most different
 1161.404could be in any way injurious to animals living in darkness, I attribute their
 1161.493wholly to disuse. In one of the blind animals, namely, the cave-rat, the eyes are of
 1167.159so that on the common view of the blind animals having been separately created for the
 1167.610my view we must suppose that American animals, having ordinary powers of vision
 1167.791of the Kentucky caves, as did European animals into the caves of Europe. We have some
 1167.902of habit; for, as Schiodte remarks, "animals not far remote from ordinary forms
 1177.149and from the number of plants and animals brought from warmer countries which
 1177.1073the Azores to England. In regard to animals, several authentic cases could be given
 1177.1282we do not positively know that these animals were strictly adapted to their native
 1179.31homes. As I believe that our domestic animals were originally chosen by uncivilised
 1179.289extraordinary capacity in our domestic animals of not only withstanding the most
 1183.101that a large proportion of other animals, now in a state of nature, could easily
 1183.312probable origin of some of our domestic animals from several wild stocks: the blood
 1183.511mouse cannot be considered as domestic animals, but they have been transported by man
 1183.938constitution, which is common to most animals. On this view, the capacity of enduring
 1183.1049by man himself and by his domestic animals, and such facts as that former species
 1189.21CHAP. V. tious in transposing animals from one district to another; for it is
 1257.455can obtain some light. In our domestic animals, if any part, or the whole animal, be
 1257.1098concerns us is, that in our domestic animals those points, which at the present time
 1406.981with freely-crossing and wandering animals. In looking at species as they are now
 1442.376that within the same group carnivorous animals exist having every intermediate grade
 1446.76like other polecats on mice and land animals. If a different case had been taken
 1450.72here we have the finest gradation from animals with their tails only slightly
 1464.436been modified into perfectly winged animals. If this had been effected, who would
 1466.132for flight, we should bear in mind that animals displaying early transitional grades of
 1470.558them a decided advantage over other animals in the battle for life. Hence the
 1506.302in mind how small the number of living animals is in proportion to those which have
 1522.176cases could be given amongst the lower animals of the same organ performing at the
 1528.264with the lungs of the higher vertebrate animals: hence there seems to me to be no great
 1530.48hardly doubt that all vertebrate animals having true lungs have descended by
 1560.857and existence of cattle and other animals in South America absolutely depends on
 1566.284locomotion the tail is in most aquatic animals, its general presence and use for many
 1566.356use for many purposes in so many land animals, which in their lungs or modified swim
 1568.564modified the external characters of animals having a will, to give one male an
 1574.1730of in the parturition of the higher animals. We are profoundly ignorant of the
 1580.96in the breeds of our domesticated animals in different countries,—more especially
 1580.922again correlation would come into play. Animals kept by savages in different countries
 1590.242the seal, are of special use to these animals. We may safely attribute these
 1590.851progenitors, than they now are to these animals having such widely diversified habits
 1604.4DIFFICULTIES ON THEORY. CHAP. VI. and animals introduced from Europe. Natural
 1604.625which, when used against many attacking animals, cannot be withdrawn, owing to the
 1649.569and of the other mental qualities of animals within the same class. I will not
 1655.173reason, often comes into play, even in animals very low in the scale of nature
 1669.617making allowance for the instincts of animals having been but little observed except
 1681.597of fear of the same enemy in other animals. But fear of man is slowly acquired, as
 1681.680as I have elsewhere shown, by various animals inhabiting desert islands; and we may
 1689.200the mental qualities of our domestic animals. A number of curious and authentic
 1703.289and largely the minds of our domestic animals have been modified by domestication. It
 1703.740the savages do not keep these domestic animals. How rarely, on the other hand, do our
 1833.420almost identically the same in animals so remote in the scale of nature, that
 1839.332that some insects and other articulate animals in a state of nature occasionally
 1877.1053interesting, as it proves that with animals, as with plants, any amount of
 1879.102the mental qualities of our domestic animals vary, and that the variations are
 1883.718for the exclusive good of other animals, but that each animal takes advantage
 1906.301of the male element in both plants and animals; though the organs themselves are
 1944.13from other flowers. In regard to animals, much fewer experiments have been
 1944.161be trusted, that is if the genera of animals are as distinct from each other, as are
 1944.254of plants, then we may infer that animals more widely separated in the scale of
 1944.587be borne in mind that, owing to few animals breeding freely under confinement, few
 1948.7CHAP. VIII. STERILITY. hybrid animals, I hardly know of an instance in which
 1950.94cases of perfectly fertile hybrid animals, I have some reason to believe that the
 1956.74namely, that most of our domestic animals have descended from two or more
 1956.1114of the origin of many of our domestic animals, we must either give up the belief of
 1956.1214sterility of distinct species of animals when crossed; or we must look at
 1958.81on the intercrossing of plants and animals, it may be concluded that some degree
 1964.467to ascertain how far the rules apply to animals, and considering how scanty our
 1964.540our knowledge is in regard to hybrid animals, I have been surprised to find how
 2028.221I have collected, showing that when animals and plants are removed from their
 2032.38the great bar to the domestication of animals. Between the sterility thus
 2032.526affinity, for whole groups of animals and plants are rendered impotent by the
 2046.153back again. During the convalescence of animals, we plainly see that great benefit is
 2046.281of life. Again, both with plants and animals, there is abundant evidence, that a
 2060.675important consideration, new races of animals and plants are produced under
 2102.481it to be with varieties of plants. With animals one variety certainly often has this
 2104.51remarks are apparently applicable to animals; but the subject is here excessively
 2110.77on the supposed fact, that mongrel animals alone are born closely like one of
 2110.324which I have collected of cross-bred animals closely resembling one parent, the
 2110.1061enormous body of facts with respect to animals, comes to the conclusion, that the laws
 2227.1085I suspect that but few of the very many animals which live on the beach between high
 2247.155will be inhabited by extremely few animals, and the mass when upraised will give a
 2269.12with perfect accuracy. With marine animals of all kinds, we may safely infer a
 2273.1356that limit of depth at which marine animals can flourish; for we know what vast
 2299.46consideration is worth notice: with animals and plants that can propagate rapidly
 2299.637confined to some one spot. Most marine animals have a wide range; and we have seen
 2299.809so that with shells and other marine animals, it is probably those which have had
 2313.252that not many of the strictly littoral animals, or of those which lived on naked
 2339.870is that of the Whale family; as these animals have huge bones, are marine, and range
 2351.1616in which any great group of marine animals might be multiplied; and [page
 2359.723Some of the most ancient Silurian animals, as the Nautilus, Lingula, &c., do not
 2446.405been the progress of events with those animals which have [page] 320 GEOLOGICAL
 2480.277geological sense; for if all the marine animals which live at the present day in Europe
 2514.892Owen, showing how extinct animals fall in between existing groups. Cuvier
 2518.182he is every day taught that palæozoic animals, though belonging to the same orders
 2570.1078occupied, we may believe, if all the animals and plants of Great Britain were set
 2570.1647now occupied by our native plants and animals. Under this point of view, the
 2576.29result. Agassiz insists that ancient animals resemble to a certain extent the
 2576.88a certain extent the embryos of recent animals of the same classes; or that the
 2578.503day, it would be vain to look for animals having the common embryological
 2590.1049relation to the distribution of marine animals. On the theory of descent with
 2596.258for an instant be admitted. These huge animals have become wholly extinct, and have
 2624.355should hereafter be proved that ancient animals resemble to a certain extent the
 2624.419extent the embryos of more recent animals of the same class, the fact will be
 2657.1044Plata, we see the agouti and bizcacha, animals having nearly the same habits as our
 2681.49same, so that a multitude of European animals and plants have become naturalised in
 2707.1232halting places for plants and for many animals during their migration. In the coral
 2753.227not doubt that out of twenty seeds or animals transported to an island, even if far
 2755.69period.—The identity of many plants and animals, on mountain-summits, separated from
 2765.158be covered by arctic plants and animals, and these would be nearly the same
 2781.712compare the present Alpine plants and animals of the several great European mountain
 2789.367a large number of the same plants and animals inhabited the almost continuous
 2789.451land; and that these plants and animals, both in the Old and New Worlds, began
 2795.347long ages ago. And as the plants and animals migrated southward, they will have
 2801.633work), of some fish and other marine animals, in the Mediterranean and in the seas
 2831.125on the distribution of terrestrial animals. In marine productions, similar cases
 2839.176vast spaces some naturalised plants and animals have spread within a few centuries
 2839.820we know that many tropical plants and animals can withstand a considerable amount of
 2845.71number of plants, a few terrestrial animals, and some marine productions, migrated
 2902.424eggs of some of the smaller fresh-water animals. Other and unknown agencies probably
 2910.1236of fresh-water plants and of the lower animals, whether retaining the same identical
 2910.1389dispersal of their seeds and eggs by animals, more especially by fresh-water birds
 2922.203believe that the naturalised plants and animals have nearly or quite exterminated many
 2922.415number of the best adapted plants and animals have not been created on oceanic
 2942.665are peculiarly well fitted for these animals; for frogs have been introduced into
 2942.807as to become a nuisance. But as these animals and their spawn are known to be
 2944.227mammal (excluding domesticated animals kept by the natives) inhabiting an
 2948.815at a quicker rate than other and lower animals. Though terrestrial mammals do not
 2972.410was manifest. So it is with the other animals, and with nearly all the plants, as
 3004.303We see this same principle in the blind animals inhabiting the caves of America and of
 3101.700is set on them. As in most groups of animals, important organs, such as those for
 3101.931classification; but in some groups of animals all these, the most important vital
 3103.559of any in the classification of animals; and this doctrine has very generally
 3159.862by some authors between very distinct animals. On my view of characters being of real
 3159.1152valueless to the systematist. For animals, belonging to two most distinct lines
 3179.26CHAP. XIII. belonging to one group of animals exhibits an affinity to a quite
 3203.1199homologous bones in widely different animals. We see the same great law in the
 3217.1025embryonic crustaceans and in many other animals, and in flowers, that organs, which
 3239.229alike. The embryos, also, of distinct animals within the same class are often
 3241.66which the embryos of widely different animals of the same class resemble each other
 3245.677blackbird, are of any use to these animals, or are related to the conditions to
 3247.417the larvæ or active embryos of allied animals is sometimes much obscured; and cases
 3255.159in the embryos of widely different animals within the same class, that we might be
 3255.539the embryo. And in some whole groups of animals and in certain members of other groups
 3263.333of cattle, horses, and various fancy animals, cannot positively tell, until some
 3267.491some direct evidence from our domestic animals supports this view. But in other cases
 3275.491differed as much as the full-grown animals; and this surprised me greatly, as I
 3295.110development in certain whole groups of animals, as with cuttle-fish and spiders, and
 3307.541parent-form of each great class of animals. Rudimentary, atrophied, or aborted
 3337.363according to Youatt, in young animals,—and the state of the whole flower in
 3337.914as in the case of the eyes of animals inhabiting dark caverns, and of the
 3432.262in any desired manner. He thus adapts animals and plants for his own benefit or
 3440.5will turn the balance. With animals having separated sexes there will in
 3476.348with skin; or when we look at the blind animals inhabiting the dark caves of America
 3484.283graduated steps in endowing different animals of the same class with their several
 3488.347and at many instincts causing other animals to suffer. If species be only well
 3504.197peculiar. We can clearly see why those animals which cannot cross wide spaces of ocean
 3510.654see this in nearly all the plants and animals of the Galapagos archipelago, of Juan
 3510.805most striking manner to the plants and animals of the neighbouring American mainland
 3544.429all the infinitely numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or
 3550.59of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most only four
 3552.71further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one
 3552.451often similarly affects plants and animals; or that the poison secreted by the
 3592.375namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in
 3624.0of variations, 159. Ancylus, 386. Animals, not domesticated from being variable
 3657.11on heron eating seeds, 387. Australia, animals of, 116. ——, dogs of, 215. ——, extinct
 3659.12of, 116. ——, dogs of, 215. ——, extinct animals of, 339. —, European plants in
 3710.18in fish, 190. Blindness of cave animals, 137, Blyth, Mr., on distinctness of
 3800.21reciprocal, 258. Crossing of domestic animals, importance in altering breeds
 3871.28Ears, drooping, in domestic animals, 11. ——, rudimentary, 454. Earth, seeds
 4022.51R., on peacocks, 89. Heusinger on white animals not poisoned by certain plants
 4263.55of the wild stocks of domestic animals, 253. Paraguay, cattle destroyed by
 4300.76not affecting certain coloured animals, 12. —, selection applied to
 4314.38Poison not affecting certain coloured animals, 12. ROBINIA, Poison, similar effect
 4319.30ROBINIA, Poison, similar effect of, on animals and plants, 484. Pollen of fir-trees
 4374.29Sebright, Sir J., on crossed animals, 20. ——, on selection of pigeons
 4441.32Stocks, aboriginal, of domestic animals, 18, Strata, thickness of, in Britain
 4459.12T. Tail of giraffe, 195. —of aquatic animals, 196. —, rudimentary, 454. Tarsi
 5257.67Barbary, its wild Tribes and savage Animals. Post 8vo. 2s. 6d. HEBER (BISHOP
 5530.80of the Sagacity and Instinct of Animals. Eighth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 6s
 5956.82Adventures among the Wild Tribes and Animals of the Prairies and Rocky Mountains
1  animals—by 
 3187.289of birds from all other vertebrate animals—by the belief that many ancient forms of
1  animals—often 
 699.174seems generally to occur with our game animals—often ensue: and here we have a limiting
1  animals—that 
 982.848will apply throughout all time to all animals—that is, if they vary—for otherwise natural
1  annelids 
 1530.989that the branchiæ and dorsal scales of Annelids are homologous with the wings and wing
3  annihilate 
 1596.185good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been
 1859.178and well-established facts at once annihilate my theory. In the simpler case of
 1883.531difficulty, to the best of my judgment, annihilate it. On the other hand, the fact that
1  annua 
 1986.1485forms so closely related (as Matthiola annua and glabra) that many botanists rank
3  annual 
 659.380Linnæus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds—and there
 1982.376and in the cotyledons, can be crossed. Annual and perennial plants, deciduous and
 2928.402American birds, during their great annual migrations, visit either periodically
14  annually 
 651.14STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. A plant which annually produces a thousand seeds, of which on
 667.107animals there are very few which do not annually pair. Hence we may confidently assert
 667.573them, and we forget that thousands are annually slaughtered for food, and that in a
 669.44only difference between organisms which annually produce eggs or seeds by the thousand
 687.637of thousands of game animals are now annually killed. On the other hand, in some
 729.51gone on during long centuries, each annually scattering its seeds by the thousand
 735.704and if the seed or young were not annually sorted. As species of the same genus
 982.1787species and each variety of grass is annually sowing almost countless seeds; and thus
 1839.502that a number should have been annually born capable of work, but incapable of
 2741.228moment on the millions of quails which annually cross the Mediterranean; and can we
 2994.1523well stocked with its own species, for annually more eggs are laid there than can
 2998.150although large quantities of stone are annually transported from Porto Santo to Madeira
 3698.1of, 391. Birds acquiring fear, 212. —annually cross the Atlantic, 364. ——, colour of
 5255.33d. HART'S ARMY LIST. (Quarterly and Annually.) 8vo. HAY'S (J. H. DRUMMOND) Western
3  anomalies 
 1183.1281habits, ought not to be looked at as anomalies, but merely as examples of a very
 1273.988the more subject it is to individual anomalies. On the ordinary view of each species
 2954.759identical quadrupeds. No doubt some few anomalies occur in this great archipelago, and
7  anomalous 
 940.587in fresh water we find some of the most anomalous forms now known in the world, as the
 940.772separated in the natural scale. These anomalous forms may almost be called living
 1171.576some of the cave-animals should be very anomalous, as Agassiz has remarked in regard to
 1478.271have given rise to new species, having anomalous habits, and with their structure either
