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  INDEX

  Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.

  Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

  abalone shells, 40

  Abinger Hall, Surrey, 358–59

  Académie Royale des Sciences, 49, 50, 51

  acid test, 283–84

  acorn barnacles, 62, 79–80, 79

  Acropora, 20–21

  Adams, John Couch, 254

  adaptation, 52, 69, 90, 234, 254

  adder’s mouth orchid (Malaxis), 238–39

  Africa, 102

  Agassiz, Louis, 32–33, 63, 246, 251

  Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 285

  alkanet, 130

  American Bird Fancier, The (Browne), 70–71

  American Journal of Science and Arts, 298

  American Society of Naturalists, 112

  amyloplasts, 322–24

  Anacamptis pyramidalis, 235

  analogous structures, 38, 301-2

  analogy, 288, 301

  ancestry, 37, 38, 52, 288

  anecic worms, 338

  anemone clematis (Clematis montana), 327

  Anglican church, 7–8

  Angraecum sesquipedale, 255–57

  animal-plant linkage, 6

  Antarctica, 60, 244

  Anthoxanthum odoratum, 93

  ant lions, 21–22, 24, 153

  Antobus, Edward, 358

  ants, 365

  communication in, 142

  slave-making, 137, 138–44, 139

  Aporrectodea longa, 368–69

  Appalachian mountains, 314

  archetype, 49

  Arthrobalanus, 64, 66

  arthropods, 47

  Articulata, 48

  artificial selection, 76

  Art of Improving the Breeds of Domestic Animals, The (Sebright), 54, 183

  Arum maculatum, 195–97, 196

  arums, 195

  asparagus, 165

  atheism, 49

  Atlantic islands, 159

  Atlantic Monthly, 251

  Atlantis, 159, 161

  atolls, 97

  Australia, 21–22, 153, 237

  Australian pimpernel sundew (Drosera glanduligera), 278

  Autobiography (Darwin), 157

  auxin, 317

  Ayerst, James Smith, 300

  Azores, 159, 164

  Baker, Herbert G., 219

  Bakewell, Robert, 183

  Balanus tintinnabulum, 44

  Bahia (Brazil), 23

  barb (pigeon), 70, 71

  barberry (Berberis), 194–95, 223, 223

  Barmouth, 15, 198, 350

  barnacles, 35, 40–82, 44, 88

  acorn, 44

  archetypal, 67

  described, 43–45

  DIY dissection of, 78-82

  early developmental stages of, 46–47

  gooseneck or pedunculated, 44, 68

  as hermaphrodites, 65–66

  metamorphosis of, 43–44, 45–46

  single-sex species of, 65–66

  Baronio, Cardinal Cesare, 111

  barriers,
160

  Bartram, William, 264, 279–80

  bats, 301

  Beagle, HMS, xv, 16–25, 22, 28, 29, 40–42, 44, 64, 126, 140, 153, 189, 337

  experiments conducted by Darwin on voyage of, 23-24

  official narrative of, 26–27

  beans (Vicia), pollination of, 303

  Beasley, Toby, 206

  beekeeping, 129

  bee orchids, 229, 230

  bee orchis (Ophrys apifera), 235

  bees, 365

  hexagonal cells, 123, 125-36, 144, 145, 146

  honeycomb, 123-37, 126, 133, 144–48, 145, 265

  waggle-dance, 206

  beetles, 24, 89, 118

  collecting of, 8–10

  water, 171, 172

  Bell, Alexander Graham, 363

  Bell, Thomas, 26

  Bentham, George, 249, 252–53

  Berkeley, Miles, 164

  biblical literalism, 11

  Biggin Hill, 354

  bird’s-nest orchid (Neottia nidus-avis), 229

  bladderworts (Utricularia spp.), 265–66, 286, 287

  bluet (Houstonia caerulea), 214

  Blyth, Edward, 347

  bogs, 270

  Bologna, University of, 4

  Bonpland, Aimé, 13, 152

  Borneo, 74

  Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata), 305

  botanical arithmetic, 100–103, 106–7, 124

  botanical manuals, 100–101

  Botanical Society of America, 265

  Bournemouth, 217, 218, 268

  Brazil, 23, 140

  Brent, Bernard, 72

  brewer’s hops (Humulus lupulus), 302, 308, 327

  bristletails, 244

  British Association for the Advance-ment of Science, 131, 211, 238

  British Museum, 63, 126, 242

  broad-beans, 191

  brood parasitism, 137–38

  Brooke, James, 74

  Brougham, Henry Lord, 123

  Brown, Lancelot “Capability,” 189

  Brown, Robert, 102, 188, 235

  Browne, Daniel Jay, 70–71

  Browne, Janet, 10, 63, 67, 263, 300

  bryony (Bryonia), 303, 304

  Bryonia dioica, 304

  Bryozoa, 6, 20

  bubbles, making hexagons with, 146–48

  Buckland, William, 33, 340–41

  budding, 184

  bumblebees (humblebees), 118–22, 121, 135, 136, 137, 142, 191–92, 193, 198, 202–3, 204, 205, 206, 242

