Volume 1

Darwinism : an exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications / by Alfred Russel Wallace.

  • Wallace Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Darwinism : an exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications / by Alfred Russel Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    INDEX A Abbott, Dr. C. C, instability of b.abits of birds, 76 oil Americau water - thruslies (Seiurus), 117 Mr., drawings of cateipillars and their food plants, 203 Accessoiy j^lunies, development and display of, 293 Acclimatisation, 94 Achatinellidn3, Gulick on variations in, 147 Acquired characters, non-heredity of, 440 AcriBidae, mimicry of, 247 Adaptation to conditions at various periods of life, 112 Adolias dirtea, sexual diversity of, 271 .iEgeriidse, mimicry by, 240 Agaristidre, mimicry of, 246 Agassiz, on species, 5 on North American weeds, 15. Agelaeus phceniceus, diagram showing variations of, 56; propor- tionate numbers which vaiy, 64 Albatross, courtship of great, 287 Allen, Mr. Grant, on forms of leaves, 133 on degradation of wind-fertilised from insect-fertilised flowers, 325 (note) on insects and flowers, 332 on ])roduction of colour through the agency of the colour sense, 334 Mr. J. A., on the variability of birds, 50 Allen, Mr. J. A., on colour as in- fluenced by climate, 228 Alluring coloration, 210 American school of evolutionists, 420 Anemone nemorosa, variability of, 78 Animal coloration, a theory of, 288 general laws of, 296 intelligence, supposed action of, 425 characteristics of man, 454 Animals, the struggle among, 18 wild, their enjoyment of life, 39 usually die painless deaths, 38 constitutional variation of, 94 uses of colours of, 134 supposed efiTects of disuse in wild, 415 most allied to man, 450 Anteloj)es, recognition marlcs of, 219 Anthrocera filipendula inedible, 235 Apples, variations of, 87 Arctic animals, supposed causes of white colour of, 191 Argyll, Duke of, on goose reared by a golden eagle, 75 Artemia salina and A. milliausenii, 426 Ascleiiias curassavica, spread of, 28 Asses running wild in Quito, 28 Attractive fruits, 306 Australia, spread of the Cape-weed in, 29 fossil and recent mammals of, 392 Azara, on cause of horses and cattle not running wild in Paraguay, 19 Azores, flora of, supports aerial trans- mission of seeds, 368