 1484.439its sub-aquatic habits; yet this anomalous member of the strictly terrestrial
 1546.1270furnished with apparently the same anomalous organ, it should be observed that
 2474.540still living sea-shells; but as these anomalous monsters coexisted with the Masto
6  anomaly 
 325.938as the rule, and non-inheritance as the anomaly. The laws governing inheritance are
 898.50struck most naturalists as a strange anomaly that, in the case of both animals and
 1141.545Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that cannot fly
 2681.1031or confined to one area. What a strange anomaly it would be, if, when coming one step
 2978.577by the prevailing currents, this anomaly disappears. New Zealand in its endemic
 2978.908remote, that the fact becomes an anomaly. But this difficulty almost disappears
2  anomma 
 1865.281from the same nest of the driver ant (Anomma) of West Africa. The reader will
 3631.0extinct, of Australia, 339. Anomma, 240. Antarctic islands, ancient flora
184  another 
 272.320widely and is very numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and
 311.115when transported from one climate to another. In animals it has a more marked effect
 311.671of these organs in other countries, is another instance of the effect of use. Not a
 343.287one part, both when compared one with another, and more especially when compared with
 369.871these mongrels are crossed one with another for several generations, hardly two of
 429.758breed good for one purpose, and that of another breed for another purpose; when we
 429.776purpose, and that of another breed for another purpose; when we compare the many
 449.30breed. In regard to plants, there is another means of observing the accumulated
 499.1160perhaps more at one period than at another, as the breed rises or falls in fashion
 499.1246perhaps more in one district than in another, according to the state of civilisation
 542.935or not to rank one form as a variety of another, even when they are closely connected
 542.1168one form is ranked as a variety of another, not because the intermediate links
 548.293by one botanist as good species, and by another as mere varieties. Mr. H. C. Watson, to
 548.1033by one zoologist as a species and by another as a variety, can rarely be found
 548.1316naturalist as undoubted species, and by another as varieties, or, as they are often
 548.1530Galapagos Archipelago, both one with another, and with those from the American
 574.154passage from one stage of difference to another and higher stage may be, in some cases
 598.636genera. Both these results follow when another division is made, and when all the
 608.617genera. Or the case may be put in another way, and it may be said, that in the
 635.886of one part of the organisation to another part, and to the conditions of life
 635.968and of one distinct organic being to another being, been perfected? We see these
 647.132including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important
 653.586existence, either one individual with another of the same species, or with the
 673.326One fly deposits hundreds of eggs, and another, like the hippobosca, a single one; but
 679.303one wedge being struck, and then another with greater force. What checks the
 707.723from one quite different soil to another: not only the proportional numbers of
 717.661the victory to one organic being over another. Nevertheless so profound is our
 731.39The dependency of one organic being on another, as of a parasite on its prey, lies
 737.435swallow having caused the decrease of another species. The recent increase of the
 737.623one species of rat taking the place of another species under the most different
 737.802One species of charlock will supplant another, and so in other cases. We can dimly
 737.1066one species has been victorious over another in the great battle of life. [page
 751.79to give any form some advantage over another. Probably in no single instance should
 796.940disease than yellow plums; whereas another disease attacks yellow-fleshed peaches
 810.357it any advantage, for the good of another species; and though statements to this
 836.346for instance, taking to catch rats, another mice; one cat, according to Mr. St
 836.423St. John, bringing home winged game, another hares or rabbits, and another hunting
 836.453game, another hares or rabbits, and another hunting on marshy ground and almost
 842.450pollen from one flower to the stigma of another flower. The flowers of two distinct
 846.1597carried from flower to flower, another process might commence. No naturalist
 850.0page] 94 NATURAL SELECTION. CHAP. IV. another flower or on another plant. In plants
 850.21CHAP. IV. another flower or on another plant. In plants under culture and
 866.248individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigour and fertility to
 870.232of generations; but that a cross with another individual is occasionally—perhaps at
 872.452freedom for the entrance of pollen from another individual will explain this state of
 872.1038on the stigma, or bring pollen from another flower. So necessary are the visits of
 872.1539of one flower and then the stigma of another with the same brush to ensure
 876.159a plant's own pollen and pollen from another species, the former will have such a
 878.1328pollen from one flower on the stigma of another, I raised plenty of seedlings; and
 878.1378raised plenty of seedlings; and whilst another species of Lobelia growing close by
 912.251away insensibly from one district to another. The intercrossing will most affect
 954.250between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of
 976.145pigeon having a slightly shorter beak; another fancier is struck by a pigeon having a
 976.569one man preferred swifter horses; another stronger and more bulky horses. The
 1048.68represented in the diagram, another of our principles, namely that of
 1080.662One large group will slowly conquer another large group, reduce its numbers, and
 1125.386structure between one organic being and another, which we see everywhere throughout
 1189.50animals from one district to another; for it is not likely that man should
 1225.398it rarely flows, at least in excess, to another part; thus it is difficult to get a cow
 1225.1218developed through natural selection and another and adjoining part being reduced by
 1225.1400part owing to the excess of growth in another and adjoining part. I suspect, also
 1231.460when a cirripede is parasitic within another and is thus protected, it loses more or
 1275.621come to differ. Or to state the case in another manner:—the points in which all the
 1297.705representing the normal structure of another race, the fantail. I presume that no
 1299.31With pigeons, however, we have another case, namely, the occasional appearance
 1311.258resemble in some of its characters another species; this other species being on my
 1339.897the pure quagga. Lastly, and this is another most remarkable case, a hybrid has been
 1412.1135have become so), not blending one into another by insensible gradations, the range of
 1472.914over one spot and then proceeding to another, like a kestrel, and at other times
 1492.65of one type to take the place of one of another type; but this seems to me only
 1532.124of conversion from one function to another, that I will give one more instance
 1540.223The electric organs of fishes offer another case of special difficulty; it is
 1546.26is possible. The electric organs offer another and even more serious difficulty; for
 1568.634one male an advantage in fighting with another or in charming the females. Moreover
 1592.106one species exclusively for the good of another species; though throughout nature one
 1592.225of, and profits by, the structure of another. But natural selection can and does
 1596.159been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory
 1600.345instance, are perfect one compared with another; but they are now rapidly yielding
 1612.942graduate away from one part to another. When two varieties are formed in two
 1630.90for the exclusive good or injury of another; though it may well produce parts
 1630.216indispensable, or highly injurious to another species, but in all cases at the same
 1630.405competition of the inhabitants one with another, and consequently will produce
 1630.670they do yield, to the inhabitants of another and generally larger country. For in
 1657.740so in instincts, one action follows another by a sort of rhythm; if a person be
 1671.310an action for the sole good of another, with which I am acquainted, is that of
 1675.585abdomen first of one aphis and then of another; and each aphis, as soon as it felt the
 1675.1187an action for the exclusive good of another of a distinct species, yet each species
 1689.1429crawl forward with a peculiar gait; and another kind of wolf rushing round, instead of
 1717.1102that occasionally she laid an egg in another bird's nest. If the old bird profited
 1717.1282of the mistaken maternal instinct of another bird, than by their own mother's care
 1723.380a few eggs in one nest and then in another; and these are hatched by the males
 1725.727a burrow already made and stored by another sphex, it takes advantage of the prize
 1743.70to witness a migration from one nest to another, and it was a most interesting
 1743.213described, their slaves in their jaws. Another day my attention was struck by about a
 1743.804parcel of the pupæ of F. fusca from another nest, and put them down on a bare spot
 1747.72place a small parcel of the pupæ of another species, F. flava, with a few of these
 1749.22off the pupæ. One evening I visited another community of F. sanguinea, and found a
 1809.184a short time at one cell going to another, so that, as Huber has stated, a score
 1857.88nest; they are fed by the workers of another caste, and they have an enormously
 1871.386size and structure, and simultaneously another set of workers of a different size and
 1924.1129my own experience) from the anthers of another flower, as from the anthers of the
 1924.1567either from the same plant or from another plant of the same hybrid nature. And
 1932.253more easily fertilised by the pollen of another and distinct species, than by their own
 1980.736can most readily be crossed; and another genus, as Silene, in which the most
 2006.404of one plant to be grafted or budded on another is so entirely unimportant for its
 2006.718reason why one tree will not take on another, from differences in their rate of
 2014.474be grafted with no great difficulty on another species, when thus grafted were
 2038.446the different parts and organs one to another, or to the conditions of life. When
 2046.100c., from one soil or climate to another, and back again. During the
 2100.151of one species are crossed with another species, the hybrids do not differ much
 2102.547often has this prepotent power over another variety. Hybrid plants produced from a
 2104.326both when one species is crossed with another, and when one variety is crossed with
 2104.372and when one variety is crossed with another variety. For instance, I think those
 2120.91of one species or variety to take on another, is incidental on generally unknown
 2120.250facility of one species to unite with another, is incidental on unknown differences
 2126.465view is supported by a parallelism of another kind;—namely, that the crossing of
 2227.678after an enormous interval of time, by another and later formation, without the
 2235.66geological record mainly results from another and more important cause than any of
 2267.145requisite to change one species into another. I am aware that two palæontologists
 2345.11of the secondary period. I may give another instance, which from having passed
 2359.104known fossiliferous strata.—There is another and allied difficulty, which is much
 2367.504accuracy. M. Barrande has lately added another and lower stage to the Silurian system
 2402.49have appeared very slowly, one after another, both on the land and in the waters
 2420.299instances) to fill the exact place of another species in the economy of nature, and
 2434.695species gradually disappear, one after another, first from one spot, then from another
 2434.735another, first from one spot, then from another, and [page] 318 GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION
 2466.679than that; why this species and not another can be naturalised in a given country
 2494.810and dominant species on the land, and another for those in the waters of the sea. If
 2592.446formerly differed greatly from those of another continent, so will their modified
 2651.445emigrants; here we have a barrier of another kind, and as soon as this is passed we
 2651.541eastern islands of the Pacific, with another and totally distinct fauna. So that
 2657.842and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a
 2663.520forms of life from one region into another having been effected with more or less
 2693.238a region should be related to those of another region, whence it has been stocked. A
 2693.784of species in one region to those in another, does not differ much (by substituting
 2695.90of creation" do not directly bear on another allied question,—namely whether all the
 2721.124be floated across 924 miles of sea to another country; and when stranded, if blown to
 2725.45may be occasionally transported in another manner. Drift timber is thrown up on
 2743.224have transported seeds from one part to another of the arctic and antarctic regions, as
 2743.368part of the now temperate regions to another. In the Azores, from the large number
 2749.785but not from one distant continent to another. The floras of distant continents would
 2817.225at one point of the globe than at another, but seeing that it endured for long at
 2861.198we can say why one species and not another becomes naturalised by man's agency in
 2861.337and is twice or thrice as common, as another species within their own homes. I have
 2892.807a little duck-weed from one aquarium to another, that I have quite unintentionally
 2892.910fresh-water shells from the other. But another agency is perhaps more effectual: I
 2904.1007makes me believe that a heron flying to another pond and getting a hearty meal of fish
 2910.1504and naturally travel from one to another and often distant piece of water
 2910.1653a particular nature, and drops them in another equally well fitted for them. On the
 2924.866of one class are peculiar, those of another class, or of another section of the
 2924.887peculiar, those of another class, or of another section of the same class, are peculiar
 2944.14difficult to explain. Mammals offer another and similar case. I have carefully
 2988.248been brought to one island, and that of another plant to another island. Hence when in
 2988.265island, and that of another plant to another island. Hence when in former times an
 2988.414subsequently spread from one island to another, it would undoubtedly be exposed to
 2988.698distinct plants in one island than in another, and it would be exposed to the attacks
 2994.347species has any advantage whatever over another, it will in a very brief time wholly or
 3006.250other species allied to it, is shown in another and more general way. Mr. Gould
 3038.322have all its species endemic, and another group should have all its species
 3057.384fitted to inhabit the land, and another the water; one to feed on flesh
 3057.425the water; one to feed on flesh, another on vegetable matter, and so on; but the
 3069.483for instance, to all mammals, by another those common to all carnivora, by
 3069.525those common to all carnivora, by another those common to the dog-genus, and then
 3081.1411seems to be entirely lost." Again in another work he says, the genera of the
 3085.3CLASSIFICATION. CHAP. XIII. in another division they differ much, and the
 3153.799to them; but if these same organs, in another group or section of a group, are found
 3159.1562one class or order is compared with another, but give true affinities when the
 3163.46class or order are compared one with another: thus the shape of the body and fin
 3179.370any one marsupial species more than to another. As the points of affinity of the
 3217.9to a certain extent obscured. There is another and equally curious branch of the
 3217.949of one organ being transformed into another; and we can actually see in embryonic
 3231.96the parts of one species with those of another and distinct species, we can indicate
 3231.249one part or organ is homologous with another in the same individual. And we can
 3289.408in one descendant to act as hands, in another as paddles, in another as wings; and on
 3289.431act as hands, in another as paddles, in another as wings; and on the above two
 3315.241which will have full-sized wings, and another mere rudiments of membrane; and here it
 3339.249might easily be modified and used for another purpose. Or an organ might be retained
 3392.625This parallelism is supported by another parallel, but directly opposite, class
 3404.279a district occupied by one species into another district occupied by a closely allied
 3412.1278it will simply be classed as another and distinct species. Only a small
 3470.386by the naturalised productions from another land. Nor ought we to marvel if all the
 3498.146migration from one part of the world to another, owing to former climatal and
 3540.896one case, they arbitrarily reject it in another, without assigning any distinction in
 4452.33Swallow, one species supplanting another, 76. Swim-bladder, 190. System, natural
11  answer 
 1394.318will here only state that I believe the answer mainly lies in the record being
 1446.303difficult, and I could have given no answer. Yet I think such difficulties have
 1821.393of the hive-bee? I think the answer is not difficult: it is known that bees
 2367.104periods, I can give no satisfactory answer. Several of the most eminent geologists
 2444.435why this or that species is rare, we answer that something is unfavourable in its
 2608.413Silurian system was deposited: I can answer this latter question only
 2681.247northern and southern hemispheres? The answer, as I believe, is, that mammals have
 3145.306is of course preposterous; and I might answer by the argumentum ad hominem, and ask
 3225.58selection, we can satisfactorily answer these questions. In the vertebrata, we
 3412.6epochs in the world's history. I can answer these questions and grave objections
 3546.107species. The question is difficult to answer, because the more distinct the forms
3  answered 
 1343.135of horses, and was, as we have seen, answered in the affirmative. What now are we to
 2743.882boulders on these islands, and he answered that he had found large fragments of
 2948.1289On my view this question can easily be answered; for no terrestrial mammal can be
1  answering 
 3251.670much in size. In the second stage, answering to the chrysalis stage of butterflies
1  answers 
 3420.151I have now briefly recapitulated the answers and explanations which can be given to
8  antarctic 
