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6  rabbit 
 297.325unnatural conditions (for instance, the rabbit and ferret kept in hutches), showing
 363.206descended from the common wild duck and rabbit. The doctrine of the origin of our
 423.206met a pigeon, or poultry, or duck, or rabbit fancier, who was not fully convinced
 1701.257to tame than the young of the wild rabbit; scarcely any animal is tamer than the
 1701.321is tamer than the young of the tame rabbit; but I do not suppose that domestic
 4338.0Quince, grafts of, 261. R. Rabbit, disposition of young, 215. Races
4  rabbits 
 363.53Gallus bankiva). In regard to ducks and rabbits, the breeds of which differ
 836.440home winged game, another hares or rabbits, and another hunting on marshy ground
 1701.364but I do not suppose that domestic rabbits have ever been selected for tameness
 2657.1099nearly the same habits as our hares and rabbits and belonging to the same order of
1  racehorse 
 3159.749The resemblance of the greyhound and racehorse is hardly more fanciful than the
3  race-horse 
 429.577But when we compare the dray-horse and race-horse, the dromedary and camel, the various
 1038.253the same way, for instance, the English race-horse and English pointer have apparently
 1331.698W. W. Edwards, that with the English race-horse the spinal stripe is much commoner in
2  racehorses 
 463.86training, the whole body of English racehorses have come to surpass in fleetness and
 2699.495To illustrate what I mean: our English racehorses differ slightly from the horses of
3  race-horses 
 337.1230that we could not breed our cart and race-horses, long and short-horned cattle, and
 3275.444I was told that the foals of cart and race-horses differed as much as the full-grown
 4338.71Races, domestic, characters of, 16. Race-horses, Arab, 35. ——, English, 356. Ramond on
50  races 
 75.25OR THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. BY CHARLES
 333.297deductions can be drawn from domestic races to species in a state of nature. I have
 337.299during many generations, the several races, for instance, of the cabbage, in very
 339.44we look to the hereditary varieties or races of our domestic animals and plants, and
 339.267than in true species. Domestic races of [page] 16 VARIATION. CHAP. I. the
 343.531hereafter to be discussed), domestic races of the same species differ from each
 343.792find that there are hardly any domestic races, either amongst animals or plants
 343.1038distinction existed between domestic races and species, this source of doubt could
 343.1149It has often been stated that domestic races do not differ from each other in
 345.85difference between the domestic races of the same species, we are soon
 349.497but, in the case of some other domestic races, there is presumptive, or even strong
 359.763to several authors, that all the races have descended from one wild stock. Mr
 365.51of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has
 365.1477often been loosely said that all our races of dogs have been produced by the
 369.33I. account for our several domestic races by this process, we must admit the
 369.235the possibility of making distinct races by crossing has been greatly
 369.543between two extremely different races or speceies, I can hardly believe. Sir
 389.249under this term several geographical races or sub-species, which differ from each
 423.695the differences between the several races; and though they well know that each
 423.1189yet admit that many of our domestic races have descended from the same parents
 425.67consider the steps by which domestic races have been produced, either from one or
 425.493remarkable features in our domesticated races [page] 30 SELECTION BY MAN. CHAP. I
 429.1149culinary, orchard, and flower-garden races of plants, most useful to man at
 449.1227the flowers, or the fruit, will produce races differing from each other chiefly in
 463.219by the regulations for the Goodwood Races, are favoured in the weights they carry
 477.91whether or not two or more species or races have become blended together by
 487.140obvious, how it is that our domestic races show adaptation in their structure or
 487.313abnormal character of our domestic races, and likewise their differences being
 511.134of success in the formation of new races,—at least, in a country which is
 511.200which is already stocked with other races. In this respect enclosure of the land
 511.460to the fancier, for thus many races may be kept true, though mingled in the
 515.40To sum up on the origin of our Domestic Races of animals and plants. I believe that
 548.1384they are often called, as geographical races! Many years ago, when comparing, and
 1038.425having given off any fresh branches or races. After ten thousand generations
 1297.274understood by looking to our domestic races. The most distinct breeds of pigeons
 1297.549variations in two or more distinct races. The frequent presence of fourteen or
 1297.823variations are due to the several races of the pigeon having inherited from a
 1345.737or three sub-species or geographical races) of a bluish colour, with certain bars
 1584.155purpose the differences between the races of man, which are so strongly marked; I
 2060.666the most important consideration, new races of animals and plants are produced
 2424.204or even from the other well-established races of the domestic pigeon, for the newly
 2556.513if the principal living and extinct races of the domestic pigeon were arranged as
 2799.191some naturalists rank as geographical races, and others as distinct species; and a
 2869.1013stranded may be compared with savage races of man, driven up and surviving in the
 3129.179a genealogical arrangement of the races of man would afford the best
 3129.664states of civilisation of the several races, descended from a common race) had
 3434.182of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurrent
 4170.15insular, 393. Man, origin of races of, 199. Manatee, rudimentary nails of
 4338.35R. Rabbit, disposition of young, 215. Races, domestic, characters of, 16. Race
 5116.152inhabited by the Polynesian Negro Races. Plates. 8vo. 16s. ESKIMAUX (THE) and
1  radetzky 
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5  radiating 
 208.304Affinities, general, complex and radiating — Extinction separates and defines
 2863.1071very distinct species have migrated in radiating lines from some common centre; and I am
 3185.138understand the excessively complex and radiating affinities by which all the members of
 3197.1628together by the most complex and radiating [page] 434 MORPHOLOGY. CHAP. XIII
 3351.229extinct beings are united by complex, radiating, and circuitous lines of affinities
1  radiating—extinction 
 3055.292Affinities, general, complex and radiating—Extinction separates and defines groups—MORPHOLOGY
1  radicle 
 3107.80mode of development of the plumule and radicle. In our discussion on embryology, we
1  radish 
 884.37If several varieties of the cabbage, radish, onion, and of some other plants, be
2  radius 
 1775.142of each sphere at the distance of radius x v 2, or radius x 1.41421 (or at some
 1775.159at the distance of radius x v 2, or radius x 1.41421 (or at some lesser distance
4  railway 
 5354.56or, the London and North-Western Railway. Post 8vo. 2s. 6d. ——Defenceless State
 5498.23By LORD MAHON. LONDON & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. By SIR F. B. HEAD. ADVENTURES IN THE
 5770.8Philip Durham. 8vo. 5s. 6d. MURRAYS RAILWAY READING. For all classes of Readers
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1  rain-water 
 2227.1033be dissolved by the percolation of rain-water. I suspect that but few of the very
8  raise 
 477.484of a wild plant. No one would expect to raise a first-rate melting pear from the seed
 604.466whether or not the amount suffices to raise one or both to the rank of species
 701.191its preservation. Thus we can easily raise plenty of corn and rape-seed, &c., in
 711.670had during twenty-six years tried to raise its head above the stems of the heath
 878.579each other, it is hardly possible to raise pure seedlings, so largely do they
 988.780fresh water. Farmers find that they can raise most food by a rotation of plants
 1942.308to nurserymen. Horticulturists raise large beds of the same hybrids, and
 3558.184at by most naturalists as sufficient to raise both forms to the rank of species
22  raised 
 285.584to our domestic productions having been raised under conditions of life not so uniform
 505.1797larger, earlier, or better fruit, and raised seedlings from them, and again picked
 509.97of the strawberry which have been raised during the last thirty or forty years
 878.1339one flower on the stigma of another, I raised plenty of seedlings; and whilst another
 884.171as I have found, of the seedlings thus raised will turn out mongrels: for instance, I
 884.218will turn out mongrels: for instance, I raised 233 seedling cabbages from some plants
 982.1191weight of dry herbage can thus be raised. The same has been found to hold good
 1177.675thus the pines and rhododendrons, raised from seed collected by Dr. Hooker from
 1924.257amongst breeders. Hybrids are seldom raised by experimentalists in great numbers
 1948.96families of the same hybrid have been raised at the same time from different parents
 1950.570se. This was effected by Mr. Eyton, who raised two hybrids from the same parents but
 1950.667hatches; and from these two birds he raised no less than eight hybrids
 1974.528greatly in the several individuals raised from seed out of the same capsule and
 1980.157shown by hybrids never having been raised between species ranked by systematists
 1986.1595is also a remarkable fact, that hybrids raised from reciprocal crosses, though of
 1992.820sterile, even when the other hybrids raised from seed from the same capsule have a
 2066.826to notice that the hybrid plants thus raised were themselves perfectly fertile; so
 2074.365and one variety can sometimes be raised from the seed of the other. From
 2424.123with the existing breed, could be raised from any other species of pigeon, or
 2452.391and slightly improved variety has been raised, it at first supplants the less
 3113.451naturalists as only a genus, and then raised to the rank of a sub-family or family
 3566.296rise immensely in value. A new variety raised by man will be a far more important and
1  raiser 
 423.35Ask, as I have asked, a celebrated raiser of Hereford cattle, whether his cattle
2  raises 
 1938.743Noble, for instance, informs me that he raises stocks for grafting from a hybrid
 2823.796collected on the loftier peaks of Java raises a picture of a collection made on a
3  raising 
 505.604On the other hand, nurserymen, from raising large stocks of the same plants, are
 1761.215for the very different purpose of raising slaves. When the instinct was once
 3165.425nature in any one class, by arbitrarily raising or sinking the value of the groups in
1  ralph 
 6148.8Third Edition. 12mo. 2s. WORNUM (RALPH). A Biographical Dictionary of Italian
1  rambling 
 511.819other hand, cats, from their nocturnal rambling habits, cannot be matched, and
2  ramifications 
 1108.819with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications. [page] 131 CHAP. V. LAWS OF VARIATION
 5560.33s. KNAPPS (J. A.) English Roots and Ramifications; or, the Derivation and Meaning of
1  ramifying 
 1104.769of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the
2  ramond 
 2773.42those of the Pyrenees, as remarked by Ramond, are more especially allied to the
 4340.0horses, Arab, 35. ——, English, 356. Ramond on plants of Pyrenees, 368. Ramsay
4  ramsay 
 2177.196deposits of many countries! Professor Ramsay has given me the maximum thickness, in
 2207.165has varied from 600 to 3000 feet. Prof. Ramsay has published an account of a downthrow
 2213.321feet, as I am informed by Prof. Ramsay. But if, as some geologists suppose, a
 4341.0Ramond on plants of Pyrenees, 368. Ramsay, Prof., on thickness of the British
1  ramsay's 
 2209.305feet in thickness, as shown in Prof. Ramsay's masterly memoir on this subject. Yet it
1  ramsden's 
 4752.4to 1835. 4to. 21s. each. 31. RAMSDEN'S ENGINE for DIVIDING MATHEMATICAL
1  ramus 
 381.189well as the breadth and length of the ramus of the lower jaw, varies in a highly
65  range 
 272.356why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare? Yet these relations are of
 566.374first impressions. As he extends the range of his observations, he will meet with
 584.594is a different consideration from wide range, and to a certain extent from
 588.12VARY MOST. CHAP. II. those which range widely over the world, are the most
 616.204if a variety were found to have a wider range than that of its supposed parent
 616.737value: these 63 reputed species range on an average over 6.9 of the provinces
 616.911varieties are recorded, and these range over 7.7 provinces; whereas, the
 616.990species to which these varieties belong range over 14.3 provinces. So that the
 616.1097very nearly the same restricted average range, as have those very closely allied
 665.211Europe; and there are plants which now range in India, as I hear from Dr. Falconer
 701.1042even on the extreme confines of their range. For in such cases, we may believe
 743.36Look at a plant in the midst of its range, why does it not double or quadruple
 747.316it. On the confines of its geographical range, a change of constitution with respect
 747.480that only a few plants or animals range so far, that they are destroyed by the
 942.824intercrossing on the confines of the range of each species will thus be checked
 1127.48of varieties of one species, when they range [page] 133 CHAP. V. LAWS OF VARIATION
 1177.1186times having largely extended their range from warmer to cooler latitudes, and
 1183.611of the world, and now have a far wider range than any other rodent, living free
 1331.1160and mouse-duns; by the term dun a large range of colour is included, from one between
 1412.770organic beings, we must see that the range of the inhabitants of any country by no
 1412.1173another by insensible gradations, the range of any one species, depending as it
 1412.1227species, depending as it does on the range of others, will tend to be sharply
 1412.1323each species on the confines of its range, where it exists in lessened numbers
 1412.1527and thus its geographical range will come to be still more sharply
 1414.151so distributed that each has a wide range, with a comparatively narrow neutral
 1560.1059these small enemies, would be able to range into new pastures and thus gain a great
 2213.367But if, as some geologists suppose, a range of older rocks underlies the Weald, on
 2299.657spot. Most marine animals have a wide range; and we have seen that with plants it
 2299.732it is those which have the widest range, that oftenest present varieties; so
 2299.865those which have had the widest range, far exceeding the limits of the known
 2323.59inhabitants of the archipelago now range thousands of miles beyond its confines
 2339.911have huge bones, are marine, and range over the world, the fact of not a
 2351.1126families of fish now have a confined range; the teleostean fish might formerly
 2351.1198formerly have had a similarly confined range, and after having been largely
 2357.535and then to discuss the number and range of its productions. On the sudden
 2651.610fauna. So that here three marine faunas range far northward and southward, in
 2651.1369eastern Pacific islands, yet many fish range from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean
 2683.596discontinuous the formerly continuous range of many species. So that we are reduced
 2687.14DISTRIBUTION. CHAP. XI. continuity of range are so numerous and of so grave a
 2809.133western shores of Britain to the Oural range, and southward to the Pyrenees. We may
 2857.98on the view here given in regard to the range and affinities of the allied species
 2880.435to quite different classes, an enormous range, but allied species prevail in a
 2886.137on the same continent the species often range widely and almost capriciously; for two
 2892.52of fresh-water shells have a very wide range, and allied species, which, on my
 2898.398as if in consequence, a very wide range. I think favourable means of dispersal
 2902.293vast distances, and if consequently the range of these plants was not very great. The
 2910.1080as fresh-water productions ever can range, over immense areas, and having
 3006.351that in those genera of birds which range over the world, many of the species
 3006.755productions, in which so many genera range over the world, and many individual
 3010.43genera all the species have a wide range, or even that they have on an average a
 3010.94that they have on an average a wide range; but only that some of the species
 3010.135but only that some of the species range very widely; for the facility with
 3010.274will largely determine their average range. For instance, two varieties of the
 3010.393and the species thus has an immense range; but, if the variation had been a
 3010.526as distinct species, and the common range would have been greatly reduced. Still
 3010.747winged birds, will necessarily range widely; for we should never forget that
 3010.796for we should never forget that to range widely implies not only the power of
 3010.1218find, that some at least of the species range very widely; for it is necessary that
 3010.1291that the unmodified parent should range widely, undergoing modification during
 3016.767is, the more widely it is apt to range. The relations just discussed,—namely
 3165.613extend the parallelism over a wide range; and thus the septenary, quinary
 3398.425by many means. A broken or interrupted range may often be accounted for by the
 3927.11on colours of shells, 132. —on abrupt range of shells in depth, 175. ——on poorness
 4305.16by insects, 67. ——, in midst of range, have to struggle with other plants
 4557.22Water-ouzel, 185. Watson, Mr. H. C., on range of varieties of British plants
4  ranged 
 1131.878bright-coloured by variation when it ranged into warmer or shallower waters. When
 2880.149fresh-water productions would not have ranged widely within the same country, and as
 2910.1021of many species having formerly ranged as continuously as fresh-water
 3024.413in mind how often a species may have ranged continuously over a wide area, and then
21  ranges 
 132.363to each other, and in having restricted ranges. .. .. .. .. .. .. 44-59 [page] vi
 272.276us. Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very numerous, and why
 524.353to each other, and in having restricted ranges. BEFORE applying the principles
 554.661they have different geographical ranges; and lastly, according to very numerous
 584.73shown that plants which have very wide ranges generally present varieties; and this
 590.982loving plants have generally very wide ranges and are much diffused, but this seems
 616.98generally have much restricted ranges: this statement is indeed scarcely more
 616.459varieties, often have much restricted ranges. For instance, Mr. H. C. Watson has
 622.625species apparently have restricted ranges. In all these several respects the
 743.203dampness or dryness, for elsewhere it ranges [page] 78 STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. CHAP
 1018.301more than rare species with restricted ranges. Let (A) be a common, widely-diffused
 1177.298a state of nature are limited in their ranges by the competition of other organic
 2723.1361such plants generally have restricted ranges. But seeds may be occasionally
 2781.94species will have been left on mountain ranges distant from each other, and have
 2861.269man's agency in a foreign land; why one ranges twice or thrice as far, and is twice or
 2898.61it has long been known what enormous ranges many fresh-water and even marsh-species
 2936.923whatever the cause may be, confined ranges. Hence trees would be little likely to
 2948.1696many of the same species have enormous ranges, and are found on continents and on far
 3006.408many of the species have very wide ranges. I can hardly doubt that this rule is
 3006.819many individual species have enormous ranges. It is not meant that in world- [page
 3454.651genera apparently have restricted ranges, and they are clustered in little
12  ranging 
 132.67Differences — Doubtful species — Wide ranging, much diffused, and common species vary
 524.61differences—Doubtful species—Wide ranging, much diffused, and common species vary
 594.174The cause of lowly-organised plants ranging widely will be discussed in our chapter
 2602.1005any one area and formation; that widely ranging species are those which have varied
 2882.45power in fresh-water productions of ranging widely, though so unexpected, can, I
 3010.0page] 405 CHAP. XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS. ranging genera all the species have a wide
 3010.663the capacity of crossing barriers and ranging widely, as in the case of certain
 3016.349forms will have had a better chance of ranging widely and of still retaining the same
 3018.72low and slowly-changing organisms ranging more widely than the high,—some of the
 3018.163of widely-ranging genera themselves ranging widely,—such facts, as alpine
 3057.720attempted to show that it is the widely ranging, the much diffused and common, that is
 3412.1490at least in any great number. Widely ranging species vary most, and varieties are
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55  ranked 
 343.853animals or plants, which have not been ranked by some competent judges as mere
 383.165birds, would certainly, I think, be ranked by him as well-defined species
 473.155or not sufficiently distinct to be ranked [page] 37 CHAP. I. UNCONSCIOUS
 542.1145very many cases, however, one form is ranked as a variety of another, not because
 544.47in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion
 544.330can be named which have not been ranked as species by at least some competent
 548.246a surprising number of forms have been ranked by one botanist as good species, and by
 548.510as varieties, but which have all been ranked by botanists as species; and in making
 548.639but which nevertheless have been ranked by some botanists as species, and he
 548.989are highly locomotive, doubtful forms, ranked by one zoologist as a species and by
 548.1254slightly from each other, have been ranked by one eminent naturalist as undoubted
 552.20DOUBTFUL SPECIES. be doubted would be ranked as distinct species by many
 552.159as varieties, but which have been ranked as species by some zoologists. Several
 552.875the character of species that they are ranked by other highly-competent judges as
 558.444parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties. Close investigation, in
 560.486varieties, moreover, will be often ranked by some authors as species. Look at the
 608.10II. RESEMBLE VARIETIES. should be ranked as species or varieties. Now Fries has
 616.604th edition) 63 plants which are therein ranked as species, but which he considers as
 616.1227but which are almost universally ranked by British botanists as good and true
 622.67if differing very little, are generally ranked as varieties, notwithstanding that
 1062.688descended from (A), will have to be ranked as very distinct genera, or even as
 1102.0be [page] 129 CHAP. IV. SUMMARY. ranked in a single file, but seem rather to be
 1317.317which themselves must be doubtfully ranked as either varieties or species; and
 1456.74lemur, which formerly was falsely ranked amongst bats. It has an extremely wide
 1711.461have generally, and most justly, been ranked by naturalists as the most wonderful of
 1918.789certain doubtful forms should be ranked as species or varieties, with the
 1950.398so different that they are generally ranked in distinct genera, have often bred in
 1980.180having been raised between species ranked by systematists in distinct families
 2006.1770more readily on the quince, which is ranked as a distinct genus, than on the apple
 2054.563sterile together, they are at once ranked by most naturalists as species. For
 2068.298but the forms experimentised on, are ranked by Sagaret, who mainly founds his
 2080.180in any degree would generally be ranked as species; from man selecting only
 2118.76forms sufficiently distinct to be ranked as species, and their hybrids, are very
 2291.571between B and C, it would simply be ranked as a third and distinct species, unless
 2293.615fossils, though almost universally ranked as specifically different, [page
 2305.308the shores of North America, which are ranked by some conchologists as distinct
 2323.687followed by many palæontologists, be ranked as new and distinct species. If then
 2329.12OF THE CHAP. IX. logists, be ranked as distinct species. But I do not
 2480.1569underlying deposits, would be correctly ranked as simultaneous in a geological sense
 2514.940fall in between existing groups. Cuvier ranked the Ruminants and Pachyderms, as the
 2564.117closely consecutive formations, though ranked as distinct species, being closely
 2781.858same, some present varieties, some are ranked as doubtful forms, and some few are
 2799.293or representative forms which are ranked by all naturalists as specifically
 2833.532hemisphere are of doubtful value, being ranked by some naturalists as specifically
 2833.703related to northern forms, must be ranked as distinct species. Now let us see
 2972.162birds, and twenty-five of these are ranked by Mr. Gould as distinct species
 3010.483the two varieties would have been ranked as distinct species, and the common
 3075.785with the whole life of the being, are ranked as merely "adaptive or analogical
 3095.459leave us in no doubt where it should be ranked. Hence, also, it has been found, that a
 3113.393and insects, of a group of forms, first ranked by practised naturalists as only a
 3119.493this is expressed by the forms being ranked under different genera, families
 3123.357existing species, descended from A, be ranked in the same genus with the parent A; or
 3141.1143Catasetum), which had previously been ranked as three distinct genera, were known to
 3145.476According to all analogy, it would be ranked with bears; but then assuredly all the
 3277.588that they would, I cannot doubt, be ranked in distinct genera, had they been
4  ranking 
 542.685the one as a variety of the other, ranking the most common, but sometimes the one
 2118.335diametrically opposite conclusions in ranking forms by this test. The sterility is
 3127.721have undergone, have to be expressed by ranking them under different so-called genera
 3351.1067of descent has been universally used in ranking together the sexes, ages, and
4  ranks 
 1914.15CHAP. VIII. STERILITY. unhesitatingly ranks them as varieties. Gärtner, also, makes
 2054.813when crossed, and he consequently ranks them as undoubted species. If we thus
 2839.1700forms might have penetrated the native ranks and have reached or even crossed the
 3141.971from the primrose, or conversely, ranks them together as a single species, and
1  rape-seed 
 701.216we can easily raise plenty of corn and rape-seed, &c., in our fields, because the seeds
14  rapid 
 140.98Geometrical powers of increase — Rapid increase of naturalised animals and
 289.214animals are still capable of rapid improvement or modification. It has
 451.316has been, in a corresponding degree, rapid and important. But it is very far from
 661.137recorded cases of the astonishingly rapid increase of various animals in a state
 665.884simply explains the extraordinarily rapid increase and wide diffusion of
 912.720little and which can increase at a very rapid rate, a new and improved variety might
 934.1015will generally have been more rapid on large areas; and what is more
 1257.1161at the present time are undergoing rapid change by continued selection, are also
 1936.109of the hybrid made vigorous growth and rapid progress to maturity, and bore good
 2213.1450of a lofty cliff would be more rapid from the breakage of the fallen
 2464.157by sudden immigration or by unusually rapid development, many species of a new
 2464.290have exterminated in a correspondingly rapid manner many of the old inhabitants; and
 2990.480united. The currents of the sea are rapid and sweep across the archipelago, and
 5346.41S (SIR FRANCIS) Rough Notes of some Rapid Journeys across the Pampas and over the
1  rapidity 
 2994.685s agency, have spread with astonishing rapidity over new countries, we are apt to infer
11  rapidly 
 657.32III. be now increasing, more or less rapidly, in numbers, all cannot do so, for the
 667.251geometrical ratio, that all would most rapidly stock every station in which they could
 673.562to those species, which depend on a rapidly fluctuating amount of food, for it
 673.617amount of food, for it allows them rapidly to increase in number. But the real
 1261.290strain. But as long as selection is rapidly going on, there may always be expected
 1600.371compared with another; but they are now rapidly yielding before the advancing legions
 2299.84animals and plants that can propagate rapidly and are not highly locomotive, there is
 2337.417forms, which would be able to spread rapidly and widely throughout the world. I
 2892.441how some naturalised species have rapidly spread throughout the same country. But
 3032.1615were capable of varying more or less rapidly, there would ensue in different regions
 3331.1249absorbed, can be of any service to the rapidly growing embryonic calf by the excretion
36  rarely 
 291.1338display the utmost vigour, and yet rarely or never seed! In some few such cases
 487.578as is externally visible; and indeed he rarely cares for what is internal. He can
 511.311or the inhabitants of open plains rarely possess more than one breed of the same
 526.747universally implied, though it can rarely be proved. We have also what are called
 548.1059and by another as a variety, can rarely be found within the same country, but
 687.792of prey: even the tiger in India most rarely dares to attack a young elephant
 898.247their whole organisation, yet are not rarely, some of them hermaphrodites, and some
 1155.580winds, or by giving up the attempt and rarely or never flying. As with mariners
 1205.186very frequently, and that others rarely coexist, without our being able to
 1225.361to one part or organ in excess, it rarely flows, at least in excess, to another
 1245.1622males and females; but as females more rarely offer remarkable secondary sexual
 1249.5CHAP. V. LAWS OF VARIATION. more rarely to them. The rule being so plainly
 1263.403in any extreme degree, as species very rarely endure for more than one geological
 1279.23CHAP. V. progenitor, for it can rarely have happened that natural selection
 1309.280of the barb-pigeon, which produces most rarely a blue and black-barred bird, there has
 1323.260apparently of reversion. The ass not rarely has very distinct transverse bars on
 1398.391These contingencies will concur only rarely, and after enormously long intervals
 1470.79for very different habits of life will rarely have been developed at an early period
 1486.328are upland geese with webbed feet which rarely or never go near the water; and no one
 1492.709either living on the dry land or most rarely alighting on the water; that there
 1552.260very small, I have been astonished how rarely an organ can be named, towards which no
 1657.311actions are performed, indeed not rarely in direct opposition to our conscious
 1703.122in those breeds of fowls which very rarely or never become "broody," that is
 1703.753do not keep these domestic animals. How rarely, on the other hand, do our civilised
 1747.217nest. This species is sometimes, though rarely, made into slaves, as has been
 1747.831little and furious F. flava, which they rarely capture, and it was evident that they
 1972.70are very difficult to cross, and which rarely produce any offspring, are generally
 1972.556are species which can be crossed very rarely, or with extreme difficulty, but the
 2038.712though in some degree variable, rarely diminishes. It must, however, be
 2227.847the view of the bottom of the sea not rarely lying for ages in an unaltered
 2301.297the case of fossil species this could rarely be effected by palæontologists. We
 2886.372means; like that of the live fish not rarely dropped by whirlwinds in India, and the
 2898.518that earth occasionally, though rarely, adheres in some quantity to the feet
 3239.1156of the lion. We occasionally though rarely see something of this kind in plants
 3313.208be utterly incapable of flight, and not rarely lying under wing-cases, firmly soldered
 3464.222that upland geese, which never or rarely swim, should have been created with
15  rarer 
 693.258see some species gradually getting rarer and rarer, and finally disappearing
 693.268species gradually getting rarer and rarer, and finally disappearing; and the
