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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

by Charles Darwin (1809–1882)

91 chapters, about 333,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 700 words
2. CHAPTER X.—PLANTS _continued_—FRUITS—ORNAMENTAL TREES—FLOWERS. 200 words
3. CHAPTER XIII.—INHERITANCE _continued_—REVERSION OF ATAVISM. 200 words
4. CHAPTER XV.—ON CROSSING. 1,100 words
5. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 3,000 words
6. INTRODUCTION 4,700 words
7. CHAPTER I. DOMESTIC DOGS AND CATS. 10,200 words
8. DOMESTIC CATS. 1,900 words
9. CHAPTER II. HORSES AND ASSES. 4,800 words
10. THE ASS. 900 words
11. GOATS —REMARKABLE VARIATIONS OF. 4,100 words
12. CATTLE. 4,800 words
13. SHEEP. 2,500 words
14. GOATS. 400 words
15. CHAPTER IV. DOMESTIC RABBITS. 10,800 words
16. CHAPTER V. DOMESTIC PIGEONS. 1,200 words
17. GROUP I. 800 words
18. GROUP II. 2,900 words
19. GROUP III. 2,600 words
20. GROUP IV. 9,700 words
21. CHAPTER VI. PIGEONS—_continued._ 17,000 words
22. REFERENCES 300 words
23. CHAPTER VII. FOWLS. 18,700 words
24. GUINEA-FOWL, CANARY-BIRD, GOLD-FISH, HIVE-BEES. 3,900 words
25. THE GOOSE. 800 words
26. THE PEACOCK. 900 words
27. THE TURKEY. 700 words
28. THE GUINEA FOWL. 200 words
29. THE CANARY BIRD. 300 words
30. GOLD-FISH. 600 words
31. HIVE-BEES. 900 words
32. SILK-MOTHS. 2,100 words
33. CHAPTER IX. CULTIVATED PLANTS: CEREAL AND CULINARY PLANTS. 10,900 words
34. CHAPTER X. PLANTS _continued_—FRUITS—ORNAMENTAL TREES—FLOWERS. 12,900 words
35. USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL TREES. 1,600 words
36. FLOWERS. 3,700 words
37. REFERENCES 18,700 words
38. REFERENCES 200 words
39. CHAPTER XII. INHERITANCE. 10,000 words
40. CHAPTER XIII. INHERITANCE _continued_—REVERSION OF ATAVISM. 12,800 words
41. REFERENCES 9,100 words
42. CHAPTER XV. ON CROSSING. 5,400 words
43. REFERENCES 4,900 words
44. REFERENCES 13,700 words
45. REFERENCES 11,500 words
46. CHAPTER XIX. SUMMARY OF THE FOUR LAST CHAPTERS, WITH REMARKS ON HYBRIDISM. 6,400 words
47. CHAPTER XX. SELECTION BY MAN. 11,300 words
48. CHAPTER XXI. SELECTION, _continued._ 9,400 words
49. CHAPTER XXII. CAUSES OF VARIABILITY. 8,000 words
50. CHAPTER XXIII. DIRECT AND DEFINITE ACTION OF THE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS OF LIFE. 8,700 words
51. CHAPTER XXIV. LAWS OF VARIATION—USE AND DISUSE, ETC. 10,500 words
52. CHAPTER XXV. LAWS OF VARIATION, _continued._—CORRELATED VARIABILITY. 7,200 words
53. CHAPTER XXVI. LAWS OF VARIATION, _continued._—SUMMARY. 6,200 words
54. PART I. 6,200 words
55. PART II. 10,100 words
56. REFERENCES 300 words
57. CHAPTER XXVIII. CONCLUDING REMARKS. 10,400 words
58. ACCLIMATISATION, 24; 100 words
59. ALMOND, 10; 300 words
60. BEET, 9; 200 words
61. BORECOLE, 9. 100 words
62. BUD-VARIATION, 11, 22, 23 (3); 300 words
63. CITRONS, 10 (2). 200 words
64. COLZA, 9. 200 words
65. COWSLIP, 12. 200 words
66. DEODAR, 10. 200 words
67. DORMOUSE, 18. 200 words
68. FOXHOUNDS, 1, 17. 200 words
69. GALL-GNATS, 23. 300 words
70. GRAFT-HYBRIDS, 11 (2), 27. 300 words
71. GUELDER-ROSE, 19. 400 words
72. “HOCKER-TAUBE,” 5. 400 words
73. JESSAMINE, 11. 200 words
74. “KROPF-TAUBEN,” 5. 200 words
75. “LATZ-TAUBE,” 5. 300 words
76. LEPORIDES, 18. 100 words
77. LILACS, 18. 200 words
78. LINNET, 18. 200 words
79. LOCUST-TREE, 23. 700 words
80. METAMORPHOSIS, 27. 200 words
81. MULBERRY, 10, 22. 200 words
82. NUTMEG-TREE, 21. 200 words
83. PELORISM, 13, 26 (2). 300 words
84. PIMPERNEL, 19. 500 words
85. POTATO, 9 (2); 100 words
86. RAPE, 9. 300 words
87. RINDERPEST, 27. 300 words
88. SMALL-POX, 27. 200 words
89. SQUASHES, 10. 400 words
90. “STRUPP-TAUBE,” 5. 400 words
91. “TROMMEL-TAUBE,” 5. 200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Abortion
• Cell (biology)
• Correlation
• Fragment (logic)
• Immutability (theology)

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