  buzzing places of, 119-22, 121, 142

  cells of, 135

  pollination by, 191, 193, 198, 202–6, 222,

  bur cucumber (Sicyos angulatus), 296, 327

  Burdon-Sanderson, John, 273, 285–86

  Butler, Samuel, 1

  Butt, Kevin, 368

  butterworts (Pinguicula spp.), 266, 286, 287

  buzzing places, 119–22, 121, 142

  Callaham, Mac, 368

  Cambridge, 1, 25

  Cambridge Scientific Instrumental Company, 359

  Cambridge University, 3, 7, 8–16

  Cameron, Julia, 346

  Campbell, George (Duke of Argyll), 256

  canary grass (Phalacris canariensis), 315, 317, 318

  Canary Islands, 13, 102, 159

  Canby, William Marriott, 281–82

  Candolle, Alphonse de, 102

  Candolle, Augustin de, 85–86

  Cape Verde Islands, 18

  carnivorous plants, 265–66, 288

  DIY experiments with, 288–94

  Carreck, Normam, 206

  Caryophyllia, 20

  Catasetum orchid, 239

  Catasetum tridentatum, 247–49

  catbriers (Smilax spp.), 303

  cattle, 105

  Cattley, William, 242

  Cattleya orchid, 241–43, 260

  Censky, Ellen, 172

  “centers of creation” issue, 152–53, 160

  cephalopods, 50

  cetaceans, 305

  Chain of Being, 48

  chalk, 341

  Chambers’ Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 231

  character displacement, 111

  Charles X, King of France, 51

  charlock (Sinapis arvensis), 95–96

  Charpentier, Jean de, 32

  chasmogamy, chasmogamous flowers, 200

  chemical markers, 142

  chemistry, 1–2

  chickens, 124

  Chilean Coast Range, 40

  Chimborazo (volcano), 152

  cholera, 18

  Chonos Archipelago, 40, 64

  Christmas orchid, 255–57

  Christ’s College (Cambridge), 8

  chymotrypsin, 273–74

  Ciesielski, Theophil, 319, 320

  circumnutation, 302–3, 307, 310–12, 315, 321, 331–32, 332

  tracings demonstrating, 308

  circumnutometer, 331, 332

  cirri, 64

  cirripedes (barnacles), 42, 63, 67

  Clapham School, 209, 244, 300

  classification, 71, 96, 110

  changes in, 93–94

  cleistogamy, cleistogamous flowers, 200–201

  Clematis, 303, 312, 329

  Clematis montana, 327

  Clematis terniflora, 327

  Clematis virginiana, 303, 327

  Clements, Frederic, 95

  Cliff Cottage, 268

  climate, 171

  and species distribution, 155–59

  climbing

  leaf-, 303, 329

  root-, 305, 328

  stem- (twining), 328

  styles in plants, 302, 326–27

  tendril, 303, 329

  climbing lilies (Gloriosa), 303

  clinometer, 14

  Cnidaria, 20

  coadaptation, 94, 202

  Cobaea, 308

  Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 21, 97

  Coddington microscope, 11

  Code, The (BBC program), 144

  Coelenterates, 89

  coevolution, 207, 256

  coleoptile, 315–17

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, xv

  collateral descendants, 135

  Columba livia, 70

  Columbarian Society (pigeon club), 72

  comet orchids, 255

  common bean (Vicia faba), 319n

  common (European) barberry (Berberis vulgaris), 223

  common ivy (Hedera helix), 327

  competition, 91, 94, 111

  divergence and, 96

  competitive exclusion, 111

  Concepción (Chile), 28–29

  Concholepas, 40, 45

  condors, 23

  consilience, 12