 964.164natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The
 964.174selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which
 1400.479and interlock; and as the one becomes rarer and rarer, the other becomes more and
 1400.489and as the one becomes rarer and rarer, the other becomes more and more
 1408.166then becoming somewhat abruptly rarer and rarer on the confines, and finally
 1408.176becoming somewhat abruptly rarer and rarer on the confines, and finally
 1414.255in which they become rather suddenly rarer and rarer; then, as varieties do not
 1414.265they become rather suddenly rarer and rarer; then, as varieties do not essentially
 1418.753two other forms occur, they are much rarer numerically than the forms which they
 1424.243selection to seize on, than will the rarer forms which exist in lesser numbers
 1424.651of well-marked varieties than do the rarer species. I may illustrate what I mean
 2444.1310horse would certainly have become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct;—its
 2444.1320would certainly have become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct;—its place being
1  rarest 
 295.338whereas, carnivorous birds, with the rarest exceptions, hardly ever lay fertile
16  rarity 
 160.87modification — Transitions — Absence or rarity of transitional varieties — Transitions
 511.1141animals vary less than others, yet the rarity or absence of distinct breeds of the
 645.789with every fact on distribution, rarity, abundance, extinction, and variation
 956.548forms decrease and become rare. Rarity, as geology tells us, is the precursor
 1374.83modification—Transitions—Absence or rarity of transitional varieties—Transitions
 1392.18separate chapters. On the absence or rarity of transitional varieties.—As natural
 2233.461than pages of detail. Nor is their rarity surprising, when we remember how large
 2444.280have felt the least surprise at its rarity; for rarity is the attribute of a vast
 2444.292the least surprise at its rarity; for rarity is the attribute of a vast number of
 2446.214agencies are amply sufficient to cause rarity, and finally extinction. We see in many
 2446.312more recent tertiary formations, that rarity precedes extinction; and we know that
 2450.217extinct-to feel no surprise at the rarity of a species, and yet to marvel greatly
 3993.7in the United States, 115. ——, on rarity of intermediate varieties, 176. ——, on
 4529.17extinction of, 111. —, transitional, rarity of, 172. —, when crossed, fertile
 4561.7on Alpine plants, 367, 376. ——, on rarity of intermediate varieties, 176. Weald
 4581.6on wingless beetles, 135. —, on rarity of intermediate varieties, 176. ——, on
2  rates 
 186.78of new species — On their different rates of change — Species once lost do not
 2398.76of new species—On their different rates of change—Species once lost do not
25  rather 
 51.0s works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress
 369.974and then the extreme difficulty, or rather utter hopelessness, of the task becomes
 582.882here is with much brevity, is rather perplexing, and allusions cannot be
 651.781devour and thus disseminate its seeds rather than those of other plants. In these
 836.562or snipes. The tendency to catch rats rather than mice is known to be inherited. Now
 846.582which have four stamens producing rather a small quantity of pollen, and a
 976.192fancier is struck by a pigeon having a rather longer beak; and on the acknowledged
 1006.59will aid us in understanding this rather perplexing subject. Let A to L
 1070.735directly intermediate between them, but rather between types of the two groups; and
 1102.34ranked in a single file, but seem rather to be clustered round points, and these
 1125.191in the case of animals, but perhaps rather more in that of plants. We may, at
 1414.239between them, in which they become rather suddenly rarer and rarer; then, as
 1450.214with the posterior part of their bodies rather wide and with the skin on their flanks
 1450.260wide and with the skin on their flanks rather full, to the so-called flying squirrels
 1456.1163constructed for gliding through the air rather than for flight. If about a dozen
 1586.1073females, can be called useful only in rather a forced sense. But by far the most
 1853.459any two species of the same genus, or rather as any two genera of the same family
 2132.310do not seem to me opposed to, but even rather to support the view, that there is no
 2293.458ought to find. Moreover, if we look to rather wider intervals, namely, to distinct
 3159.1349such resemblances will not reveal—will rather tend to conceal their blood
 3239.802resemblance, sometimes lasts till a rather late age: thus birds of the same genus
 3263.233on this head—indeed the evidence rather points the other way; for it is
 3285.460of variation having supervened at a rather late age, and having been inherited at
 3289.537modification supervening at a rather late age, and being inherited at a
 3289.946having undergone much modification at a rather late period of life, and having thus
7  ratio 
 665.779to breed. In such cases the geometrical ratio of increase, the result of which never
 667.224tending to increase at a geometrical ratio, that all would most rapidly stock
 755.0CHAP. III. STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. ratio; that each at some period of its life
 3434.378follows from the high geometrical ratio of increase which is common to all
 3456.41each species tends by its geometrical ratio of reproduction to increase
 3592.44of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a
 4343.0formations, 284. —, on faults, 285. Ratio of increase, 63. Rats, supplanting each
2  rational 
 1171.154It would be most difficult to give any rational explanation of the affinities of the
 5910.11Vols. Post 8vo. 24s. ——— (MRS.) Rational Arithmetic for Schools and for Private
1  rattle 
 1596.599time this snake is furnished with a rattle for its own injury, namely, to warn its
1  rattlesnake 
 1596.434of any weight. It is admitted that the rattlesnake has a poison-fang for its own defence
1  rattle-snake 
 4347.0of, 141. —, blind in cave, 137. Rattle-snake, 201. Reason and instinct
1  ravaged 
 1753.90on the top of a spray of heath over its ravaged home. Such are the facts, though they
1  ravages 
 5932.73To which are added Chapters on the Ravages, the Preservation, for Purposes of
3  rawlinson 
 5374.76with Notes, and Essays. By Rev Or. RAWLINSON, assisted by SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, and
 5374.109Or. RAWLINSON, assisted by SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, and SIR J. G- WILKINSON. Maps and
 5926.112Notes and Essays. Assisted by SIR HENRY RAWLINSON and SIR J. G WILKINSON. Maps and
1  rawlinson's 
 5926.0Third Edition. 2 Vols. 8vo. 24s. RAWLINSON'S (REV. GEORGE) Herodotus. A New English
3  ray-florets 
 1211.431and the shape of the seeds in the ray-florets in some Compositæ countenances this
 1213.164that C. C. Sprengel's idea that the ray-florets serve to attract insects, whose agency
 4428.7C. C., on crossing, 98. ——, on ray-florets, 145. Squirrels, gradations in
1  ray-petals 
 1211.728thought that the development of the ray-petals by drawing nourishment from certain
11  reach 
 693.1415or in descending a mountain. When we reach the Arctic regions, or snow-capped
 719.905pratense), as other bees cannot reach the nectar. Hence I have very little
 747.567of the climate alone. Not until we reach the extreme confines of life, in the
 1502.267lines, can be shown to exist, until we reach a moderately high stage of perfection
 2022.647pistil too long for the pollen-tubes to reach the ovarium. It has also been observed
 2026.17CHAP. VIII. male element may reach the female element, but be incapable of
 2171.48of degradation. The tides in most cases reach the cliffs only for a short time twice
 2355.174capes of Africa or Australia, and thus reach other and distant seas. From these and
 2936.969Hence trees would be little likely to reach distant oceanic islands; and an
 3251.1001well-developed organs of sense, and to reach by their active powers of swimming, a
 3317.238pistil is to allow the pollen-tubes to reach the ovules protected in the ovarium at
5  reached 
 1167.1131By the time that an animal had reached, after numberless generations, the
 2761.851plains. By the time that the cold had reached its maximum, we should have a uniform
 2839.1715penetrated the native ranks and have reached or even crossed the equator. The
 2845.405on the lowlands; those which had not reached the equator, would re-migrate northward
 2962.224since their arrival, could have reached their present homes. But the
2  reaches 
 1018.1157natural selection. When a dotted line reaches one of the horizontal lines, and is
 2428.329increase in number, till the group reaches its maximum, and then, sooner or later
2  reaching 
 1034.633by some of the lower branches not reaching to the upper horizontal lines. In some
 2022.544impossibility in the male element reaching the ovule, as would be the case with a
1  reacting 
 1430.384produced and the old ones acting and reacting on each other. So that, in any one
3  reaction 
 729.554this problem compared to the action and reaction of the innumerable plants and animals
 2663.680immigrants;—and on their action and reaction, in their mutual struggles for life
 3032.1813endless amount of organic action and reaction,—and we should find, as we do find
9  reader 
 242.164statements; and I must trust to the reader reposing some confidence in my accuracy
 1376.102difficulties will have occurred to the reader. Some of them are so grave that to this
 1865.309driver ant (Anomma) of West Africa. The reader will perhaps best appreciate the amount
 2165.334possible for me even to recall to the reader, who may not be a practical geologist
 2528.162is somewhat complex, I must request the reader to turn to the diagram in the fourth
 3063.233and preceding forms. I request the reader to turn to the diagram illustrating the
 3119.559families, sections, or orders. The reader will best understand what is meant, if
 3376.71argument, it may be convenient to the reader to have the leading facts and
 3384.195when crossed, I must refer the reader to the recapitulation of the facts
2  reader's 
 681.716a few remarks, just to recall to the reader's mind some of the chief points. Eggs or
 1683.473can produce but a feeble effect on the reader's mind. I can only repeat my assurance
2  readers 
 1649.276will probably have occurred to many readers, as a difficulty sufficient to
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1  readiest 
 3018.774of colonisation from the nearest and readiest source, together with the subsequent
21  readily 
 441.984he will assuredly fail. Few would readily believe in the natural capacity and
 1153.901other hand, those beetles which most readily took to flight will oftenest have been
 1173.464be correct, acclimatisation must be readily effected during long-continued descent
 1179.115man because they were useful and bred readily under confinement, and not because they
 1183.851to any special climate as a quality readily grafted on an innate wide flexibility
 1225.478a cow to give much milk and to fatten readily. The same varieties of the cabbage do
 1285.316a wide scope for action, and may thus readily have succeeded in giving to the species
 1297.228These propositions will be most readily understood by looking to our domestic
 1361.1293in this case, natural selection may readily have succeeded in giving a fixed
 1932.657can actually be hybridised much more readily than they can be self-fertilised! For
 1942.580is thus prevented. Any one may readily convince himself of the efficiency of
 1980.712in which very many species can most readily be crossed; and another genus, as
 2006.1738other. The pear can be grafted far more readily on the quince, which is ranked as a
 2056.296indigenous domestic dogs do not readily cross with European dogs, the
 2293.130species; and they do this the more readily if the specimens come from different
 2735.397contents of their torn crops might thus readily get scattered. Mr. Brent informs me
 2761.217But we shall follow the changes more readily, by supposing a new glacial period to
 2936.1210with herbaceous plants alone, might readily gain an advantage by growing taller and
 3000.243that region whence colonists could most readily have been derived,—the colonists having
 3159.1214two most distinct lines of descent, may readily become adapted to similar conditions
 3225.516little-modified forms; therefore we may readily believe that the unknown progenitor of
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 641.1519hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is as immeasurably
 878.1153the stigma of that individual flower is ready to receive them; and as this flower is
 882.94the anthers burst before the stigma is ready for fertilisation, or the stigma is
 882.136for fertilisation, or the stigma is ready before the pollen of that flower is
 882.178before the pollen of that flower is ready, so that these plants have in fact
 3448.69variability and a powerful agent always ready to act and select, why should we doubt
 3468.79number, with natural selection always ready to adapt the slowly varying descendants
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1  realise 
 435.66of cattle and sheep. In order fully to realise what they have done, it is almost
1  realities 
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17  really 
 319.285potato, even the dahlia, &c.; and it is really surprising to note the endless points
 878.946in Lobelia fulgens, there is a really beautiful and elaborate contrivance by
 1092.30males. Whether natural selection has really thus acted in nature, in modifying and
 1568.83importance to characters which are really of very little importance, and which
 1813.716between these spheres. It was really curious to note in cases of difficulty
 1914.1772to doubt whether many other species are really so sterile, when intercrossed, as
 2143.728on climate; and, therefore, that the really governing conditions of life do not
 2277.94glacial period, instead of having been really far greater, that is extending from
 2305.444conchologists as only varieties, are really varieties or are, as it is called
 2331.417to the same genera or families, have really started into life all at once, the fact
 2351.449are as yet imperfectly known, are really teleostean. Assuming, however, that the
 2723.206wet and exposed to the air like really floating plants. He tried 98 seeds
 2833.358the Alpine or mountain floras really become less and less arctic." Many of
 2990.4widely and remaining the same. The really surprising fact in this case of the
 3237.199through inheritance, if they had really been metamorphosed during a long course
 3271.313though appearing so different, are really varieties most closely allied, and have
 3544.146than at an ordinary birth. But do they really believe that at innumerable periods in
14  reappear 
 186.121of change — Species once lost do not reappear — Groups of species follow the same
 804.107any particular period of life, tend to reappear in the offspring at the same period
 1305.61surprising fact that characters should reappear after having been lost for many
 1345.899these bars and other marks invariably reappear; but without any other change of form
 1345.1091for the blue tint and bars and marks to reappear in the mongrels. I have stated that the
 1568.332on the organisation; that characters reappear from the law of reversion; that
 1586.899or from other unknown cause, may reappear from the law of reversion, though now
 2408.1600then allow the pre-existing fauna to reappear; but Lyell's explanation, namely, that
 2420.68a species when once lost should never reappear, even if the very same conditions of
 2426.222or lesser degree. A group does not reappear after it has once disappeared; or its
 2614.504once wholly disappeared, it does not reappear; for the link of generation has been
 3191.191lived on this earth were suddenly to reappear, though it would be quite impossible to
 3269.163appears in the parent, it tends to reappear at a corresponding age in the offspring
 3492.633single species nor groups of species reappear when the chain of ordinary generation
5  reappearance 
 325.476almost compels us to attribute its reappearance to inheritance. Every one must have
 1303.598conditions of life to cause the reappearance of the slaty-blue, with the several
 1345.1184probable hypothesis to account for the reappearance of very ancient characters, is-that
 2831.467Sir J. Richardson, also, speaks of the reappearance on the shores of New Zealand, Tasmania
 3337.248of an ear in earless breeds,—the reappearance of minute dangling horns in hornless
1  reappeared 
 2285.1440of deposition, but have disappeared and reappeared, perhaps many times, during the same
1  reappear—groups 
 2398.117of change—Species once lost do not reappear—Groups of species follow the same general
4  reappears 
 325.388several million individuals—and it reappears in the child, the mere doctrine of
 1305.990which has been lost in a breed, reappears after a great number of generations
 2408.1379that the same identical form never reappears. The strongest apparent exception to
 2610.607a species has once disappeared it never reappears. Groups of species increase in numbers
5  reared 
 511.1488in peacocks, from not being very easily reared and a large stock not kept; in geese
 1707.24CHAP. VII. young pheasants, though reared under a hen. It is not that chickens
 1717.1554lead me to believe, that the young thus reared would be apt to follow by inheritance
 1757.324and the ants thus unintentionally reared would then follow their proper
 2994.1578are laid there than can possibly be reared; and we may infer that the mocking
1  rearing 
 1717.1748birds' nests, and thus be successful in rearing their young. By a continued process of
73  reason 
 331.362and that when there is no apparent reason why a peculiarity should appear at any
 461.663breed has been less improved. There is reason to believe that King Charles's spaniel
 542.323most important for us. We have every reason to believe that many of these doubtful
 596.770act of creation, there is no apparent reason why more varieties should occur in a
 602.347more especially as we have every reason to believe the process of manufacturing
 616.312ought to be reversed. But there is also reason to believe, that those species which
 719.496thus to fertilise them. I have, also, reason to believe that humble-bees are
 747.428an advantage to our plant; but we have reason to believe that only a few plants or
 778.8for the work of improvement. We have reason to believe, as stated in the first
 796.129to destruction. Hence I can see no reason to doubt that natural selection might
 822.867standard of beauty, I can see no good reason to doubt that female birds, by
 830.592I can under such circumstances see no reason to doubt that the swiftest and slimmest
 830.903on other animals. I can see no more reason to doubt this, than that man can
 842.588and the act of crossing, we have good reason to believe (as will hereafter be more
 852.539such facts in mind, I can see no reason to doubt that an accidental deviation
 864.1115of plants are hermaphrodites. What reason, it may be asked, is there for
 920.78already attempted to show that we have reason to believe that occasional intercrosses
 956.1140shows us plainly; and indeed we can see reason why they should not have thus increased
 1078.9of descent had diverged less. I see no reason to limit the process of modification
 1177.225which here enjoy good health. We have reason to believe that species in a state of
 1189.290habit. On the other hand, I can see no reason to doubt that natural selection will
 1205.239without our being able to assign any reason. What can be more singular than the
 1267.103may be made constant, I can see no reason to doubt. Hence when an organ, however
 1331.609when first foaled. I have, also, reason to suspect, from information given me
 1353.123a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part differs, more or
 1450.716food more quickly, or, as there is reason to believe, by lessening the danger
 1494.374in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations
 1508.377any of the transitional grades. His reason ought to conquer his imagination
 1580.827in high regions would, we have some reason to believe, increase the size of the
 1580.1194under different climates; and there is reason to believe that constitution and colour
 1604.315most perfect organ, the eye. If our reason leads us to admire with enthusiasm a
 1604.417contrivances in nature, this same reason tells us, though we may easily err on
 1655.134Huber expresses it, of judgment or reason, often comes into play, even in animals
 1657.402yet they may be modified by the will or reason. Habits easily become associated with
 1725.510and M. Fabre has lately shown good reason for believing that although the
 1914.1368and cowslip, which we have such good reason to believe to be varieties, and only
 1950.115fertile hybrid animals, I have some reason to believe that the hybrids from
 1956.869fertile hybrids. So again there is reason to believe that our European and the
 2006.681two plants. We can sometimes see the reason why one tree will not take on another
 2006.900a multitude of cases we can assign no reason whatever. Great diversity in the size
 2120.344reproductive systems. There is no more reason to think that species have been
 2155.108to the horse and tapir, we have no reason to suppose that links ever existed
 2171.190with sand or pebbles; for there is reason to believe that pure water can effect
 2299.132and are not highly locomotive, there is reason to suspect, as we have formerly seen
 2313.18of the world! But we have every reason to believe that the terrestrial
 2385.736the immutability of species. But I have reason to believe that one great authority
 2408.721observed in Switzerland. There is some reason to believe that organisms, considered
 2408.1326from the face of the earth, we have reason to believe that the same identical form
 2420.824destroyed, and in nature we have every reason to believe that the parent-form will
 2434.567On the contrary, we have every reason to believe, from the study of the
 2438.392or any single genus endures. There is reason to believe that the complete extinction
 2506.37other parts of the world. As we have reason to believe that large areas are
 2556.153of the species was perfect, we have no reason to believe that forms successively
 2671.623in many other cases, in which we have reason to believe that the species of a genus
 2787.288of an opposite nature. We have good reason to believe that during the newer
 2849.194opposite hemisphere. Although we have reason to believe from geological evidence
 2857.368lines and means of migration, or the reason why certain species and not others have
 2910.764the scale of nature, and that we have reason to believe that such low beings change
 2922.153can be named. In St. Helena there is reason to believe that the naturalised plants
 2990.372the British Channel, and there is no reason to suppose that they have at any former
 3016.126new conditions. There is, also, some reason to believe from geological evidence
 3081.834which the same organ, as we have every reason to suppose, has nearly the same
 3245.370of a frog under water. We have no more reason to believe in such a relation, than we
 3255.310on growth. But there is no obvious reason why, for instance, the wing of a bat
 3343.758early period of life (as we have good reason to believe to be possible) the
 3378.375to, though analogous with, human reason, but by the accumulation of innumerable
 3398.70have been effected. Yet, as we have reason to believe that some species have
 3404.441in the intermediate zone. For we have reason to believe that only a few species are
 3426.754of life remain the same, we have reason to believe that a modification, which
 3434.20species. There is no obvious reason why the principles which have acted so
 3564.209up of the labour, the experience, the reason, and even the blunders of numerous
 4053.10Huber on cells of bees, 230. —, P., on reason blended with instinct, 208. —, on
 4348.0blind in cave, 137. Rattle-snake, 201. Reason and instinct, 208. Recapitulation
3  reasonably 
 1821.172under its conditions of life, it may reasonably be asked, how a long and graduated
 2281.261mineralogical composition, we may reasonably suspect that the process of deposition
 2783.481North America and Europe; and it may be reasonably asked how I account for the necessary
4  reasoning 
 1584.396here entering on copious details my reasoning would appear frivolous. The foregoing
 1906.841endowment, beyond the province of our reasoning powers. The fertility of varieties
 3139.209this habit; nevertheless, without any reasoning or thinking on the subject, these
 3331.151struck with astonishment: for the same reasoning power which tells us plainly that most
12  reasons 
 291.611prior to the act of conception. Several reasons make me believe in this; but the chief
 359.645parent. With respect to horses, from reasons which I cannot give here, I am
 389.349trifling respects. As several of the reasons which have led me to this belief are in
 407.19in the extreme. From these several reasons, namely, the improbability of man
 411.493perfectly fertile;—from these several reasons, taken together, I can feel no doubt
 1434.299these intermediate varieties will, from reasons already assigned (namely from what we
 1612.1108for an intermediate zone; but from reasons assigned, the intermediate variety will
 2143.327a very obvious difficulty. I assigned reasons why such links do not commonly occur at
 2265.430for its deposition, I can see several reasons why each should not include a graduated
 2291.329gradations. And this from the reasons just assigned we can seldom hope to
 2502.84subject worth making. I have given my reasons for believing that all our greater
 2789.16to the Glacial epoch. Believing, from reasons before alluded to, that our continents
1  rebellion 
 5658.34s. "Forty-Five; " a Narrative of the Rebellion in Scotland. Post 8vo. 3s. ——— History
1  rebuild 
 1813.855the bees would entirely pull down and rebuild in different ways the same cell
4  recall 
 681.702I will make only a few remarks, just to recall to the reader's mind some of the chief
 2165.320It is hardly possible for me even to recall to the reader, who may not be a
 2337.11as if suddenly created. I may here recall a remark formerly made, namely that it
 2339.176have suddenly been produced. I may recall the well-known fact that in geological
4  recapitulated 
 3376.127leading facts and inferences briefly recapitulated. That many and grave objections may be
 3420.133my theory; and I have now briefly recapitulated the answers and explanations which can
 3448.874be in itself probable. I have already recapitulated, as fairly as I could, the opposed
 3526.11will not understand. I have now recapitulated the chief facts and considerations
29  recapitulation 
 213.0Summary 411-458 CHAPTER XIV. RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION. Recapitulation of
 215.4RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION. Recapitulation of the difficulties on the theory of
 215.76on the theory of Natural Selection — Recapitulation of the general and special
 270.6give a [page] 6 INTRODUCTION. brief recapitulation of the whole work, and a few concluding
 3367.22or arguments. [page] 459 CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION. CHAPTER XIV. RECAPITULATION AND
 3372.0XIV. RECAPITULATION. CHAPTER XIV. RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION. Recapitulation of
 3374.4RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION. Recapitulation of the difficulties on the theory of
 3380.11I think, be disputed. [page] 460 RECAPITULATION. CHAP. XIV. It is, no doubt, extremely
 3384.209crossed, I must refer the reader to the recapitulation of the facts given at the end of the
 3388.22most of the [page] 461 CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION. varieties which have been
 3396.11We are often wholly unable [page] 462 RECAPITULATION. CHAP. XIV. even to conjecture how
 3402.22connecting [page] 463 CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION. links between them, but only between
 3408.11certainly on my theory such [page] 464 RECAPITULATION. CHAP. XIV. strata must somewhere have
 3414.22modified and im- [page] 465 CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION. proved; and when they do spread, if
 3422.11during many years to [page] 466 RECAPITULATION. CHAP. XIV. doubt their weight. But it
 3430.22he only [page] 467 CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION. unintentionally exposes organic
 3436.11extinct. As the indi- [page] 468 RECAPITULATION. CHAP. XIV. viduals of the same
 3444.22all naturalists [page] 469 CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION. have admitted the existence of
 3452.11it is that in each region [page] 470 RECAPITULATION. CHAP. XIV. where many species of a
 3458.22new and dominant [page] 471 CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION. forms; so that each large group tends
 3466.11But on the view of each [page] 472 RECAPITULATION. CHAP. XIV. species constantly trying
 3474.22resist this con- [page] 473 CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION. clusion when we look, for instance
 3480.11distinct from each other; [page] 474 RECAPITULATION. CHAP. XIV. and therefore these same
 3486.22of life, [page] 475 CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION. yet should follow nearly the same
 3494.11in character between the [page] 476 RECAPITULATION. CHAP. XIV. fossils in the formations
 3500.22and the means of [page] 477 CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION. modification have been the same. We
 3506.11any continent. Such facts [page] 478 RECAPITULATION. CHAP. XIV. as the presence of
 3514.22of hardly any [page] 479 CHAP. XIV. RECAPITULATION. importance in classification; why
 4349.0snake, 201. Reason and instinct, 208. Recapitulation, general, 459. Reciprocity of crosses
1  receding 
 2833.278H. C. Watson has recently remarked, "In receding from polar towards equatorial latitudes
1  receipt-book 
 5128.7and an Index. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. FAMILY RECEIPT-BOOK. A Collection of a Thousand Valuable
1  receipts 
 5128.68of a Thousand Valuable and Useful Receipts. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. 6d. [page
10  receive 
 499.804valuable, and will then probably first receive a provincial name. In semi-civilised
 878.1162of that individual flower is ready to receive them; and as this flower is never
 1755.1209So that the masters in this country receive much less service from their slaves
 2373.155To show that it may hereafter receive some explanation, I will give the
 2693.411miles from a continent, would probably receive from it in the course of time a few
 2753.148remote from the mainland, would not receive colonists by similar means. I do not
 2972.1650America. I believe this grand fact can receive no sort of explanation on the ordinary
 2972.1824Galapagos Islands would be likely to receive colonists, whether by occasional means
 2984.702other that they would almost certainly receive immigrants from the same original
 3510.983It must be admitted that these facts receive no explanation on the theory of
4  received 
 244.123the generous assistance which I have received from very many naturalists, some of
 2693.13CENTRES OF CREATION. has probably received at some former period immigrants from
 2749.1782would be very difficult to prove this), received within the last few centuries, through
 3502.1186and as the two areas will have received colonists from some third source or
2  receiving 
 878.863which effectually prevent the stigma receiving pollen from its own flower: for
 878.1573to prevent the stigma of a flower receiving its own pollen, yet, as [page] 99 CHAP
1  recension 
 5032.44REV. W.) Remains of a very Ancient Recension of the Four Gospels in Syriac, hitherto
51  recent 
 305.860Under this point of view, Mr. Buckman's recent experiments on plants seem extremely
 393.586feral in several places. Again, all recent experience shows that it is most
 737.330of distinct genera. We see this in the recent extension over parts of the United
 737.456the decrease of another species. The recent increase of the missel-thrush in parts
 1189.813and as most of these varieties are of recent origin, they cannot owe their
 1267.531the modification has been comparatively recent and extraordinarily great that we ought
 1275.546which have varied within a moderately recent period, and which have thus come to