 2687.683and at distant points in the arctic and antarctic regions; and secondly (in the following
 2743.250one part to another of the arctic and antarctic regions, as suggested by Lyell; and
 2863.164Hooker in his botanical works on the antarctic regions. These cannot be here discussed
 2863.1273of the Glacial period, when the antarctic lands, now covered with ice, supported
 2978.1127though distant point, namely from the antarctic islands, when they were clothed with
 3632.0of Australia, 339. Anomma, 240. Antarctic islands, ancient flora of
 4042.19South America, 379. —, on flora of the Antarctic lands, 381, 399. —, on the plants of
 5950.72and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions during the years
1  anteater 
 2596.164South America the sloth, armadillo, and anteater, as their degenerate descendants. This
1  ant-eaters 
 1205.926and Edentata (armadilloes, scaly ant-eaters, &c.), that these are likewise the most
1  antecedent 
 2379.1062lapse of ages? At a period immeasurably antecedent to the silurian epoch, continents may
10  antennæ 
 1167.1370as an increase in the length of the antennæ or palpi, as a compensation for
 1231.981attached to the bases of the prehensile antennæ. Now the saving of a large and complex
 1675.310as I could, as the ants do with their antennæ; but not one excreted. Afterwards I
 1675.531it then began to play with its antennæ on the abdomen first of one aphis and
 1675.633and each aphis, as soon as it felt the antennæ, immediately lifted up its abdomen and
 3081.1847great division of the Hymenoptera, the antennæ, as Westwood has remarked, are most
 3085.146yet no one probably will say that the antennæ in these two divisions of the same
 3251.840compound eyes, and extremely complex antennæ; but they have a closed and imperfect
 3251.1290constructed mouth; but they have no antennæ, and their two eyes are now reconverted
 4567.8on the tarsi of Engidæ, 157. —on the antennæ of hymenopterous insects, 416. Whales
9  anterior 
 1147.64I have observed the same fact) that the anterior tarsi, or feet, of many male dung
 1147.652explaining the entire absence of the anterior tarsi in Ateuchus, and their
 1231.726consists of the three highly-important anterior segments of the head enormously
 1231.881and protected Proteolepas, the whole anterior part of the head is reduced to the
 2383.192large areas, the many formations long anterior to the silurian epoch in a completely
 2787.1212of the Old and New Worlds, at a period anterior to the Glacial epoch. Believing, from
 3119.851a species which existed at an unknown anterior period. Species of three of these
 3159.298shape of the body and in the fin-like anterior limbs, between the dugong, which is a
 3217.398of a certain number of vertebræ. The anterior and posterior limbs in each member of
10  anthers 
 842.1899more pollen, and had larger and larger anthers, would be selected. [page] 93 CHAP. IV
 846.752and four stamens with shrivelled anthers, in which not a grain of pollen can be
 872.305what a multitude of flowers have their anthers and stigmas fully exposed to the
 872.543more especially as the plant's own anthers and pistil generally stand so close
 872.1494is quite sufficient just to touch the anthers of one flower and then the stigma of
 878.1082granules are swept out of the conjoined anthers of each flower, before the stigma of
 882.59shown, and as I can confirm, either the anthers burst before the stigma is ready for
 1924.1118I know from my own experience) from the anthers of another flower, as from the anthers
 1924.1157anthers of another flower, as from the anthers of the flower itself which is to be
 3321.337the pollen out of the surrounding anthers. Again, an organ may become rudimentary
1  anticipate 
 596.89well-defined varieties, I was led to anticipate that the species of the larger genera
9  anticipated 
 588.251And this, perhaps, might have been anticipated; for, as varieties, in order to become
 590.367genera. This, again, might have been anticipated; for the mere fact of many species of
 890.819United States, and the result was as I anticipated. On the other hand, Dr. Hooker has
 1167.474closely allied than might have been anticipated from the general resemblance of the
 1386.188to make cells, which have practically anticipated the discoveries of profound
 1877.602in this principle, I should never have anticipated that natural selection could have been
 3349.118of creation, might even have been anticipated, and can be accounted for by the laws
 3359.1161their presence might have been even anticipated. The importance of embryological
 3468.249or perhaps might even have been anticipated. As natural selection acts by
1  anticipation 
 598.26having few. To test the truth of this anticipation I have arranged the plants of twelve
1  antics 
 822.259gorgeous plumage and perform strange antics before the females, which standing by
1  antipode 
 2831.380in its crustacea to Great Britain, its antipode, than to any other part of the world
7  antiquities 
 5006.55Past and Present. A Handbook to the Antiquities, Curiosities, Churches, Works of Art
 5588.67of Athens, with Remarks on its Antiquities; to which is added, the Demi of Attica
 5908.86an Account of the Geography, History, Antiquities, and Inhabitants of these Countries
 5916.34s. PRINSEP'S (JAS.) Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palæographic
 5978.51LL.D.) Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Second Edition. With 500 Woodcuts. 8vo
 5982.59Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Abridged from the above work. Fourth
 6002.27Dictionary of Biblical Antiquities, Biography, Geography, and Natural
4  antiquity 
 371.516important, as being of considerable antiquity. I have associated with several eminent
 451.519of the principle in works of high antiquity. In rude and [page] 34 METHODICAL
 2402.404recent beds, though undoubtedly of high antiquity if measured by years, only one or two
 4046.20on islands, 392. Horner, Mr., on the antiquity of Egyptians, 18. Horns, rudimentary
3  antirrhinum 
 1309.819for instance, in the common snapdragon (Antirrhinum) a rudiment of a fifth stamen so often
 3323.623of the species. Thus in the snapdragon (antirrhinum) we generally do not find a rudiment of
 3633.0islands, ancient flora of, 399. Antirrhinum, 161. Ants attending aphides
1  antler 
 1197.1122a family of stags once existed with an antler only on one side; and if this had been
1  ants—hive-bee 
 1647.231and parasitic bees—Slave-making ants—Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct—Difficulties
1  ants—instincts 
 1647.100origin—Instincts graduated—Aphides and ants—Instincts variable—Domestic instincts, their
1  anxious 
 852.299I could give many facts, showing how anxious bees are to save time; for instance
2  anyhow 
 303.639to the act of conception. These cases anyhow show that variation is not necessarily
 782.11IV. NATURAL SELECTION. them could anyhow be improved; for in all countries, the
8  anything 
 457.146a new strain or sub-breed, superior to anything existing in the country. But, for our
 1598.48selection will never produce in a being anything injurious to itself, for natural
 1657.823interrupted in a song, or in repeating anything by rote, he is generally forced to go
 2165.1170before he can hope to comprehend anything of the lapse of time, the monuments of
 2307.210would have been, yet has done scarcely anything in breaking down the distinction
 2379.193long periods. If then we may infer anything from these facts, we may infer that
 2669.608nor isolation in themselves can do anything. These principles come into play only
 2717.1558above 28 days, as far as we may infer anything from these scanty facts, we may
3  anywhere 
 477.1512preserved the best varieties they could anywhere find. A large amount of change in our
 1032.865imaginary, and might have been inserted anywhere, after intervals long enough to have
 2241.822with recent or tertiary remains can anywhere be found, though the supply of sediment
2  apart 
 1297.343of pigeons, in countries most widely apart, present sub-varieties with reversed
 2809.325Along the Himalaya, at points 900 miles apart, glaciers have left the marks of their
2  apelles 
 1147.254had even a relic left. In the Onites apelles the tarsi are so habitually lost, that
 4235.7O. Oak, varieties of, 50. Onites apelles, 135. Orchis, pollen of, 193, Organs of
1  apertures 
 381.428of processes. The size and shape of the apertures in the sternum are highly variable; so
13  aphides 
 166.92in their origin — Instincts graduated — Aphides and ants — Instincts variable
 1671.358with which I am acquainted, is that of aphides voluntarily yielding their sweet
 1671.526the ants from a group of about a dozen aphides on a dock- [page] 211 CHAP. VII
 1675.102this interval, I felt sure that the aphides would want to excrete. I watched them
 1675.779by the ant. Even the quite young aphides behaved in this manner, showing that
 1675.964it is probably a convenience to the aphides to have it removed; and therefore
 1675.1019it removed; and therefore probably the aphides do not instinctively excrete for the
 1741.288together, probably in search of aphides or cocci. According to Huber, who had
 1741.592their principal office is to search for aphides. This difference in the usual habits of
 1755.987and milk as it may be called, their aphides; and thus both collect food for the
 1857.225the place of that excreted by the aphides, or the domestic cattle as they may be
 3634.15Antirrhinum, 161. Ants attending aphides, 211. —, slave-making instinct
 3641.0BEES. Ants, neuter, structure of, 236. Aphides attended by ants, 211. Aphis
6  aphis 
 1675.567its antennæ on the abdomen first of one aphis and then of another; and each aphis, as
 1675.603one aphis and then of another; and each aphis, as soon as it felt the antennæ
 3255.1173but in some few cases, as in that of Aphis, if we look to the admirable drawings
 3295.214of the great class of insects, as with Aphis. With respect to the final cause of the
 3642.0of, 236. Aphides attended by ants, 211. Aphis, development of, 442. Apteryx
 4063.25organs, 438. —, on the development of aphis, 442. Hybrids and mongrels compared
1  aphorism 
 4126.57Lingula, Silurian, 306. Linnæus, aphorism of, 413. Lion, mane of, 88. ——, young
2  apostles 
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1  apostolical 
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6  apparatus 
 1456.1102hind-legs, we perhaps see traces of an apparatus originally constructed for gliding
 1506.512selection has converted the simple apparatus of an optic nerve merely coated with
 1528.51generally held, a part of the auditory apparatus has been worked in as a complement to
 1530.191know nothing, furnished with a floating apparatus or swimbladder. We can thus, as I infer
 1544.156organ closely analogous to the electric apparatus, and yet do not, as Matteuchi asserts
 1725.305do not possess the pollen-collecting apparatus which would be necessary if they had to
16  apparent 
 266.431the four succeeding chapters, the most apparent and gravest difficulties on the theory
 331.353extension, and that when there is no apparent reason why a peculiarity should appear
 369.1021utter hopelessness, of the task becomes apparent. Certainly, a breed intermediate
 596.761a special act of creation, there is no apparent reason why more varieties should occur
 1217.422these differences are of such apparent importance-the seeds being in some
 1219.559So, again, I do not doubt that some apparent correlations, occurring throughout
 1376.267judgment, the greater number are only apparent, and those that are real are not, I
 1554.17and slowest steps. Organs of little apparent importance.—As natural selection acts
 2408.1404form never reappears. The strongest apparent exception to this latter rule, is that
 2426.347I am aware that there are some apparent exceptions to this rule, but the
 2608.164Europe, are considered; he may urge the apparent, but often falsely apparent, sudden
 2608.192urge the apparent, but often falsely apparent, sudden coming in of whole groups of
 2755.308living at distant points, without the apparent possibility of their having migrated
 3101.589found correlated with others, though no apparent bond of connexion can be discovered
 3159.1458of descent. We can also understand the apparent paradox, that the very same characters
 3572.569of that continent in relation to their apparent means of immigration, some light can be
46  apparently 
 242.804on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly
 305.180parents, as Müller has remarked, have apparently been exposed to exactly the same
 305.781very little direct effect, though apparently more in the case of plants. Under this
 325.189on both; but when amongst individuals, apparently exposed to the same conditions, any
 399.373some semi-domestic breeds and some apparently truly wild breeds have, besides the two
 622.598very closely allied to other species apparently have restricted ranges. In all these
 822.642to attribute any effect to such apparently weak means: I cannot here enter on the
 838.75Certain plants excrete a sweet juice, apparently for the sake of eliminating something
 936.231of Australia have formerly yielded, and apparently are now yielding, before those of the
 948.704occur, and variation itself is apparently always a very slow process. The process
 1038.289race-horse and English pointer have apparently both gone on slowly diverging in
 1108.408large branches of life, and which has apparently been saved from fatal competition by
 1123.328in its earliest condition does not apparently differ essentially from an ovule, is
 1323.223and partly under nature. It is a case apparently of reversion. The ass not rarely has
 1546.1250very distinct species furnished with apparently the same anomalous organ, it should be
 1584.236I may add that some little light can apparently be thrown on the origin of these
 1622.728For instance, a swim-bladder has apparently been converted into an air-breathing
 1671.257of the strongest instances of an animal apparently performing an action for the sole good
 1781.482burrows in wood many insects can make, apparently by turning round on a fixed point. We
 1833.269known to exist; cases of instinct of apparently such trifling importance, that they
 1914.798on by Gärtner were potted, and apparently were kept in a chamber in his house
 2022.428lesser difficulty in effecting a union apparently depends on several distinct causes
 2104.26parent. These several remarks are apparently applicable to animals; but the subject
 2126.654changes in the conditions of life are apparently favourable to the vigour and fertility
 2143.416present day, under the circumstances apparently most favourable for their presence
 2251.107slow oscillations of level, and apparently these oscillations have affected wide
 2273.198than in those of Europe; time having apparently been required for their migration from
 2351.63insisted on by palæontologists of the apparently sudden appearance of a whole group of
 2389.248of chapters, may represent the apparently abruptly changed forms of life
 2412.1320We can perhaps understand the apparently quicker rate of change in terrestrial
 2440.829former horse under conditions of life apparently so favourable. But [page] 319 CHAP. X
 2460.20its production. With respect to the apparently sudden extermination of whole families
 2492.670might therefore expect to find, as we apparently do find, a less strict degree of
 2512.531would not all be the same in the apparently corresponding stages in the two regions
 2514.1259he dissolves by fine gradations the apparently [page] 330 GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION. CHAP
 2596.1427and species decreasing in numbers, as apparently is the case of the Edentata of South
 2618.564more ancient a form is, the more often, apparently, it displays characters in some degree
 2851.181identical plants and allied forms have apparently migrated from the north to the south
 2880.206the same country, and as the sea is apparently a still more impassable barrier, that
 2928.1465different orders of insects in Madeira apparently present analogous facts. Oceanic
 2930.81certain classes, and their places are apparently occupied by the other inhabitants; in
 3010.610less is it meant, that a species which apparently has the capacity of crossing barriers
 3261.89to provide for itself;—of the embryo apparently having sometimes a higher organisation
 3390.105domestication; and as domestication apparently tends to eliminate sterility, we ought
 3454.624species also of the larger genera apparently have restricted ranges, and they are
 3488.264need not marvel at some instincts being apparently not perfect and liable to mistakes, and
55  appear 
 327.813peculiarity first appears, it tends to appear in the offspring at a corresponding age
 331.80in the horns of cattle could appear only in the offspring when nearly
 331.172in the silkworm are known to appear at the corresponding caterpillar or
 331.394reason why a peculiarity should appear at any particular age, yet that it does
 331.449age, yet that it does tend to appear in the offspring at the same period at
 477.1199slightly better variety has chanced to appear, selecting it, and so onwards. But the
 505.182manifestly useful or pleasing to man appear only occasionally, the chance of their
 532.115such as are known frequently to appear in the offspring from the same parents
 699.310even some of these so-called epidemics appear to be due to parasitic worms, which
 804.58variations which under domestication appear at any particular period of life, tend
 812.50Inasmuch as peculiarities often appear under domestication in one sex and
 822.594attractive to all his hen birds. It may appear childish to attribute any effect to
 852.1118incarnatum) do not on a hasty glance appear to differ in length; yet the hive-bee
 1018.650nature; they are not supposed all to appear simultaneously, but often after long
 1133.559of the severe climate? for it would appear that climate has some direct action on
 1189.1693of seedling kidney-beans ever appear, for an account has been published how
 1217.56is so far-fetched, as it may at first appear: and if it be advantageous, natural
 1303.435coloured marks are eminently liable to appear in the crossed offspring of two
 1315.386the blue tint, and which it does not appear probable would all appear together from
 1315.412it does not appear probable would all appear together from simple variation. More
 1323.990by Mr. Blyth and others, occasionally appear: and I have been informed by Colonel
 1345.1496genus the stripes are either plainer or appear more commonly in the young than in the
 1353.284instituting a comparison, the same laws appear to have acted in producing the lesser
 1418.584in the genus Balanus. And it would appear from information given me by Mr. Watson
 1584.412on copious details my reasoning would appear frivolous. The foregoing remarks lead
 1859.562modification did not probably at first appear in all the individual neuters in the
