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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication · Charles Darwin

RINDERPEST, 27.

RINTOUL, Mr., potato-grafting, 11. RISSO, on varieties of the orange, 10, 24, 25. RIVERS, Lord, on the selection of greyhounds, 21. RIVERS, Mr., persistency of characters in seedling potatoes, 9; —on the peach, 10 (2); —persistency of races in the peach and nectarine, 10 (2); —connection between the peach and the nectarine, 10; —persistency of character in seedling apricots, 10; —origin of the plum, 10; —seedling varieties of the plum, 10; —persistency of character in seedling plums, 10; —bud-variation in the plum, 11; —plum attacked by bullfinches, 21; —seedling apples with surface-roots, 10; —variety of the apple found in a wood, 22; —on roses, 10 (2); —bud-variation in roses, 11; —production of Provence roses from seeds of the moss-rose, 11; —effect produced by grafting on the stock in jessamine, 11; —in the ash, 11; —on grafted hazels, 11; —hybridisation of a weeping thorn, 12; —experiments with the seed of the weeping elm and ash, 12; —variety of the cherry with curled petals, 21. RIVIÈRE, reproduction of _Oncidium cavendishianum,_ 17. ROBERTS, Mr., on inheritance in the horse, 12. ROBERTSON, Mr., on glandular-leaved peaches, 10. ROBINET, on the silkworm, 8, 20. _Robinia,_ 23. ROBSON, Mr., deficiencies of half-bred horses, 12. ROBSON, Mr., on the advantage of change of soil to plants, 18 (2); —on the growth of the verbena, 23; —on broccoli, 24.

ROCK pigeon, measurements of the, 5; —figured, 5. RODENTS, sterility of, in captivity, 18. _Rodriguezia,_ 17 (2). RODWELL, J., poisoning of horses by mildewed tares, 25. ROHILCUND, feral humped cattle in, 3. ROLLE, F., on the history of the peach, 24. ROLLER-PIGEONS, Dutch, 5. ROLLESTON, Prof., inherited effects of injuries, 12; —incisor teeth affected in form in cases of pulmonary tubercle, 25. ROMANES on sternum of the fowl, 7; —rudimentary organs, 24. ROMANS, estimation of pigeons by, 6; —breeds of fowls possessed by, 7 (2). ROOKS, pied, 14. _Rosa,_ cultivated species of, 10. _Rosa devoniensis,_ graft-hybrid produced by, on the white Banksian rose, 11. _Rosa indica_ and _centifolia,_ fertile hybrids of, 10. _Rosa spinosissima,_ history of the culture of, 10. ROSELLINI, on Egyptian dogs, 1.

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