 1406.550must often have existed within recent times in a far less continuous and
 1432.66must often have existed within the recent period in isolated portions, in which
 2094.279in most cases that there has been recent variability; and therefore we might
 2241.317several hundred feet within the recent period, than the absence of any recent
 2241.356recent period, than the absence of any recent deposits sufficiently extensive to last
 2241.791America, no extensive formations with recent or tertiary remains can anywhere be
 2402.364forms more gradual. In some of the most recent beds, though undoubtedly of high
 2446.279We see in many cases in the more recent tertiary formations, that rarity
 2526.90and the eocene Mammals, with the more recent members of the same classes, we must
 2528.1116illustrated by this diagram, the more recent any form is, the more it will generally
 2534.32F14. All the many forms, extinct and recent, descended from A, make, as before
 2552.499are not the oldest, or the most recent; nor are those which are intermediate
 2566.85There has been much discussion whether recent forms are more highly developed than
 2570.5CHAP. X. STATE OF DEVELOPMENT. more recent forms must, on my theory, be higher
 2570.642manner the organisation of the more recent and victorious forms of life, in
 2576.81to a certain extent the embryos of recent animals of the same classes; or that
 2576.231to the embryological development of recent forms. I must follow Pictet and Huxley
 2576.499from each other within comparatively recent times. For this doctrine of Agassiz
 2618.68that all the forms of life, ancient and recent, make together one grand system; for
 2624.412to a certain extent the embryos of more recent animals of the same class, the fact
 2671.709have been produced within comparatively recent times, there is great difficulty on
 2683.499which have certainly occurred within recent geological times, must have interrupted
 2707.1011as to have united them within the recent period to each other and to the several
 2707.1755it will ever be proved that within the recent period continents which are now quite
 2711.536geographical revolutions within the recent period, as are necessitated on the view
 2759.268and inorganic, that within a very recent geological period, central Europe and
 2795.727left isolated, within a much more recent period, on the several mountain-ranges
 2886.571mainly to slight changes within the recent period in the level of the land, having
 2886.859of level in the land within a very recent geological period, and when the surface
 2916.503lead to the belief that within the recent period all existing islands have been
 2958.185have been continuously united within a recent period to the mainland than islands
 3000.589widely throughout the world during the recent Glacial epoch, are related to those of
 3024.94have certainly occurred within the recent period, and of other similar changes
 3167.484for the fact that all organisms, recent and extinct, are included under a few
 3297.39As all the organic beings, extinct and recent, which [page] 449 CHAP. XIII
 3305.253of life to the embryonic stages of recent forms, may be true, but yet, owing to
 3496.197beings belong to the same system with recent beings, falling either into the same or
 3496.713between existing and allied groups. Recent forms are generally looked at as being
 3496.1174for within a confined country, the recent and the extinct will naturally be
 3512.187extinct groups often falling in between recent groups, is intelligible on the theory
 4386.21products, 29. ——, principle not of recent origin, 33 —, unconscious
 5192.107incorporating the Researches of Recent Commentators. By Dr. WM. SMITH. Sixth
 5520.55Described from the Accounts of Recent Dutch Travellers, New Edition. Post 8vo
 6006.107Incorporating the Researches of Recent Commentators. Sixth Thousand. Woodcuts
15  recently 
 536.27CHAP. II. by slow degrees: yet quite recently Mr. Lubbock has shown a degree of
 536.250naturalist, I may add, has also quite recently shown that the muscles in the larvæ of
 890.866On the other hand, Dr. Hooker has recently informed me that he finds that the rule
 934.673oscillations of level, will often have recently existed in a broken condition, so that
 1060.511p14, will be nearly related from having recently branched off from a10; b14 and f
 1211.1307case of correlation, that I have recently observed in some garden pelargoniums
 1293.983much in common,—to parts which have recently and largely varied being more likely
 1357.1634being still variable, because they have recently varied and thus come to differ; but we
 2440.760rate, I asked myself what could so recently have exterminated the former horse
 2570.949in which European productions have recently spread over New Zealand, and have
 2707.177all the islands in the Atlantic must recently have been connected with Europe or
 2707.511a single island exists which has not recently been united to some continent. This
 2833.255zones. As Mr. H. C. Watson has recently remarked, "In receding from polar
 2869.198I believe that the world has recently felt one of his great cycles of change
 3147.978of life to which each species has been recently exposed. Rudimentary structures on this
2  recesses 
 1167.743outer world into the deeper and deeper recesses of the Kentucky caves, as did European
 1167.1182numberless generations, the deepest recesses, disuse will on this view have more or
19  reciprocal 
 1986.5page] 258 HYBRIDISM. CHAP. VIII. By a reciprocal cross between two species, I mean the
 1986.308difference in the facility of making reciprocal crosses. Such cases are highly
 1986.762This difference in the result of reciprocal crosses between the same two species
 1986.1355this difference of facility in making reciprocal crosses is extremely common in a lesser
 1986.1607fact, that hybrids raised from reciprocal crosses, though of course compounded of
 1998.80latter statement is clearly proved by reciprocal crosses between the same two species
 1998.373The hybrids, moreover, produced from reciprocal crosses often differ in fertility. Now
 2000.689great a difference in the result of a reciprocal cross between the same two species? Why
 2006.9VIII. COMPARED WITH GRAFTING. that, in reciprocal crosses between two species the male
 2012.249in being grafted together. As in reciprocal crosses, the facility of effecting an
 2040.206fertility of hybrids produced from reciprocal crosses; or the increased sterility in
 2078.369by the severest trial, namely, by reciprocal crosses, and he found their mongrel
 2102.594variety. Hybrid plants produced from a reciprocal cross, generally resemble each other
 2102.685and so it is with mongrels from a reciprocal cross. Both hybrids and mongrels can be
 2118.691and sometimes widely different, in reciprocal crosses between the same two species
 3799.9centres of, 352. Crinum, 250. Crosses, reciprocal, 258. Crossing of domestic animals
 3962.4on sterility of hybrids, 247, 255. —on reciprocal crosses, 258. —on crossed maize and
 4108.4on sterility of hybrids, 247. —on reciprocal crosses, 258. ——on crossed varieties of
 4176.11organs of rays, 193. Matthiola, reciprocal crosses of, 258. Means of dispersal
3  reciprocally 
 1986.214species may then be said to have been reciprocally crossed. There is often the widest
 1986.1090eight following years, to fertilise reciprocally M. longiflora with the pollen of M
 3384.651when the same two species are crossed reciprocally; that is, when one species is first
1  reciprocity 
 4349.30Recapitulation, general, 459. Reciprocity of crosses, 258. Record, geological
1  reckon 
 417.170are come to this pass, that they can reckon up their pedigree and race." Pigeons
1  reckoned 
 659.588be a million plants. The elephant is reckoned to be the slowest breeder of all known
2  recognisable 
 1982.82or what amount, of difference in any recognisable character is sufficient to prevent two
 1986.494of their systematic affinity, or of any recognisable difference in their whole organisation
5  recognise 
 479.180in a vast number of cases we cannot recognise, and therefore do not know, the wild
 2155.521all such cases, we should be unable to recognise the parent-form of any two or more
 2165.556which the future historian will recognise as having produced a revolution in
 2291.1126transitional gradations, we should not recognise their relationship, and should
 3412.528have existed. We should not be able to recognise a species as the parent of any one or
11  recognised 
 435.1333in regard to merino sheep is so fully recognised, that men follow it as a trade: the
 461.344changes of this kind could never be recognised unless actual measurements or careful
 477.154together by crossing, may plainly be recognised in the increased size and beauty which
 499.728will spread more widely, and will get recognised as something distinct and valuable, and
 2345.563which even a fragment of a valve can be recognised; from all these circumstances, I
 2468.260our European Chalk formation can be recognised in many distant parts of the world
 2550.972was first discovered, were at once recognised by palæontologists as intermediate in
 3109.449these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and
 3301.1201that cirripedes can at once be recognised by their larvæ as belonging to the
 3574.308great fossiliferous formation will be recognised as having depended on an unusual
 3578.905by us, will hereafter be recognised as a mere fragment of time, compared
1  recognising 
 1317.41considerable part of the difficulty in recognising a variable species in our systematic
1  recollections 
 5528.48and Occupations of Country Life. With Recollections of Natural History. Third Edition
1  recommended 
 1189.709which certain varieties are habitually recommended for the northern, and others for the
1  reconcile 
 1843.434may well be asked how is it possible to reconcile this case with the theory of natural
2  recondite 
 1763.376that bees have practically solved a recondite problem, and have made their cells of
 2080.348not wishing or being able to produce recondite and functional differences in the
1  reconverted 
 3251.1326no antennæ, and their two eyes are now reconverted into a minute, single, and very simple
1  re-converted 
 946.262renewed elevation, the islands shall be re-converted into a continental area, there will
70  record 
 178.38ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD. On the absence of intermediate
 266.908the imperfection of the Geological Record. In the next chapter I shall consider
 289.14VARIATION CHAP. I. No case is on record of a variable being ceasing to be
 369.1196nor can I find a single case on record of a permanent race having been thus
 413.1091of the world; the earliest known record of pigeons is in the fifth Ægyptian
 499.1441chance will be infinitely small of any record having been preserved of such slow
 707.18not here enlarge. Many cases are on record showing how complex and unexpected are
 1018.1392such as would be thought worthy of record in a systematic work. The intervals
 1394.264on the Imperfection of the geological record; and I will here only state that I
 1394.344I believe the answer mainly lies in the record being incomparably less perfect than is
 1394.435supposed; the imperfection of the record being chiefly due to organic beings not
 1440.561an extremely imperfect and intermittent record. On the origin and transitions of
 2134.48CHAP. IX. IMPERFECTION OF GEOLOGICAL RECORD. CHAPTER IX. ON THE IMPERFECTION OF
 2139.38ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD. On the absence of intermediate
 2147.688extreme imperfection of the geological record. In the first place it should always
 2151.32have [page] 281 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. determined from a mere comparison of
 2169.32the [page] 283 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. process of degradation. The tides in
 2203.32been [page] 285 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. worn by the waves and pared all round
 2215.32page] 287 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. of one inch per century for the whole
 2227.596bespeaks its purity. The many cases on record of a formation conformably covered
 2231.32fossil [page] 289 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. remains is fragmentary in an extreme
 2235.39But the imperfection in the geological record mainly results from another and more
 2241.563beds are so scantily developed, that no record of several successive and peculiar
 2245.32page] 291 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. in profound depths of the sea, in
 2247.218upraised will give a most imperfect record of the forms of life which then existed
 2257.20the coast-action. Thus the geological record will almost necessarily be rendered
 2259.376generally be a blank in the geological record. On the other hand, during subsidence
 2261.75cannot be doubted that the geological record, viewed as a whole, is extremely
 2263.32under- [page] 293 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. stand, why we do not therein find
 2265.157and at its close. Some cases are on record of the same species presenting distinct
 2275.32life [page] 295 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. of the embedded fossils had been less
 2289.32have [page] 297 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. no golden rule by which to
 2303.32asking [page] 299 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. ourselves whether, for instance
 2315.705be much variation, but the geological record would then be least perfect. It may be
 2319.32are [page] 301 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. indispensable for the preservation of
 2321.508to migrate, and no closely consecutive record of their modifications could be
 2329.106I should ever have suspected how poor a record of the mutations of life, the best
 2331.834rate the perfection of the geological record, and falsely infer, because certain
 2333.32have [page] 303 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. probably elapsed between our
 2347.32page] 305 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. stratum. Hence we now positively know
 2361.32them. [page] 307 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. If, moreover, they had been the
 2377.32and [page] 309 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. tear; and would have been at least
 2379.334remotest period of which we have any record; and on the other hand, that where
 2385.1012Those who think the natural geological record in any degree perfect, and who do not
 2385.1261I look at the natural geological record, as a history of the world imperfectly
 2387.32has [page] 311 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. been preserved; and of each page
 2542.292only the last volume of the geological record, and that in a very broken condition
 2556.65in this and other such cases, that the record of the first appearance and
 2598.92attempted to show that the geological record is extremely imperfect; that only a
 2602.664of elevation, and during the latter the record will have been least perfectly kept
 2602.1226must have tended to make the geological record extremely imperfect, and will to a
 2604.59views on the nature of the geological record, will rightly reject my whole theory
 2626.23by inheritance. If then the geological record be as imperfect as I believe it to be
 2626.110it may at least be asserted that the record cannot be proved to be much more
 2869.1117of almost every land, which serve as a record, full of interest to us, of the former
 3305.313true, but yet, owing to the geological record not extending far enough back in time
 3315.519male mammals, for many instances are on record of these organs having become well
 3412.94on the supposition that the geological record is far more imperfect than most
 3412.848to the imperfection of the geological record. Numerous existing doubtful forms could
 3416.656elevation and of stationary level the record will be blank. During these latter
 3418.175the ninth chapter. That the geological record is imperfect all will admit; but that
 3424.437we know how imperfect the Geological Record is. Grave as these several difficulties
 3446.97sufficiently distinct to be worthy of record in systematic works. No one can draw
 3492.32laws. If we admit that the geological record is imperfect in an extreme degree, then
 3492.97extreme degree, then such facts as the record gives, support the theory of descent
 3530.715without proof, that the geological record is so perfect that it would have
 3574.78from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its
 3975.24of, 487. ——, imperfection of the record, 279. Giraffe, tail of, 195. Glacial
 4143.41on the imperfection of the geological record, 310. ——, on the appearance of species
 4349.59Reciprocity of crosses, 258. Record, geological, imperfect, 279. Rengger on
8  recorded 
 560.435of it will almost universally be found recorded. These varieties, moreover, will be
 584.710sufficiently well-marked to have been recorded in botanical works. Hence it is the
 604.72the species of large genera and their recorded varieties which deserve notice. We have
 616.891acknowledged varieties are recorded, and these range over 7.7 provinces
 661.101calculations, namely, the numerous recorded cases of the astonishingly rapid
 962.292which afford the greatest number of recorded varieties, or incipient species. Hence
 1032.781have become sufficiently distinct to be recorded as varieties. But these breaks are
 3566.430added to the infinitude of already recorded species. Our classifications will come
1  recording 
 570.197varieties as are barely thought worth recording in works on natural history. And I look
3  records 
 357.61is, that we find in the most ancient records, more especially on the monuments of
 443.279is not so in some cases, in which exact records have been kept; thus, to give a very
 2367.35To the question why we do not find records of these vast primordial periods, I can
1  recover 
 1657.878he is generally forced to go back to recover the habitual train of thought: so P
2  recovered 
 2966.1189water for twenty days, and it perfectly recovered. As this species has a thick calcareous
 2966.1362for fourteen days in sea-water, and it recovered and crawled away: but more experiments
1  re-covered 
 2285.609upraised, denuded, submerged, and then re-covered by the upper beds of the same formation
6  recur 
 343.1103of doubt could not so perpetually recur. It has often been stated that domestic
 1239.129to be highly variable. We shall have to recur to the general subject of rudimentary
 2420.150of life, organic and inorganic, should recur. For though the offspring of one
 2741.391seeds? But I shall presently have to recur to this subject. As icebergs are known
 3075.903of these resemblances we shall have to recur. It may even be given as a general rule
 3418.103the lowest Silurian strata, I can only recur to the hypothesis given in the ninth
1  recurrent 
 675.373or old, during each generation or at recurrent intervals. Lighten any check, mitigate
5  recurring 
 264.236as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that
 645.1346it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year. I should premise that I use the
 717.414this. Battle within battle must ever be recurring with varying success; and yet in the
 1813.906different ways the same cell, sometimes recurring to a shape which they had at first
 2494.598A certain amount of isolation, recurring at long intervals of time, would
1  red-grouse 
 792.306alpine ptarmigan white in winter, the red-grouse the colour of heather, and the black
6  reduce 
 1080.683slowly conquer another large group, reduce its numbers, and thus lessen its chance
 1155.422of natural selection to enlarge or to reduce the wings, would depend on whether a
 2219.134have been great, but it would somewhat reduce the above estimate. On the other hand
 3337.1305selection would continue slowly to reduce the organ, until it was rendered
 3343.447and consequently will seldom affect or reduce it in the embryo. Thus we can
 3520.65natural selection, will often tend to reduce an organ, when it has become useless by
18  reduced 
 451.60the principle of selection has been reduced to methodical practice for scarcely
 1155.229suspects, their wings not at all reduced, but even enlarged. This is quite
 1161.789and the wings of others have been reduced by natural selection aided by use and
 1225.1251and another and adjoining part being reduced by this same process or by disuse, and
 1231.910the whole anterior part of the head is reduced to the merest rudiment attached to the
 1560.1271incessantly harassed and their strength reduced, so that they are more subject to
 2102.736cross. Both hybrids and mongrels can be reduced to either pure parent-form, by repeated
 2171.415to be worn away, atom by atom, until reduced in size they can be rolled about by the
 2683.634range of many species. So that we are reduced to consider whether the exceptions to
 2855.942their numbers have been greatly reduced, and this is the first stage towards
 3010.556common range would have been greatly reduced. Still less is it meant, that a species
 3313.146in how many insects do we see wings so reduced in size as to be utterly incapable of
 3343.377ages will reproduce the organ in its reduced state at the same age, and consequently
 3359.795bearing in mind, that when organs are reduced in size, either from disuse or
 3524.345life; hence the organ will not be much reduced or rendered rudimentary at this early
 3524.607the teeth in the mature animal were reduced, during successive generations, by
 3856.26bees, 202. Duck, domestic, wings of, reduced, 11. —, logger-headed, 182. [page
 3892.5correction for aberration, 202. Eyes reduced in moles, 137. F. Fabre, M., on
1  reduces 
 3343.179period of life disuse or selection reduces an organ, and this will generally be
2  reducing 
 689.552in so far as climate chiefly acts in reducing food, it brings on the most severe
 1233.77will always succeed in the long run in reducing and saving every part of the
8  reduction 
 1159.179of the eyes is probably due to gradual reduction from disuse, but aided perhaps by
 1159.757to animals with subterranean habits, a reduction in their size with the adhesion of the
 1233.414as a necessary compensation the reduction of some adjoining part. [page
 3337.819successive generations to the gradual reduction of various organs, until they have
 3343.638But if each step of the process of reduction were to be inherited, not at the
 4569.7White Mountains, flora of, 365. Wings, reduction of size, 134. ZEBRA. Wings of
 4698.7to 1854. Royal 4to. 50s. each. 6. ——— REDUCTION OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF PLANETS, 1750 to
 4774.11to. 21s. 42. WALES' REDUCTION OF ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE IN
2  reefs 
 2379.568map appended to my volume on Coral Reefs, led me to conclude that the great
 3793.2Coral-islands, seeds drifted to, 360. ——reefs, indicating movements of earth
1  reeve 
 6076.120of that Event. Translated by HENRY REEVE, ESQ. 8vo. 14S. TREMENHEERE'S (H. S
1  reevesii 
 1950.178the hybrids from Cervulus vaginalis and Reevesii, and from Phasianus colchicus with P
7  refer 
 250.689our admiration. Naturalists continually refer to external conditions, such as climate
 333.55to the subject of reversion, I may here refer to a statement often made by
 538.100seems to me extremely perplexing: I refer to those genera which have sometimes
 1072.320come to our chapter on Geology, have to refer again to this subject, and I think we
 1932.36This case of the Crinum leads me to refer to a most singular fact, namely, that
 3251.446with certain parasitic crustaceans. To refer once again to cirripedes: the larvæ in
 3384.185of varieties when crossed, I must refer the reader to the recapitulation of the
1  reference 
 1171.703is the case with the blind Proteus with reference to the reptiles of Europe, I am only
3  references 
 242.86be imperfect. I cannot here give references and authorities for my several
 242.591in detail all the facts, with references, on which my conclusions have been
 451.429modern discovery. I could give several references to the full acknowledgment of the
2  referred 
 1357.1558same period. In these remarks we have referred to special parts or organs being still
 3185.610as may be seen in the diagram so often referred to), mounting up through many
2  referring 
 2486.33de Verneuil and d'Archiac. After referring to the parallelism of the palæozoic
 3119.633meant, if he will take the trouble of referring to the diagram in the fourth chapter
1  refinements 
 5888.65Athenian Architecture, and the Optical Refinements exhibited in the Construction of the
9  reflect 
 285.295variety in a state of nature. When we reflect on the vast diversity of the plants and
 755.184to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle, we may console
 1070.21and genera. It is worth while to reflect for a moment on the character of the
 1376.165so grave that to this day I can never reflect on them without being staggered; but
 2056.687fact; more especially when we reflect how many species there are, which
 2273.652deposit. It is an excellent lesson to reflect on the ascertained amount of migration
 2273.827geological period; and likewise to reflect on the great changes of level, on the
 2741.175everywhere is charged with seeds. Reflect for a moment on the millions of quails
 3588.218crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed
5  reflecting 
 234.521question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could
 250.81is quite conceivable that a naturalist, reflecting on the mutual affinities of organic
 1580.32VI. ately made conscious of this by reflecting on the differences in the breeds of our
 1773.0portion forms a part of two cells. Reflecting on this case, it occurred to me that if
 3331.74with respect to rudimentary organs. In reflecting on them, every one must be struck with
1  reflection 
 2241.673be preserved to a distant age. A little reflection will explain why along the rising coast
2  reflections 
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 4794.54Autobiographical Memoir, including Reflections, Observations, and Reminiscences at
1  reflects 
 681.332Nor will this surprise any one who reflects how ignorant we are on this head, even
1  reflexion 
 2385.812Sir Charles Lyell, from further reflexion entertains grave doubts on this subject
2  reformation 
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2  refraction 
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 4686.15Royal Observatory. 2s. 1853.—Bessel's Refraction Tables. 3s. 1854.—I. Description of
2  refuse 
 423.867they ignore all general arguments, and refuse to sum up in their minds slight
 3540.581been produced by variation, but they refuse to extend the same view to other and
1  regained 
 1161.593and Professor Silliman thought that it regained, after living some days in the light
48  regard 
 40.10But with regard to the material world, we can at least
 272.70at much remaining as yet unexplained in regard to the origin of species and varieties
 272.173allowance for our profound ignorance in regard to the mutual relations of all the
 337.1102nothing from domestic varieties in regard to species. But there is not a shadow
 359.257descended from several wild species. In regard to sheep and goats I can form no
 363.33Indian fowl (Gallus bankiva). In regard to ducks and rabbits, the breeds of
 399.14I. DOMESTIC PIGEONS. Some facts in regard to the colouring of pigeons well
 419.360in coming to a similar conclusion in regard to the many species of finches, or
 435.1298of the principle of selection in regard to merino sheep is so fully recognised
 449.3allow his worst animals to breed. In regard to plants, there is another means of
 485.3in countries anciently civilised. In regard to the domestic animals kept by
 515.1191been greatly exaggerated, both in regard to animals and to those plants which
 582.99results might be obtained in regard to the nature and relations of the
 608.68or varieties. Now Fries has remarked in regard to plants, and Westwood in regard to
 608.102in regard to plants, and Westwood in regard to insects, that in large genera the
 645.299are exposed to severe competition. In regard to plants, no one has treated this
 681.383ignorant we are on this head, even in regard to mankind, so incomparably better
 681.611considerable length, more especially in regard to the feral animals of South America
 766.87too briefly in the last chapter, act in regard to variation? Can the principle of
 1171.614anomalous, as Agassiz has remarked in regard to the blind fish, the Amblyopsis, and
 1177.1063brought from the Azores to England. In regard to animals, several authentic cases
 1217.141may have come into play. But in regard to the differences both in the internal
 1560.48place, we are much too ignorant in regard to the whole economy of any one organic
 1755.68did not need confirmation by me, in regard to the wonderful instinct of making
 1885.62strengthened by some few other facts in regard to instincts; as by that common case of
 1918.570diametrically opposite conclusions in regard to the very same species. It is also
 1920.3and structural differences. In regard to the sterility of hybrids in
 1944.3pollen brought from other flowers. In regard to animals, much fewer experiments have
 1964.523how scanty our knowledge is in regard to hybrid animals, I have been
 2028.3or unnatural conditions of life. In regard to the sterility of hybrids, in which
 2233.223strata of North America. In regard to mammiferous remains, a single glance
 2474.408La Plata, without any information in regard to their geological position, no one
 2518.50between the pig and the camel. In regard to the Invertebrata, Barrande, and a
 2576.408see it hereafter confirmed, at least in regard to subordinate groups, which have
 2825.420and striking facts are given in regard to the plants of that large island
 2851.59fact, strongly insisted on by Hooker in regard to America, and by Alph. de Candolle in
 2851.106to America, and by Alph. de Candolle in regard to Australia, that many more identical
 2857.84are removed on the view here given in regard to the range and affinities of the
 2882.411can here consider only a few cases. In regard to [page] 384 GEOGRAPHICAL
 2916.684not, I think, explain all the facts in regard to insular productions. In the
 2954.439striking observations on this head in regard to the great Malay Archipelago, which
 2966.302has given several interesting cases in regard to the land-shells of the islands of
 2968.47striking and important fact for us in regard to the inhabitants of islands, is their
 3016.670discussed by Alph. de Candolle in regard to plants, namely, that the lower any
 3151.480parent. We may err in this respect in regard to single points of structure, but when
 3255.677the adult: thus Owen has remarked in regard to cuttle-fish, "there is no
 3283.68seem to me to explain these facts in regard to the later embryonic stages of our
 3560.443beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which
2  regarded 
 552.116has a few animals, now generally regarded as varieties, but which have been
 3075.1250and food of an animal, I have always regarded as affording very clear indications of
1  regarding 
 2149.1076had no historical or indirect evidence regarding their origin, it would not have been
2  regards 
 2863.246I will only say that as far as regards the occurrence of identical species at
 3075.573Nothing can be more false. No one regards the external similarity of a mouse to a
1  regeneration 
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37  region 
 483.169the Cape of Good Hope, nor any other region inhabited by quite uncivilised man, has
 693.192from south to north, or from a damp region to a dry, we invariably see some
 948.1129very few of the inhabitants of the same region at the same time. I further believe
 960.39have any means of knowing that any one region has as yet got its maximum of species
 960.97got its maximum of species. Probably no region is as yet fully stocked, for at the
 998.64in the inhabitants of the same region is, in fact, the same as that of the
 1173.637from an arctic or even from a temperate region cannot endure a tropical climate, or
 1400.948to the conditions of life of its own region, and has supplanted and exterminated
 1404.66numerous transitional varieties in each region, though they must have existed there
 1404.184condition. But in the intermediate region, having intermediate conditions of life
 1424.785one adapted to an extensive mountainous region; a second to a comparatively narrow
 1430.428on each other. So that, in any one region and at any one time, we ought only to