 2002.50rules and facts, on the other hand, appear to me clearly to indicate that the
 2213.1066inch in a century. This will at first appear much too small an allowance; but it is
 2273.1668organic remains will probably first appear and disappear at different levels
 2321.184transitional varieties would merely appear as so many distinct species. It is
 2331.120which whole groups of species suddenly appear in certain formations, has been urged
 2335.306succeeding formation such species will appear as if suddenly created. I may here
 2351.514however, that the whole of them did appear, as Agassiz believes, at the
 2359.236of species of the same group, suddenly appear in the lowest known fossiliferous rocks
 2373.272of the organic remains, which do not appear to have inhabited profound depths, in
 2385.241manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost
 2428.79species of a group sometimes falsely appear to have come in abruptly; and I have
 2432.241found, the line will sometimes falsely appear to begin at its lower end, not in a
 2486.268series of analogous phenomena, it will appear certain that all these modifications of
 2512.441of life, and the order would falsely appear to be strictly parallel; nevertheless
 2616.398time, the productions of the world will appear to have changed simultaneously. We can
 2948.755continents it is thought that mammals appear and disappear at a quicker rate than
 2990.645separated from each other than they appear to be on a map. Nevertheless a good
 3081.1709here even when all taken together they appear insufficient to separate Cnestis from
 3263.137that slight variations necessarily appear at an equally early period. But we have
 3263.1092before the formation of the embryo, may appear late in life; as when an hereditary
 3269.241offspring. Certain variations can only appear at corresponding ages, for instance
 3269.534earlier or later in life, tend to appear at a corresponding age in the offspring
 3331.1396amputated, imperfect nails sometimes appear on the stumps: I could as soon believe
 3378.211their full force. Nothing at first can appear more difficult to believe than that the
 3406.573do whole groups of allied species appear, though certainly they often falsely
 3406.617though certainly they often falsely appear, to have come in suddenly on the
 3416.84in a geological formation, they will appear as if suddenly created there, and will
 3492.851life, after long intervals of time, to appear as if they had changed simultaneously
 4524.11nature, 44. —, laws of, 131. Variations appear at corresponding ages
43  appearance 
 180.399in any one formation — On the sudden appearance of groups of species — On their sudden
 180.449of groups of species — On their sudden appearance in the lowest known fossiliferous
 186.31BEINGS. On the slow and successive appearance of new species — On their different
 186.189follow the same general rules in their appearance and disappearance as do single species
 331.674are of course confined to the first appearance of the peculiarity, and not to its
 469.787is so great that they have the appearance of being quite different varieties
 477.15UNCONSCIOUS SELECTION. at their first appearance as distinct varieties, and whether or
 505.228only occasionally, the chance of their appearance will be much increased by a large
 554.429These plants differ considerably in appearance; they have a different flavour and emit
 906.237by giving a better chance for the appearance within any given period of profitable
 926.605by decreasing the chance of the appearance of favourable variations. If we turn
 1299.68another case, namely, the occasional appearance in all the breeds, of slaty-blue birds
 1345.374of the other species of the genus. The appearance of the stripes is not accompanied by
 1546.1336be observed that, although the general appearance and function of the organ may be the
 1737.741masters, so that the contrast in their appearance is very great. When the nest is
 1982.223widely different in habit and general appearance, and having strongly marked differences
 1994.637in which they resemble in external appearance either parent. And lastly, that the
 2054.227may differ from each other in external appearance, cross with perfect facility, and yield
 2056.583differing widely from each other in appearance, for instance of the pigeon or of the
 2141.387in any one formation—On the sudden appearance of groups of species—On their sudden
 2141.435of groups of species—On their sudden appearance in the lowest known fossiliferous
 2171.963are at the present time suffering. The appearance of the surface and the vegetation show
 2331.14so hardly on my theory. On the sudden appearance of whole groups of Allied Species.—The
 2345.992thought one more instance of the abrupt appearance of a great group of species. But my
 2351.81of the apparently sudden appearance of a whole group of species, is that of
 2359.14of its productions. On the sudden appearance of groups of Allied Species in the
 2398.31BEINGS. On the slow and successive appearance of new species—On their different rates
 2398.183follow the same general rules in their appearance and disappearance as do single species
 2402.852but, as Bronn has remarked, neither the appearance [page] 313 CHAP. X. GEOLOGICAL
 2426.88follow the same general rules in their appearance and disappearance as do single species
 2438.525process than their production: if the appearance and disappearance of a group of species
 2438.792at its lower end, which marks the first appearance and increase in numbers of the species
 2452.620breeds in other countries. Thus the appearance of new forms and the disappearance of
 2494.383from giving a better chance of the appearance of favourable variations, and that
 2556.85cases, that the record of the first appearance and disappearance of the species was
 2602.938played an important part in the first appearance of new forms in any one area and
 3233.695skulls or jaws. Yet so strong is the appearance of a modification of this nature having
 3247.1075which differ widely in external appearance, have larvæ in all their several stages
 3476.712theory of creation is the occasional appearance of stripes on the shoulder and legs of
 3544.795ignore the whole subject of the first appearance of species in what they consider
 3916.22flying, 182. —, teleostean, sudden appearance of, 305. —eating seeds
 4144.11the geological record, 310. ——, on the appearance of species, 312. —, on Barrande's
 4181.26of, 141. Migration, bears on first appearance of fossils, 296. Miller, Prof., on the
3  appearances 
 784.221characters: nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful
 1333.231striped; and that the above-described appearances are all due to ancient [page] 165 CHAP
 3159.523thus Linnæus, misled by external appearances, actually classed an homopterous insect
27  appeared 
 331.510at the same period at which it first appeared in the parent. I believe this rule to
 491.326unusual any character was when it first appeared, the more likely it would be to catch
 505.1897and bred from them, then, there appeared (aided by some [page] 42 SUMMARY ON
 828.668to this bird;—indeed, had the tuft appeared under domestication, it would have been
 896.351physically impossible. Cirripedes long appeared to me to present a case of very great
 1159.526in this condition, the cause, as appeared on dissection, having been inflammation
 1189.1770how much more hardy some seedlings appeared to be than others. On the whole, I
 1709.248habits and actions, which at first appeared from what we must in our ignorance call
 1795.269their work. In ordinary combs it has appeared to me that the bees do not always
 1837.268one special difficulty, which at first appeared to me insuperable, and actually fatal
 1936.602the plants in these experiments appeared perfectly healthy, and although both
 2273.96for instance, that several species appeared somewhat earlier in the palæozoic beds
 2329.291links between the species which appeared at the commencement and close of each
 2351.773be shown that the species of this group appeared suddenly and simultaneously throughout
 2402.17natural selection. New species have appeared very slowly, one after another, both on
 2402.523one or two are new forms, having here appeared for the first time, either locally, or
 2426.725long as any species of the group have appeared in the long succession of ages, so long
 2564.483varieties between the species which appeared at the commencement and close of these
 2984.1162only in a small degree. This long appeared to me a great difficulty: but it arises
 3267.620modification, or most of them, may have appeared at an extremely early period. I have
 3269.491for all that we can see, might have appeared earlier or later in life, tend to
 3283.595s selection, have not generally first appeared at an early period of life, and have
 3283.917differences must either have appeared at an earlier period than usual, or, if
 3291.226period than that at which it first appeared. In either case (as with the short
 3305.121period than that at which they first appeared. It should also be borne in mind, that
 3331.1476that these vestiges of nails have appeared, not from unknown laws [page
 5120.79from the LITERARY PAPERS which have appeared in that Journal. 7th Thousand. 2 vols
1  appeared-such 
 2110.474their nature, and which have suddenly appeared-such as albinism, melanism, deficiency of
20  appearing 
 291.781of the reproductive system; this system appearing to be far more susceptible than any
 325.586prickly skin, hairy bodies, &c., appearing in several members of the same family
 327.545importance to us, that peculiarities appearing in the males of our domestic breeds are
 331.923the greater length of horn, though appearing late in life, is clearly due to the
 411.360colour and various marks occasionally appearing in all the breeds, both when kept pure
 1303.279not of a new yet analogous variation appearing in the several breeds. We may I think
 1315.536from the blue colour and marks so often appearing when distinct breeds of diverse colours
 1787.349were converted into shallow basins, appearing to the eye perfectly true or parts of a
 1847.24selection. This difficulty, though appearing insuperable, is lessened, or, as I
 2060.523not to expect to find sterility both appearing and disappearing under nearly the same
 2267.524this head. When we see a species first appearing in the middle of any formation, it
 2269.149and when we see a species first appearing in any formation, the probability is
 3271.285that the greyhound and bulldog, though appearing so different, are really varieties most
 3307.176principle of slight modifications not appearing, in the many descendants from some one
 3378.519Nevertheless, this difficulty, though appearing to our imagination insuperably great
 3608.31on groups of species suddenly appearing, 302, 305. —on embryological succession
 4286.45Prof., on groups of species suddenly appearing, 302, 305. ——, on rate of organic
 4376.47Prof., on groups of species suddenly appearing, 302. Seedlings destroyed by insects
 4418.23variable, 54. —, groups of, suddenly appearing, 302, 306. ——beneath Silurian
 4420.14Silurian formations, 306. —successively appearing, 312. ——changing simultaneously
15  appears 
 305.1033in the same way, the change at first appears to be directly due to such conditions
 317.210the facts collected by Heusinger, it appears that white sheep and pigs are
 325.10I. UNDER DOMESTICATION. deviation appears not unfrequently, and we see it in the
 325.313combination of circumstances, appears in the parent—say, once amongst several
 327.792period of life a peculiarity first appears, it tends to appear in the offspring at
 477.689though cultivated in classical times, appears, from Pliny's description, to have been
 842.1520of fertilisation, its destruction appears a simple loss to the plant; yet if a
 1309.870a rudiment of a fifth stamen so often appears, that this plant must have an inherited
 1339.1430that not even a stripe of colour appears from what would commonly be called an
 1546.199Generally when the same organ appears in several members of the same class
 1763.1024is not nearly so great as it at first appears: all this beautiful work can be shown
 2060.9VIII. FERTILITY OF MONGRELS. at first appears. It can, in the first place, be clearly
 3263.1150as when an hereditary disease, which appears in old age alone, has been communicated
 3269.128at whatever age any variation first appears in the parent, it tends to reappear at
 3277.16difference. As the evidence appears to me conclusive, that the several
1  appears-a 
 1345.270tendency strong whenever a dun tint appears-a tint which approaches to that of the
2  appendage 
 2936.589endemic species, having as useless an appendage as any rudimentary organ,—for instance
 3237.293from true legs, or from some simple appendage, is explained. Embryology.—It has
2  appendages 
 3225.168vertebræ bearing certain processes and appendages; in the articulata, we see the body
 3225.267a series of segments, bearing external appendages; and in flowering plants, we see a
1  appended 
 2379.537silurian period. The coloured map appended to my volume on Coral Reefs, led me to
1  appendices 
 4664.7to 1856. 4to. 8s. each. 3. ——— APPENDICES TO THE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS
2  appendix 
 4816.113an Argument of their Veracity: with an Appendix containing Undesigned Coincidences
 5594.64Catalogue of Greek Coins. With Map and Appendix. 4to 63s. ——Peloponnesiaca: A
2  apple 
 651.247The missletoe is dependent on the apple and a few other trees, but can only in
 2006.1810ranked as a distinct genus, than on the apple, which is a member of the same genus
1  apples 
 423.349Van Mons, in his treatise on pears and apples, shows how utterly he disbelieves that
7  applicable 
 389.409me to this belief are in some degree applicable in other cases, I will here briefly
 395.53as it seems to me, of great weight, and applicable in several other cases, is, that the
 1249.47to them. The rule being so plainly applicable in the case of secondary sexual
 1269.603an explanation is not in this case applicable, which most naturalists would advance
 1883.859of "natura non facit saltum" is applicable to instincts as well as to corporeal
 2104.37These several remarks are apparently applicable to animals; but the subject is here
 4188.33Modification of species, how far applicable, 483. Moles, blind, 137. Mongrels
6  application 
 1225.940maintained that the law is of universal application; but many good observers, more
 1249.720it illustrates the rule in its largest application. The opercular valves of sessile
 3000.373to their new homes,—is of the widest application throughout nature. We see this on every
 4852.56its History, Theory, Construction, and Application to the Arts and to Education. Woodcuts
 4854.66Theory, and Construction, with its application to the Fine and Useful Arts. Second
 5756.107Chemical Properties, Management, and Application of Manures. By FREDERICK FALKNER
14  applied 
 264.63of. This is the doctrine of Malthus, applied to the whole animal and vegetable
 405.536some probability in this hypothesis, if applied to species closely related together
 515.1761action of Selection, whether applied methodically and more quickly, or
 578.380mere individual differences, is also applied arbitrarily, and for mere convenience
 653.731of life. It is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal
 858.388trifling and insignificant cause, when applied to the excavation of gigantic valleys
 1257.531be neglected and no selection be applied, that part (for instance, the comb in
 1847.134it is remembered that selection may be applied to the family, as well as to the
 1966.521of different species of the same genus applied to the stigma of some one species
 2213.638not greatly affect the estimate as applied to the western extremity of the
 3357.92homologous organs, to whatever purpose applied, of the different species of a class
 4051.27young, 445. Horticulturists, selection applied by, 32. Huber on cells of bees
 4301.13coloured animals, 12. —, selection applied to, 32. —, gradual improvement of
 4814.95of the Mosaic Writings, stated and applied, together with an Incidental Argument
11  applies 
 982.788they would be enabled to occupy. What applies to one animal will apply throughout all
 1245.824be understood that the rule by no means applies to any part, however unusually
 1245.1290species of the same genus. The rule applies very strongly in the case of secondary
 1245.1449sexual characters, used by Hunter, applies to characters which are attached to one
 1245.1572with the act of reproduction. The rule applies to males and females; but as females
 1245.1678secondary sexual characters, it applies [page] 151 CHAP. V. LAWS OF VARIATION
 1251.195this class. I cannot make out that it applies to plants, and this would seriously
 1273.778the same. Something of the same kind applies to monstrosities: at least Is. Geoffroy
 1357.1743second Chapter that the same principle applies to the whole individual; for in a
 1669.878The canon of "Natura non facit saltum" applies with almost equal force to instincts as
 2831.20remarkable manner. This brief abstract applies to plants alone: some strictly
14  apply 
 766.193seen is so potent in the hands of man, apply in nature? I think we shall see that it
 978.54be asked, can any analogous principle apply in nature? I believe it can and does
 978.97in nature? I believe it can and does apply most efficiently, from the simple
 982.815occupy. What applies to one animal will apply throughout all time to all animals—that
 1245.1068mammalia; but the rule would not here apply, because there is a whole group of bats
 1245.1137group of bats having wings; it would apply only if some one species of bat had its
 1337.98with this theory, and should be loth to apply it to breeds so distinct as the heavy
 1418.28CHAP. VI. the same rule will probably apply to both; and if we in imagination adapt
 1964.458pains to ascertain how far the rules apply to animals, and considering how scanty
 1964.608to find how generally the same rules apply to both kingdoms. It has been already
 2060.204of sterility when crossed; and we may apply the same rule to domestic varieties. In
 2359.414have descended from one progenitor, apply with nearly equal force to the earliest
 2783.255the foregoing remarks on distribution apply not only to strictly arctic forms, but
 3285.11but at an earlier age. Now let us apply these facts and the above two
1  applying 
 526.7in having restricted ranges. BEFORE applying the principles arrived at in the last
3  appreciable 
 285.1008the new conditions of life to cause any appreciable amount of variation; and that when the
 976.1316causing differences, at first barely appreciable, steadily to increase, and the breeds
 1139.571until they become plainly developed and appreciable by us. Effects of Use and Disuse.—From
2  appreciate 
