T OF FEATHERS--SKULL AND HORNS--CORRELATION OF GROWTH
COMPLICATED BY THE ACCUMULATED EFFECTS OF NATURAL SELECTION--COLOUR AS
CORRELATED WITH CONSTITUTIONAL PECULIARITIES ... Page 319

CHAPTER XXVI.

LAWS OF VARIATION, _continued_--SUMMARY.

ON THE AFFINITY AND COHESION OF HOMOLOGOUS PARTS--ON THE VARIABILITY OF
MULTIPLE AND HOMOLOGOUS PARTS--COMPENSATION OF GROWTH--MECHANICAL
PRESSURE--RELATIVE POSITION OF FLOWERS WITH RESPECT TO THE AXIS OF THE
PLANT, AND OF SEEDS IN THE CAPSULE, AS INDUCING VARIATION--ANALOGOUS OR
PARALLEL VARIETIES--SUMMARY OF THE THREE LAST CHAPTERS ... Page 339

CHAPTER XXVII.

PROVISIONAL HYPOTHESIS OF PANGENESIS.

PRELIMINARY REMARKS--FIRST PART:--THE FACTS TO BE CONNECTED UNDER A SINGLE
POINT OF VIEW, NAMELY, THE VARIOUS KINDS OF REPRODUCTION--THE DIRECT ACTION
OF THE MALE ELEMENT ON THE FEMALE--DEVELOPMENT--THE FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE
OF THE ELEMENTS OR UNITS OF THE BODY--VARIABILITY--INHERITANCE--REVERSION.

SECOND PART:--STATEMENT OF THE HYPOTHESIS--HOW FAR THE NECESSARY
ASSUMPTIONS ARE IMPROBABLE--EXPLANATION BY AID OF THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE
SEVERAL CLASSES OF FACTS SPECIFIED IN THE FIRST PART--CONCLUSION ... Page
357

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CHAPTER XXVIII.

CONCLUDING REMARKS.

DOMESTICATION--NATURE AND CAUSES OF VARIABILITY--SELECTION--DIVERGENCE AND
DISTINCTNESS OF CHARACTER--EXTINCTION OF RACES--CIRCUMSTANCES FAVOURABLE TO
SELECTION BY MAN--ANTIQUITY OF CERTAIN RACES--THE QUESTION WHETHER EACH
PARTICULAR VARIATION HAS BEEN SPECIALLY PREORDAINED ... Page 405

INDEX ... Page 433

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ERRATA.

Vol. II., pp. 18, 232, 258, for Crataegus oxycantha, read oxyacantha.
,, p. 98, 8 lines from top, for Dianthus armoria read armeria.
,, ,, 156, 15 lines from bottom, for Casuarinus read Casuarius.
,, ,, ,, 4 lines from bottom, for Grus cineria read cinerea.
,, ,, 168, 11 lines from top, for Oesculus read Aesculus.
,, ,, 300, 3 lines from top, for anastomising read anastomosing.
,, ,, ,, foot-note, for Birckell read Brickell.

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VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS

UNDER DOMESTICATION.

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CHAPTER XII.

INHERITANCE.

WONDERFUL NATURE OF INHERITANCE--PEDIGREES OF OUR DOMESTICATED
ANIMALS--INHERITANCE NOT DUE TO CHANCE--TRIFLING CHARACTERS
INHERITED--DISEASES INHERITED--PECULIARITIES IN THE