 2241.63why the geological formations of each region are almost invariably intermittent
 2416.84can see why all the species in the same region do at last, if we look to wide enough
 2494.36Dominant species spreading from any region might encounter still more dominant
 2502.502I suppose that the inhabitants of each region underwent a considerable amount of
 2506.743have been a little more time in the one region than in the other for modification
 2512.28SPECIES. periods,—a formation in one region often corresponding with a blank
 2608.99when the formations of any one great region alone, as that of Europe, are
 2663.508more dominant forms of life from one region into another having been effected with
 2671.427they may have migrated from the same region; for during the vast geographical and
 2677.475was first produced within a single region captivates the mind. He who rejects it
 2681.806of genera are confined to a single region; and it has been observed by several
 2689.417be almost invariably the case, that a region, of which most of its inhabitants are
 2689.540genera with the species of a second region, [page] 355 CHAP. XI. SINGLE CENTRES
 2693.71period immigrants from this other region, my theory will be strengthened; for we
 2693.201modification, why the inhabitants of a region should be related to those of another
 2693.246should be related to those of another region, whence it has been stocked. A volcanic
 2693.765view of the relation of species in one region to those in another, does not differ
 2703.224a powerful influence on migration: a region when its climate was different may have
 2795.422have become mingled in the one great region with the native American productions
 2795.525with them; and in the other great region, with those of the Old World
 2978.714the nearest mainland, than to any other region: and this is what might have been
 3000.208related to the inhabitants of that region whence colonists could most readily
 3032.1269since new inhabitants entered one region; according to the nature of the
 3157.199inhabiting any distinct and isolated region, have in all probability descended from
 3450.410can understand how it is that in each region [page] 470 RECAPITULATION. CHAP. XIV
45  regions 
 574.292physical conditions in two different regions; but I have not much faith in this view
 693.1432a mountain. When we reach the Arctic regions, or snow-capped summits, or absolute
 747.617extreme confines of life, in the arctic regions or on the borders of an utter desert
 1580.799laborious breathing necessary in high regions would, we have some reason to believe
 2307.1140Malay Archipelago is one of the richest regions of the [page] 300 IMPERFECTION OF THE
 2345.316all over the world, from the Arctic regions to the equator, inhabiting various
 2494.867in the waters of the sea. If two great regions had been for a long period favourably
 2506.457formations have been deposited in two regions during nearly, but not exactly the same
 2508.973If the several formations in these regions have not been deposited during the same
 2512.106interval in the other,—and if in both regions the species have gone on slowly
 2512.305case, the several formations in the two regions could be arranged in the same order, in
 2512.574corresponding stages in the two regions. On the Affinities of extinct Species
 2637.200of the inhabitants of various regions can be accounted for by their climatal
 2645.220between the productions of various regions. We see this in the great difference of
 2663.246of the inhabitants of different regions may be attributed to modification
 2675.101now inhabiting distant and isolated regions, must have proceeded from one spot
 2687.693points in the arctic and antarctic regions; and secondly (in the following chapter
 2743.260to another of the arctic and antarctic regions, as suggested by Lyell; and during the
 2743.357from one part of the now temperate regions to another. In the Azores, from the
 2755.462of the same plants living on the snowy regions of the Alps or Pyrenees, and in the
 2761.582The inhabitants of the more temperate regions would at the same time travel southward
 2765.82into Spain. The now temperate regions of the United States would likewise be
 2767.144the productions of the more temperate regions. And as the snow melted from the bases
 2767.664all lesser heights) and in the arctic regions of both hemispheres. Thus we can
 2773.204the mountains of Siberia to the arctic regions of that country. These views, grounded
 2773.490Europe and America, that when in other regions we find the same species on distant
 2783.173were as uniform round the polar regions as they are at the present day. But the
 2795.900now living productions of the temperate regions of the New and Old Worlds, we find very
 2825.293but not in the intermediate torrid regions. In the admirable 'Introduction to the
 2833.162mountain-ranges of the intertropical regions, are not arctic, but belong to the
 2833.451living on the mountains of the warmer regions of the earth and in the southern
 2845.214temperate zones into the intertropical regions, and some even crossed the equator. As
 2857.239on the mountains of the intertropical regions. Very many difficulties remain to be
 2863.174in his botanical works on the antarctic regions. These cannot be here discussed. I will
 2910.1162become extinct in intermediate regions. But the wide distribution of fresh
 2948.76so frequently now happens in the arctic regions. Yet it cannot be said that small
 3004.474found to be true, that wherever in two regions, let them be ever so distant, many
 3004.756or migration between the two regions. And wherever many closely-allied
 3032.1655rapidly, there would ensue in different regions, independently of their physical
 3398.511of the species in the intermediate regions. It cannot be denied that we are as yet
 3398.1112inhabiting very distant and isolated regions, as the process of modification has
 3412.1683will not spread into other and distant regions until they are considerably modified
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1  regret 
 244.7cannot possibly be here done. I much regret that want of space prevents my having
5  regular 
 1032.662the line of succession is broken at regular intervals by small numbered letters
 1211.1212oftenest subject to peloria, and become regular. I may add, as an instance of this, and
 1767.1384to the latter: it forms a nearly regular waxen comb of cylindrical cells, in
 1825.1367were to make her cells more and more regular, nearer together, and aggregated into a
 1825.1709her cells closer together, and more regular in every way than at present; for then
9  regularly 
 295.1009act under confinement, acting not quite regularly, and producing offspring not perfectly
 846.211would, unintentionally on their part, regularly carry pollen from flower to flower; and
 846.1556attractive to insects that pollen was regularly carried from flower to flower, another
 850.296then as pollen is already carried regularly from flower to flower, and as a more
 864.908number pair; that is, two individuals regularly unite for reproduction, which is all
 890.422tree, we can see that pollen must be regularly carried from flower to flower; and this
 1028.78that the process ever goes on so regularly as is represented in the diagram
 1871.130could form a species which should regularly produce neuters, either all of large
 2948.1501and two North American species either regularly or occasionally visit Bermuda, at the
1  regulated 
 713.689birds (whose numbers are probably regulated by hawks or beasts of prey) were to
1  regulating 
 313.20seems probable. There are many laws regulating variation, some few of which can be
2  regulations 
 463.190Arab stock, so that the latter, by the regulations for the Goodwood Races, are favoured in
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 351.555power of endurance of warmth by the rein-deer, or of cold by the common camel
8  reject 
 1351.556this view is, as it seems to me, to reject a real for an unreal, or at least for
 2385.1165this volume, will undoubtedly at once reject my theory. For my part, following out
 2604.80of the geological record, will rightly reject my whole theory. For he may ask in vain
 2904.134eat some kinds of seeds, though they reject many other kinds after having swallowed
 2904.1070a hearty meal of fish, would probably reject from its stomach a pellet containing
 3197.1318with a distinct group, we summarily reject analogical or adaptive characters, and
 3538.320certain number of facts will certainly reject my theory. A few naturalists, endowed
 3540.883causa in one case, they arbitrarily reject it in another, without assigning any
10  rejected 
 493.549now, arise amongst pigeons, which are rejected as faults or deviations from the
 511.727rate, and inferior birds may be freely rejected, as when killed they serve for food. On
 1237.1094selection should have preserved or rejected each little deviation of form less
 1813.951to a shape which they had at first rejected. When bees have a place on which they
 2735.1426after an interval of many hours, either rejected the seeds in pellets or passed them in
 2904.505retain their power of germination, when rejected in pellets or in excrement, many hours
 3526.315living naturalists and geologists rejected this view of the mutability of species
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3  rejecting 
 790.131every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and
 3448.611each creature,—favouring the good and rejecting the bad? I can see no limit to this
 3558.514thus connected. Hence, without quite rejecting the consideration of the present
2  rejection 
 770.373of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural
 1267.845manner and degree, and by the continued rejection of those tending to revert to a former
3  rejects 
 2604.7by the finest graduated steps. He who rejects these views on the nature of the
 2677.510region captivates the mind. He who rejects it, rejects the vera causa of ordinary
 2677.522captivates the mind. He who rejects it, rejects the vera causa of ordinary generation
4  relate 
 2110.583additional fingers and toes; and do not relate to characters which have been slowly
 2474.29These observations, however, relate to the marine inhabitants of distant
 3424.87that the more important objections relate to questions on which we are
 4830.77those Portions of the above work which relate to the BRITISH CONSTITUTION and the
82  related 
 132.315in being very closely, but unequally, related to each other, and in having restricted
 146.454Selection — Divergence of Character, related to the diversity of inhabitants of any
 405.563if applied to species closely related together, though it is unsupported by a
 524.305in being very closely, but unequally, related to each other, and in having restricted
 596.253genera; for wherever many closely related species (i.e. species of the same genus
 610.46the species of the large genera are related to each other, in the same manner as
 610.128as the varieties of any one species are related to each other. No naturalist pretends
 610.499but groups of forms, unequally related to each other, and clustered round
 741.134the structure of every organic being is related, in the most essential yet often hidden
 764.436Selection—Divergence of Character, related to the diversity of inhabitants of any
 964.498and species of the same genus or of related genera,—which, from having nearly the
 1048.613those forms which are most nearly related to each other in habits, constitution
 1056.193nature; species (A) being more nearly related to B, C, and D, than to the other
 1056.768so as to have become adapted to many related places in the natural economy of their
 1056.1035original species which were most nearly related to their parents. Hence very few of the
 1056.1249two species which were least closely related to the other nine original species, has
 1060.491marked a14, q14, p14, will be nearly related from having recently branched off from
 1060.721o14, e14, and m14, will be nearly related one to the other, but from having
 1098.682throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to
 1098.827of the same species most closely related together, species of the same genus
 1098.898same genus less closely and unequally related together, forming sections and sub
 1098.994of distinct genera much less closely related, and genera related in different
 1098.1014much less closely related, and genera related in different degrees, forming sub
 1171.407Old and New Worlds should be closely related, we might expect from the well-known
 1297.1692but to three separate yet closely related acts of creation. With pigeons
 1412.687being is either directly or indirectly related in the most important manner to other
 1546.628fishes would have been specially related to each other. Nor does geology at all
 1767.1343hive and humble bee, but more nearly related to the latter: it forms a nearly
 1986.1463it even between forms so closely related (as Matthiola annua and glabra) that
 1994.580That the fertility of hybrids is not related to the degree in which they resemble in
 2000.960degrees of sterility, not strictly related to the facility of the first union
 2048.799but unknown bond, which is essentially related to the principle of life. Fertility of
 2102.255in hybrids produced from nearly related species, follows according to Gärtner
 2325.391some more closely, some more distantly related to each other; and these links, let
 2408.1173if we compare any but the most closely related formations, all the species will be
 2480.851of the United States are more closely related to those which lived in Europe during
 2558.255formations are far more closely related to each other, than are the fossils
 2564.159as distinct species, being closely related, is obvious. As the accumulation of
 2584.491buried there in such numbers, are related to South American types. This
 2590.911India was formerly more closely related in its mammals to Africa than it is at
 2618.715a form is, the more nearly it will be related to, and consequently resemble, the
 2643.513will be found incomparably more closely related to each other, than they are to the
 2645.126or obstacles to free migration, are related in a close and important manner to the
 2657.484specifically distinct, yet clearly related, replace each other. He hears from
 2681.947in which the species are most closely related to each other, are generally local, or
 2689.470most of its inhabitants are closely related to, or belong to the same genera with
 2693.218the inhabitants of a region should be related to those of another region, whence it
 2693.529though modified, would still be plainly related by inheritance to the inhabitants of
 2769.240each mountain-range are more especially related to the arctic forms living due north or
 2793.593later tertiary stages were more closely related to each other than they are at the
 2829.78oftener specifically distinct, though related to each other in a most remarkable
 2833.668identical, and many, though closely related to northern forms, must be ranked as
 2849.790these wanderers, though still plainly related by inheritance to their brethren of the
 2972.1552of the Cape de Verde Islands are related to those of Africa, like those of the
 2978.119the endemic productions of islands are related to those of the nearest continent, or
 2978.336nearer to Africa than to America, are related, and that very closely, as we know from
 2978.652its endemic plants is much more closely related to Australia, the nearest mainland
 2978.788been expected; but it is also plainly related to South America, which, although the
 2984.357marvellous manner, by very closely related species; so that the inhabitants of
 2984.451island, though mostly distinct, are related in an incomparably closer degree to
 3000.173identically the same, yet are plainly related to the inhabitants of that region
 3000.615during the recent Glacial epoch, are related to those of the surrounding lowlands
 3018.242lacustrine, and marsh productions being related (with the exceptions before specified
 3038.928the several islets, should be closely related to each other, and likewise be related
 3038.967related to each other, and likewise be related, but less closely, to those of the
 3044.1672and the more nearly any two forms are related in blood, the nearer they will
 3075.1191being those which are most remotely related to the habits and food of an animal, I
 3119.1131a single species, are represented as related in blood or descent to the same [page
 3123.709differences between organic beings all related to each other in the same degree in
 3179.217Rodents, the bizcacha is most nearly related to Marsupials; but in the points in
 3179.1109and therefore it will not be specially related to any one existing Marsupial, but
 3185.497several species will consequently be related to each other by circuitous lines of
 3245.166arteries near the branchial slits are related to similar conditions,—in the young
 3245.516of a bat, and fin of a porpoise, are related to similar conditions of life. No one
 3245.693are of any use to these animals, or are related to the conditions to which they are
 3257.475of the embryo not being closely related to its conditions of existence, except
 3301.945are therefore in that degree closely related. Thus, community in embryonic structure
 3418.622invariably being much more closely related to each other, than are the fossils
 3502.321within each great class are plainly related; for they will generally be descendants
 3510.521that the inhabitants of each area are related to the inhabitants of the nearest
 3510.751and of the other American islands being related in the most striking manner to the
 4132.9with variability, 149. Lowness, related to wide distribution, 406. Lubbock, Mr
1  relates 
 2480.144not be supposed that this expression relates to the same thousandth or hundred
4  relating 
 2385.1398we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this
 2400.51see whether the several facts and rules relating to the geological succession of organic
 4790.55STORY OF CORFE CASTLE, with documents relating to the Time of the Civil Wars, &c
 6120.55Letters, Despatches, and other Papers relating to India. Edited by his SON. 4 Vols
58  relation 
 140.475between species of the same genus — The relation of organism to organism the most
 200.145and of terrestrial Mammals — On the relation of the inhabitants of islands to those
 590.1115inhabited by them, and has little or no relation to the size of the genera to which the
 594.102scale; and here again there is no close relation to the size of the genera. The cause of
 633.455between species of the same genus—The relation of organism to organism the most
 641.1196Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. We have
 707.286In Staffordshire, on the estate of a relation where I had ample means of
 741.624fringed legs of the water-beetle, the relation seems at first confined to the elements
 741.756seeds no doubt stands in the closest relation to the land being already thickly
 741.1201seems at first sight to have no sort of relation to other plants. But from the strong
 790.322improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions
 810.9CHAP. IV.SEXUAL SELECTION. young in relation to the parent, and of the parent in
 810.54to the parent, and of the parent in relation to the young. In social animals it will
 812.290relations to the other sex, or in relation to wholly different habits of life in
 842.1129their stamens and pistils placed, in relation to the size and habits of the
 922.348the area in the same manner in relation to the same conditions. Intercrosses
 1205.282What can be more singular than the relation between blue eyes and deafness in cats
 1205.578colour of their plumage; or, again, the relation between the hair and teeth in the naked
 1287.417cases are of a very unusual nature, the relation can hardly be accidental. The same
 1287.967the two sexes of the same species. This relation has a clear meaning on my view of the
 1586.1349many structures now have no direct relation to the habits of life of each species
 1767.113the form of the cell stands in close relation to the presence of adjoining cells; and
 1845.523horns of different breeds of cattle in relation to an artificially imperfect state of
 2038.396or periodical action, or mutual relation of the different parts and organs one
 2486.1007beings, and find how slight is the relation between the physical conditions of
 2532.12SUCCESSION. CHAP. X. modified in relation to its slightly altered conditions of
 2584.1327Other cases could be added, as the relation between the extinct and living land
 2590.1010time. Analogous facts could be given in relation to the distribution of marine animals
 2663.730in their mutual struggles for life;—the relation of organism to organism being, as I
 2693.738independent creation. This view of the relation of species in one region to those in
 2711.201of almost every continent,—the close relation of the tertiary inhabitants of several
 2711.319inhabitants,—a certain degree of relation (as we shall hereafter see) between the
 2878.139and of terrestrial Mammals—On the relation of the inhabitants of islands to those
 2952.53natural selection in their new homes in relation to their new position, and we can
 2954.46the absence of terrestrial mammals in relation to the remoteness of islands from
 2954.117from continents, there is also a relation, to a certain extent independent of
 2954.1202world; but as far as I have gone, the relation generally holds good. We see Britain
 2958.289we can understand the frequent relation between the depth of the sea and the
 2958.450neighbouring continent,—an inexplicable relation on the view of independent acts of
 2960.881with the paramount importance of the relation of organism to organism. I do not deny
 3006.5in the process of modification. This relation between the power and extent of
 3016.71may have become slightly modified in relation to their new conditions. There is, also
 3018.396are so different—the very close relation of the distinct species which inhabit
 3018.507and especially the striking relation of the inhabitants of each whole
 3038.196be endemic or peculiar; and why, in relation to the means of migration, one group of
 3038.655We can see why there should be some relation between the presence of mammals, in a
 3081.44may be for the welfare of the being in relation to the outer world. Perhaps from this
 3119.131each class, in due subordination and relation to the other groups, must be strictly
 3147.912least likely to have been modified in relation to the conditions of life to which each
 3241.134each other, often have no direct relation to their condi- [page] 440 EMBRYOLOGY
 3245.398no more reason to believe in such a relation, than we have to believe that the same
 3359.618which have become specially modified in relation to their habits of life, through the
 3470.92the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their
 3502.1082separated from each other; for as the relation of organism to organism is the most
 3572.551inhabitants of that continent in relation to their apparent means of immigration
 3574.1109physical conditions, namely, the mutual relation of organism to organism,—the
 3784.7influenced by climate, 132. ——, in relation to attacks by flies, 198. Columba livia
 3924.26Flowers, structure of, in relation to crossing, 97. —of composite and
46  relations 
 140.281the number of individuals — Complex relations of all animals and plants throughout
 140.534to organism the most important of all relations. .. Page 60-79 CHAPTER IV. NATURAL
 234.162of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants
 250.159organic beings, on their embryological relations, their geographical distribution
 250.1434structure of this parasite, with its relations to several distinct organic beings, by
 272.194ignorance in regard to the mutual relations of all the beings which live around us
 272.385a narrow range and is rare? Yet these relations are of the highest importance, for they
 272.592Still less do we know of the mutual relations of the innumerable inhabitants of the
 582.124be obtained in regard to the nature and relations of the species which vary most, by
 604.16and this holds good. There are other relations between the species of large genera and
 633.265from the number of individuals—Complex relations of all animals and plants throughout
 633.514to organism the most important of all relations. BEFORE entering on the subject of
 641.725any species, in its infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to external
 707.79and unexpected are the checks and relations between organic beings, which have to
 717.339ended with them. Not that in nature the relations can ever be as simple as this. Battle
 719.146are bound together by a web of complex relations. I shall hereafter have occasion to
 751.215us of our ignorance on the mutual relations of all organic beings; a conviction as
 766.642and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and
 772.707this also would seriously disturb the relations of some of the former inhabitants. Let
 812.256to modify one sex in its functional relations to the other sex, or in relation to
 948.554becoming slowly modified; the mutual relations of many of the other inhabitants being
 1032.384this will depend on infinitely complex relations. But as a general rule, the more
 1090.318the infinite complexity of the relations of all organic beings to each other and
 2046.722several generations between the nearest relations, especially if these be kept under the
 2412.1474lower productions, by the more complex relations of the higher beings to their organic
 2412.1757and on that of the many all-important relations of organism to organism, that any form
 2540.574or between their collateral relations. In nature the case will be far more
 2663.830remarked, the most important of all relations. Thus the high importance of barriers
 2669.686only by bringing organisms into new relations with each other, and in a lesser degree
 2777.237together; consequently their mutual relations will not have been much disturbed, and
 2781.515climatal influences. Their mutual relations will thus have been in some degree
 2924.1084and in a body, so that their mutual relations have not been much disturbed. Thus in
 2936.219have beautifully hooked seeds; yet few relations are more striking than the adaptation
 3018.4more widely it is apt to range. The relations just discussed,—namely, low and slowly
 3032.989Bearing in mind that the mutual relations of organism to organism are of the
 3044.1280to the rule. On my theory these several relations throughout time and space are
 3179.297in which it approaches this order, its relations are general, and not to any one
 3448.191beings, under their excessively complex relations of life, would be preserved
 3448.729adapting each form to the most complex relations of life. The theory of natural
 3454.780resemble varieties. These are strange relations on the view of each species having been
 3502.1144organism is the most important of all relations, and as the two areas will have
 3816.6on blind cave-animals, 139. —, on relations of crustaceans of Japan, 372. —, on
 4041.6on Australian plants, 375, 399. —, on relations of flora of South America, 379. —, on
 4185.19Missel-thrush, 76. Misseltoe, complex relations of, 3. Mississippi, rate of deposition
 4252.6on fossil horse of La Plata, 319. —, on relations of ruminants and pachyderms, 329. —, on
 4391.7favourable to, 101. Sexes, relations of, 87. Sexual characters variable
10  relationship 
 1171.452we might expect from the well-known relationship of most of their other productions. Far
 2291.1142we should not recognise their relationship, and should consequently be compelled
 2584.216continent. In South America, a similar relationship is manifest, even to an uneducated eye
 2584.529related to South American types. This relationship is even more clearly seen in the
 2584.811of types,"-on "this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead
 2793.199On this view we can understand the relationship, with very little identity, between the
 2793.295of North America and Europe,—a relationship which is most remarkable, considering
 2803.15of equatorial ocean. These cases of relationship, without identity, of the inhabitants
 3351.153all time; that the nature of the relationship, by which all living and extinct beings
 3560.132terms used by naturalists of affinity, relationship, community of type, paternity
20  relative 
 381.354number of the ribs, together with their relative breadth and the presence of processes
 381.509so is the degree of divergence and relative size of the two arms of the furcula
 381.910primary wing and caudal feathers; the relative length of wing and tail to each other
 381.978tail to each other and to the body; the relative length of leg and of the feet; the
 946.473of the less improved forms, and the relative proportional numbers of the various
 1251.363particularly difficult to compare their relative degrees of variability. When we see
 1580.1545far too ignorant to speculate on the relative importance of the several known and
 1813.546all instinctively standing at the same relative distance from each other, all trying to
 1815.459be enabled to stand at their proper relative distances from each other and from the
 1819.512time, always standing at the proper relative distance from the parts of the cells
 1819.823to five other points, at the proper relative distances from the central point and
 2711.653by his many followers. The nature and relative proportions of the inhabitants of
 2789.101have long remained in nearly the same relative position, though subjected to large
 3203.766include the same bones, in the same relative positions? Geoffroy St. Hilaire has
 3203.855strongly on the high importance of relative connexion in homologous organs: the
 3211.790to alter the framework of bones or the relative connexion of the several parts. If we
 3217.317that is correspond in number and in relative connexion with—the elemental parts of a
 3217.651almost every one, that in a flower the relative position of the sepals, petals, stamens
 3343.507Thus we can understand the greater relative size of rudimentary organs in the
 3343.575organs in the embryo, and their lesser relative size in the adult. But if each step of
3  relatively 
 487.393so great in external characters and relatively so slight in internal parts or organs
 701.84of individuals of the same species, relatively to the numbers of its enemies, is
 3329.58part or organ is of greater size relatively to the adjoining parts in the embryo
1  relic 
 1147.228own collection, and not one had even a relic left. In the Onites apelles the tarsi
1  relied 
 353.213or several species. The argument mainly relied on by those who believe in the multiple
1  relief 
 3554.446after experience, will be no slight relief. The endless disputes whether or not
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 272.746much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt
 359.33The whole subject must, I think, remain vague; neverthelsss, I may, without
 914.276varieties of the same animal can long remain distinct, from haunting different
 920.686as long as their conditions of life remain the same, only through the principle of
 1237.1021work, we can perhaps see why it should remain variable, that is, why natural
 1273.734though its physiological importance may remain the same. Something of the same kind
 1657.549body. When once acquired, they often remain constant throughout life. Several other
 1825.100combs. Moreover, many bees have to remain idle for many days during the process
 2247.501nearly balance each other, the sea will remain shallow and favourable for life, and
 2355.16OF THE CHAP. IX. here they would remain confined, until some of the species
 2373.25metamorphism. The case at present must remain inexplicable; and may be truly urged as
 2536.1220five genera, and o14 to m14) would yet remain distinct. These two families, however
 2745.105other means, which without doubt remain to be discovered, have been in action
 2749.897mingled in any great degree; but would remain as distinct as we now see them to be
 2857.271regions. Very many difficulties remain to be solved. I do not pretend to
 2863.35I have said that many difficulties remain to be solved: some of the most
 2892.547have observed—and no doubt many others remain to be observed—throw some light on this
 2904.739I thought that its distribution must remain quite inexplicable; but Audubon states
 3203.976in form and size, and yet they always remain connected together in the same order
 3289.1396mature age. Whereas the young will remain unmodified, or be modified in a lesser