 441.620I for one have vainly attempted to appreciate. Not one man in a thousand has accuracy
 1865.334Africa. The reader will perhaps best appreciate the amount of difference in these
1  appreciated 
 852.693proboscis, &c., far too slight to be appreciated by us, might profit a bee or other
1  appreciation 
 3095.901for this saying seems founded on an appreciation of many trifling points of resemblance
3  apprehend 
 2520.298the objection is probably valid. But I apprehend that in a perfectly natural
 3081.1303their parts, not only in this but, as I apprehend, in every natural family, is very
 3135.1325less constant. In classing varieties, I apprehend if we had a real pedigree, a
6  approach 
 1331.1233one between brown and black to a close approach to cream-colour. I am aware that
 1737.156of Huber and Mr. Smith, I tried to approach the subject in a sceptical frame of
 2520.919at that period made some small approach to each other. It is a common belief
 2542.663the older formations make some slight approach to each other; so that the older
 3093.26birds and reptiles, as an approach in structure in any one internal and
 5552.1Love." New Edition. Fcap. 1s. 6d. —Approach to the Holy Altar. Extracted from his
1  approached 
 1743.352evidently not in search of food; they approached and were vigorously repulsed by an
2  approaches 
 1345.291a dun tint appears-a tint which approaches to that of the general colouring of the
 3179.270but in the points in which it approaches this order, its relations are general
1  appropriated 
 1729.175and stored food are thus feloniously appropriated, be not thus exterminated. Slave
1  approximate 
 2651.1272fish is common to the above-named three approximate faunas of Eastern and Western America
2  approximately 
 1267.193it may be, has been transmitted in approximately the same condition to many modified
 2279.547of subsidence; and to keep the depth approximately the same, which is necessary in order
1  apricot 
 2010.83so do different varieties of the apricot and peach on certain varieties of the
2  apteryx 
 1462.271functionally for no purpose, like the Apteryx. Yet the structure of each of these
 3643.0ants, 211. Aphis, development of, 442. Apteryx, 182. Arab horses, 35, Aralo-Caspian
2  aquarium 
 2892.795in removing a little duck-weed from one aquarium to another, that I have quite
 2892.1051bird sleeping in a natural pond, in an aquarium, where many ova of fresh-water shells
18  aquatic 
 741.1007diving, allows it to compete with other aquatic insects, to hunt for its own prey, and
 892.704the concurrence of two individuals. Of aquatic animals, there are many self
 1442.229could have been converted into one with aquatic habits; for how could the animal in its
 1442.436every intermediate grade between truly aquatic and strictly terrestrial habits; and as
 1476.623by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with
 1486.536hand, grebes and coots are eminently aquatic, although their toes are only bordered
 1486.741plants, yet the water-hen is nearly as aquatic as the coot; and the landrail nearly as
 1566.276organ of locomotion the tail is in most aquatic animals, its general presence and use
 1566.425or modified swim-bladders betray their aquatic origin, may perhaps be thus accounted
 1566.523developed tail having been formed in an aquatic animal, it might subsequently come to
 1590.439as useful as they now are to the most aquatic of existing birds. So we may believe
 1628.594often been retained (as the tail of an aquatic animal by its terrestrial descendants
 2892.1406These just hatched molluscs, though aquatic in their nature, survived on the duck's
 2898.301plants, which have only a very few aquatic members; for these latter seem
 2910.442will probably be less severe between aquatic than between terrestrial species
 2910.935average for the migration of the same aquatic species. We should not forget the
 4459.4T. Tail of giraffe, 195. —of aquatic animals, 196. —, rudimentary
 4469.8Thouin on grafts, 262. Thrush, aquatic species of, 185. —, mocking, of the
1  arabia 
 5568.35s.M LABORDES (LEON DE) Journey through Arabia Petræa, to Mount Sinai, and the
3  arabian 
 1339.787produced from the mare by a black Arabian sire, were much more plainly barred
 4644.0by LADY DUFF GORDON. Post Svo. 2s. 6d. ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT. Translated from
 5570.14With Plates. 8vo. 18s. LANES (E. W.) Arabian Nights. Translated from the Arabic
2  arabic 
 4644.50ENTERTAINMENT. Translated from the Arabic, with Explanatory Notes. By E. W. LANE
 5570.50W.) Arabian Nights. Translated from the Arabic, with Explanatory Notes. A New Edition
2  aralo-caspian 
 2584.1455and living brackish-water shells of the Aralo-Caspian Sea. Now what does this remarkable law
 3645.0of, 442. Apteryx, 182. Arab horses, 35, Aralo-Caspian Sea, 339. Archiac, M. de, on the
4  arbitrarily 
 578.75that I look at the term species, as one arbitrarily given for the sake of convenience to a
 578.388individual differences, is also applied arbitrarily, and for mere convenience sake. [page
 3165.413of this nature in any one class, by arbitrarily raising or sinking the value of the
 3540.871as a vera causa in one case, they arbitrarily reject it in another, without assigning
5  arbitrary 
 548.1623was much struck how entirely vague and arbitrary is the distinction between species and
 3057.193This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of the stars in
 3113.190seem to be, at least at present, almost arbitrary. Several of the best botanists, such as
 3113.296others, have strongly insisted on their arbitrary value. Instances could be given amongst
 3165.553that this valuation has hitherto been arbitrary), could easily extend the parallelism
1  archetype 
 3211.878that the ancient progenitor, the archetype as it may be called, of all mammals
1  archi 
 2980.43law which causes the inhabitants of an archi- [page] 400 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
1  archiac 
 3646.0horses, 35, Aralo-Caspian Sea, 339. Archiac, M. de, on the succession of species
41  archipelago 
 240.29natural history of the Malay archipelago, has arrived at almost exactly the same
 548.1503the separate islands of the Galapagos Archipelago, both one with another, and with those
 1331.1027from Norway in the north to the Malay Archipelago in the south. In all parts of the world
 1574.504A trailing bamboo in the Malay Archipelago climbs the loftiest trees by the aid of
 2259.566continent when first broken up into an archipelago), and consequently during subsidence
 2307.585an imaginary illustration. The Malay Archipelago is of about the size of Europe from the
 2307.920that the present condition of the Malay Archipelago, with its numerous large islands
 2307.1106formations were accumulating. The Malay Archipelago is one of the richest regions of the
 2313.76that the terrestrial productions of the archipelago would be preserved in an excessively
 2315.7no remains could be preserved. In our archipelago, I believe that fossiliferous
 2317.107over the whole or part of the archipelago, together with a contemporaneous
 2321.446in these cases the inhabitants of the archipelago would have to migrate, and no closely
 2323.43many of the marine inhabitants of the archipelago now range thousands of miles beyond its
 2351.1455present. Even at this day, if the Malay Archipelago were converted into land, the tropical
 2743.979other rocks, which do not occur in the archipelago. Hence we may safely infer that
 2924.299of the endemic birds in the Galapagos Archipelago, with the number found on any continent
 2948.1021in the world: Norfolk Island, the Viti Archipelago, the Bonin Islands, the Caroline and
 2954.465this head in regard to the great Malay Archipelago, which is traversed near Celebes by a
 2954.789some few anomalies occur in this great archipelago, and there is much difficulty in
 2954.1017thrown on the natural history of this archipelago by the admirable zeal and researches of
 2968.270give only one, that of the Galapagos Archipelago, situated under the equator, between
 2972.519admirable memoir on the Flora of this archipelago. The naturalist, looking at the
 2972.818to have been created in the Galapagos Archipelago, and nowhere else, bear so plain a
 2984.203manner, within the limits of the same archipelago. Thus the several islands of the
 2984.258the several islands of the Galapagos Archipelago are tenanted, as I have elsewhere shown
 2984.1597to those inhabitants of the Galapagos Archipelago which are found in other parts of the
 2990.57fact in this case of the Galapagos Archipelago, and in a lesser degree in some
 2990.507the sea are rapid and sweep across the archipelago, and gales of wind are extraordinarily
 2990.773of the world and those confined to the archipelago, are common to [page] 402 GEOGRAPHICAL
 2994.1056to distinct genera. In the Galapagos Archipelago, many even of the birds, though so well
 2998.570the several islands of the Galapagos Archipelago, not having universally spread from
 3018.466which inhabit the islets of the same archipelago,—and especially the striking relation
 3018.549of the inhabitants of each whole archipelago or island to those of the nearest
 3038.845see why all the inhabitants of an archipelago, though specifically distinct on the
 3510.679the plants and animals of the Galapagos archipelago, of Juan Fernandez, and of the other
 3510.883and those of the Cape de Verde archipelago and other African islands to the
 3870.27E. Earl, Mr. W., on the Malay Archipelago, 395. Ears, drooping, in domestic
 3957.10Furze, 439. G. Galapagos Archipelago, birds of, 390. ——, productions of
 3978.86Godwin-Austen, Mr., on the Malay Archipelago, 299. Goethe on compensation of growth
 4166.6Norway, 212. Maize, crossed, 270. Malay Archipelago compared with Europe, 299. —, mammals
 4548.16distribution, 355. —, on the Malay Archipelago, 395. Wasp, sting of, 202. Water, fresh
3  archipelagoes 
 2331.1244before they invaded the ancient archipelagoes of Europe and of the United States. We
 2379.664mainly areas of subsidence, the great archipelagoes still areas of oscillations of level
 2948.1079Islands, the Caroline and Marianne Archipelagoes, and Mauritius, all possess their
1  archipelagos 
 2972.1424between the Galapagos and Cape de Verde Archipelagos: but what an entire and absolute
3  architectural 
 1785.56natural selection, her inimitable architectural powers. But this theory can be tested
 1821.241and graduated succession of modified architectural instincts, all tending towards the
 3484.430of gradation throws on the admirable architectural powers of the hive-bee. Habit no doubt
10  architecture 
 1829.89bee. Beyond this stage of perfection in architecture, natural selection could not lead; for
 5010.32s. ——— Westminster Abbey. Its Art, Architecture, and Associations. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo
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 5964.53Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture, Present and Future. Second Edition
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37  arctic 
 693.1425a mountain. When we reach the Arctic regions, or snow-capped summits, or
 747.610the extreme confines of life, in the arctic regions or on the borders of an utter
 1173.605of its own home: species from an arctic or even from a temperate region cannot
 1183.389blood, for instance, of a tropical and arctic wolf or wild dog may perhaps be mingled
 2345.309species all over the world, from the Arctic regions to the equator, inhabiting
 2645.547forms, as there now is for the strictly arctic productions. We see the same fact in
 2687.672ranges, and at distant points in the arctic and antarctic regions; and secondly (in
 2743.239seeds from one part to another of the arctic and antarctic regions, as suggested by
 2759.345and North America suffered under an Arctic climate. The ruins of a house burnt by
 2761.391more southern zone became fitted for arctic beings and ill-fitted for their former
 2761.500the latter would be supplanted and arctic productions would take their places
 2761.897its maximum, we should have a uniform arctic fauna and flora, covering the central
 2765.140States would likewise be covered by arctic plants and animals, and these would be
 2767.28result. As the warmth returned, the arctic forms would retreat northward, closely
 2767.213from the bases of the mountains, the arctic forms would seize on the cleared and
 2767.445the warmth had fully returned, the same arctic species, which had lately lived in a
 2767.657on all lesser heights) and in the arctic regions of both hemispheres. Thus we
 2769.255are more especially related to the arctic forms living due north or nearly due
 2773.197of the mountains of Siberia to the arctic regions of that country. These views
 2773.429present distribution of the Alpine and Arctic productions of Europe and America, that
 2775.230of the fossil Gnathodon), then the arctic and temperate productions will at a
 2777.4period, since the Glacial period. The arctic forms, during their long southern
 2781.47for it is not likely that all the same arctic species will have been left on mountain
 2783.122I assumed that at its commencement the arctic productions were as uniform round the
 2783.282distribution apply not only to strictly arctic forms, but also to many sub-arctic and
 2787.710latitude 66º-67º; and that the strictly arctic productions then lived on the broken
 2795.784the several mountain-ranges and on the arctic lands of the two Worlds. Hence it has
 2833.179of the intertropical regions, are not arctic, but belong to the northern temperate
 2833.386floras really become less and less arctic." Many of the forms living on the
 2839.481temperate productions, and these by the arctic; but with the latter we are not now
 2843.806when the cold was most intense,—when arctic forms had migrated some twenty-five
 2849.260evidence that the whole body of arctic shells underwent scarcely any
 2869.894in a line gently rising from the arctic lowlands to a great height under the
 2948.69as so frequently now happens in the arctic regions. Yet it cannot be said that
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52  areas 
 186.499of the same types within the same areas — Summary of preceding and present
 548.1128country, but are common in separated areas. How many of those birds and insects in
 934.595and isolated area. Moreover, great areas, though now continuous, owing to
 934.854conclude that, although small isolated areas probably have been in some respects
 934.1030generally have been more rapid on large areas; and what is more important, that the
 934.1102that the new forms produced on large areas, which already have been victorious
 1406.498form of the land and of climate, marine areas now continuous must often have existed
 1406.780have been formed on strictly continuous areas; though I do not doubt that the
 1406.847that the formerly broken condition of areas now continuous has played an important
 1418.164to adapt two varieties to two large areas, and a third variety to a narrow
 1420.566larger numbers from inhabiting larger areas, will have a great advantage over the
 1432.10this assuredly we do see. Secondly, areas now continuous must often have existed
 2379.633that the great oceans are still mainly areas of subsidence, the great archipelagoes
 2379.684the great archipelagoes still areas of oscillations of level, and the
 2379.735of level, and the continents areas of elevation. But have we any right to
 2379.971the force of elevation; but may not the areas of preponderant movement have changed
 2379.1774nearer to the surface. The immense areas in some parts of the world, for
 2383.160believe that we see in these large areas, the many formations long anterior to
 2418.259of sediment having been deposited on areas whilst subsiding, our formations have
 2506.66As we have reason to believe that large areas are affected by the same movement, it
 2506.351been the case, and that large areas have invariably been affected by the
 2508.533considering the proximity of the two areas,—unless, indeed, it be assumed that an
 2562.54the physical conditions of the ancient areas having remained nearly the same. Let it
 2582.39page] 339 CHAP. X. SAME TYPES IN SAME AREAS. areas, during the later tertiary
 2584.0CHAP. X. SAME TYPES IN SAME AREAS. areas, during the later tertiary periods.—Mr
 2586.86of the same types within the same areas mean? He would be a bold man, who after
 2592.144of the same types within the same areas, is at once explained; for the
 2594.39page] 341 CHAP. X. SAME TYPES IN SAME AREAS. It may be asked in ridicule, whether
 2624.539same types of structure within the same areas during the later geological periods
 2641.28degree; for instance, small areas in the Old World could be pointed out
 2661.147space and time, over the same areas of land and water, and independent of
 2667.43even families are confined to the same areas, as is so commonly and notoriously the
 2681.1248been produced in two or more distinct areas! Hence it seems to me, as it has to
 2793.370considering the distance of the two areas, and their separation by the Atlantic
 2801.308many closely allied forms now living in areas completely sundered. Thus, I think, we
 2801.689Mediterranean and in the seas of Japan,—areas now separated by a continent and by
 2803.352similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance
 2855.706dominant forms, generated in the larger areas and more efficient workshops of the
 2855.1238to those produced within the larger areas of the north, just in the same way as
 2910.1100ever can range, over immense areas, and having subsequently become extinct
 2918.114with those on equal continental areas: Alph. de Candolle admits this for
 3032.1073highest importance, we can see why two areas having nearly the same physical
 3038.1107probably derived. We can see why in two areas, however distant from each other, there
 3040.270time the differences in different areas. We see this in many facts. The
 3502.871whole intertropical ocean. Although two areas may present the same physical
 3502.1170of all relations, and as the two areas will have received colonists from some
 3502.1335the course of modification in the two areas will inevitably be different. On this
 3510.69or representative species in any two areas, implies, on the theory of descent with
 3510.175same parents formerly inhabited both areas; and we almost invariably find that
 3510.266many closely allied species inhabit two areas, some identical species common to both
 4451.85Succession of types in same areas, 338. Swallow, one species supplanting
 4504.30of, 206. Types, succession of, in same areas, 338. U. Udders enlarged by use
1  areas—summary 
 2398.483of the same types within the same areas—Summary of preceding and present chapters. LET
1  argillaceous 
 2737.164I removed twenty-two grains of dry argillaceous earth from one foot of a partridge, and
5  argue 
 536.359far from uniform. Authors sometimes argue in a circle when they state that
 1544.276own that we are far too ignorant to argue that no transition of any kind is
