---- on oneness of personality between parents and offspring, 151 ---- on the organic and inorganic, 153, &c. ---- on apes and monkeys, 153, &c. ---- on the causes or means of the transformation of species, 159, &c. ---- on generic (as well as specific) differences, 164 ---- on plants under domestication, 167 ---- on pigeons and fowls, 169 ---- on birds, 170, &c. ---- the assistance he rendered to Lamarck, 237, 258 ---- Isidore Geoffroy's failure to understand, 328 ---- Colonel, 75 Bulk, a _sine qua non_ for success in literature or science, 315 Bull running, Tutbury, and Erasmus Darwin, 187 CAMEL, Buffon on the hereditary ills of the, 161 Cant, and rudimentary organs, 38 Captandum, all good things are done ad, 85 Carnivora, Buffon on the, 126 Carriage, Dr. Erasmus Darwin's, 181 Cat, family, Buffon on the, 142, &c. ---- with a mane and long tail, 143 Cataclysms, the good cells that get exterminated during the cataclysms of our own development, 75 Catastrophes, Lamarck on, 277 Causes, or "means," of modification, 301 ---- C. Darwin says that Buffon has not entered on the, 104, &c. ---- C. Darwin gets us into a fog about, 345, &c. Change, under changed circumstances, Mr. Patrick Matthew on, 318 Charity, the greatest of these is, 77 Church, a, like a second chamber, 400 ---- the world better with than without, 400 ---- should be like the fly-wheel of a steam engine, 104 _Circonstances_ (_see_ Conditions of Existence), Lamarck on, 268, 281 Circumstance, suiting power, a, Mr. Patrick Matthew on, 318-321 Classification, rather superficial appearances our best guide to, 34, 35, 36, 198, 204 ---- Buffon on, 108, 109, 141 Clear, an ineradicable tendency to make things, 92 Clifford, Professor, on "Design," 6, 7 Climbing plants, the movements of, Dr. Erasmus Darwin on, 209 Coherency, the persistency of ideas the best argument in support of their legitimate connection, 23 Coleridge, on "Darwinising," 21 Common terms, our, involve the connection between memory and heredity, 201, 205 ---- descent, the "hidden bond" of Lamarck, as also of C. Darwin, 271 Comparative anatomy, Lamarck on, 266, &c. Complex structures, the incipiency of, a difficulty in the way of the natural selection view of evolution, 21, 22 Compromise, Buffon's, 92 Conditions of existence, the very essence of condition involves that there shall be penalty in case of non-fulfilment, 352, 376, 377 ---- and the winglessness of Madeira beetles, 373, &c. ---- according to C. Darwin, "include" and yet "are fully embraced by" natural selection, 355 ---- identical with "natural selection," 351-354 ---- Etienne Geoffroy, and Lamarck on, 326, 327, 328 ---- Buffon on the, 103; difference between Buffon's and Lamarck's view of their action, 105 ---- direct action of changed, Buffon on the, 145, 147, 160 ---- Lamarck on, 105, 268, 270, 271, 275, 277, 278, 281, 291, 292, 294, 295, 298, 299, 300, &c.