 3305.363extending far enough back in time, may remain for a long period, or for ever
 3317.123even the more important purpose; and remain perfectly efficient for the other. Thus
 3426.729As long as the conditions of life remain the same, we have reason to believe
 3578.212however, keeping in a body might remain for a long period unchanged, whilst
13  remained 
 1263.935parts of the organisation, which have remained for a much longer period nearly
 1279.936which have for a very long period remained constant. In connexion with the
 2038.92hybrids, the external conditions have remained the same, but the organisation has been
 2157.257a case would imply that one form had remained for a very long period unaltered
 2255.101hand, as long as the bed of the sea remained stationary, thick deposits could not
 2379.809right to assume that things have thus remained from eternity? Our continents seem to
 2379.1730action than strata which have always remained nearer to the surface. The immense
 2412.1270the marine shells and birds have remained unaltered. We can perhaps understand
 2562.67conditions of the ancient areas having remained nearly the same. Let it be remembered
 2755.949distinct points; and we might have remained [page] 366 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
 2789.73to, that our continents have long remained in nearly the same relative position
 2861.99to new groups of forms, and others have remained unaltered. We cannot hope to explain
 3404.132area, which has during a long period remained continuous, and of which the climate
3  remaining 
 272.38No one ought to feel surprise at much remaining as yet unexplained in regard to the
 2171.356huge fragments fall down, and these remaining fixed, have to be worn away, atom by
 2988.1037some species spreading widely and remaining the same. The really surprising fact
45  remains 
 272.715epochs in its history. Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure
 717.529balanced, that the face of nature remains uniform for long periods of time
 1072.253of the earth's crust including extinct remains. We shall, when we come to our chapter
 1161.190of the crabs the foot-stalk for the eye remains, though the eye is gone; the stand for
 1398.41depths of the sea, and to their remains being embedded and preserved to a
 1440.439could be found only amongst fossil remains, which are preserved, as we shall in a
 2165.62Independently of our not finding fossil remains of such infinitely numerous connecting
 2227.458quick to embed and preserve fossil remains. Throughout an enormously large
 2227.900for ages in an unaltered condition. The remains which do become embedded, if in sand or
 2233.0page] 289 CHAP. IX. GEOLOGICAL RECORD. remains is fragmentary in an extreme degree
 2233.245North America. In regard to mammiferous remains, a single glance at the historical
 2241.810formations with recent or tertiary remains can anywhere be found, though the
 2255.13OF THE CHAP. IX. preserve the remains before they had time to decay. On the
 2273.1088sedimentary deposits, including fossil remains, have gone on accumulating within the
 2273.1640shall have been upraised, organic remains will probably first appear and
 2279.1148deposits are usually barren of organic remains, except near their upper or lower
 2313.558protect organic bodies from decay, no remains could be preserved. In our archipelago
 2367.230convinced that we see in the organic remains of the lowest Silurian stratum the dawn
 2373.250From the nature of the organic remains, which do not appear to have inhabited
 2440.371the tooth of a horse embedded with the remains of Mastodon, Megatherium, Toxodon, and
 2472.157at these distant points, the organic remains in certain beds present an
 2480.1429and Australia, from containing fossil remains in some degree allied, and from not
 2502.416enough to embed and preserve organic remains. During these long and blank intervals
 2558.55with the statement, that the organic remains from an intermediate formation are in
 2558.405the general resemblance of the organic remains from the several stages of the chalk
 2564.65the full meaning of the fact of fossil remains from closely consecutive formations
 2608.272of species. He may ask where are the remains of those infinitely numerous organisms
 2622.234We can clearly see why the organic remains of closely consecutive formations are
 2622.441generation: we can clearly see why the remains of an intermediate formation are
 2962.348places, of which not a wreck now remains, must not be over- [page] 397 CHAP
 3123.837their genealogical arrangement remains strictly true, not only at the present
 3263.1426of a very young animal, as long as it remains in its mother's womb, or in the egg, or
 3321.202crowned with a stigma; but the style remains well developed, and is clothed with
 3406.311Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation
 3406.770the Silurian system, stored with the remains of the progenitors of the Silurian
 3418.551We clearly see this in the fossil remains from consecutive formations invariably
 3492.941the world. The fact of the fossil remains of each formation being in some degree
 3546.455in groups subordinate to groups. Fossil remains sometimes tend to fill up very wide
 3574.127crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled
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15  remark 
 1028.16thousandth generation. But I must here remark that I do not suppose that the process
 1237.627sign of low organisation; the foregoing remark seems connected with the very general
 1245.194years ago I was much struck with a remark, nearly to the above effect, published
 1249.447attended to Mr. Waterhouse's remark, whilst investigating this Order, and I
 1498.198life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that
 1552.362is known to lead. The truth of this remark is indeed shown by that old canon in
 2173.650Let him remember Lyell's profound remark, that the thickness and extent of
 2223.139is admitted by every one. The remark of that admirable palæontologist, the
 2259.4arrived at a similar conclusion. One remark is here worth a passing notice. During
 2337.20suddenly created. I may here recall a remark formerly made, namely that it might
 2351.880period. It is almost superfluous to remark that hardly any fossil-fish are known
 2502.19tend to correspond. There is one other remark connected with this subject worth
 2522.171widely separated from each other. This remark no doubt must be restricted to those
 2526.172admit that there is some truth in the remark. Let us see how far these several
 2831.207occur; as an example, I may quote a remark by the highest authority, Prof. Dana
52  remarkable 
 291.669in this; but the chief one is the remarkable effect which confinement or cultivation
 317.108go together, of which many remarkable cases could be given amongst animals
 375.293more especially the male bird, is also remarkable from the wonderful development of the
 381.232of the lower jaw, varies in a highly remarkable manner. The number of the caudal and
 389.1368considering their size, habits, and remarkable characters, seems very improbable; or
 425.453and tumbler pigeon. One of the most remarkable features in our domesticated races
 707.639the planted part of the heath was most remarkable, more than is generally seen in passing
 892.250itself. We can understand this remarkable fact, which offers so strong a contrast
 1149.164Mr. Wollaston has discovered the remarkable fact that 200 beetles, out of the
 1203.196shape of the pelvis in birds causes the remarkable diversity in the shape of their kidneys
 1245.1207of bat had its wings developed in some remarkable manner in comparison with the other
 1245.1635but as females more rarely offer remarkable secondary sexual characters, it applies
 1249.625my future work, give a list of the more remarkable cases; I will here only briefly give
 1253.45we see any part or organ developed in a remarkable degree or manner in any species, the
 1287.8parts of their structure. It is a remarkable fact, that the secondary sexual
 1321.156certainly do occur, and seem to me very remarkable. I will, however, give one curious and
 1339.910Lastly, and this is another most remarkable case, a hybrid has been figured by Dr
 1412.12TRANSITIONAL VARIETIES. it is quite remarkable how abruptly, as Alph. De Candolle has
 1681.299to us: Audubon has given several remarkable cases of differences in nests of the
 1703.50are lost under domestication: a remarkable instance of this is seen in those
 1725.106bees of other kinds. This case is more remarkable than that of the cuckoo; for these bees
 1731.28Slave-making instinct.—This remarkable instinct was first discovered in the
 1924.717am strengthened in this conviction by a remarkable statement repeatedly made by Gärtner
 1986.1565them only as varieties. It is also a remarkable fact, that hybrids raised from
 1992.43for instance, some species have a remarkable power of crossing with other species
 1992.131other species of the same genus have a remarkable power of impressing their likeness on
 2056.646of the pigeon or of the cabbage, is a remarkable fact; more especially when we reflect
 2056.893fertility of domestic varieties less remarkable than [page] 269 CHAP. VIII. FERTILITY
 2070.31The following case is far more remarkable, and seems at first quite incredible
 2078.90subsequent observer, has proved the remarkable fact, that one variety of the common
 2351.622the fact would certainly be highly remarkable; but I cannot see that it would be an
 2586.19Aralo-Caspian Sea. Now what does this remarkable law of the succession of the same types
 2677.932the fact is given as something remarkable and exceptional. The capacity of
 2755.392from one to the other. It is indeed a remarkable fact to see so many of the same plants
 2755.559parts of Europe; but it is far more remarkable, that the plants on the White Mountains
 2761.112of Europe, as explained with remarkable clearness by Edward Forbes, is
 2793.322Europe,—a relationship which is most remarkable, considering the distance of the two
 2829.110though related to each other in a most remarkable manner. This brief abstract applies to
 2851.8or as distinct species. It is a remarkable fact, strongly insisted on by Hooker in
 2863.73remain to be solved: some of the most remarkable are stated with admirable clearness by
 2863.730descent with modification, a far more remarkable case of difficulty. For some of these
 2880.474range, but allied species prevail in a remarkable manner throughout the world. I well
 2936.5as the nature of the conditions. Many remarkable little facts could be given with
 2978.1408of the Cape of Good Hope, is a far more remarkable case, and is at present inexplicable
 2994.1797Mr. Wollaston have communicated to me a remarkable fact bearing on this subject; namely
 3075.1454character." So with plants, how remarkable it is that the organs of vegetation, on
 3281.25CHAP. XIII. young. But there was one remarkable exception to this rule, for the young
 3384.93when first crossed, which forms so remarkable a contrast with the almost universal
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 381.1356eggs vary. The manner of flight differs remarkably; as does in some breeds the voice and
 1251.43birds within the same country vary in a remarkably small degree, I have particularly
 1657.126This comparison gives, I think, a remarkably accurate notion of the frame of mind
 1972.473hybrid-offspring, yet these hybrids are remarkably sterile. On the other hand, there are
 2765.326everywhere travelled southward, are remarkably uniform round the world. We may suppose
57  remarked 
 305.165young and the parents, as Müller has remarked, have apparently been exposed to
 339.197in each domestic race, as already remarked, less uniformity of character than in
 485.552perhaps, partly explains what has been remarked by some authors, namely, that the
 505.403success. On this principle Marshall has remarked, with respect to the sheep of parts of
 505.1443can be effected. I have seen it gravely remarked, that it was most fortunate that the
 608.56as species or varieties. Now Fries has remarked in regard to plants, and Westwood in
 610.340or lesser groups. As Fries has well remarked, little groups of species are generally
 994.525and Alph. De Candolle has well remarked in his great and admirable work, that
 1002.719as Mr. Waterhouse and others have remarked, our carnivorous, ruminant, and rodent
 1098.301Natural selection, as has just been remarked, leads to divergence of character and
 1119.887during several generations. I have remarked in the first chapter—but a long
 1139.327of life. Indirectly, as already remarked, they seem to play an important part in
 1141.515of disuse. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature
 1147.10became incapable of flight. Kirby has remarked (and I have observed the same fact
 1167.350but, as Schiodte and others have remarked, this is not the case, and the cave
 1171.602be very anomalous, as Agassiz has remarked in regard to the blind fish, the
 1199.30Homologous parts, as has been remarked by some authors, tend to cohere; this
 1205.113Is. Geoffroy St. Hilaire has forcibly remarked, that certain malconformations very
 1219.726For instance, Alph. De Candolle has remarked that winged seeds are never found in
 1237.26OF GROWTH. It seems to be a rule, as remarked by Is. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, both in
 1237.422author and some botanists have further remarked that multiple parts are also very
 1273.280history, that when an author has remarked with surprise that some important organ
 1287.591but in the Engidæ, as Westwood has remarked, the number varies greatly; and the
 1305.840character might be, as was formerly remarked, for all that we can see to the
 1420.58in lesser numbers would, as already remarked, run a greater chance of being
 1440.286constantly tends, as has been so often remarked, to exterminate the parent forms and
 1450.164from others, as Sir J. Richardson has remarked, with the posterior part of their
 1540.373produced; but, as Owen and others have remarked, [page] 193 CHAP. VI. TRANSITIONS OF
 1598.179No organ will be formed, as Paley has remarked, for the purpose of causing pain or for
 1763.575wax in their construction. It has been remarked that a skilful workman, with fitting
 1771.438pyramid; and this pyramid, as Huber has remarked, is manifestly a gross imitation of the
 1966.20to both kingdoms. It has been already remarked, that the degree of fertility, both of
 2022.220fundamentally different, for, as just remarked, in the union of two pure species the
 2402.830are more broken; but, as Bronn has remarked, neither the appearance [page
 2408.926amount of organic change, as Pictet has remarked, does not strictly correspond with the
 2486.852climates. We must, as Barrande has remarked, look to some special law. We shall see
 2514.369living forms. But, as Buckland long ago remarked, all fossils can be classed either in
 2534.74descended from A, make, as before remarked, one order; and this order, from the
 2663.794organism being, as I have already often remarked, the most important of all relations
 2669.18the case. I believe, as was remarked in the last chapter, in no law of
 2743.544islands nearer to the mainland, and (as remarked by Mr. H. C. Watson) from the somewhat
 2769.493plants, for example, of Scotland, as remarked by Mr. H. C. Watson, [page
 2773.30XI. and those of the Pyrenees, as remarked by Ramond, are more especially allied
 2793.465further understand the singular fact remarked on by several observers, that the
 2833.264zones. As Mr. H. C. Watson has recently remarked, "In receding from polar towards
 2898.204islands. This is strikingly shown, as remarked by Alph. de Candolle, in large groups
 2942.43islands, Bory St. Vincent long ago remarked that Batrachians (frogs, toads, newts
 3006.290another and more general way. Mr. Gould remarked to me long ago, that in those genera of
 3081.1872the antennæ, as Westwood has remarked, are most constant in structure; [page
 3095.267history. Hence, as has often been remarked, a species may depart from its allies
 3095.1098in the latter, as A. de Jussieu has remarked, "the greater number of the characters
 3175.19circumstances. Mr. Waterhouse has remarked that, when a member [page
 3179.1365all Marsupials, as Mr. Waterhouse has remarked, the phascolomys resembles most nearly
 3223.195shaped pieces of bone? As Owen has remarked, the benefit derived from the yielding
 3233.258more correct, as Professor Huxley has remarked, to speak of both skull and vertebræ
 3239.41It has already been casually remarked that certain organs in the individual
 3255.665widely from the adult: thus Owen has remarked in regard to cuttle-fish, "there is no
42  remarks 
 215.335the study of Natural history—Concluding remarks. .. .. .. .. .. 459-490 INDEX
 270.61of the whole work, and a few concluding remarks. No one ought to feel surprise at much
 331.630the laws of embryology. These remarks are of course confined to the first
 469.379Buckley and Mr. Burgess, as Mr. Youatt remarks, "have been purely bred from the
 578.11to return to this subject. From these remarks it will be seen that I look at the term
 635.78chapter, I must make a few preliminary remarks, to show how the struggle for existence
 681.685America. Here I will make only a few remarks, just to recall to the reader's mind
 741.72may be deduced from the foregoing remarks, namely, that the structure of every
 890.969in Australia; and I have made these few remarks on the sexes of trees simply to call
 928.48to nature to test the truth of these remarks, and look at any small isolated area
 1167.892gradation of habit; for, as Schiodte remarks, "animals not far remote from ordinary
 1269.32The principle included in these remarks may be extended. It is notorious that
 1281.66subject, I will make only two other remarks. I think it will be admitted, without
 1357.1542within this same period. In these remarks we have referred to special parts or
 1462.536It must not be inferred from these remarks that any of the grades of wing
 1574.0CHAP. VI. ORGANS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE. remarks. If green woodpeckers alone had existed
 1586.14would appear frivolous. The foregoing remarks lead me to say a few words on the
 2040.380Nor do I pretend that the foregoing remarks go to the root of the matter: no
 2054.138must be some error in all the foregoing remarks, inasmuch as varieties, however much
 2104.14with either parent. These several remarks are apparently applicable to animals
 2221.22period. I have made these few remarks because it is highly important for us
 2307.533be worth while to sum up the foregoing remarks, under an imaginary illustration. The
 2325.48there be some degree of truth in these remarks, we have no right to expect to find in
 2339.51give a few examples to illustrate these remarks; and to show how liable we are to error
 2486.574kingdom." M. Barrande has made forcible remarks to precisely the same effect. It is
 2687.489such cases. But after some preliminary remarks, I will discuss a few of the most
 2695.13with modification. The previous remarks on "single and multiple centres of
 2783.231at the present day. But the foregoing remarks on distribution apply not only to
 2904.679and remembered Alph. de Candolle's remarks on this plant, I thought that its
 2916.732insular productions. In the following remarks I shall not confine myself to the mere
 2960.18acts of creation. All the foregoing remarks on the inhabitants of oceanic islands
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1  remark—that 
 1119.1018be necessary to show the truth of the remark—that the reproductive system is eminently
1  remem 
 766.1025If such do occur, can we doubt (remem- [page] 81 CHAP. IV. NATURAL SELECTION
20  remember 
 689.321is a tremendous destruction, when we remember that ten per cent. is an
 796.442would produce little effect: we should remember how essential it is in a flock of white
 1568.218of natural selection. We should remember that climate, food, &c., probably have
 2128.258perfect fertility surprising, when we remember how liable we are to argue in a circle
 2128.366in a state of nature; and when we remember that the greater number of varieties
 2173.624the mass has been accumulated. Let him remember Lyell's profound remark, that the
 2201.200best evidence of the lapse of time. I remember having been much struck with the
 2213.1677its whole indented length; and we must remember that almost all strata contain harder
 2233.488Nor is their rarity surprising, when we remember how large a proportion of the bones of
 2287.23of form. It is all-important to remember that naturalists have [page] 297 CHAP
 2446.31It is most difficult always to remember that the increase of every living being
 2460.198close of the secondary period, we must remember what has been already said on the
 2839.117must have been very long; and when we remember over what vast spaces some naturalised
 2880.521manner throughout the world. I well remember, when first collecting in the fresh
 2910.657terrestrial colonists. We should, also, remember that some, perhaps many, fresh-water
 2994.785would thus spread; but we should remember that the forms which become naturalised
 3024.192occurred within the same period; if we remember how profoundly ignorant we are with
 3026.180as before for our ignorance, and remember that some forms of life change most
 3386.166general fertility surprising when we remember that it is not likely that either their
 3400.383respect to existing forms, we should remember that we have no right to expect
8  remembered 
 532.1211during a course of years. It should be remembered that systematists are far from pleased
 772.762of the former inhabitants. Let it be remembered how powerful the influence of a single
 1048.509their original parent. For it should be remembered that the competition will generally be
 1845.17of natural selection? First, let it be remembered that we have innumerable instances
 1847.101as I believe, disappears, when it is remembered that selection may be applied to the
 2562.103remained nearly the same. Let it be remembered that the forms of life, at least those
 2904.648fine water-lily, the Nelumbium, and remembered Alph. de Candolle's remarks on this
 2910.13DISTRIBUTION. CHAP. XII. it should be remembered that when a pond or stream is first
1  remembering 
 2209.450look at the distant South Downs; for, remembering that at no great distance to the west
1  re-migrate 
 2845.432had not reached the equator, would re-migrate northward or southward towards their
3  re-migration 
 2769.361migration as the cold came on, and the re-migration on the returning warmth, will generally
 2777.59their long southern migration and re-migration northward, will have been exposed to
 2849.351their long southern migration and re-migration northward, the case may have been
1  reminded 
 2014.671as when on their own roots. We are reminded by this latter fact of the
3  reminiscences 
 4794.85Reflections, Observations, and Reminiscences at Home and Abroad. From Early Life to
 4846.58of Thomas Stothard, R.A. With Personal Reminiscences. Illustrated with Portrait and
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1  remnant 
 2375.174island is as yet known to afford even a remnant of any palæozoic or secondary formation
2  remnants 
 940.504we find seven genera of Ganoid fishes, remnants of a once preponderant order: and in
 2367.1170action, we ought to find only small remnants of the formations next succeeding them
1  remonstrance 
 5162.13Essays. Contents: I. The Grand Remonstrance, 1641. IV. Daniel De Foe. II. The
37  remote 
 327.325or grandmother or other much more remote ancestor; why a peculiarity is often
 719.76showing how plants and animals, most remote in the scale of nature, are bound
 731.108its prey, lies generally between beings remote in the scale of nature. This is often
 1084.1016few will transmit descendants to a remote futurity. I shall have to return to
 1084.1529modified descendants, yet at the most remote geological period, the earth may have
 1119.817to which the parents and their more remote ancestors have been exposed during
 1167.918as Schiodte remarks, "animals not far remote from ordinary forms, prepare the
 1263.357the genus. This period will seldom be remote in any extreme degree, as species very
 1263.794within a period not excessively remote, we might, as a general rule, expect
 1279.248characters have been inherited from a remote period, since that period when the
 1398.707only at intervals of time immensely remote. But it may be urged that when several
 1516.574have been first formed at an extremely remote period, since which all the many
 1546.141fishes, of which several are widely remote in their affinities. Generally when the
 1546.1142Orchis and Asclepias,—genera almost as remote as possible amongst flowering plants
 1606.70bee, as having originally existed in a remote progenitor as a boring and serrated
 1833.431identically the same in animals so remote in the scale of nature, that we cannot
 2480.406the pleistocene period (an enormously remote period as measured by years, including
 2558.308other, than are the fossils from two remote formations. Pictet gives as a well
 2622.333allied to each other, than are those of remote formations; for the forms are more
 2663.597or less ease, at periods more or less remote;—on the nature and number of the former
 2669.889the same character from an enormously remote geological period, so certain species
 2753.112stocked island, though standing more remote from the mainland, would not receive
 2769.74of many plants at points so immensely remote as on the mountains of the United
 2819.405flora, are common to Europe, enormously remote as these two points are; and there are
 2863.314species at points so enormously remote as Kerguelen Land, New Zealand, and
 2898.151both over continents and to the most remote oceanic islands. This is strikingly
 2898.802and are occasionally found on the most remote and barren islands in the open ocean
 2936.79with respect to the inhabitants of remote islands. For instance, in certain
 2948.1234produced bats and no other mammals on remote islands? On my view this question can
 2962.117several of the inhabitants of the more remote islands, whether still retaining the
 2978.875nearest continent, is so enormously remote, that the fact becomes an anomaly. But
 3006.180conditions, and the existence at remote points of the world of other species
 3010.1094though now distributed to the most remote points of the world, we ought to find
 3012.165branched off from a common parent at a remote epoch; so that in such cases there will
 3438.351be very severe between beings most remote in the scale of nature. The slightest
 3524.919ages have been inherited from a remote period to the present day. On the view
 3568.145of most genera, have within a not very remote period de- [page] 487 CHAP. XIV
3  remotely 
 1084.704now become extinct. Looking still more remotely to the future, we may predict that
 2480.1182beds. Nevertheless, looking to a remotely future epoch, there can, I think, be
 3075.1182organs being those which are most remotely related to the habits and food of an
1  remoteness 
 2954.62terrestrial mammals in relation to the remoteness of islands from continents, there is
1  remotest 
 2379.297extend, oceans have extended from the remotest period of which we have any record; and
3  remove 
 542.1081nature of the intermediate links always remove the difficulty. In very many cases
 719.427require the visits of moths to remove their pollen-masses and thus to
 2916.606to some continent. This view would remove many difficulties, but it would not, I
14  removed 
 172.149affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication — Laws governing the
 403.272ever reverts to some one ancestor, removed by a greater number of generations. In
 1038.170all the lines proceeding from (A) were removed, excepting that from a1 to a10. In the
 1671.475the following facts show. I removed all the ants from a group of about a
 1675.983a convenience to the aphides to have it removed; and therefore probably the aphides do
 1896.147affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication—Laws governing the
 1956.1330but as one capable of being removed by domestication. Finally, looking to
 2028.244that when animals and plants are removed from their natural conditions, they are
 2209.206in comparison with that which has removed masses of our palæozoic strata, in
 2737.131adheres to them: in one instance I removed twenty-two grains of dry argillaceous
 2857.50supposing that all difficulties are removed on the view here given in regard to the
 2886.446and the vitality of their ova when removed from the water. But I am inclined to
 2966.1252has a thick calcareous operculum, I removed it, and when it had formed a new
 3538.842by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed. Several eminent naturalists have of
1  removes 
 2707.652species to the most distant points, and removes many a difficulty: but to the best of
1  removing 
 2892.758its back; and it has happened to me, in removing a little duck-weed from one aquarium to
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 2048.390changes of a particular nature, often render organic beings in some degree sterile
 2056.845Several considerations, however, render the fertility of domestic varieties
 2157.457between child and parent, will render this a very rare event; for in all
 3269.67chapter, that there is some evidence to render it probable, that at whatever age any
37  rendered 
 357.472ago? But Mr. Horner's researches have rendered it in some degree probable that man
 515.708and disuse. The final result is thus rendered infinitely complex. In some cases, I do
 538.1074have not been seized on and rendered definite by natural selection, as
 846.129and more attractive flowers, had been rendered highly attractive to insects, they
 846.1499case: as soon as the plant had been rendered so highly attractive to insects that
 986.286distinct varieties; and varieties, when rendered very distinct from each other, take the
 1032.496descendants from any one species can be rendered, the more places they will be enabled
 1197.1226the breed it might probably have been rendered permanent by natural selection
 1231.1044of a large and complex structure, when rendered superfluous by the parasitic habits of
 1233.146of the organisation, as soon as it is rendered superfluous, without by any means
 1281.765these characters should not have been rendered as constant and uniform as other parts
 1432.228wander much, may have separately been rendered sufficiently distinct to rank as
 1476.577no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more
 1498.272suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to
 1634.184standard of perfection will have been rendered higher. Natural selection will not
 1761.162natural selection be strengthened and rendered permanent for the very different
 1839.159sterile ants. How the workers have been rendered sterile is a difficulty; but not much
 1859.292or of the same kind, which have been rendered by natural selection, as I believe to
 2014.514another species, when thus grafted were rendered barren. On the other hand, certain
 2032.549whole groups of animals and plants are rendered impotent by the same unnatural
 2040.504placed under unnatural conditions, is rendered sterile. All that I have attempted to
 2094.880conditions of life, being thus often rendered either impotent or at least incapable
 2257.54record will almost necessarily be rendered intermittent. I feel much confidence in
 2536.243families on the uppermost line would be rendered less distinct from each other. If, for
 2683.549times, must have interrupted or rendered discontinuous the formerly continuous
 2687.99that we ought to give up the belief, rendered probable by general considerations
 2793.805by land, serving as a bridge, since rendered impassable by cold, for the inter
 3295.1307active young or larvæ might easily be rendered by natural selection different to any
 3323.211degree to which the same organ has been rendered rudimentary occasionally differs much
 3337.1336to reduce the organ, until it was rendered harmless and rudimentary. Any change
 3339.132of natural selection; so that an organ rendered, during changed habits of life, useless
 3343.33former functions. An organ, when rendered useless, may well be variable, for its
 3392.280see that organisms of all kinds are rendered in some degree sterile from their
 3426.247of life; so that this system, when not rendered impotent, fails to reproduce offspring
 3456.823varieties; and thus species are rendered to a large extent defined and distinct