 2054.857them as undoubted species. If we thus argue in a circle, the fertility of all
 2128.288when we remember how liable we are to argue in a circle with respect to varieties
 2749.1644But it would be a great error to argue that because a well-stocked island
1  argued 
 333.244aboriginal stocks. Hence it has been argued that no deductions can be drawn from
13  argument 
 337.635not of great importance for our line of argument; for by the experiment itself the
 353.197from one or several species. The argument mainly relied on by those who believe
 395.3quite prolific under confinement. An argument, as it seems to me, of great weight
 554.128for several interesting lines of argument, from geographical distribution
 1183.59test) under them, may be used as an argument that a large proportion of other
 1183.236must not, however, push the foregoing argument too far, on account of the probable
 2373.80and may be truly urged as a valid argument against the views here entertained. To
 2753.436this, as it seems to me, is no valid argument against what would be effected by
 2984.860of the islands may be used as an argument against my views; for it may be asked
 3376.33AS this whole volume is one long argument, it may be convenient to the reader to
 3426.41let us turn to the other side of the argument. Under domestication we see much
 4814.132applied, together with an Incidental Argument for the truth of the Resurrection of
 4816.77of the Old and New Testament, an Argument of their Veracity: with an Appendix
9  arguments 
 242.970stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question; and
 423.852yet they ignore all general arguments, and refuse to sum up in their minds
 2359.296known fossiliferous rocks. Most of the arguments which have convinced me that all the
 2385.1093not attach much weight to the facts and arguments of other kinds given in this volume
 2707.396island to some mainland. If indeed the arguments used by Forbes are to be trusted, it
 3365.235it were unsupported by other facts or arguments. [page] 459 CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION
 3448.993let us turn to the special facts and arguments in favour of the theory. On the view
 3546.193which we may consider, by so much the arguments fall away in force. But some arguments
 3546.232arguments fall away in force. But some arguments of the greatest weight extend very far
1  argumentum 
 3145.320preposterous; and I might answer by the argumentum ad hominem, and ask what should be done
7  arise 
 493.516differences might, and indeed do now, arise amongst pigeons, which are rejected as
 635.793but little in understanding how species arise in nature. How have all those exquisite
 641.413than do the species of the same genus, arise? All these results, as we shall more
 776.127which in the course of ages chanced to arise, and which in any way favoured the
 884.650are mongrelized? I suspect that it must arise from the pollen of a distinct variety
 1361.1721new and important modifications may not arise from reversion and analogous variation
 1663.634As modifications of corporeal structure arise from, and are increased by, use or
11  arisen 
 429.154variations useful to him have probably arisen suddenly, or by one step; many
 429.407this amount of change may have suddenly arisen in a seedling. So it has probably been
 532.200or which may be presumed to have thus arisen, from being frequently observed in the
 1568.726modification of structure has primarily arisen from the above or other unknown causes
 1574.807the hooks on the bamboo may have arisen from unknown laws of growth, and have
 1574.1633we may infer that this structure has arisen from the laws of growth, and has been
 1580.1801nevertheless we generally admit to have arisen through ordinary generation, we ought
 1586.831were useful, or which formerly had arisen from correlation of growth, or from
 1620.285live wherever it can live, how it has arisen that there are upland geese with webbed
 3081.111Perhaps from this cause it has partly arisen, that almost all naturalists lay the
 3165.707ternary classifications have probably arisen. As the modified descendants of
1  arises 
 2984.1204to me a great difficulty: but it arises in chief part from the deeply-seated
6  arising 
 337.1639how far the new characters thus arising shall be preserved. When we look to
 828.221this agency: for we see peculiarities arising and becoming attached to the male sex
 930.412better chance of favourable variations arising from the large number of individuals of
 1357.776in number and in structure, perhaps arising from such parts not having been closely
 2094.399continue and be super-added to that arising from the mere act of crossing. The
 2488.176New species are formed by new varieties arising, which have some advantage over older
1  aristophanes 
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2  armadillo 
 2584.320pieces of armour like those of the armadillo, found in several parts of La Plata
 2596.149behind them in South America the sloth, armadillo, and anteater, as their degenerate
1  armadilloes 
 1205.907viz. Cetacea (whales) and Edentata (armadilloes, scaly ant-eaters, &c.), that these are
1  armed 
 816.1475of carnivorous animals are already well armed; though to them and to others, special
3  armenia 
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1  armies 
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1  armorial 
 3566.717in view. We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and
1  armour 
 2584.295eye, in the gigantic pieces of armour like those of the armadillo, found in
1  arose 
 1361.746amount of modification since the genus arose; and thus we can understand why it
9  around 
 272.233relations of all the beings which live around us. Who can explain why one species
 610.415are generally clustered like satellites around certain other species. And what are
 675.143forget that every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the
 741.1518other plants growing vigorously all around. Look at a plant in the midst of its
 1574.596exquisitely constructed hooks clustered around the ends of the branches, and this
 2165.1231of time, the monuments of which we see around us. It is good to wander along lines
 3400.256do we not see these linking forms all around us? Why are not all organic beings
 3460.559classes, which we now see everywhere around us, and which has prevailed throughout
 3588.388have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest
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2  arrange 
 1781.560point. We must suppose the Melipona to arrange her cells in level layers, as she
 3069.19fully explained. Naturalists try to arrange the species, genera, and families in
12  arranged 
 598.46the truth of this anticipation I have arranged the plants of twelve countries, and the
 1773.166had made them of equal sizes and had arranged them symmetrically in a double layer
 2512.322formations in the two regions could be arranged in the same order, in accordance with
 2552.271instance, mastodons and elephants, when arranged by Dr. Falconer in two series, first
 2556.547races of the domestic pigeon were arranged as well as they could be in serial
 3217.823they consist of metamorphosed leaves, arranged in a spire. In monstrous plants, we
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20  arrangement 
 2000.1048their parents, seems to be a strange arrangement. The foregoing rules and facts, on the
 2552.421periods of existence, do not accord in arrangement. The species extreme in character are
 2556.606they could be in serial affinity, this arrangement would not closely accord with the order
 3119.61meaning more fully. I believe that the arrangement of the groups within each class, in due
 3123.825Nevertheless their genealogical arrangement remains strictly true, not only at the
 3127.66extent their characters. This natural arrangement is shown, as far as is possible on
 3127.344less possible to have given a natural arrangement; and it is notoriously not possible to
 3127.592natural system is genealogical in its arrangement, like a pedigree; but the degrees of
 3129.160pedigree of mankind, a genealogical arrangement of the races of man would afford the
 3129.396dialects, had to be included, such an arrangement would, I think, be the only possible
 3129.943but the proper or even only possible arrangement would still be genealogical; and this
 3191.473classification, or at least a natural arrangement, would be possible. We shall see this
 3191.1188and unknown progenitor. Yet the natural arrangement in the diagram would still hold good
 3197.845has been perfected, genealogical in its arrangement, with the grades of difference between
 3301.195were nearly perfect, the only possible arrangement, would be genealogical. Descent being
 3351.1399it is genealogical in its attempted arrangement, with the grades of acquired difference
 3359.1298is intelligible, on the view that an arrangement is only so far natural as it is
 3460.428of much extinction, explains the arrangement of all the forms of life, in groups
 3516.342The natural system is a genealogical arrangement, in which we have to discover the lines
 5860.82England. Exhibiting, under Alphabetical Arrangement, the Origin, Descent, and Present State
1  arrangements 
 1944.107than with plants. If our systematic arrangements can be trusted, that is if the genera
2  arranging 
 2110.1009with Dr. Prosper Lucas, who, after arranging an enormous body of facts with respect
 3069.195look at it merely as a scheme for arranging together those living objects which are
1  array 
 1245.529proposition without giving the long array of facts which I have collected, and
3  arrival 
 2735.585coast destroyed so many on their arrival. Some hawks and owls bolt their prey
 2962.204specific form or modified since their arrival, could have reached their present homes
 2984.1815have come to be modified since their arrival), we find a considerable amount [page
4  arrive 
 568.189come very near to, but do not quite arrive at the rank of species; or, again
 2753.772nearly every seed, which chanced to arrive, would be sure to germinate and survive
 2928.19OCEANIC ISLANDS. marine birds could arrive at these islands more easily than land
 3540.252seems to me a strange conclusion to arrive at. They admit that a multitude of
15  arrived 
 240.46history of the Malay archipelago, has arrived at almost exactly the same general
 242.390the general conclusions at which I have arrived, with a few facts in illustration, but
 242.881opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by
 526.31ranges. BEFORE applying the principles arrived at in the last chapter to organic
 982.179supported in any country has long ago arrived at its full average. If its natural
 1040.464well-marked varieties; or they may have arrived at the doubtful category of sub-species
 1155.348selection. For when a new insect first arrived on the island, the tendency of natural
 1376.19Natural Selection. LONG before having arrived at this part of my work, a crowd of
 1552.98by what transitions an organ could have arrived at its present state; yet, considering
 1763.162of the conclusions at which I have arrived. He must be a dull man who can examine
 1918.521Kölreuter and Gärtner, should have arrived at diametrically opposite conclusions
 1926.31Now let us turn to the results arrived at by the third most experienced
 2257.247C. Lyell; and E. Forbes independently arrived at a similar conclusion. One remark is
 3024.719led to this conclusion, which has been arrived at by many naturalists under the
 3382.400or any whole being, could not have arrived at its present state by many graduated
1  arriving 
 2924.550already explained, species occasionally arriving after long intervals in a new and
3  arteries 
 1530.676neck and the loop-like course of the arteries still marking in the embryo their
 3245.128the peculiar loop-like course of the arteries near the branchial slits are related to
 3518.1041or bird having branchial slits and arteries running in loops, like those in a fish
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2  artichoke 
 1189.913to habit. The case of the Jerusalem artichoke, which is never propagated by seed, and
 3647.0de, on the succession of species, 325. Artichoke, Jerusalem, 142. Ascension, plants of
4  articulata 
 1502.7the eye has been perfected. In the Articulata we can commence a series with an optic
 3109.525to this, and to no other class of the Articulata. Geographical distribution has often
 3225.187processes and appendages; in the articulata, we see the body divided into a series
 3225.633vertebræ; the unknown progenitor of the articulata, many segments; and the unknown
3  articulate 
 1506.686is possessed by any member of the great Articulate class. He who will go thus far, if he
 1839.321be shown that some insects and other articulate animals in a state of nature
 3217.464in each member of the vertebrate and articulate classes are plainly homologous. We see
11  artificial 
 653.836for in this case there can be no artificial increase of food, and no prudential
 954.88feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the
 1472.700on exotic plants, or exclusively on artificial substances. Of diversified habits
 1580.208where there has been but little artificial selection. Careful observers are
 1924.1014and goes on increasing. Now, in artificial fertilisation pollen is as often taken
 2452.697of old forms, both natural and artificial, are bound together. In certain
 2729.910crop of a pigeon, which had floated on artificial salt-water for 30 days, to my surprise
 3069.314those which are most unlike; or as an artificial means for enunciating, as briefly as
 3135.666varieties on a natural instead of an artificial system; we are cautioned, for instance
 3558.1093who admit that genera are merely artificial combinations made for convenience. This
 5722.133arid the Preparation of Colours and Artificial Gems, described in several old
5  artificially 
 1560.486The tail of the giraffe looks like an artificially constructed fly-flapper; and it seems
 1845.538breeds of cattle in relation to an artificially imperfect state of the male sex; for
 1914.1022cases of plants which he castrated, and artificially fertilised with their own pollen, and
 1924.815if even the less fertile hybrids be artificially fertilised with hybrid pollen of the
 1924.1697in the successive generations of artificially fertilised hybrids may, I believe, be
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1  arvensis 
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1  asahel 
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3  ascend 
 554.589in somewhat different stations; they ascend mountains to different heights; they
 2657.1210an American type of structure. We ascend the lofty peaks of the Cordillera and
 2845.320these temperate forms would naturally ascend the higher mountains, being
1  ascendancy 
 1309.175unknown favourable conditions, gains an ascendancy. For instance, it is probable that in
1  ascended 
 1741.247twenty-five yards distant, which they ascended together, probably in search of aphides
3  ascending 
 693.1231hence in going northward, or in ascending a mountain, we far oftener meet with
 1408.381proper to each. We see the same fact in ascending mountains, and sometimes [page
 2767.279the cleared and thawed ground, always ascending higher and higher, as the warmth
2  ascension 
 2918.832have evidence that the barren island of Ascension aboriginally possessed under half-a
 3648.0Artichoke, Jerusalem, 142. Ascension, plants of, 389. Asclepias, pollen of
4  ascertain 
 928.537thus greatly deceive ourselves, for to ascertain whether a small isolated area, or a
 1747.662courage. Now I was curious to ascertain whether F. sanguinea could distinguish
 1938.555of Chile." I have taken some pains to ascertain the degree of fertility of some of the
 1964.430of plants. I have taken much pains to ascertain how far the rules apply to animals, and
4  ascertained 
 711.7CHECKS TO INCREASE. CHAP. III. When I ascertained that these young trees had not been
 1958.28Finally, looking to all the ascertained facts on the intercrossing of plants
 2235.1081we may infer that this could nowhere be ascertained. The frequent [page] 290 IMPERFECTION
 2273.667an excellent lesson to reflect on the ascertained amount of migration of the inhabitants
2  ascertaining 
 2080.47facts; from the great difficulty of ascertaining the infertility of varieties in a state
 3426.505of life. There is much difficulty in ascertaining how much modification our domestic
2  asclepias 
 1546.1114at the end, is the same in Orchis and Asclepias,—genera almost as remote as possible
 3649.0Ascension, plants of, 389. Asclepias, pollen of, 193. Asparagus
1  asiatic 
 737.694different climates! In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has everywhere driven before
1  aside 
 2112.7or of distinct species. Laying aside the question of fertility and sterility
19  asked 
 423.15I. SELECTION BY MAN. Ask, as I have asked, a celebrated raiser of Hereford cattle
 552.559but what distance, it has been well asked, will suffice? if that between America
 641.17of the organic world. Again, it may be asked, how is it that varieties, which I have
 864.1133hermaphrodites. What reason, it may be asked, is there for supposing in these cases
 978.19common parent. But how, it may be asked, can any analogous principle apply in
 1442.96habits and structure.—It has been asked by the opponents of such views as I
 1446.137case had been taken, and it had been asked how an insectivorous quadruped could
 1821.186of life, it may reasonably be asked, how a long and graduated succession of
 1843.406instinct to its progeny. It may well be asked how is it possible to reconcile this
 2000.756same two species? Why, it may even be asked, has the production of hybrids been
 2440.733in numbers at an unparalleled rate, I asked myself what could so recently have
 2596.10X. SAME TYPES IN SAME AREAS. It may be asked in ridicule, whether I suppose that the
 2783.492and Europe; and it may be reasonably asked how I account for the necessary degree
 2948.1157their peculiar bats. Why, it may be asked, has the supposed creative force
 2984.901against my views; for it may be asked, how has it happened in the several
 3145.14XIII. CLASSIFICATION. But it may be asked, what ought we to do, if it could be
 3400.207as our present varieties, it may be asked, Why do we not see these linking forms
 3526.248favourable variations. Why, it may be asked, have all the most eminent living
 3546.10consider reverent silence. It may be asked how far I extend the doctrine of the
1  asking 
 2301.477fine, intermediate, fossil links, by asking [page] 299 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD
2  asparagus 
 2717.952when planted they germinated; an asparagus plant with ripe berries floated for
 3650.0of, 389. Asclepias, pollen of, 193. Asparagus, 359. Aspicarpa, 417. Asses, striped
1  aspect 
