y of wild and tame, ii. 111;
high-bred, often bad breeders, ii. 121;
selection of, ii. 204;
white, liable to destruction, ii. 230;
effects of disuse of parts in, ii. 298;
skull of, affected by drooping ears, ii. 301;
length of intestines in, ii. 303;
correlation of ears and skull in, ii. 324-325;
variations in skull of, ii. 350;
periosteum of a dog producing bone in, ii. 369.
RACE-HORSE, origin of, i. 54.
RACES, modification and formation of, by crossing, ii. 95-99;
natural and artificial, ii. 245;
Pouchet's views on plurality of, i. 2;
of pigeons, i. 207-212.
RADISHES, i. 326; crossing of, ii. 90;
varieties of, ii. 217-218.
RADCLYFFE, W. F., effect of climate and soil on strawberries, i. 354;
constitutional differences in roses, i. 367.
RADLKOFER, retrogressive metamorphosis in mosses and algae, ii. 361.
RAFFLES, Sir Stamford, on the crossing of Javanese cattle with _Bos
sondaicus_, ii. 206.
RAM, goat-like, from the Cape of Good Hope, ii. 66.
RANCHIN, heredity of diseases, ii. 7.
RANGE of gallinaceous birds on the Himalaya, i. 237.
_Ranunculus ficaria_, ii. 170.
_Ranunculus repens_, ii. 168.
RAPE, i. 325.
_Raphanus sativus_, ii. 343.
RASPBERRY, yellow-fruited, ii. 230.
RATTLESNAKE, experiments with poison of the, ii. 289.
RAVEN, stomach of, affected by vegetable diet, ii. 302.
RAWSON, A., self-impotence in hybrids of _Gladiolus_, ii. 139-140.
RE, Le Compte, on the assumption of a yellow colour by all varieties of
maize, i. 321.
REAUMUR, effect of confinement upon the cock, ii. 52;
fertility of fowls in most climates, ii. 161.
REED, Mr., atrophy of the limbs of rabbits, consequent on the destruction
of their nerves, ii. 297.
REGENERATION of amputated parts in man, ii. 14;
in the human embryo, ii. 15;
in the lower vertebrata, insects, and myriapoda, _ibid._
REINDEER, individuals recognised by the Laplanders, ii. 251.
REGNIER, early cultivation of the cabbage by the Celts, i. 324.
REISSEK, experiments in crossing _Cytisus purpureus_ and _laburnum_, i.
389;
modification of a _Thesium_ by _Oecidium_, ii. 284.
RELATIONS, characters of, reproduced in children, ii. 34.
RENGGER, occurrence of jaguars with crooked legs in Paraguay, i. 17;
naked dogs of Paraguay, i. 23, 31, ii. 93, 102;
feral dogs of La Plata, i. 27;
on the aguara, i. 26;
cats of Paragua