 3482.919for in this case it will have been rendered constant by long-continued natural
 3524.356the organ will not be much reduced or rendered rudimentary at this early age. The calf
1  rendering 
 3412.1569are often at first local,—both causes rendering the discovery of intermediate links
2  renewed 
 946.222well modified and perfected. When, by renewed elevation, the islands shall be re
 946.537of the various inhabitants of the renewed continent will again be changed; and
2  rengger 
 713.352in a feral state; and Azara and Rengger have shown that this is caused by the
 4350.0Record, geological, imperfect, 279. Rengger on flies destroying cattle
1  rennie's 
 5932.0Paper, with Portrait. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. RENNIE'S (JAMES) Insect Architecture. To which
3  repeat 
 1321.93not being able to give them. I can only repeat that such cases certainly do occur, and
 1683.499effect on the reader's mind. I can only repeat my assurance, that I do not speak
 2450.73or wholly, through man's agency. I may repeat what I published in 1845, namely, that
7  repeated 
 1237.129species, that when any part or organ is repeated many times in the structure of the same
 1851.960I believe that this process has been repeated, until that prodigious amount of
 1948.326in opposition to the constantly repeated admonition of every breeder. And in
 2102.775reduced to either pure parent-form, by repeated crosses in successive generations with
 3225.782formerly seen that parts many times repeated are eminently liable to vary in number
 3229.155similar elements, many times repeated, and have adapted them to the most
 3969.32Isidore, on variability of repeated parts, 149. ———, on correlation in
3  repeatedly 
 1273.208more variable than generic; but I have repeatedly noticed in works on natural history
 1914.1299as Gärtner during several years repeatedly crossed the primrose and cowslip, which
 1924.738conviction by a remarkable statement repeatedly made by Gärtner, namely, that if even
2  repeating 
 1657.675and habits could be pointed out. As in repeating a well-known song, so in instincts, one
 1657.813person be interrupted in a song, or in repeating anything by rote, he is generally
1  re-performed 
 1657.1195the third stage, the caterpillar simply re-performed the fourth, fifth, and sixth stages of
5  repetition 
 836.844same habits or structure, and by the repetition of this process, a new variety might be
 1237.528structure. Inasmuch as this "vegetative repetition," to use Prof. Owen's expression, seems
 3225.373spiral whorls of leaves. An indefinite repetition of the same part or organ is the common
 3231.413do not find nearly so much indefinite repetition of any one part, as we find in the
 4247.17birds not flying, 134. —, on vegetative repetition, 149. —, on variable length of arms in
1  replace 
 2657.493distinct, yet clearly related, replace each other. He hears from closely
3  replaced 
 1054.163will have become extinct, having been replaced by eight new species (a14 to m14); and
 1054.230a14 to m14); and (I) will have been replaced by six (n14 to z14) new species. But
 1825.1838wholly disappear, and would all be replaced by plane surfaces; and the Melipona
1  replaces 
 1400.551more and more frequent, till the one replaces the other. But if we compare these
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 242.171and I must trust to the reader reposing some confidence in my accuracy. No
20  represent 
 1006.97rather perplexing subject. Let A to L represent the species of a genus large in its own
 1018.500lengths proceeding from (A), may represent its varying offspring. The variations
 1020.63horizontal lines in the diagram, may represent each a thousand generations; but it
 1054.34If then our diagram be assumed to represent a considerable amount of modification
 1072.67line has hitherto been supposed to represent a thousand generations, but each may
 1072.114a thousand generations, but each may represent a million or hundred million
 1104.180truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced
 1104.255produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species
 1104.797buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and
 1104.1306lost branches of various sizes may represent those whole orders, families, and
 2311.131lived there, how imperfectly would they represent the natural history of the world! But
 2389.234interrupted succession of chapters, may represent the apparently abruptly changed forms
 2528.256may suppose that the numbered letters represent genera, and the dotted lines diverging
 2528.479for us. The horizontal lines may represent successive geological formations, and
 2892.991I suspended a duck's feet, which might represent those of a bird sleeping in a natural
 3063.552each letter on the uppermost line may represent a genus including several species; and
 3119.719We will suppose the letters A to L to represent allied genera, which lived during the
 3127.395and it is notoriously not possible to represent in a series, on a flat surface, the
 3191.575the diagram: the letters, A to L, may represent eleven Silurian genera, some of which
 3315.332impossible to doubt, that the rudiments represent wings. Rudimentary organs sometimes
21  representative 
 1400.301intervals with closely allied or representative species, evidently filling nearly the
 1400.407the natural economy of the land. These representative species often meet and interlock; and
 1408.265Hence the neutral territory between two representative species is generally narrow in
 1414.42I am right in believing that allied or representative species, when inhabiting a continuous
 1432.270sufficiently distinct to rank as representative species. In this case, intermediate
 1432.351varieties between the several representative species and their common parent, must
 1434.398distribution of closely allied or representative species, and likewise of acknowledged
 2564.729they have been called by some authors, representative species; and these we assuredly do find
 2596.828formation there be six other allied or representative genera with the same number of species
 2604.228have connected the closely allied or representative species, found in the several stages of
 2781.932few are distinct yet closely allied or representative species. In illustrating what, as I
 2799.262and a host of closely allied or representative forms which are ranked by all
 2801.411presence of many existing and tertiary representative forms on the eastern and western shores
 2823.315by man, and on the mountains, some few representative European forms are found, which have
 2998.38Porto Santo possess many distinct but representative land-shells, some of which live in
 2998.495not greatly marvel at the endemic and representative species, which inhabit the several
 3004.535ever so distant, many closely allied or representative species occur, there will likewise be
 3038.1271doubtful species, and of distinct but representative species. As the late Edward Forbes
 3398.902distribution both of the same and of representative species throughout the world. We are as
 3446.371the rank which they assign to the many representative forms in Europe and North America. If
 3510.35The existence of closely allied or representative species in any two areas, implies, on
3  representatives 
 1104.1382and genera which have now no living representatives, and [page] 130 NATURAL SELECTION
 2305.377as distinct species from their European representatives, and by other conchologists as only
 2823.115several European forms and some few representatives of the peculiar flora of the Cape of
26  represented 
 956.641We can, also, see that any form represented by few individuals will, during
 1006.275generally the case in nature, and as is represented in the diagram by the letters standing
 1018.1045most different or divergent variations (represented by the outer dotted lines) being
 1020.144it would have been better if each had represented ten thousand generations. After a
 1026.940In the diagram the process is represented up to the ten-thousandth generation
 1028.94process ever goes on so regularly as is represented in the diagram, though in itself made
 1034.282well as diverging in character: this is represented in the diagram by the several divergent
 1034.572and less improved branches: this is represented in the diagram by some of the lower
 1038.100generations. This case would be represented in the diagram, if all the lines
 1042.305to the amount of change supposed to be represented be- [page] 121 CHAP. IV. DIVERGENCE OF
 1048.40But during the process of modification, represented in the diagram, another of our
 1078.158we suppose the amount of change represented by each successive group of diverging
 1078.753divergent modification supposed to be represented in the diagram. And the two new
 1104.71of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile
 2199.132Some of these formations, which are represented in England by thin beds, are thousands
 2285.461have suspected the vast lapse of time represented by the thinner formation. Many cases
 2432.78number of the genera of a family, be represented by a vertical line of varying thickness
 2438.579disappearance of a group of species be represented, as before, by a vertical line of
 2532.147same general characteristics. This is represented in the diagram by the letter F14. All
 2542.56will be far more complicated than is represented in the diagram; for the groups will
 2823.930southern Australian forms are clearly represented by plants growing on the summits of the
 3119.973descendants to the present day, represented by the fifteen genera (a14 to z14) on
 3119.1116descendants from a single species, are represented as related in blood or descent to the
 3173.752from extinction, for they are generally represented by extremely few species; and such
 3173.1001have been less aberrant had each been represented by a dozen species instead of by a
 3301.1757the ancient state, now supposed to be represented in many embryos, has not been
7  representing 
 1002.671but little from each other, and feebly representing, as Mr. Waterhouse and others have
 1068.250towards a single point; this point representing a single species, the supposed single
 1297.668may be considered as a variation representing the normal structure of another race
 2285.245of beds only a few feet in thickness, representing formations, elsewhere thousands of feet
 2823.616occur, either identically the same or representing each other, and at the same time
 2823.662each other, and at the same time representing plants of Europe, not found in the
 3191.1553but we could pick out types, or forms, representing most of the characters of each group
2  represents 
 2307.1010by wide and shallow seas, probably represents the former state of Europe, when most
 3331.1032that the minute papilla, which often represents the pistil in male flowers, and which
7  reprinted 
 4804.52Two Essays. By Rev. Thomas James. Reprinted from the " Quarterly Review." Fcap. 8vo
 5024.56Early Period of the French Revolution. Reprinted from the Quarterly Review. 8vo. 15s
 5155.52THE). An Essay. By REV. THOS. JAMES. Reprinted from the " Quarterly Review." Fcap. 8vo
 5388.49THE). An Essay. By REV. THOMAS JAMES. Reprinted from the " Quarterly Review." Fcap. 8vo
 5394.38THEODORE) Life. By J. G. LOCKHART. Reprinted from the " Quarterly Review." Fcap. Svo
 5834.40MUSIC AND DRESS. Two Essays, by a Lady. Reprinted from the "Quarterly Review." Fcap. 8vo
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4  reproduce 
 1305.785tendency, whether strong or weak, to reproduce the lost character might be, as was
 1309.77generation there has been a tendency to reproduce the character in question, which at
 3343.350inheritance at corresponding ages will reproduce the organ in its reduced state at the
 3426.275when not rendered impotent, fails to reproduce offspring exactly like the parent-form
1  reproduced 
 1938.431widely dissimilar in general habit, "reproduced itself as perfectly as if it had been a
16  reproduction 
 295.80the laws are which determine the reproduction of animals under confinement, I may
 305.355life are in comparison with the laws of reproduction, and of growth, and of inheritance; for
 864.417or habitually, concur for the reproduction of their kind. This view, I may add
 864.928is, two individuals regularly unite for reproduction, which is all that concerns us. But
 864.1214that two individuals ever concur in reproduction? As it is impossible here to enter on
 896.162hermaphrodite animal with the organs of reproduction so perfectly enclosed within the body
 1245.1549not directly connected with the act of reproduction. The rule applies to males and females
 1906.44species have of course their organs of reproduction in a perfect condition, yet when
 2016.176male and female elements in the act of reproduction, yet that there is a rude degree of
 3075.1627main divisions; whereas the organs of reproduction, with their product the seed, are of
 3251.1891organ of importance, excepting for reproduction. [page] 442 EMBRYOLOGY. CHAP. XIII
 3456.50tends by its geometrical ratio of reproduction to increase inordinately in number; and
 3552.331structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. We see this even in so trifling a
 3588.457in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by
 3588.510Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and
 4351.0Rengger on flies destroying cattle, 72. Reproduction, rate of, 63. Resemblance to parents in
39  reproductive 
 291.528be attributed to the male and female reproductive elements having been affected prior to
 291.748cultivation has on the functions of the reproductive system; this system appearing to be far
 295.829numerous instances), yet having their reproductive system so seriously affected by
 297.380kept in hutches), showing that their reproductive system has not been thus affected; so
 515.133of life, from their action on the reproductive system, are so far of the highest
 778.127of life, by specially acting on the reproductive system, causes or increases variability
 1119.397it to be as much the function of the reproductive system to produce individual
 1119.1034show the truth of the remark—that the reproductive system is eminently susceptible to
 1123.413is alone affected. But why, because the reproductive system is disturbed, this or that part
 1139.390play an important part in affecting the reproductive system, and in thus inducing
 1845.330but to that short period alone when the reproductive system is active, as in the nuptial
 1906.183Hybrids, on the other hand, have their reproductive organs functionally impotent, as may be
 1986.708by us, and confined to the reproductive system. This difference in the result
 2002.212on unknown differences, chiefly in the reproductive systems, of the species which are
 2014.61sterility of hybrids, which have their reproductive organs in an imperfect condition, is a
 2014.199two pure species, which have their reproductive organs perfect; yet these two distinct
 2020.360unknown differences, chiefly in their reproductive systems. These differences, in both
 2028.323they are extremely liable to have their reproductive systems seriously affected. This, in
 2032.1269which is due, as I believe, to their reproductive systems having been specially affected
 2034.160unnatural crossing of two species, the reproductive system, independently of the general
 2060.886could select, slight differences in the reproductive system, or other constitutional
 2060.963differences correlated with the reproductive system. He supplies his several
 2060.1372through correlation, modify the reproductive system in the several descendants from
 2078.697crossed with N. glutinosa. Hence the reproductive system of this one variety must have
 2080.392and functional differences in the reproductive system; from these several
 2084.459modifications, more especially in the reproductive systems of the forms which are crossed
 2094.776namely, that it is due to the reproductive system being eminently sensitive to any
 2094.1127cultivated) which have not had their reproductive systems in any way affected, and they
 2094.1230but hybrids themselves have their reproductive systems seriously affected, and their
 2120.305on unknown differences in their reproductive systems. There is no more reason to
 2122.70between pure species, which have their reproductive systems perfect, seems [page] 277 CHAP
 2126.135sterility of hybrids, which have their reproductive systems imperfect, and which have had
 2132.84and not of differences in the reproductive system. In all other respects
 3263.1224communicated to the offspring from the reproductive element of one parent. Or again, as
 3384.489on constitutional differences in the reproductive systems of the intercrossed species. We
 3386.238either their constitutions or their reproductive systems should have been profoundly
 3392.88from that of first crosses, for their reproductive organs are more or less functionally
 3426.131This seems to be mainly due to the reproductive system being eminently susceptible to
 4521.11under domestication, 7. —caused by reproductive system being affected by conditions of
1  reptile 
 3239.509it be that of a mammal, bird, or reptile. The vermiform larvæ of moths, flies
10  reptiles 
 1171.720the blind Proteus with reference to the reptiles of Europe, I am only surprised that
 1464.241types, and formerly had flying reptiles, it is conceivable that flying-fish
 1574.1541occur in the skulls of young birds and reptiles, which have only to escape from a
 2408.344with many strange and lost mammals and reptiles in the sub-Himalayan deposits. The
 2520.602very distinct groups, such as fish and reptiles, seems to be, that supposing them to be
 2522.518groups. Yet if we compare the older Reptiles and [page] 331 CHAP. X. AFFINITIES OF
 2578.258that the oldest known mammals, reptiles, and fish strictly belong to their own
 2930.152inhabitants; in the Galapagos Islands reptiles, and in New Zealand gigantic wingless
 3093.10CHAP. XIII. CLASSIFICATION. birds and reptiles, as an approach in structure in any one
 3518.851see why the embryos of mammals, birds, reptiles, and fishes should be so closely alike
1  reptiles-the 
 3089.394absolutely distinguishes fishes and reptiles-the inflection of the angle of the jaws in
1  republication 
 6168.107purposes and distribution to students; republication in any form requires written permission
1  repulsed 
 1743.383they approached and were vigorously repulsed by an independent community of the
4  reputed 
 616.721as to be of doubtful value: these 63 reputed species range on an average over 6.9 of
 2054.487difficulties; for if two hitherto reputed varieties be found in any degree
 2078.290on five forms, which are commonly reputed to be varieties, and which he tested by
 3540.84their belief that a multitude of reputed species in each genus are not real
5  request 
 240.196to me a memoir on this subject, with a request that I would forward it to Sir Charles
 890.695be the case in this country; and at my request Dr. Hooker tabulated the trees of New
 2528.150the subject is somewhat complex, I must request the reader to turn to the diagram in
 2743.764seeds, during the Glacial epoch. At my request Sir C. Lyell wrote to M. Hartung to
 3063.221less improved, and preceding forms. I request the reader to turn to the diagram
9  require 
 669.164few, is, that the slow-breeders would require a few more years to people, under
 719.396of our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of moths to remove their
 731.437for they frequent the same districts, require the same food, and are exposed to the
 1651.325An action, which we ourselves should require experience to enable us to perform
 1703.826civilised dogs, even when quite young, require to be taught not to attack poultry
 2337.63formerly made, namely that it might require a long succession of ages to adapt an
 2383.72pressure, have always seemed to me to require some special explanation; and we may
 2637.1110closely as the same species generally require; for it is a most rare case to find a
 3418.258it is imperfect to the degree which I require, few will be inclined to admit. If we
12  required 
 878.255but, the agency of insects is often required to cause the stamens to spring forward
 1267.796of the individuals varying in the required manner and degree, and by the continued
 1819.1123construction more materials would be required than for a cylinder. As natural
 1825.941throughout the winter, and consequently required a store of honey: there can in this
 1918.403think no better evidence of this can be required than that the two most experienced
 2217.145the denudation of the Weald must have required 306,662,400 years; or say three hundred
 2265.360each formation has indisputably required a vast number of years for its
 2273.214of Europe; time having apparently been required for their migration from the American
 2285.332feet in thickness, and which must have required an enormous period for their
 2335.96perhaps in some cases than the time required for the accumulation of each formation
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 5512.134great Excellence or only Mediocrity be required. Third Edition. Revised and enlarged
1  requirements 
 1606.527the community, it will fulfil all the requirements of natural selection, though it may
3  requires 
 505.805individuals of a species in any country requires that the species should be placed under
 3418.451changed in the manner which my theory requires, for they have changed slowly and in a
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4  requiring 
 250.1265flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring
 1233.372largely developing any organ, without requiring as a necessary compensation the
 1361.1226on my view must be a very slow process, requiring a long lapse of time-in this case
 2285.48have been due to geographical changes requiring much time. Nor will the closest
8  requisite 
 441.1046natural capacity and years of practice requisite to become even a skilful pigeon-fancier
 1173.103of flowering, in the amount of rain requisite for seeds to germinate, in the time of
 1781.1232can prolong the hexagon to any length requisite to hold the stock of honey; in the same
 2213.815given height, we could measure the time requisite to have denuded the Weald. This, of
 2267.108is short compared with the period requisite to change one species into another. I
 3135.287several other grades of difference are requisite, as we have seen with pigeons. The
 3295.1004undergoing any metamorphosis is perhaps requisite. If, on the other hand, it profited the
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 357.456thousand years ago? But Mr. Horner's researches have rendered it in some degree
 2247.63sea, in which case, judging from the researches of E. Forbes, we may conclude that the
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34  resemblance 
 1167.503have been anticipated from the general resemblance of the other inhabitants of North
 1657.606life. Several other points of resemblance between instincts and habits could be
 1661.123this does sometimes happen-then the resemblance between what originally was a habit and
 1976.46term systematic affinity is meant, the resemblance between species in structure and in
 1992.987hybrid is independent of its external resemblance to either pure parent. Considering the
 1998.10HYBRIDISM. CHAP. VIII. degree of resemblance to each other. This latter statement is
 2020.517affinity, by which every kind of resemblance and dissimilarity between organic
 2102.139mongrel plants. On the other hand, the resemblance in mongrels and in hybrids to their
 2110.1112to the conclusion, that the laws of resemblance of the child to its parents are the
 2126.1421attempts to express all kinds of resemblance between all species. First crosses
 2132.174fertility, there is a close general resemblance between hybrids and mongrels. Finally
 2155.304in its whole organisation much general resemblance to the tapir and to the horse; but in
 2472.216beds present an unmistakeable degree of resemblance to those of the Chalk. It is not that
 2558.378as a well-known instance, the general resemblance of the organic remains from the several
 2558.756not attempt to account for the close resemblance of the distinct species in closely
 2831.329that New Zealand should have a closer resemblance in its crustacea to Great Britain, its
 2972.1291hand, there is a considerable degree of resemblance in the volcanic nature of the soil, in
 3069.1286in our classification, than mere resemblance. I believe that something more is
 3095.941appreciation of many trifling points of resemblance, too slight to be defined. Certain
 3145.718common, there will certainly be close resemblance or affinity. As descent has
 3159.240followed by Macleay and others. The resemblance, in the shape of the body and in the
 3159.716of the common and swedish turnip. The resemblance of the greyhound and racehorse is
 3159.1293and thus assume a close external resemblance; but such resemblances will not reveal
 3179.1530it may be strongly suspected that the resemblance is only analogical, owing to the
 3203.168plan of their organisation. This resemblance is often expressed by the term "unity
 3229.400organs, a certain degree of fundamental resemblance, retained by the strong principle of
 3239.766life. A trace of the law of embryonic resemblance, sometimes lasts till a rather late age
 3247.730closely the law of common embryonic resemblance. Cirripedes afford a good instance of
 3305.189borne in mind, that the supposed law of resemblance of ancient forms of life to the
 3359.239facts in Embryology; namely, the resemblance in an individual embryo of the
 3359.399in structure and function; and the resemblance in different species of a class of the
 3490.169laws in their degrees and kinds of resemblance to their parents,—in being absorbed
 4135.7Dr. P., on inheritance, 12. ——, on resemblance of child to parent, 275. Lund and
 4351.27cattle, 72. Reproduction, rate of, 63. Resemblance to parents in mongrels and hybrids
9  resemblances 
 2110.367closely resembling one parent, the resemblances seem chiefly confined to characters
 3075.702to a fish, as of any importance. These resemblances, though so intimately connected with
 3075.873but to the consideration of these resemblances we shall have to recur. It may even be
 3077.49therefore, in classifying, trust to resemblances in parts of the organisation, however
 3081.174naturalists lay the greatest stress on resemblances in organs of high vital or
 3147.772to make out community of descent by resemblances of any kind. Therefore we choose those
 3159.117affinities and analogical or adaptive resemblances. Lamarck first called attention to this
 3159.1315a close external resemblance; but such resemblances will not reveal—will rather tend to
 3197.1111We can understand why we value certain resemblances far more than others; why we are
34  resemble 
 132.258of the species of the larger genera resemble varieties in being very closely, but
 357.179and that some of the breeds closely resemble, perhaps are identical with, those
 524.248of the species of the larger genera resemble varieties in being very closely, but
 606.20whether two forms [page] 57 CHAP. II. RESEMBLE VARIETIES. should be ranked as species
 608.523the species of the larger genera resemble varieties, more than do the species of
 608.844manufactured still to a certain extent resemble varieties, for they differ from each
 616.412allied to other species, and in so far resemble varieties, often have much restricted
 620.20certain amount of [page] 59 CHAP. II. RESEMBLE VARIETIES. difference, for two forms
 1006.186country; these species are supposed to resemble each other in unequal degrees, as is so
 1056.84species of our genus were supposed to resemble each other in unequal degrees, as is so
 1275.684in which all the species of a genus resemble each other, and in which they differ
 1311.223so that a variety of one species would resemble in some of its characters another
 1695.398when thus tested by crossing, resemble natural instincts, which in a like
 1992.396their two parents, always closely resemble one of them; and such hybrids, though
 1992.703sometimes are born, which closely resemble one of their pure parents; and these
 1994.616not related to the degree in which they resemble in external appearance either parent
 2040.307which occasionally and exceptionally resemble closely either pure parent. Nor do I
 2102.622from a reciprocal cross, generally resemble each other closely; and so it is with
 2104.541that both the mule and the hinny more resemble the ass than the horse; but that the
 2576.37Agassiz insists that ancient animals resemble to a certain extent the embryos of
 2618.744it will be related to, and consequently resemble, the common progenitor of groups, since
 2624.363be proved that ancient animals resemble to a certain extent the embryos of more
 3057.61life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so
 3141.825not solely because they closely resemble the parent-form, but because they are
 3203.100independently of their habits of life, resemble each other in the general plan of their
 3239.569larvæ of moths, flies, beetles, &c., resemble each other much more closely than do
 3239.885and of closely allied genera, often resemble each other in their first and second
 3241.92different animals of the same class resemble each other, often have no direct
 3289.80supposed genus will manifestly tend to resemble each other much more closely than do
 3289.692of the parent-species will still resemble each other closely, for they will not
 3295.0page] 448 EMBRYOLOGY. CHAP. XIII. resemble the mature parent-form. We have seen
 3301.1476and extinct forms of life should resemble the embryos of their descendants,—our
 3454.742other species—in which respects they resemble varieties. These are strange relations
 3546.870at an embryonic age the species closely resemble each other. Therefore I cannot doubt
1  resembled 
 2480.672the pleistocene inhabitants of Europe resembled most closely those of the southern
5  resembles 
 940.88of Madeira, according to Oswald Heer, resembles the extinct tertiary flora of Europe
 1442.672which has webbed feet and which resembles an otter in its fur, short legs, and
 1544.33their intimate structure closely resembles that of common muscle; and as it has
 2972.1107classes are associated together, which resembles closely the conditions of the South
 3179.1391has remarked, the phascolomys resembles most nearly, not any one species, but
8  resembling 
 365.1276Who can believe that animals closely resembling the Italian greyhound, the bloodhound
 578.153to a set of individuals closely resembling each other, and that it does not
 1351.427of the world, to produce hybrids resembling in their stripes, not their own parents
 2056.737many species there are, which, though resembling each other most closely, are utterly
 2110.340collected of cross-bred animals closely resembling one parent, the resemblances seem
 3257.403class, generally, but not universally, resembling each other;—of the structure of the
 3295.326any metamorphosis, or closely resembling their parents from their earliest age
 3315.144genus (and even of the same species) resembling each other most closely in all respects
2  reserve 
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 582.483Hooker, even in stronger terms. I shall reserve for my future work the discussion of
1  reserved 
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11  resist 
 695.272compete with our native plants, nor resist destruction by our native animals
 2032.719one species in a group will sometimes resist great changes of conditions with
 2062.137But it seems to me impossible to resist the evidence of the existence of a
 2247.608thick enough, when upraised, to resist any amount of degradation, may be
 2249.498America, which has been bulky enough to resist such degradation as it has as yet
 2251.244and sufficiently thick and extensive to resist subsequent degradation, may have been
 2402.140has shown that it is hardly possible to resist the evidence on this head in the case
 2602.405fossiliferous deposits thick enough to resist future degradation, enormous intervals
 2713.475was not even known how far seeds could resist the injurious action of sea-water. To
 3416.469formations, thick enough to resist future degradation, can be accumulated
 3472.473some effect; for it is difficult to resist this con- [page] 473 CHAP. XIV
2  resistance 
 2723.444length of their flotation and of their resistance to the injurious action of the salt
 5962.75Siege of Kars and of the Six Months' Resistance by the Turkish Garrison under General
1  resisted 