 2608.746may have presented a wholly different aspect; and that the older continents, formed
3  aspicarpa 
 3095.1271laugh at our classification." But when Aspicarpa produced in France, during several
 3651.0pollen of, 193. Asparagus, 359. Aspicarpa, 417. Asses, striped, 163. Ateuchus
 4354.52sterility of, 251. Richard, Prof., on Aspicarpa, 417. Richardson, Sir J., on structure
6  assert 
 337.1186of evidence in favour of this view: to assert that we could not breed our cart and
 667.147annually pair. Hence we may confidently assert, that all plants and animals are
 1351.85independently created, will, I presume, assert that each species has been created with
 1628.64in almost every case, to be enabled to assert that any part or organ is so
 1677.264want of space prevents me. I can only assert, that instincts certainly do vary-for
 1863.502and I fully believe, though I dare not assert so positively, that the workers of
10  asserted 
 317.422haired animals are apt to have, as is asserted, long or many horns; pigeons with
 735.132the varieties of sheep: it has been asserted that certain mountain-varieties will
 810.833used for breaking the egg. It has been asserted, that of the best short-beaked tumbler
 1323.361on the legs of a zebra: it has been asserted that these are plainest in the foal
 1323.489this to be true. It has also been asserted that the stripe on each shoulder is
 1717.658all at the same time. It has been asserted that the American cuckoo occasionally
 2626.92it to be, and it may at least be asserted that the record cannot be proved to be
 2735.141large supply of food, it is positively asserted that all the grains do not pass into
 3442.393not come into play. It has often been asserted, but the assertion is quite incapable
 3530.0be [page] 481 CHAP. XIV. CONCLUSION. asserted that organic beings in a state of
2  assertion 
 2942.215I have taken pains to verify this assertion, and I have found it strictly true. I
 3442.411It has often been asserted, but the assertion is quite incapable of proof, that the
7  asserts 
 1339.90species of the horse-genus. Rollin asserts, that the common mule from the ass and
 1544.196apparatus, and yet do not, as Matteuchi asserts, discharge any electricity, we must own
 1920.238in one case for ten generations, yet he asserts positively that their fertility never
 1938.312seed freely. For instance, Herbert asserts that a hybrid from Calceolaria
 2068.105the maize has separated sexes, and he asserts that their mutual fertilisation is by
 2070.473own coloured flowers. Moreover, he asserts that when [page] 271 CHAP. VIII
 2518.131a higher authority could not be named, asserts that he is every day taught that
2  asses 
 1323.802actually quite lost, in dark-coloured asses. The koulan of Pallas is said to have
 3652.0Asparagus, 359. Aspicarpa, 417. Asses, striped, 163. Ateuchus, 135, Audubon
5  assign 
 1205.228coexist, without our being able to assign any reason. What can be more singular
 1353.112case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part
 2006.890c.; but in a multitude of cases we can assign no reason whatever. Great diversity in
 2265.565lived; but I can by no means pretend to assign due proportional weight to the
 3446.352differ in the rank which they assign to the many representative forms in
4  assigned 
 1434.315varieties will, from reasons already assigned (namely from what we know of the actual
 1612.1116an intermediate zone; but from reasons assigned, the intermediate variety will usually
 2143.318links, is a very obvious difficulty. I assigned reasons why such links do not commonly
 2291.342And this from the reasons just assigned we can seldom hope to effect in any one
1  assigning 
 3540.913reject it in another, without assigning any distinction in the two cases. The
1  assist 
 810.961able to get out of it; so that fanciers assist in the act of hatching. Now, if nature
3  assistance 
 244.99of acknowledging the generous assistance which I have received from very many
 548.378to whom I lie under deep obligation for assistance of all kinds, has marked for me
 582.338much indebted for valuable advice and assistance on this subject, soon convinced me that
3  assisted 
 5374.87and Essays. By Rev Or. RAWLINSON, assisted by SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, and SIR J. G
 5926.90Version. Edited with Notes and Essays. Assisted by SIR HENRY RAWLINSON and SIR J. G
 5998.30s 6d. ——— English-Latin Dictionary. Assisted by JOHN ROBSON, B.A. 8vo. and 12mo. [In
6  associated 
 371.534being of considerable antiquity. I have associated with several eminent fanciers, and have
 455.897of the interior of Africa who have not associated with Europeans. Some of these facts do
 1657.431will or reason. Habits easily become associated with other habits, and with certain
 1689.363and likewise of the oddest tricks, associated with certain frames of mind or periods
 2408.294similar fact, in an existing crocodile associated with many strange and lost mammals and
 2972.1080in which the several classes are associated together, which resembles closely the
4  associates 
 2924.643and having to compete with new associates, will be eminently liable to
 3010.962in the struggle for life with foreign associates. But on the view of all the species of
 3470.138to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at
 3578.379coming into competition with foreign associates, might become modified; so that we must
1  association 
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14  assume 
 659.761increase: it will be under the mark to assume that it breeds when thirty years old
 1004.90been much amplified, we may, I think, assume that the modified descendants of any
 1177.1366climate, but in all ordinary cases we assume such to be the case; nor do we know
 1309.380in each generation in the plumage to assume this colour. This view is hypothetical
 1510.328be presumptuous? Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual
 2213.948form some crude notion on the subject, assume that the sea would eat into cliffs
 2213.1138but it is the same as if we were to assume a cliff one yard in height to be eaten
 2379.780of elevation. But have we any right to assume that things have thus remained from
 2528.1317existing forms. We must not, however, assume that divergence of character is a
 2723.951Therefore it would perhaps be safer to assume that the seeds of about 10/100 plants
 2731.235across the ocean. We may I think safely assume that under such circumstances their
 3159.1269adapted to similar conditions, and thus assume a close external resemblance; but such
 3472.303enter any zone, they occasionally assume some of the characters of the species
 3530.672of the lapse of time, we are too apt to assume, without proof, that the geological
11  assumed 
 351.18favour of this view. It has often been assumed that man has chosen for domestication
 393.768origin of our pigeons, it must be assumed that at least seven or eight species
 395.632those of the fantail. Hence it must be assumed not only that half-civilized man
 1042.93would vary. In the diagram I have assumed that a second species (I) has produced
 1054.23to exist. If then our diagram be assumed to represent a considerable amount of
 1317.471species, that the one in varying has assumed some of the characters of the other, so
 1839.1209state, I should have unhesitatingly assumed that all its characters had been slowly
 2508.562of the two areas,—unless, indeed, it be assumed that an isthmus separated two seas
 2783.85took place during the Glacial period, I assumed that at its commencement the arctic
 3263.15with modification. It is commonly assumed, perhaps from monstrosities often
 3267.160having a long beak, whether or not it assumed a beak of this particular length, as
4  assumes 
 299.123a single bud or offset, which suddenly assumes a new and sometimes very different
 1297.82and a variety of one species often assumes some of the characters of an allied
 1345.818and other marks; and when any breed assumes by simple variation a bluish tint
 3151.303very different habits of life, it assumes high value; for we can account for its
3  assuming 
 1315.848find the varying offspring of a species assuming characters (either from reversion or
 2351.468known, are really teleostean. Assuming, however, that the whole of them did
 2379.1262stand. Nor should we be justified in assuming that if, for instance, the bed of the
2  assumption 
 256.159perfect as we now see them; but this assumption seems to me to be no explanation, for
 393.205the rock-pigeon seems to me a very rash assumption. Moreover, the several above-named
1  assurance 
 1683.509the reader's mind. I can only repeat my assurance, that I do not speak without good
7  assured 
 1159.373in its habits than the mole; and I was assured by a Spaniard, who had often caught
 1938.647crosses of Rhododendrons, and I am assured that many of them are perfectly fertile
 1950.827must be far more fertile; for I am assured by two eminently capable judges, namely
 2942.283it strictly true. I have, however, been assured that a frog exists on the mountains of
 2978.1274affinity, which, though feeble, I am assured by Dr. Hooker is real, between the
 3301.825similar embryonic stages, we may feel assured that they have both descended from the
 3568.17of each great class. When we can feel assured that all the individuals of the same
21  assuredly 
 441.958wants any of these qualities, he will assuredly fail. Few would readily believe in the
 536.707any other point of view many instances assuredly can be given. There is one point
 717.578for long periods of time, though assuredly the merest trifle would often give the
 772.1065in the economy of nature which would assuredly be better filled up, if some of the
 796.1151in cultivating the several varieties, assuredly, in a state of nature, where the trees
 1090.739useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterised will
 1430.571in some degree permanent; and this assuredly we do see. Secondly, areas now
 1440.181of the same group together, must assuredly have existed; but the very process of
 1560.404with constitutional differences, might assuredly be acted on by natural selection. The
 1586.1264and consequently, though each being assuredly is well fitted for its place in nature
 1689.1543them to a distant point, we should assuredly call these actions instinctive
 1948.645tendency to sterility, the breed would assuredly be lost in a very few generations
 2054.934varieties produced under nature will assuredly have to be granted. If we turn to
 2147.440of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely
 2163.347must have been inconceivably great. But assuredly, if this theory be true, such have
 2325.194transitional forms, which on my theory assuredly have connected all the past and present
 2444.1215becoming less and less favourable, we assuredly should not have perceived the fact, yet
 2564.766representative species; and these we assuredly do find. We find, in short, such
 3145.504it would be ranked with bears; but then assuredly all the other species of the kangaroo
 3251.1725and in the latter, the development has assuredly been retrograde; for the male is a mere
 3349.46a strange difficulty, as they assuredly do on the ordinary doctrine of creation
1  assuring 
 1090.1279give its aid to ordinary selection, by assuring to the most vigorous and best adapted
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2  astonished 
 1552.245and unknown is very small, I have been astonished how rarely an organ can be named
 2811.428present level. In central Chile I was astonished at the structure of a vast mound of
8  astonishing 
 375.69diversity of the breeds is something astonishing. Compare the English carrier and the
 443.422gooseberry may be quoted. We see an astonishing improvement in many florists' flowers
 1450.486them to glide through the air to an astonishing distance from tree to tree. We cannot
 1484.39berardi, in its general habits, in its astonishing power of diving, its manner of swimming
 2070.107incredible; but it is the result of an astonishing number of experiments made during many
 2116.0an [page] 276 HYBRIDISM. CHAP. VIII. astonishing fact. But it harmonises perfectly with
 2994.673through man's agency, have spread with astonishing rapidity over new countries, we are apt
 3470.765by their sterile sisters; at the astonishing waste of pollen by our fir-trees; at
2  astonishingly 
 417.532practised before, has improved them astonishingly." About this same period the Dutch were
 661.123the numerous recorded cases of the astonishingly rapid increase of various animals in a
4  astonishment 
 375.1171glories in inflating, may well excite astonishment and even laughter. The turbit has a
 2440.540geological period, I was filled with astonishment; for seeing that the horse, since its
 2444.30how utterly groundless was my astonishment! Professor Owen soon perceived that the
 3331.124on them, every one must be struck with astonishment: for the same reasoning power which
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1  asylum 
 2843.243hottest districts will have afforded an asylum to the tropical natives. The mountain
1  ately 
 1580.0DIFFICULTIES ON THEORY. CHAP. VI. ately made conscious of this by reflecting on
3  ateuchus 
 1147.429but in a rudimentary condition. In the Ateuchus or sacred beetle of the Egyptians, they
 1147.670entire absence of the anterior tarsi in Ateuchus, and their rudimentary condition in
 3653.0Aspicarpa, 417. Asses, striped, 163. Ateuchus, 135, Audubon on habits of frigate-bird
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1  atholl 
 5966.58Days of Deer-Stalking in the Forest of Atholl; with some Account of the Nature and
8  atlantic 
 2707.163insisted that all the islands in the Atlantic must recently have been connected with
 2717.1811Atlas, the average rate of the several Atlantic currents is 33 miles per diem (some
 2749.1274land-birds are blown across the whole Atlantic Ocean, from North America to the
 2783.791are separated from each other by the Atlantic Ocean and by the extreme northern part
 2793.405two areas, and their separation by the Atlantic Ocean. We can further understand the
 2948.1447been seen wandering by day far over the Atlantic Ocean; and two North American species
 3698.20fear, 212. —annually cross the Atlantic, 364. ——, colour of, on continents
 5706.59of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, crossing the Andes in the Northern
2  atlas 
 2717.1772of germination. In Johnston's Physical Atlas, the average rate of the several
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1  atmosphere 
 1125.790more brightly coloured under a clear atmosphere, than when living on islands or near
1  atolls 
 2707.1365as I believe, by rings of coral or atolls standing over them. Whenever it is
2  atoms 
 1813.281could have done with his brush-by atoms of the coloured wax having been taken
 3544.230the earth's history certain elemental atoms have been commanded suddenly to flash
4  atrophied 
 1225.645When the seeds in our fruits become atrophied, the fruit itself gains largely in size
 3087.43no one will say that rudimentary or atrophied organs are of high physiological or
 3309.13great class of animals. Rudimentary, atrophied, or aborted organs.—Organs or parts in
 3331.319plainness that these rudimentary or atrophied organs, are imperfect and useless. In
1  atrophy 
 3215.386obscured as to be finally lost, by the atrophy and ultimately by the complete abortion
3  attach 
 2385.1057in any degree perfect, and who do not attach much weight to the facts and arguments
 3153.739are generally the most constant, we attach especial value to them; but if these
 3538.205Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties
7  attached 
 812.112in one sex and become hereditarily attached to that sex, the same fact probably
 828.242see peculiarities arising and becoming attached to the male sex in our domestic animals
 1231.941head is reduced to the merest rudiment attached to the bases of the prehensile antennæ
 1245.1481Hunter, applies to characters which are attached to one sex, but are not directly
 1261.507by man's selection, sometimes become attached, from causes quite unknown to us, more
 2928.1247see that their eggs or larvæ, perhaps attached to seaweed or floating timber, or to
 3251.1077a proper place on which to become attached and to undergo their final
5  attack 
 687.808the tiger in India most rarely dares to attack a young elephant protected by its dam
 1703.515when kept tame, are most eager to attack poultry, sheep, and pigs; and this
 1703.854young, require to be taught not to attack poultry, sheep, and pigs! No doubt they
 1703.925No doubt they occasionally do make an attack, and are then beaten; and if not cured
 1747.362and I have seen it ferociously attack other ants. In one instance I found to
1  attacked 
 1747.586disturbed both nests, the little ants attacked their big neighbours with surprising
1  attacking 
 1604.615perfect, which, when used against many attacking animals, cannot be withdrawn, owing to
7  attacks 
 796.956yellow plums; whereas another disease attacks yellow-fleshed peaches far more than
 836.1618shorter legs, which more frequently attacks the shepherd's flocks. Let us now take
 1560.321the flesh, which, from determining the attacks of insects or from being correlated
 1560.933depends on their power of resisting the attacks of insects: so that individuals which
 1580.1324that in cattle susceptibility to the attacks of flies is correlated with colour, as
 2988.738another, and it would be exposed to the attacks of somewhat different enemies. If then
 3784.19by climate, 132. ——, in relation to attacks by flies, 198. Columba livia, parent of
1  attain 
 576.76or incipient species necessarily attain the rank of species. They may whilst in
1  attained 
 1600.238that this is the degree of perfection attained under nature. The endemic productions
12  attempt 
 345.8our domesticated productions. When we attempt to estimate the amount of structural
 554.241c., have been brought to bear on the attempt to determine their rank. I will here
 1155.568with the winds, or by giving up the attempt and rarely or never flying. As with
 1245.444similar conclusion. It is hopeless to attempt to convince any one of the truth of
 1440.501as we shall in a future chapter attempt to show, in an extremely imperfect and
 1651.11within the same class. I will not attempt any definition of instinct. It would be
 2558.723species over the globe, will not attempt to account for the close resemblance of
 2576.621selection. In a future chapter I shall attempt to show that the adult differs from its
 2586.236America under the same latitude, would attempt to account, on the one hand, by
 3209.37Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern
 3209.184final causes. The hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly admitted by Owen in
 4842.90Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the
20  attempted 