  continental drift, 172

  continental extensionists, 171

  continental extensions, 160–63

  continental uplift, 27

  continents, 28, 150, 155, 156

  convergence, 301

  convergent (analogous) structures, 38

  coral atolls, 27

  coralline algae, 6, 20–21, 23

  coral reefs, 340

  corals, 20–21

  corkscrew plants (Genlisea spp.), 266

  Cornwall, 97

  Correvon, Henry, 237

  Costa, Addison, 360

  Costa, Eli, 360

  cowslips, 209–10, 211

  creepers (Parthenocissus), 303

  Crooksbury Hill, 104–5

  crossbreeding, 186–87

  cross-fertilization, 202, 234, 254

  crossing, 183

  cross-pollination, 186–87, 188, 193, 198–99

  crossvine (Bignonia capreolata), 303, 313–15

  crowd-sourcing, 34, 164, 188, 217, 236, 267

  Cryptophialus minutus, 41

  cuckoos (Cuculus canorus), 137–38, 143

  brood parasitism by, 137–38

  common or European, 137–38

  yellow-billed, 138

  Cudham, 229

  Curtis, Moses Ashley, 282

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p; Cuvier, Georges, 5–6, 20, 48–53

  Cwm Idwal (Snowdonia, Wales), 15, 16, 33

  cyprid, 44

  Dabbs, William, 343

  Dartmoor, 244

  Darwin, Amy Ruck, 311, 350, 355, 362

  Darwin, Anne Elizabeth, 58, 64, 69, 88, 92, 106, 189, 300

  Darwin, Bernard, 311, 362

  Darwin, Catherine, 20

  Darwin, Charles, 302, 309

  as abolitionist, 140

  Annie’s death and, 88

  barnacle monographs of, 67, 88–89

  barnacle studies of, 40–82, 88–89, 100–101

  on Beagle, 16–25, 40–42

  beetle collecting of, 8–10, 9

  beetles as interests of, 118

  “botanical arithmetic” of, 100–103, 106-9, 124

  boyhood laboratory of, 1, 3

  buzzing places studied by, 118–22

  at Cambridge, 8–16

  caricature of, 367

  as cautious about scientific studies, 33–34

  centers of creation and debates and, 152–54

  childhood of, 1

  chronic illness of, 58–59, 189, 208, 299–300

  climbing plant studies of, 295–334

  clover experiment and, 202–8

  Concepción earthquake and, 28–29

  “country-house” science of, 321

  Cuvier-Geoffroy debate and, 51–53

  dissection skill of, 64

  diversity of experiments by, 3

  diversity studies of, 90–100

  domesticated animals studied by, 53–58

  early botanizing of, 10

  early chemistry experiments of, 1–2

  earthworm studies of, 336–74

  ecological division of labor idea of, 90–92

  in Edinburgh, 3–8

  as editor of official Beagle narrative, 26–27

  in election to Royal Society, 32

  experimentation by, 34–35

  experimentising of, xii–xiii, xv, 36–39

  experiments conducted on Beagle voyage by, 23–24

  family life of, 64–65, 69

  geological studies of, 337

  geology studied by, 13–16, 18–19, 27–34

  Grant as mentor to, 5–6

  gravel thinking path of, xiii, xiv

  handwriting of, 282

  Henslow and, 10–13

  honeybees studied by, 122–37

  Hooker and, 60–63

  horse-fall accident of, 198, 350

  invertebrates studied by, 6–7

  Lawn Plot Experiment of, 97–98, 113–15, 124

  London residence of, 45

  Lyell as mentor to, 28

  at Maer Hall, 189–91

  marriage of, 57

 

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