 782.360with advantage, so as to have better resisted such intruders. As man can produce and
4  resisting 
 1177.846different constitutional powers of resisting cold. Mr. Thwaites informs me that he
 1560.919absolutely depends on their power of resisting the attacks of insects: so that
 2213.1759layers or nodules, which from long resisting attrition form a breakwater at the base
 4380.13in, 77. ——, winged, 146. ——, power of resisting salt-water, 358. —in crops and
1  resown 
 731.728be sown together, and the mixed seed be resown, some of the varieties which best suit
44  respect 
 359.621had more than one wild parent. With respect to horses, from reasons which I cannot
 435.1105Sir John Sebright, used to say, with respect to pigeons, that "he would produce any
 505.418principle Marshall has remarked, with respect to the sheep of parts of Yorkshire
 511.215stocked with other races. In this respect enclosure of the land plays a part
 608.470they concur in this view. In this respect, therefore, the species of the larger
 747.353range, a change of constitution with respect to climate would clearly be an
 822.1108suspect that some well-known laws with respect to the plumage of male and female birds
 1205.692probably homology comes into play? With respect to this latter case of correlation, I
 1213.5nectary is only much shortened. With respect to the difference in the corolla of the
 1245.321made by Professor Owen, with respect to the length of the arms of the ourang
 1325.5zebra-like bars on the hocks. With respect to the horse, I have collected cases in
 1339.1351stripes on the sides of its face. With respect to this last fact, I was so convinced
 1839.989the prodigious difference in this respect between the workers and the perfect
 1936.714same flower were perfectly good with respect to other species, yet as they were
 1944.952be perfectly fertile. Again, with respect to the fertility in successive
 2040.108on vague hypotheses, several facts with respect to the sterility of hybrids; for
 2084.248the view which I have taken with respect to the very general, but not invariable
 2110.1050an enormous body of facts with respect to animals, comes to the conclusion
 2128.311liable we are to argue in a circle with respect to varieties in a state of nature; and
 2229.5a partially analogous case. With respect to the terrestrial productions which
 2460.5process than its production. With respect to the apparently sudden extermination
 2514.752both into one general system. With respect to the Vertebrata, whole pages could be
 2520.552The most common case, especially with respect to very distinct groups, such as fish
 2544.70with modification, the main facts with respect to the mutual affinities of the extinct
 2556.1039opposite end of the series in this same respect. Closely connected with the statement
 2643.659Analogous facts could be given with respect to the inhabitants of the sea. A
 2687.1169then, considering our ignorance with respect to former climatal and geographical
 2775.433met with no satisfactory evidence with respect to this intercalated slightly warmer
 2886.1187to lead to this same conclusion. With respect to allied fresh-water fish occurring at
 2898.5a favouring gale no one can tell. With respect to plants, it has long been known what
 2936.49little facts could be given with respect to the inhabitants of remote islands
 2938.5bushes and ultimately into trees. With respect to the absence of whole orders on
 3024.237how profoundly ignorant we are with respect to the many and curious means of
 3026.5sub-genera, genera, and families. With respect to the distinct species of the same
 3113.14and botanists. Finally, with respect to the comparative value of the various
 3151.469a common parent. We may err in this respect in regard to single points of structure
 3179.723in some degree intermediate with respect to all existing Marsupials; or that
 3295.226class of insects, as with Aphis. With respect to the final cause of the young in
 3331.40I have now given the leading facts with respect to rudimentary organs. In reflecting on
 3384.5this difficulty can be mastered. With respect to the almost universal sterility of
 3398.1029occasional means of transport. With respect to distinct species of the same genus
 3400.346together in an inextricable chaos? With respect to existing forms, we should remember
 3418.5of subsidence, more extinction. With respect to the absence of fossiliferous
 3566.938organs will speak infallibly with respect to the nature of long-lost structures
2  respective 
 1689.56shall thus also be enabled to see the respective parts which habit and the selection of
 2102.187in mongrels and in hybrids to their respective parents, more especially in hybrids
21  respects 
 343.192of the same genus, in several trifling respects, they often differ in an extreme degree
 389.321from each other in the most trifling respects. As several of the reasons which have
 411.207very abnormal characters in certain respects, as compared with all other Columbidæ
 411.284Columbidæ, though so like in most other respects to the rock-pigeon; the blue colour and
 542.273as distinct species, are in several respects the most important for us. We have
 622.654restricted ranges. In all these several respects the species of large genera present a
 934.887areas probably have been in some respects highly favourable for the production of
 2040.587to show, is that in two cases, in some respects allied, sterility is the common result
 2086.210may be compared in several other respects. Gärtner, whose strong wish was to draw
 2086.565most closely in very many important respects. I shall here discuss this subject
 2112.67fertility and sterility, in all other respects there seems to be a general and close
 2132.118the reproductive system. In all other respects, excluding fertility, there is a close
 2149.452will generally have differed in some respects from all its modified descendants. To
 2454.154which are most like each other in all respects. [page] 321 CHAP. X. EXTINCTION
 2918.761and the comparison in some other respects is not quite fair. We have evidence
 2972.1228considerable dissimilarity in all these respects. On the other hand, there is a
 3139.338allied in blood and alike in some other respects. If it could be proved that the
 3315.186each other most closely in all respects, one of which will have full-sized
 3323.120in degree of development and in other respects. Moreover, in closely allied species
 3438.40viduals of the same species come in all respects into the closest competition with each
 3454.728groups round other species—in which respects they resemble varieties. These are
5  respiration 
 1524.252for a wholly different purpose, namely respiration. The swimbladder has, also, been worked
 1528.439a lung, or organ used exclusively for respiration. I can, indeed, hardly doubt that all
 1530.1125at a very ancient period served for respiration have been actually converted into
 1536.261including the small frena, serving for respiration. The Balanidæ or sessile cirripedes, on
 1536.792very slightly aided the act of respiration, have been gradually converted by
1  respire 
 1522.480will then digest and the stomach respire. In such cases natural selection might
1  respires 
 1522.283functions; thus the alimentary canal respires, digests, and excretes in the larva of
1  restate 
 3538.150we give an explanation when we only restate a fact. Any one whose disposition leads
1  restatement 
 3331.573seems to me no explanation, merely a restatement of the fact. Would it be thought
1  restating 
 1492.105another type; but this seems to me only restating the fact in dignified language. He who
1  restorations 
 2584.1015We see the same law in this author's restorations of the extinct and gigantic birds of
1  restored 
 5138.54Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored: an Essay on Ancient Assyrian and
1  restraint 
 653.883increase of food, and no prudential restraint from marriage. Although some species
10  restricted 
 132.352related to each other, and in having restricted ranges. .. .. .. .. .. .. 44-59 [page
 524.342related to each other, and in having restricted ranges. BEFORE applying the principles
 616.87notice. Varieties generally have much restricted ranges: this statement is indeed
 616.448far resemble varieties, often have much restricted ranges. For instance, Mr. H. C. Watson
 616.1078varieties have very nearly the same restricted average range, as have those very
 622.614allied to other species apparently have restricted ranges. In all these several respects
 1018.290vary more than rare species with restricted ranges. Let (A) be a common, widely
 2522.195other. This remark no doubt must be restricted to those groups which have undergone
 2723.1350shown that such plants generally have restricted ranges. But seeds may be occasionally
 3454.640of the larger genera apparently have restricted ranges, and they are clustered in
1  rests 
 1956.467to believe in its truth, although it rests on no direct evidence. I believe, for
37  result 
 242.897those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating
 319.4laws of the correlation of growth. The result of the various, quite unknown, or dimly
 451.260been published on the subject; and the result, I may add, has been, in a
 469.226even have wished to have produced the result which ensued—namely, the production of
 477.1006been simple, and, as far as the final result is concerned, has been followed almost
 515.693attributed to use and disuse. The final result is thus rendered infinitely complex. In
 590.766But so many causes tend to obscure this result, that I am surprised that my tables
 645.429Dean of Manchester, evidently the result of his great horticultural knowledge
 665.802the geometrical ratio of increase, the result of which never fails to be surprising
 735.262they cannot be kept together. The same result has followed from keeping together
 784.54and certainly has produced a great result by his methodical and unconscious means
 804.1341structure is merely the correlated result of successive changes in the structure
 816.202for possession of the females; the result is not death to the unsuccessful
 890.803those of the United States, and the result was as I anticipated. On the other hand
 1189.219fitted for their own districts: the result must, I think, be due to habit. On the
 1675.864the action was instinctive, and not the result of experience. But as the excretion is
 1709.473has done nothing, and all has been the result of selection, pursued both methodically
 1779.34BEE. both layers be formed, there will result a double layer of hexagonal prisms
 1932.953three other and distinct species: the result was that "the ovaries of the three
 1936.372years, and always with the same result. This result has, also, been confirmed
 1936.385and always with the same result. This result has, also, been confirmed by other
 1958.203and in hybrids, is an extremely general result; but that it cannot, under our present
 1986.752system. This difference in the result of reciprocal crosses between the same
 2000.677often be so great a difference in the result of a reciprocal cross between the same
 2040.628allied, sterility is the common result,—in the one case from the conditions of
 2060.1577be surprised at some difference in the result. I have as yet spoken as if the
 2070.94first quite incredible; but it is the result of an astonishing number of experiments
 2177.8IMPERFECTION OF THE CHAP. IX. are the result and measure of the degradation which
 2177.379parts of Great Britain; and this is the result:— Feet. Palæozoic strata (not
 2574.58countries could not have foreseen this result. Agassiz insists that ancient animals
 2723.672them to have floated much longer. The result was that 18/98 of his seeds floated for
 2765.588will make no difference in the final result. As the warmth returned, the arctic
 3063.376and he will see that the inevitable result is that the modified descendants
 3295.403age, we can see that this would result from the two following contingencies
 3384.605in the vast difference in the result, when the same two species are crossed
 3442.638produce within a short period a great result by adding up mere individual
 5578.36s. —————Nineveh and Babylon; being the Result of a Second Expedition to Assyria
1  resulted 
 1462.629alluded to, which perhaps may all have resulted from disuse, indicate the natural steps
1  resulting 
 1773.217symmetrically in a double layer, the resulting structure would probably have been as
18  results 
 457.266may be called Unconscious, and which results from every one trying to possess and
 477.901in having produced such splendid results from such poor materials; but the art
 582.70I thought that some interesting results might be obtained in regard to the
 598.616species of the small genera. Both these results follow when another division is made
 608.300averages, and, as far as my imperfect results go, they always confirm the view. I
 641.430of the same genus, arise? All these results, as we shall more fully see in the next
 641.1297selection can certainly produce great results, and can adapt organic beings to his
 778.579as man can certainly produce great results by adding up in any given direction
 830.1059or by that unconscious selection which results from each man trying [page] 91 CHAP
 1926.23been avoided. Now let us turn to the results arrived at by the third most
 1930.336as did Gärtner. The difference in their results may, I think, be in part accounted for
 2016.244is a rude degree of parallelism in the results of grafting and [page] 263 CHAP. VIII
 2100.316and seems directly opposed to the results of several experiments made by
 2235.53in the geological record mainly results from another and more important cause
 3197.52have seen that natural selection, which results from the struggle for existence, and
 3434.551of peculiar seasons, and by the results of naturalisation, as explained in the
 4662.17Royal 4to. 50s. each. ——— ASTRONOMICAL RESULTS. 1848 to 1856. 4to. 8s. each
 4694.34MAGNETICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL RESULTS. 1848 to 1855. 4to. 8s. each
1  resurrection 
 4814.162Argument for the truth of the Resurrection of our Lord. Being the HULSEAN LECTURES
10  retain 
 1536.91the means of a sticky secretion, to retain the eggs until they are hatched within
 2412.919surprising that one species should retain the same identical form much longer
 2532.73altered conditions of life, and yet retain throughout a vast period the same
 2717.1714sea-currents during 28 days, and would retain their power of germination. In Johnston
 2729.735in the crops of floating birds long retain their vitality: peas and vetches, for
 2749.405very great distances; for seeds do not retain their vitality when exposed for a great
 2904.465the sea; and we have seen that seeds retain their power of germination, when
 2988.926species, however, might spread and yet retain the same character throughout the group
 3315.378wings. Rudimentary organs sometimes retain their potentiality, and are merely not
 3454.414of varieties or incipient species, retain to a certain degree the character of
19  retained 
 542.411closely-allied forms have permanently retained their characters in their own country
 830.746or selected,—provided always that they retained strength to master their prey at this
 920.627uniformity of character can be retained amongst them, as long as their
 1070.153diverged much in character, but to have retained the form of (F), either unaltered or
 1305.563that a tendency to reversion is retained by this very small proportion of
 1628.566of high importance has often been retained (as the tail of an aquatic animal by
 1707.428mother to fly away. But this instinct retained by our chickens has become useless
 2669.835the last chapter that some forms have retained nearly the same character from an
 2735.1037of beet grew after having been thus retained for two days and fourteen hours
 2735.1518excrement; and several of these seeds retained their power of germination. Certain
 3095.1545that this genus should still be retained amongst the Malpighiaceæ. This case
 3179.971we may suppose that the bizcacha has retained, by inheritance, more of the character
 3179.1218all Marsupials, from having partially retained the character of their common
 3229.413degree of fundamental resemblance, retained by the strong principle of inheritance
 3237.157which they would probably have retained through inheritance, if they had really
 3329.308in the adult, is often said to have retained its embryonic condition. I have now
 3339.287another purpose. Or an organ might be retained for one alone of its [page] 455 CHAP
 3345.420with the letters in a word, still retained in the spelling, but become useless in
 3398.111to believe that some species have retained the same specific form for very long
7  retaining 
 1885.271different conditions of life, yet often retaining nearly the same instincts. For instance
 2092.58cases both of hybrids and mongrels long retaining uniformity of character could be given
 2910.1253and of the lower animals, whether retaining the same identical form or in some
 2936.509becoming slightly modified, but still retaining its hooked seeds, would form an endemic
 2962.147the more remote islands, whether still retaining the same specific form or modified
 3016.377chance of ranging widely and of still retaining the same specific character. This fact
 3237.95of the jaws, for instance, of a crab retaining numerous characters, which they would
1  retard 
 926.509and fewness of individuals will greatly retard the production of new species through
1  retarded 
 948.777The process will often be greatly retarded by free intercrossing. Many will
1  retarding 
 914.123overrate the effects of intercrosses in retarding natural selection; for I can bring a
1  retention 
 3185.37a common parent, together with their retention by inheritance of some characters in
2  retreat 
 2767.47warmth returned, the arctic forms would retreat northward, closely followed up in their
 2767.95northward, closely followed up in their retreat by the productions of the more
2  retreated 
 2775.349further north, and subsequently have retreated to their present homes; but I have met
 2839.366plants and other productions will have retreated from both sides towards the equator
1  retreating 
 2171.574how often do we see along the bases of retreating cliffs rounded boulders, all thickly
1  retrievers 
 1689.715certainly in some degree inherited by retrievers; and a tendency to run round, instead
1  retrieving 
 1689.663first time that they are taken out; retrieving is certainly in some degree inherited
2  retrograde 
 3251.1740the development has assuredly been retrograde; for the male is a mere sack, which
 3295.1807final metamorphosis would be said to be retrograde. As all the organic beings, extinct
11  return 
 234.392one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that
 576.628species. But we shall hereafter have to return to this subject. From these remarks it
 836.1351of intercrossing we shall soon have to return. I may add, that, according to Mr
 846.1439to tree in search of nectar. But to return to our imaginary case: as soon as the
 884.1042pollen; but to this subject we shall return in a future chapter. In the case of a
 1084.1049to a remote futurity. I shall have to return to this subject in the chapter on
 1470.185under many subordinate forms. Thus, to return to our imaginary illustration of the
 2096.7are highly variable. But to return to our comparison of mongrels and
 2297.146but to this subject I shall have to return in the following chapter. One other
 2805.12utterly dissimilar. But we must return to our more immediate subject, the
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4  returned 
 2323.470their parent-forms. When such varieties returned to their ancient homes, as they would
 2767.14in the final result. As the warmth returned, the arctic forms would retreat
 2767.426Hence, when the warmth had fully returned, the same arctic species, which had
 2845.272even crossed the equator. As the warmth returned, these temperate forms would naturally
3  returning 
 1749.218and numerous pupæ. I traced the returning file burthened with booty, for about
 2769.381came on, and the re-migration on the returning warmth, will generally have been due
 2777.471left isolated from the moment of the returning warmth, first at the bases and
7  reveal 
 1767.328and see whether Nature does not reveal to us her method of work. At one end of
 2147.459links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain
 2759.883drifted icebergs and coast-ice, plainly reveal a former cold period. The former
 3159.964classification, only in so far as they reveal descent, we can clearly understand why
 3301.1031reveals community of descent. It will reveal this community of descent, however much
 3524.1302may be said to have taken pains to reveal, by rudimentary organs and by
 3566.1173ancient forms of life. Embryology will reveal to us the structure, in some degree
4  revealed 
 3073.27CHAP. XIII. cation, which is partially revealed to us by our classifications. Let us
 5684.74or, the Invisible World, as revealed by the Microscope. Second Edition
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 1906.390in structure, as far as the microscope reveals. In the first case the two sexual
 3069.810Natural System; they believe that it reveals the plan of the Creator; but unless it
 3301.607less modified state; and in so far it reveals the structure of its progenitor. In two
 3301.993Thus, community in embryonic structure reveals community of descent. It will reveal
1  reveal—will 
 3159.1337but such resemblances will not reveal—will rather tend to conceal their blood
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1  reverent 
 3544.839of species in what they consider reverent silence. It may be asked how far I
3  reverse 
 501.68the circumstances, favourable, or the reverse, to man's power of selection. A high
 884.938are crossed the case is directly the reverse, for a plant's own pollen is always
 2880.336countries. But the case is exactly the reverse. Not only have many fresh-water species
7  reversed 
 375.1264short and conical beak, with a line of reversed feathers down the breast; and it has
 375.1424The Jacobin has the feathers so much reversed along the back of the neck that they
 395.489the short-faced tumbler, or barb; for reversed feathers like those of the jacobin; for
 616.284their denominations ought to be reversed. But there is also reason to believe
 1297.377apart, present sub-varieties with reversed feathers on the head and feathers on
 2006.161element of the other, but not in a reversed direction. It will be advisable to
 2851.240from the north to the south, than in a reversed direction. We see, however, a few
21  reversion 
 333.33Having alluded to the subject of reversion, I may here refer to a statement often
 333.748not tell whether or not nearly perfect reversion had ensued. It would be quite necessary
 337.791manifested a strong tendency to reversion,—that is, to lose their acquired
 399.1392facts, on the well-known principle of reversion to ancestral characters, if all the
 403.402some distinct breed, the tendency to reversion to any character derived from such
 515.452various degrees of inheritance and of reversion. Variability is governed by many
 1243.139disuse, and to the tendency to reversion. A part developed in any species in an
 1257.1822on the one hand, the tendency to reversion to a less modified state, as well as an
 1263.1106on the one hand, and the tendency to reversion and variability on the other hand, will
 1293.1229of time, overmastered the tendency to reversion and to further variability,—to sexual
 1303.227one will doubt that this is a case of reversion, and not of a new yet analogous
 1305.550generally believed that a tendency to reversion is retained by this very small
 1315.279that the blueness was a case of reversion, from the number of the markings, which
 1315.881assuming characters (either from reversion or from analogous variation) which
 1323.237nature. It is a case apparently of reversion. The ass not rarely has very distinct
 1361.1033tendency to further variability and to reversion to a less modified state. But when a
 1361.1732modifications may not arise from reversion and analogous variation, such
 1568.357characters reappear from the law of reversion; that correlation of growth will have
 1586.924cause, may reappear from the law of reversion, though now of no direct use. The
 1590.1062to the several laws of inheritance, reversion, correlation of growth, &c. Hence every
 4352.0parents in mongrels and hybrids, 273. Reversion, law of inheritance, 14. ——in pigeons
7  reversions 
 152.485genus vary in an analogous manner — Reversions to long-lost characters — Summary
 337.1494of life do change, variations and reversions of character probably do occur; but
 1311.762same genus would occasionally exhibit reversions to lost ancestral characters. As
 1315.179characters in our domestic breeds were reversions or only analogous variations; but we
 1315.677be left doubtful, what cases are reversions to an anciently existing character, and
 2110.671by selection. Consequently, sudden reversions to the perfect character of either
 3476.609modified. In both varieties and species reversions to long-lost characters occur. How
9  revert 
 333.178when run wild, gradually but certainly revert in character to their aboriginal stocks
 337.112our varieties certainly do occasionally revert in some of their characters to
 337.510to a large extent, or even wholly, revert to the wild aboriginal stock. Whether
 399.1818breed there might be a tendency to revert to the very same colours and markings
 403.663there is a tendency in both parents to revert to a character, which has been lost
 1267.875continued rejection of those tending to revert to a former and less modified condition
 1305.251occasionally show a tendency to revert in character to the foreign breed for
 1361.1609and these same species may occasionally revert to some of the characters of their
 2096.118are more liable than hybrids to revert to either parent-form; but this, if it
1  reverting 
 4296.3being able to get out of egg, 87. —, reverting to blue colour, 160. —, instinct of
3  reverts 
 327.242sometimes not so; why the child often reverts in certain characters to its
 403.242the belief that the child ever reverts to some one ancestor, removed by a
 1297.138the characters of an allied species, or reverts to some of the characters of an early
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 2165.587will recognise as having produced a revolution in natural science, yet does not admit
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 2711.513of such prodigious geographical revolutions within the recent period, as are
1  revolutum 
 1930.620pod of Crinum capense fertilised by C. revolutum produced a plant, which (he says) I
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3  rhinoceros 
 687.713in some cases, as with the elephant and rhinoceros, none are destroyed by beasts of prey
 1183.1116that former species of the elephant and rhinoceros were capable of enduring a glacial
 3323.978bones of the leg of the horse, ox, and rhinoceros. It is an important fact that
3  rhododendron 
 1938.213Fuchsia, Calceolaria, Petunia, Rhododendron, &c., have been crossed, yet many of
 4226.28Noble, Mr., on fertility of Rhododendron, 251. Nodules, phosphatic, in azoic
 4354.0in pigeons to blue colour, 160. Rhododendron, sterility of, 251. Richard, Prof., on
3  rhododendrons 
 1177.660acclimatised: thus the pines and rhododendrons, raised from seed collected by Dr
 1938.623of some of the complex crosses of Rhododendrons, and I am assured that many of them are
 1942.701of the more sterile kinds of hybrid rhododendrons, which produce no pollen, for he will
7  rhombic 
 1793.421in other parts, large portions of a rhombic plate had been left between the opposed
 1795.800examined the cell, and I found that the rhombic plate had been completed, and had
 1795.935from the extreme thinness of the little rhombic plate, that they could have effected
 1801.724cell at the same time, but only the one rhombic plate which stands on the extreme
 1801.868never complete the upper edges of the rhombic plates, until the hexagonal walls are
 1807.302in position to the planes of the rhombic basal plates of future cells. But the
 1831.638the hexagonal prisms and of the basal rhombic plates. The motive power of the process
5  rhombs 
 1767.807join on to a pyramid, formed of three rhombs. These rhombs have certain angles, and
 1767.821pyramid, formed of three rhombs. These rhombs have certain angles, and the three
 1779.127by pyramidal bases formed of three rhombs; and the rhombs and the sides of the
 1779.143bases formed of three rhombs; and the rhombs and the sides of the hexagonal prisms
 1795.415for I have noticed half-completed rhombs at the base of a just-commenced cell
1  rhone 
 5282.71French Alps, the Rivers Loire, Seine, Rhone, and Garonne, Dauphine, Provence, and
1  rhythm 
 1657.761one action follows another by a sort of rhythm; if a person be interrupted in a song
1  ribston-pippin 
 423.429that the several sorts, for instance a Ribston-pippin or Codlin-apple, could ever have
1  ricardo's 
 5934.0New Edition. Woodcuts, Post 8vo. 5s. RICARDO'S (DAVID) Political Works, With a Notice
1  ricardos 
 5676.40McCULLOCHS (J. R.) Collected Edition of Ricardos Political Works. With Notes and Memoir
9  richard 
 3095.1467the proper type of the order, yet M. Richard sagaciously saw, as Jussieu observes
 4354.33Rhododendron, sterility of, 251. Richard, Prof., on Aspicarpa, 417. Richardson
 5124.120German. By J. E. TAYLOR. Illustrated by RICHARD DOYLE. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo
 5157.8Review." Fcap. 8vo. 1s. FORD'S (RICHARD) Handbook for Spain, Andalusia, Ronda
 5163.45Plantagenets and the Tudors. V. Sir Richard Steele. III. The Civil Wars and Oliver
 5466.26F. B. HEAD. GATHERINGS FROM SPAIN. By RICHARD FORD. SIEGES OF VIENNA BY THE TURKS
 5708.64Angler, and the Miseries of Fishing. By RICHARD PESTN. New Edition. Woodcuts. 12mo. 1s
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3  richardson 
 1450.149flattened, and from others, as Sir J. Richardson has remarked, with the posterior part
 2831.435to any other part of the world." Sir J. Richardson, also, speaks of the reappearance on
 4354.68Richard, Prof., on Aspicarpa, 417. Richardson, Sir J., on structure of squirrels
3  richest 
 2221.390the long roll of years! Now turn to our richest geological museums, and what a paltry
 2307.1132The Malay Archipelago is one of the richest regions of the [page] 300 IMPERFECTION
 2339.401the tertiary series. And now one of the richest known accumulations of fossil mammals
2  richness 
 2960.99namely, the scarcity of kinds—the richness in endemic forms in particular classes
 3173.1069instead of by a single one; but such richness in species, as I find after some
7  ridge 
 1789.98of wax, a thin and narrow, knife-edged ridge, coloured with vermilion. The bees
 1789.250in the same way as before; but the ridge of wax was so thin, that the bottoms of
 1793.343the basins on the opposite sides of the ridge of wax. In parts, only little bits, in
 1793.642same rate on the opposite sides of the ridge of vermilion wax, as they circularly
 1801.27flatten it. From the experiment of the ridge of vermilion wax, we can clearly see
 1807.730masons first to pile up a broad ridge of cement, and then to begin cutting it
 1807.968fresh cement, on the summit of the ridge. We shall thus have a thin wall
1  ridicule 
 2596.19IN SAME AREAS. It may be asked in ridicule, whether I suppose that the megatherium
21  right 
 100.4MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1859. The right of Translation is reserved. [page iv
 343.1505I shall presently give, we have no right to expect often to meet with generic
 908.654all the individuals varying in the right direction, though in different degrees
 1197.780in an allied manner: we see this in the right and left sides of the body varying in
 1414.8be still more sharply defined. If I am right in believing that allied or
 1510.319inference be presumptuous? Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by
 1944.820freely in confinement, we have no right to expect that the first crosses
 2104.429For instance, I think those authors are right, who maintain that the ass has a
 2325.68of truth in these remarks, we have no right to expect to find in our geological
 2351.1304have spread widely. Nor have we any right to suppose that the seas of the world
 2379.771areas of elevation. But have we any right to assume that things have thus
 2506.278world; but we are far from having any right to conclude that this has invariably
 2542.348in a very broken condition, we have no right to expect, except in very rare cases