 441.607differences which I for one have vainly attempted to appreciate. Not one man in a
 920.47for each birth; but I have already attempted to show that we have reason to believe
 1879.181inherited. Still more briefly I have attempted to show that in- [page] 243 CHAP. VII
 2020.573dissimilarity between organic beings is attempted to be expressed. The facts by no means
 2040.538is rendered sterile. All that I have attempted to show, is that in two cases, in some
 2428.123to have come in abruptly; and I have attempted to give an explanation of this fact
 2564.358we ought not to expect to find, as I attempted to show in the last chapter, in any one
 2598.54preceding and present Chapters.—I have attempted to show that the geological record is
 3028.72changes on distribution, I have attempted to show how important has been the
 3044.340which are not rare, may, as I have attempted to show, be accounted for by migration
 3057.680and on Natural Selection, I have attempted to show that it is the widely ranging
 3061.162indefinitely in size. I further attempted to show that from the varying
 3063.2to certain facts in naturalisation. I attempted also to show that there is a constant
 3135.1440universally preferred; and it has been attempted by some authors. For we might feel sure
 3173.42the chapter on geological succession I attempted to show, on the principle of each group
 3351.32Summary.—In this chapter I have attempted to show, that the subordination of
 3351.1389system: it is genealogical in its attempted arrangement, with the grades of
 3382.707the same community of ants; but I have attempted to show how this difficulty can be
 3398.784migration. As an example, I have attempted to show how potent has been the
 3484.346with their several instincts. I have attempted to show how much light the principle of
1  attempting 
 3574.636organic forms. We must be cautious in attempting to correlate as strictly
2  attempts 
 2126.1388to experiment; for systematic affinity attempts to express all kinds of resemblance
 2165.891formations, and to mark how each author attempts to give an inadequate idea of the
1  attend 
 505.1543to vary just when gardeners began to attend closely to this plant. No doubt the
1  attendance 
 1675.27INSTINCT. plant, and prevented their attendance during several hours. After this
15  attended 
 419.700the several breeds to which each has attended, are descended from so many
 451.170a century; it has certainly been more attended to of late years, and many treatises
 455.506animals was at that early period attended to. Savages now sometimes cross their
 455.1040of domestic animals was carefully attended to in ancient times, and is now
 455.1081to in ancient times, and is now attended to by the lowest savages. It would
 723.274nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, believes
 818.85peaceful character. All those who have attended to the subject, [page] 89 CHAP. IV
 822.386partner. Those who have closely attended to birds in confinement well know that
 1249.418and I may here add, that I particularly attended to Mr. Waterhouse's remark, whilst
 1251.88small degree, I have particularly attended to them, and the rule seems to me
 1257.1494c., these being the points now mainly attended to by English fanciers. Even in the sub
 1733.167of England, and its habits have been attended to by Mr. F. Smith, of the British
 2026.399alternative has not been sufficiently attended to; but I believe, from observations
 3641.8neuter, structure of, 236. Aphides attended by ants, 211. Aphis, development of
 5954.48A Memoir of the Remarkable Events which attended the Accession of the Emperor Nicholas
1  attending 
 3634.5flora of, 399. Antirrhinum, 161. Ants attending aphides, 211. —, slave-making instinct
16  attention 
 455.1164indeed, have been a strange fact, had attention not been paid to breeding, for the
 491.377more likely it would be to catch his attention. But to use such an expression as
 505.1258so much valued by him, that the closest attention should be paid to even the slightest
 505.1377of each individual. Unless such attention be paid nothing can be effected. I have
 511.1414being kept by poor people, and little attention paid to their breeding; in peacocks
 560.375or from any cause closely attract his attention, varieties of it will almost
 562.378some variation. But if he confine his attention to one class within one country, he
 890.1014on the sexes of trees simply to call attention to the subject. Turning for a very
 1743.228slaves in their jaws. Another day my attention was struck by about a score of the
 2094.636is a curious fact and deserves attention. For it bears on and corroborates the
 2235.631The most skilful geologist, if his attention had been exclusively confined to these
 2261.148imperfect; but if we confine our attention to any one formation, it becomes more
 2486.180by this strange sequence, we turn our attention to North America, and there discover a
 2514.611be disputed. For if we confine our attention either to the living or to the extinct
 2759.61had not Agassiz and others called vivid attention to the Glacial period, which, as we
 3159.152resemblances. Lamarck first called attention to this distinction, and he has been
1  attested 
 455.638breed, and they formerly did so, as is attested by passages in Pliny. The savages in
2  attica 
 5588.111to which is added, the Demi of Attica. Second Edition. Plates. 2 Vols. 8vo
 6140.35s. WORDSWORTH'S (REV. DR.) Athens and Attica. Journal of a Tour. Third Edition
3  attract 
 560.363to man, or from any cause closely attract his attention, varieties of it will
 822.80between the males of many species to attract by singing the females. The rock-thrush
 1213.185s idea that the ray-florets serve to attract insects, whose agency is highly
6  attractive 
 822.343as spectators, at last choose the most attractive partner. Those who have closely
 822.554how one pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds. It may appear
 828.456useful to the males in battle, or attractive to the females. We see analogous cases
 846.100or natural selection of more and more attractive flowers, had been rendered highly
 846.145flowers, had been rendered highly attractive to insects, they would, unintentionally
 846.1518the plant had been rendered so highly attractive to insects that pollen was regularly
23  attribute 
 250.886may be true; but it is preposterous to attribute to mere external conditions, the
 305.596in the case of any variation, we should attribute to the direct action of heat, moisture
 325.462of chances almost compels us to attribute its reappearance to inheritance. Every
 574.347have not much faith in this view; and I attribute the passage of a variety, from a state
 693.364being conspicuous, we are tempted to attribute the whole effect to its direct action
 723.611more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the
 725.496an entangled bank, we are tempted to attribute their proportional numbers and kinds to
 822.613hen birds. It may appear childish to attribute any effect to such apparently weak
 828.142offspring. Yet, I would not wish to attribute all such sexual differences to this
 1123.67disturbed in the parents, I chiefly attribute the varying or plastic condition of the
 1133.86being, we cannot tell how much of it to attribute to the accumulative action of natural
 1161.434to animals living in darkness, I attribute their loss wholly to disuse. In one of
 1219.21to the species. We may often falsely attribute to correlation of growth, structures
 1275.832and these characters in common I attribute to inheritance from a common [page
 1297.1488created, we should have to attribute this similarity in the enlarged stems
 1546.315very different habits of life, we may attribute its presence to inheritance from a
 1568.38In the second place, we may sometimes attribute importance to characters which are
 1590.265use to these animals. We may safely attribute these structures to inheritance. But to
 1681.908most persecuted by man. We may safely attribute the greater wildness of our large birds
 1701.437tameness; and I presume that we must attribute the whole of the inherited change from
 2444.306at its rarity; for rarity is the attribute of a vast number of species of all
 2787.1075under a more favourable climate, I attribute the necessary amount of uniformity in
 2886.491from the water. But I am inclined to attribute the dispersal of fresh-water fish
14  attributed 
 291.494frequent cause of variability may be attributed to the male and female reproductive
 291.1238their native country! This is generally attributed to vitiated instincts; but how many
 303.495view, that variability may be largely attributed to the ovules or pollen, or to both
 309.89amount of change may, I think, be attributed to the direct action of the conditions
 311.398presume that this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less
 337.408however, some effect would have to be attributed to the direct action of the poor soil
 425.177Some little effect may, perhaps, be attributed to the direct action of the external
 511.1230the donkey, peacock, goose, &c., may be attributed in main part to selection not having
 515.576correlation of growth. Something may be attributed to the direct action of the conditions
 515.653conditions of life. Something must be attributed to use and disuse. The final result is
 1125.467nature. Some little influence may be attributed to climate, food, &c.: thus, E. Forbes
 1211.357by Cassini. These differences have been attributed by some authors to pressure, and the
 2663.261inhabitants of different regions may be attributed to modification through natural
 3044.10DISTRIBUTION. CHAP. XII. fairly be attributed to our not having as yet discovered in
1  attributes 
 2693.1132that this coincidence he attributes to generation with modification. The
1  attrition 
 2213.1769or nodules, which from long resisting attrition form a breakwater at the base. Hence
2  auditory 
 1524.330been worked in as an accessory to the auditory organs of certain fish, or, for I do
 1528.42is now generally held, a part of the auditory apparatus has been worked in as a
4  audubon 
 1486.381go near the water; and no one except Audubon has seen the frigate-bird, which has
 1681.273often from causes wholly unknown to us: Audubon has given several remarkable cases of
 2904.770must remain quite inexplicable; but Audubon states that he found the seeds of the
 3654.0Asses, striped, 163. Ateuchus, 135, Audubon on habits of frigate-bird, 185. —on
2  augmented 
 970.623difference between varieties become augmented into the greater difference between
 3456.597of the same species, tend to be augmented into the greater differences
1  augmenting 
 317.638if man goes on selecting, and thus augmenting, any peculiarity, he will almost
2  august 
 1737.1516at various hours during May, June and August, both in Surrey and Hampshire, and has
 1737.1620though present in large numbers in August, either leave or enter the nest. Hence
1  augustine—the 
 6040.54Memorials of Canterbury. The Landing of Augustine—The Murder of BecketThe Black PrinceThe
1  augustinian 
 5752.37MOZLEYS (REV. J. B.) Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of Predestination. 8vo. 14s
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 5702.10and Woodcuts. 8vo. 31s. 6d. MATTHIÆS (AUGUSTUS) Greek Grammar for Schools. Abridged
1  aulicum 
 1932.735For instance, a bulb of Hippeastrum aulicum produced four flowers; three were
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 5924.160Translated from the German by MRS. AUSTIN. Third Edition. 2 Vols. 8vo. 24s
1  austin's 
 4650.0By a LADY. Woodcuts. 16mo. 5s. AUSTIN'S (SARAH) Fragments from German Prose
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 357.754like those of Tierra del Fuego or Australia, who possess a semi-domestic dog, may
 483.121can understand how it is that neither Australia, the Cape of Good Hope, nor any other
 661.518in South-America, and latterly in Australia, had not been well authenticated, they
 890.932he finds that the rule does not hold in Australia; and I have made these few remarks on
 936.194productions of the smaller continent of Australia have formerly yielded, and apparently
 1703.684countries, such as Tierra del Fuego and Australia, where the savages do not keep these
 2355.154double the southern capes of Africa or Australia, and thus reach other and distant seas
 2357.489minutes on some one barren point in Australia, and then to discuss the number and
 2480.543those now living in South America or in Australia, the most skilful naturalist would
 2480.1395of Europe, North and South America, and Australia, from containing fossil remains in some
 2586.165after comparing the present climate of Australia and of parts of South America under the
 2590.248have been chiefly or solely produced in Australia; or that Edentata and other American
 2643.66if we compare large tracts of land in Australia, South Africa, and western South
 2643.572than they are to the productions of Australia or Africa under nearly the same climate
 2645.639difference between the inhabitants of Australia, Africa, and South America under the
 2657.943or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude. On these same
 2677.1478a single mammal common to Europe and Australia or South America? The conditions of
 2681.107have become naturalised in America and Australia; and some of the aboriginal plants are
 2809.779action in the south-eastern corner of Australia. Looking to America; in the northern
 2825.29as Japan. On the southern mountains of Australia, Dr. F. Müller has discovered several
 2825.247Hooker, of European genera, found in Australia, but not in the intermediate torrid
 2839.768of Good Hope, and in parts of temperate Australia. As we know that many tropical plants
 2851.116and by Alph. de Candolle in regard to Australia, that many more identical plants and
 2855.92in La Plata, and in a lesser degree in Australia, and have to a certain extent beaten
 2855.436the last thirty or forty years from Australia. Something of the same kind must have
 2867.297the southern shores of America, Australia, New Zealand have become slightly
 2918.406area at the Cape of Good Hope or in Australia, we must, I think, admit that something
 2954.1416separated by similar channels from Australia. The West Indian Islands stand on a
 2978.663plants is much more closely related to Australia, the nearest mainland, than to any
 2978.1354flora of the south-western corner of Australia and of the Cape of Good Hope, is a far
 2998.886south-east and south-west corners of Australia have nearly the same physical
 3171.221fact is striking, that the discovery of Australia has not added a single insect belonging
 3496.1065on the same continent,—of marsupials in Australia, of edentata in America, and other such
 3627.5acclimatisation of, 141. ——of Australia, 116. —with thicker fur in cold
 3630.15blind, in caves, 137. —, extinct, of Australia, 339. Anomma, 240. Antarctic islands
 3657.0on heron eating seeds, 387. Australia, animals of, 116. ——, dogs of
 3831.23seeds, 360. —, —, on vegetation of Australia, 379. ——, —, on fresh-water plants
 4171.14nails of, 454. Marsupials of Australia, 116. ——, fossil species of
 5490.13By REV. G. R. GLEIG. BUSH LIFE IN AUSTRALIA. By H. W. HAYGARTH. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
 6136.43G. B.) Working Man's Handbook to South Australia; with Advice to the Farmer, and
9  australian 
 1002.569be doubted, for instance, whether the Australian marsupials, which are divided into
 1002.845these well-pronounced orders. In the Australian mammals, we see the process of
 2458.1320secondary formations, survives in the Australian seas; and a few members of the great
 2584.107showed that the fossil mammals from the Australian caves were closely allied to the living
 2823.901more striking is the fact that southern Australian forms are clearly represented by plants
 2823.1017the mountains of Borneo. Some of these Australian forms, as I hear from Dr. Hooker
 4040.6of Tierra del Fuego, 374, 378. —, on Australian plants, 375, 399. —, on relations of
 4205.26striped, 165. Müller, Dr. F., on Alpine Australian plants, 375. Murchison, Sir R., on the
 4552.20Water-hen, 185. Waterhouse, Mr., on Australian marsupials, 116. —, on greatly
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 5276.48GERMANYBavaria, Austria, Salzberg, the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, the Tyrol, and the
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 1177.1090England. In regard to animals, several authentic cases could be given of species within
 1689.233animals. A number of curious and authentic instances could be given of the
 5068.65Letters of John Calvin. Compiled from authentic Sources. Portrait. 8vo. 15s
 5204.61of Waterloo, Compiled from Public and Authentic Sources. Post Svo. 5s. —— Narrative of
 6118.101Compiled from Official and other Authentic Documents, By COL. GUBWOOD, C.B. New
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 661.547in Australia, had not been well authenticated, they would have been quite incredible
 1944.516can be considered as thoroughly well authenticated. It should, however, be borne in mind
18  author 
 83.0GEOLOGICAL, LINNAEAN, ETC., SOCIETIES ; AUTHOR OF 'JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES DURING H.M.S
 252.4the volition of the plant itself. The author of the 'Vestiges of Creation' would, I
 365.444several even within Great Britain. One author believes that there formerly existed in
 560.591it has been studied; yet a German author makes more than a dozen species out of
 1237.383lesser numbers, is constant. The same author and some botanists have further
 1273.269works on natural history, that when an author has remarked with surprise that some
 1918.903different hybridisers, or by the same author, from experiments made during different
 2165.884formations, and to mark how each author attempts to give an inadequate idea of
 2249.243and have been surprised to note how author after author, in treating of this or
 2249.256been surprised to note how author after author, in treating of this or that great
 2637.300conditions. Of late, almost every author who has studied the subject has come to
 3081.1092in the writings of almost every author. It will suffice to quote the highest
 4902.100of the late Patrick Fraser Tytler, author of "The History of Scotland." Post 8vo
 5200.89from the last editions revised by the Author. Edited by PETER CUNNINGHAM. Vignettes
 5372.69or, The Progress of Character. By the Author of "BERTHA'S JOURNAL." 2 Vols. 12mo
 5632.62The Wolves. —The Jewess. By the Author of "Letters from the Baltic." Post 8vo
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 2584.1006Old World. We see the same law in this author's restorations of the extinct and
 5930.130additional Notes. New Edition, with the Author's latest Corrections. Fcap. 8vo. 1s., or
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 242.101I cannot here give references and authorities for my several statements; and I must
 242.310