The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication · Charles Darwin
ALMOND, 10;
ANDERSSON, Mr., on the Damara, Bechuana, and Namaqua cattle, 3; —on the cows of the Damaras, 24; —selection practised by the Damaras and Namaquas, 20; —on the use of grass-seeds and the roots of reeds as food in South Africa, 9. _Anemone coronaria,_ doubled by selection, 20. ANGINA pectoris, hereditary, occurring at a certain age, 14. ANGLESEA, cattle of, 3. ANGOLA sheep, 3. ANGORA, change in hair of animals at, 23; —cats of, 1 (2); —rabbits of, 4 (2). ANIMALS, domestication of, facilitated by fearlessness of man, 1; —refusal of wild, to breed in captivity, 18; —compound, individual peculiarities of, reproduced by budding, 11; —variation by selection in useful qualities of, 20. ANNUAL plants, rarity of bud-variation in, 11. ANOMALIES in the osteology of the horse, 2. ANOMALOUS breeds of pigs, 3; —of cattle, 3. _Anser albifrons,_ characters of, reproduced in domestic geese, 8. _Anser ægyptiacus,_ 8, 14. _Anser canadensis,_ 18. _Anser ferus,_ the original of the domestic goose, 8; —fertility of cross of, with domestic goose, 8. ANSON, on feral fowls in the Ladrones, 7. ANTAGONISM between growth and reproduction, 27. _Anthemis nobilis,_ bud-variation in flowers of, 11; —becomes single in poor soil, 18. ANTHERS, contabescence of, 18. ANTIGUA, cats of, 5; —changed fleece of sheep in, 3. _Antirrhinum majus,_ peloric, 10, 13 (2), 18; —double-flowered, 18; —bud-variation in, 11.
ANTS, individual recognition of, 22. APHIDES, attacking pear-trees, 21; —development of, 27. APOPLEXY, hereditary, occurring at a certain age, 14. —fruit of, in Swiss lake-dwellings, 9; —rendered fastigiate by heat in India, 10; —bud-variation in the, 11; —with dimidiate fruit, 11 (2); —with two kinds of fruit on the same branch, 11; —artificial fecundation of, 11; —St. Valéry, 11, 18; —reversion in seedlings of, 13; —crossing of varieties of, 17; —growth of the, in Ceylon, 21; —winter majetin, not attacked by _ coccus,_ 21; —flower-buds of, attacked by bullfinches, 21; —American, change of, when grown in England, 23.
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