 2542.504families or orders. All that we have a right to expect, is that those groups, which
 2564.898of specific forms, as we have a just right to expect to find. On the state of
 3063.931including the next two genera on the right hand, which diverged from a common
 3063.1158the three genera still further to the right hand, which diverged at a still earlier
 3400.408we should remember that we have no right to expect (excepting in rare cases) to
 3404.350closely allied species, we have no just right to expect often to find intermediate
 4822.20Post 8vo. 7s. 6d. ——— Lectures on the Right Use of the Early Fathers. Second
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2  rightly 
 552.973But to discuss whether they are rightly called species or varieties, before any
 2604.72nature of the geological record, will rightly reject my whole theory. For he may ask
2  rights 
 1731.1138and tended the larvæ, and put all to rights. What can be more extraordinary than
 4830.120to the BRITISH CONSTITUTION and the RIGHTS OF PERSONS. By R. MALCOLM KERR,, LLD
2  rigid 
 1285.8CHAP. V. LAWS OF VARIATION. is less rigid in its action than ordinary selection
 1293.1298to sexual selection being less rigid than ordinary selection,—and to
3  rigidly 
 770.303in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of
 784.1032struggle for the females. He does not rigidly destroy all inferior animals, but
 3448.503this power, acting during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole constitution
3  rigorous 
 810.1183there would be simultaneously the most rigorous selection of the young birds within the
 816.316Sexual selection is, therefore, less rigorous than natural selection. Generally, the
 1689.1735but they have been acted on by far less rigorous selection, and have been transmitted
1  rigour 
 747.525so far, that they are destroyed by the rigour of the climate alone. Not until we
2  rings 
 711.616and one of them, judging from the rings of growth, had during twenty-six years
 2707.1347are now marked, as I believe, by rings of coral or atolls standing over them
2  ripa's 
 5436.7FRANCIS DRAKE. By JOHN BARROW. FATHER RIPA'S MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF CHINA A
 5938.0New Edition. 8vo. 16s. [page] 28 RIPA'S (FATHER) Memoirs during Thirteen Years
4  rises 
 499.1182period than at another, as the breed rises or falls in fashion,—perhaps more in
 2869.771higher on the shores where the tide rises highest, so have the living waters left
 3251.50in the course of development generally rises in organisation: I use this expression
 3307.396not early period. Embryology rises greatly in interest, when we thus look
11  rising 
 1398.482the bed of the sea is stationary or is rising, or when very little sediment is being
 1464.333now glide far through the air, slightly rising and turning by the aid of their
 2241.711reflection will explain why along the rising coast of the western side of South
 2241.1149are brought up by the slow and gradual rising of the land within the grinding action
 2315.360the area would be either stationary or rising; whilst rising, each fossiliferous
 2315.375be either stationary or rising; whilst rising, each fossiliferous formation would be
 2502.316bed of the sea was either stationary or rising, and likewise when sediment was not
 2869.728its drift in horizontal lines, though rising higher on the shores where the tide
 2869.878our mountain-summits, in a line gently rising from the arctic lowlands to a great
 2910.87is first formed, for instance, on a rising islet, it will be unoccupied; and a
 3538.553confidence to the future, to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view
1  rivalled 
 429.283teazle, with its hooks, which cannot be rivalled by any mechanical contrivance, is only
1  rivalry 
 822.35believe that there is the severest rivalry between the males of many species to
1  rivals 
 3680.19Bee, sting of, 202. ——, queen, killing rivals, 202. Bees fertilising flowers
7  river 
 2199.605is deposited by the great Mississippi river at the rate of only 600 feet in a
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7  rivers 
 2637.926forests, marshes, lakes, and great rivers, under almost every temperature. There
 2649.88deserts, and sometimes even of large rivers, we find different productions; though
 2886.625in the level of the land, having caused rivers to flow into each other. Instances
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3  river-systems 
 2880.13and present chapters. AS lakes and river-systems are separated from each other by
 2886.183widely and almost capriciously; for two river-systems will have some fish in common and some
 2886.1084from an early period must have parted river-systems and completely prevented their
1  riviera 
 5290.45ITALYFlorence, Sardinia, Genoa, the Riviera, Venice, Lombardy, and Tuscany. Map
1  rivulet 
 2892.1633would be sure to alight on a pool or rivulet, if blown across sea to an oceanic
17  robert 
 3081.1148suffice to quote the highest authority, Robert Brown, who in speaking of certain
 3087.410between Ruminants and Pachyderms. Robert Brown has strongly insisted on the fact
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3  robinia 
 2014.370for Thouin found that three species of Robinia, which seeded freely on their own roots
 4317.0certain coloured animals, 12. ROBINIA, Poison, similar effect of, on animals
 4356.0fishes of the southern hemisphere, 376. Robinia, grafts of, 262. [page] 500 INDEX
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26  rock-pigeon 
 389.173that all have descended from the rock-pigeon (Columba livia), including under this
 389.540and have not proceeded from the rock-pigeon, they must have descended from at least
 389.1565to be exterminated; and the common rock-pigeon, which has the same habits with the
 393.169species having similar habits with the rock-pigeon seems to me a very rash assumption
 393.493though the dovecot-pigeon, which is the rock-pigeon in a very slightly altered state, has
 395.246parts of their structure, with the wild rock-pigeon, yet are certainly highly abnormal in
 399.81pigeons well deserve consideration. The rock-pigeon is of a slaty-blue, and has a white
 399.1317white-edged tail-feathers, as any wild rock-pigeon! We can understand these facts, on the
 399.1478domestic breeds have descended from the rock-pigeon. But if we deny this, we must make one
 399.1681were coloured and marked like the rock-pigeon, although no other existing species is
 403.117of generations, been crossed by the rock-pigeon: I say within a dozen or twenty
 411.300so like in most other respects to the rock-pigeon; the blue colour and various marks
 413.66may add, firstly, that C. livia, or the rock-pigeon, has been found capable of
 413.357in certain characters from the rock-pigeon, yet by comparing the several sub
 467.202and come to differ so greatly from the rock-pigeon. Youatt gives an excellent
 1297.476not possessed by the aboriginal rock-pigeon; these then are analogous variations in
 1303.158marks are characteristic of the parent rock-pigeon, I presume that no one will doubt that
 1315.50for instance, we did not know that the rock-pigeon was not feather-footed or turn-crowned
 2149.587pigeons have both descended from the rock-pigeon; if we possessed all the intermediate
 2149.734close series between both and the rock-pigeon; but we should have no varieties
 2153.70of their structure with that of the rock-pigeon, whether they had descended from this
 2420.763our present fantail; but if the parent rock-pigeon were also destroyed, and in nature we
 2556.756of their disappearance; for the parent rock-pigeon now lives; and many varieties between
 2556.810lives; and many varieties between the rock-pigeon and the carrier have become extinct
 3281.137differed from the young of the wild rock-pigeon and of the other breeds, in all its
 3476.1032have descended from the blue and barred rock-pigeon! On the ordinary view of each species
2  rock-pigeons 
 389.916aboriginal stocks must all have been rock-pigeons, that is, not breeding or willingly
 389.1076only two or three other species of rock-pigeons are known; and these have not any of
18  rocks 
 2165.1104watch the sea at work grinding down old rocks and making fresh sediment, before he
 2167.78coast, when formed of moderately hard rocks, and mark the [page] 283 CHAP. IX
 2199.380So that the lofty pile of sedimentary rocks in Britain, gives but an inadequate
 2207.424such prodigious movements; the pile of rocks on the one or other side having been
 2213.26CHAP. IX. oneself the great dome of rocks which must have covered up the Weald
 2213.382geologists suppose, a range of older rocks underlies the Weald, on the flanks of
 2227.1262family of sessile cirripedes) coat the rocks all over the world in infinite numbers
 2313.304of those which lived on naked submarine rocks, would be embedded; and those embedded
 2359.277in the lowest known fossiliferous rocks. Most of the arguments which have
 2367.779matter in some of the lowest azoic rocks, probably indicates the former
 2379.1859in South America, of bare metamorphic rocks, which [page] 310 IMPERFECTION OF THE
 2711.1131old fossiliferous or other such rocks, instead of consisting of mere piles of
 2743.946large fragments of granite and other rocks, which do not occur in the archipelago
 2759.827United States, erratic boulders, and rocks scored by drifted icebergs and coast
 3834.12Denudation, rate of, 285. ——of oldest rocks, 308. Development of ancient forms
 4178.48domestica, 225. Metamorphism of oldest rocks 308. Mice destroying bees
 4227.30Nodules, phosphatic, in azoic rocks, 307, PEAR. O. Oak, varieties of
 5766.41Siluria; or, a History of the Oldest Rocks containing Organic Remains. Third
1  rock-thrush 
 822.116to attract by singing the females. The rock-thrush of Guiana, birds of Paradise, and some
6  rocky 
 2171.778we follow for a few miles any line of rocky cliff, which is undergoing degradation
 2173.136impressed with the slowness with which rocky coasts are worn away. The observations
 2205.218showed at a glance how far the hard, rocky beds had once extended into the open
 2743.1054that icebergs formerly landed their rocky burthens on the shores of these mid
 2811.287have, also, been noticed on the Rocky Mountains. In the Cordillera of
 5956.110Tribes and Animals of the Prairies and Rocky Mountains. Post 8vo. 6s. SALE'S (LADY
4  rodent 
 1002.760our carnivorous, ruminant, and rodent mammals, could successfully compete
 1159.272In South America, a burrowing rodent, the tuco-tuco, or Ctenomys, is even
 1183.632have a far wider range than any other rodent, living free under the cold climate of
 3179.1635adapted to habits like those of a Rodent. The elder De Candolle has made nearly
12  rodents 
 1159.40The eyes of moles and of some burrowing rodents are rudimentary in size, and in some
 1450.989vegetation change, let other competing rodents or new beasts of prey immigrate, or old
 2657.1142and belonging to the same order of Rodents, but they plainly display an American
 2657.1388musk-rat, but the coypu and capybara, rodents of the American type. Innumerable other
 3000.721America, Alpine humming-birds, Alpine rodents, Alpine plants, &c., all of strictly
 3179.180according to Mr. Waterhouse, of all Rodents, the bizcacha is most nearly related to
 3179.578we must suppose either that all Rodents, including the bizcacha, branched off
 3179.772all existing Marsupials; or that both Rodents and Marsupials branched off from a
 3179.1061its ancient progenitor than have other Rodents; and therefore it will not be specially
 3179.1460one species, but the general order of Rodents. In this case, however, it may be
 4360.0grafts of, 262. [page] 500 INDEX. RODENTS. Rodents, blind, 137. Rudimentary
 4362.0of, 262. [page] 500 INDEX. RODENTS. Rodents, blind, 137. Rudimentary organs
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 5764.16vo. 6s. [page] 25 MUKCHISONS (SIB RODERICK) Russia in Europe and the Ural
1  rogues 
 443.732over their seed-beds, and pull up the "rogues," as they call the plants that deviate
1  roguing 
 455.217and this may be compared to the "roguing" of plants by nurserymen. The principle
2  rolled 
 2171.443atom, until reduced in size they can be rolled about by the waves, and then are more
 2171.713are abraded and how seldom they are rolled about! Moreover, if we follow for a few
1  rollin 
 1339.83the several species of the horse-genus. Rollin asserts, that the common mule from the
14  roman 
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 417.52previous dynasty. In the time of the Romans, as we hear from Pliny, immense prices
 417.625as eager about pigeons as were the old Romans. The paramount importance of these
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1  roost 
 1885.582North America, build "cock-nests," to roost in, like the males of our distinct
1  roosting 
 2966.689on and adhere to the feet of birds roosting on the ground, and thus get transported
1  root-bearing 
 2285.1145feet thick in Nova Scotia, with ancient root-bearing strata, one above the other, at no less
7  roots 
 1297.1065variation, in the enlarged stems, or roots as commonly called, of the Swedish
 2014.412which seeded freely on their own roots, and which could be grafted with no
 2014.657as much fruit as when on their own roots. We are reminded by this latter fact of
 2729.40stones for their tools, solely from the roots of drifted trees, these stones being a
 2729.184shaped stones are embedded in the roots of trees, small parcels of earth are
 3873.16rudimentary, 454. Earth, seeds in roots of trees, 361. Eciton, 238. Economy of
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 5950.0Portrait. 2 Vols. Fcap. 8vo. 12s. ROSS'S (SIR JAMES) Voyage of Discovery and
2  rotation 
 988.801find that they can raise most food by a rotation of plants belonging to the most
 988.909what may be called a simultaneous rotation. Most of the animals and plants which
6  rough 
 1801.463the edge of a growing comb, do make a rough, circumferential wall or rim all round
 1803.409suppose that the bees cannot build up a rough wall of wax in the proper [page
 1807.348basal plates of future cells. But the rough wall of wax has in every case to be
 1807.522is curious; they always make the first rough wall from ten to twenty times thicker
 1815.883down under certain circumstances a rough wall in its proper place between two
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28  round 
 84.0DURING H.M.S. BEAGLE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.' LONDON: JOHN MURRAY
 610.536related to each other, and clustered round certain forms—that is, round their
 610.565clustered round certain forms—that is, round their parent-species? Undoubtedly there
 622.530together, forming little clusters round certain species. Species very closely
 645.1033that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and
 816.1101as fighting, bellowing, and whirling round, like Indians in a war-dance, for the
 988.967the animals and plants which live close round any small piece of ground, could live
 1102.57file, but seem rather to be clustered round points, and these round other points
 1102.81to be clustered round points, and these round other points, and so on in almost
 1516.350if we look to much-isolated species, round which, according to my theory, there
 1689.749by retrievers; and a tendency to run round, instead of at, a flock of sheep, by
 1689.1458gait; and another kind of wolf rushing round, instead of at, a herd of deer, and
 1781.504insects can make, apparently by turning round on a fixed point. We must suppose the
 1801.502rough, circumferential wall or rim all round the comb; and they gnaw into this from
 1807.197rude circumferential rim or wall of wax round a growing comb, flexures may sometimes
 1813.419into the growing edges of the cells all round. The work of construction seems to be a
 2171.888here and there, along a short length or round a promontory, that the cliffs are at
 2205.32worn by the waves and pared all round into perpendicular cliffs of one or two
 2626.513by the laws of variation still acting round us, and preserved by Natural Selection
 2765.345southward, are remarkably uniform round the world. We may suppose that the
 2783.157the arctic productions were as uniform round the polar regions as they are at the
 2783.598sub-arctic and northern temperate forms round the world, at the commencement of the
 3331.685planets revolve in elliptic courses round the sun, satellites follow the same
 3331.734sun, satellites follow the same course round the planets, for the sake of symmetry
 3454.699and they are clustered in little groups round other species—in which respects they
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 1767.547making separate and very irregular rounded cells of wax. At the other end of the
 2171.592along the bases of retreating cliffs rounded boulders, all thickly clothed by marine
 2173.501yet, from being formed of worn and rounded pebbles, each of which bears the stamp
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1  rubus 
 538.355and which as varieties. We may instance Rubus, Rosa, and Hieracium amongst plants
7  rudiment 
 1231.932of the head is reduced to the merest rudiment attached to the bases of the prehensile
 1309.759observe a mere tendency to produce a rudiment inherited: for instance, in the common
 1309.834the common snapdragon (Antirrhinum) a rudiment of a fifth stamen so often appears
 3315.984sexes, the male flowers often have a rudiment of a pistil; and Kölreuter found that
 3315.1095with an hermaphrodite species, the rudiment of the pistil in the hybrid offspring
 3315.1194in size; and this shows that the rudiment and the perfect pistil are essentially
 3323.663antirrhinum) we generally do not find a rudiment of a fifth stamen; but this may
91  rudimentary 
 152.229growth — False correlations — Multiple, rudimentary, and lowly organised structures
 206.12BEINGS: MORPHOLOGY: EMBRYOLOGY: RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. CLASSIFICATION, groups
 208.567inherited at a corresponding age — RUDIMENTARY ORGANS; their origin explained
 846.623a small quantity of pollen, and a rudimentary pistil; other holly-trees bear only
 1117.217of growth—False correlations—Multiple, rudimentary, and lowly organised structures
 1147.399other genera they are present, but in a rudimentary condition. In the Ateuchus or sacred
 1147.690anterior tarsi in Ateuchus, and their rudimentary condition in some other genera, by the
 1159.52moles and of some burrowing rodents are rudimentary in size, and in some cases are quite
 1239.0solely through and for its advantage. Rudimentary parts, it has been stated by some
 1239.161have to recur to the general subject of rudimentary and aborted organs; and I will here
 1243.0page] 150 LAWS OF VARIATION. CHAP. V. rudimentary parts are left to the free play of the
 1257.713then be said to have degenerated. In rudimentary organs, and in those which have been
 1309.628generations, than in quite useless or rudimentary organs being, as we all know them to be
 1357.1139and are higher in the scale. Rudimentary organs, from being useless, will be
 1486.1003upland goose may be said to have become rudimentary in function, though not in structure
 1863.242the smaller workers have their ocelli rudimentary. Having carefully dissected several
 1863.358I can affirm that the eyes are far more rudimentary in the smaller workers than can be
 2936.606having as useless an appendage as any rudimentary organ,—for instance, as the shrivelled
 3053.24BEINGS: MORPHOLOGY: EMBRYOLOGY: RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. CLASSIFICATION, groups
 3087.28of beings. Again, no one will say that rudimentary or atrophied organs are of high
 3087.222No one will dispute that the rudimentary teeth in the upper jaws of young
 3087.290jaws of young ruminants, and certain rudimentary bones of the leg, are highly
 3087.466strongly insisted on the fact that the rudimentary florets are of the highest importance
 3147.996each species has been recently exposed. Rudimentary structures on this view are as good as
 3197.1174others; why we are permitted to use rudimentary and useless organs, or others of
 3303.11modification having super- [page] 450 RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. CHAP. XIII. vened at a very
 3309.0form of each great class of animals. Rudimentary, atrophied, or aborted organs.—Organs
 3309.172common throughout nature. For instance, rudimentary mammæ are very general in the males of
 3309.316be safely considered as a digit in a rudimentary state: in very many snakes one lobe of
 3309.380many snakes one lobe of the lungs is rudimentary; in other snakes there are rudiments of
 3309.480and hind limbs. Some of the cases of rudimentary organs are extremely curious; for
 3311.23can be detected [page] 451 CHAP. XIII. RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. in the beaks of certain
 3315.15soldered together! The meaning of rudimentary organs is often quite unmistakeable
 3315.349that the rudiments represent wings. Rudimentary organs sometimes retain their
 3315.669are normally four developed and two rudimentary teats in the udders of the genus Bos
 3317.46serving for two purposes, may become rudimentary or utterly aborted for one, even the
 3319.11pistil consists of a stigma [page] 452 RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. CHAP. XIII. supported on the
 3321.132have a pistil, which is in a rudimentary state, for it is not crowned with a
 3321.373anthers. Again, an organ may become rudimentary for its proper purpose, and be used for
 3321.489fish the swim-bladder seems to be rudimentary for its proper function of giving
 3323.0similar instances could be given. Rudimentary organs in the individuals of the same
 3323.220which the same organ has been rendered rudimentary occasionally differs much. This latter
 3323.361of the female moths in certain groups. Rudimentary organs may be utterly aborted; and this
 3325.29It is an important fact that rudimentary organs, such as teeth in the upper jaws
 3327.23a universal [page] 453 CHAP. XIII. RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. rule, that a rudimentary part
 3329.13XIII. RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. rule, that a rudimentary part or organ is of greater size
 3329.170the organ at this early age is less rudimentary, or even cannot be said to be in any
 3329.226even cannot be said to be in any degree rudimentary. Hence, also, a rudimentary organ in
 3329.254any degree rudimentary. Hence, also, a rudimentary organ in the adult, is often said to
 3331.51given the leading facts with respect to rudimentary organs. In reflecting on them, every
 3331.304us with equal plainness that these rudimentary or atrophied organs, are imperfect and
 3331.392useless. In works on natural history rudimentary organs are generally said to have been
 3331.870accounts for the presence of rudimentary organs, by supposing that they serve to
 3331.1169Can we suppose that the formation of rudimentary teeth which are subsequently absorbed
 3333.11not from unknown laws [page] 454 RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. CHAP. XIII. of growth, but in
 3335.61to excrete horny matter, as that the rudimentary nails on the fin of the manatee were
 3337.55with modification, the origin of rudimentary organs is simple. We have plenty of
 3337.112is simple. We have plenty of cases of rudimentary organs in our domestic productions,—as
 3337.547cases throw light on the origin of rudimentary organs in a state of nature, further
 3337.871various organs, until they have become rudimentary,—as in the case of the eyes of animals
 3337.1358until it was rendered harmless and rudimentary. Any change in function, which can be
 3341.23alone of its [page] 455 CHAP. XIII. RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. former functions. An organ
 3343.524understand the greater relative size of rudimentary organs in the embryo, and their lesser
 3343.796reason to believe to be possible) the rudimentary part would tend to be wholly lost, and
 3343.1171to cause the entire obliteration of a rudimentary organ. As the presence of rudimentary
 3345.19rudimentary organ. As the presence of rudimentary organs is thus due to the tendency in
 3345.243how it is that systematists have found rudimentary parts as useful as, or even sometimes
 3345.351parts of high physiological importance. Rudimentary organs may be compared with the letters
 3345.636that the existence of organs in a rudimentary, imperfect, and useless condition, or
 3351.529the most trifling importance, or, as in rudimentary organs, of no importance; the wide
 3359.1019of inheritance—the occurrence of rudimentary organs and their final abortion
 3359.1224of embryological characters and of rudimentary organs in classification is
 3516.58why characters derived from rudimentary parts, though of no service to the
 3524.67understand on this view the meaning of rudimentary organs. But disuse and selection will
 3524.365will not be much reduced or rendered rudimentary at this early age. The calf, for
 3524.1313said to have taken pains to reveal, by rudimentary organs and by homologous structures
 3546.546between existing orders. Organs in a rudimentary condition plainly show that an early
 3560.209morphology, adaptive characters, rudimentary and aborted organs, &c., will cease to
 3566.892kind which have long been inherited. Rudimentary organs will speak infallibly with
 3872.4drooping, in domestic animals, 11. ——, rudimentary, 454. Earth, seeds in roots of trees
 4047.7the antiquity of Egyptians, 18. Horns, rudimentary, 454. Horse, fossil, in La Plata
 4168.7of, 395. Malpighiaceæ, 417. Mammæ, rudimentary, 451. Mammals, fossil, in secondary
 4170.39Man, origin of races of, 199. Manatee, rudimentary nails of, 454. Marsupials of Australia
 4211.7Myrmica, eyes of, 240. N. Nails, rudimentary, 453. Natural history, future progress
 4300.8hawks, 362. —, young of, 445. Pistil, rudimentary, 451. Plants, poisonous, not affecting
 4362.21INDEX. RODENTS. Rodents, blind, 137. Rudimentary organs, 450. Rudiments important for
 4460.3of aquatic animals, 196. —, rudimentary, 454. Tarsi deficient, 135. Tausch on
 4465.3embryonic, traces of, in birds, 451. —, rudimentary, in embryonic calf
 4509.4U. Udders enlarged by use, 11. ——, rudimentary, 451. Ulex, young leaves of
 4575.4homologous with branchiæ, 191. ——, rudimentary, in insects, 451. Wolf crossed with dog
 4596.7on sub-breeds of sheep, 36. ——, on rudimentary horns in young cattle, 454. Z. Zebra
11  rudiments 
 1863.1226the workers of Myrmica have not even rudiments of ocelli, though the male and female
 3309.419rudimentary; in other snakes there are rudiments of the pelvis and hind limbs. Some of
 3309.776even been stated on good authority that rudiments of teeth can be detected [page
 3315.254have full-sized wings, and another mere rudiments of membrane; and here it is impossible
 3315.322it is impossible to doubt, that the rudiments represent wings. Rudimentary organs
 3315.870the petals sometimes occur as mere rudiments, and sometimes in a well-developed
 3323.872than the use and discovery of rudiments. This is well shown in the drawings
 3337.439flower in the cauliflower. We often see rudiments of various parts in monsters. But I
 3337.617of nature, further than by showing that rudiments can be produced; for I doubt whether
 4241.3homologous, 434. —, rudiments of, 450. Ornithorhynchus
 4362.46blind, 137. Rudimentary organs, 450. Rudiments important for classification, 416. S
4  rufescens 
 1731.96discovered in the Formica (Polyerges) rufescens by Pierre Huber, a better observer even
 1755.222sanguinea present with those of the F. rufescens. The latter does not build its own nest
 1761.658on its slaves as is the Formica rufescens. Cell-making instinct of the Hive-Bee
 3935.30intermittent, 290. Formica rufescens, 219. —sanguinea, 219. —flava, neuter
3  ruins 
 729.726of trees now growing on the old Indian ruins! The dependency of one organic being
 2759.365suffered under an Arctic climate. The ruins of a house burnt by fire do not tell
 5576.100Researches and Discoveries amidst the Ruins of Assyria. With an Account of the
24  rules 
 186.174of species follow the same general rules in their appearance and disappearance
 208.68to groups — Natural system — Rules and difficulties in classification
 455.347ancient Chinese encyclopædia. Explicit rules are laid down by some of the Roman
 1964.18LAWS OF STERILITY. circumstances and rules governing the sterility of first
 1964.132will be to see whether or not the rules indicate that species have specially
 1964.298in utter confusion. The following rules and conclusions are chiefly drawn up
 1964.452much pains to ascertain how far the rules apply to animals, and considering how
 1964.602to find how generally the same rules apply to both kingdoms. It has been
 1988.23a high degree. Several other singular rules could be given from [page] 259 CHAP
 1994.24pure parent. Considering the several rules now given, which govern the fertility
 2000.34Now do these complex and singular rules indicate that species have been endowed
 2002.14a strange arrangement. The foregoing rules and facts, on the other hand, appear to
 2398.168of species follow the same general rules in their appearance and disappearance
 2400.45now see whether the several facts and rules relating to the geological succession
 2426.73and families, follow the same general rules in their appearance and disappearance
 3075.24Let us now consider the rules followed in classification, and the
 3117.18CHAP. XIII. All the foregoing rules and aids and difficulties in
 3135.516of modification. Nearly the same rules are followed in classifying varieties
 3147.630only thus can I understand the several rules and guides which have been followed by
 3197.1010orders, &c., we can understand the rules which we are compelled to follow in our
 3351.302affinities into one grand system; the rules followed and the difficulties
 3351.687of true affinity; and other such rules;—all naturally follow on the view of
 3566.599may be called the plan of creation. The rules for classifying will no doubt become
 5872.135of Latin Versification, with Prefatory Rules of Composition in Elegiac Metre. Third
1  ruminant 
 1002.746others have remarked, our carnivorous, ruminant, and rodent mammals, could successfully
7  ruminants 
 2514.951existing groups. Cuvier ranked the Ruminants and Pachyderms, as the two most
 2514.1199pachyderms in the same sub-order with ruminants: for example, he dissolves by fine
 2536.528the same manner as has occurred with ruminants and pachyderms. Yet he who objected to
 3087.267teeth in the upper jaws of young ruminants, and certain rudimentary bones of the
 3087.384exhibiting the close affinity between Ruminants and Pachyderms. Robert Brown has
 3325.95teeth in the upper jaws of whales and ruminants, can often be detected in the embryo
 4252.19of La Plata, 319. —, on relations of ruminants and pachyderms, 329. —, on fossil birds
1  rundells 
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 1675.431immediately seemed, by its eager way of running about, to be well aware what a rich
 2104.236to prepotency in transmitting likeness running more strongly in one sex than in the
 2351.959known from south of the equator; and by running through Pictet's Palæontology it will
 2717.1865is 33 miles per diem (some currents running at the rate of 60 miles [page
 3518.1050having branchial slits and arteries running in loops, like those in a fish which
2  runts 
 375.835large feet; some of the sub-breeds of runts have very long necks, others very long
 3277.413the wild stock, in pouters, fantails, runts, barbs, dragons, carriers, and tumblers
1  rural 
 5526.37JESSE'S (EDWARD) Favorite Haunts and Rural Studies; or Visits to Spots of Interest
2  rushing 
 1689.1450peculiar gait; and another kind of wolf rushing round, instead of at, a herd of deer
 1749.545or three individuals of F. fusca were rushing about in the greatest agitation, and
15  russia 
 737.677under the most different climates! In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has
 2235.445from Sir R. Murchison's great work on Russia, what wide gaps there are in that
 2307.690the Mediterranean, and from Britain to Russia; and therefore equals all the
 2371.122deposits over immense territories in Russia and in North America, do not support
 2472.755successive palæozoic formations of Russia, Western Europe and North America, a
 4205.90Murchison, Sir R., on the formations of Russia, 289. ——, on azoic formations
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 1743.560slave-making F. sanguinea. The latter ruthlessly killed their small opponents, and
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