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INDEX
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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
&nbs
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