---- his "Origin of Species" like the opinion of a lawyer who wanted to leave loopholes, or an Act of Parliament full of repealed and inserted clauses, 358 ---- accused of confusion and inaccuracy of thought, 359 ---- as just as Aristides himself, 364 ---- most candid literary opponent in the world, 364 ---- declares Nature to be the most important means of modification, and variation to be the cause of variations, 369 ---- like a will-o'-the-wisp, 372 ---- disuse, the main agent in reducing wings of Madeira beetles, 377 ---- how he and Lamarck treat the winglessness of Madeira beetles respectively, 373-380 ---- an example of his "manner," 378 ---- the way in which he met "Evolution, Old and New," 393 Darwin, Erasmus, never quite recognized design, 39 ---- ignorance concerning, 61 ---- on reason and instinct, 115, &c. ---- life of, 173, &c. ---- in Nottingham market-place, 182, 184, 197 ---- and Dr. Johnson, 184, 185 ---- and Tutbury bull running, 187 ---- his poetry about the pump, and illustration, 84, 193 ---- should have given his evolution theory a book to itself, 197 ---- had no wish to see far beyond the obvious, 197 ---- must be admitted to have missed detecting Buffon's humour, 83, 84, 197 ---- did not attribute instincts and structures to memory pure and simple, 198 ---- on the reasoning powers of animals, and on instinct, 201, 205 ---- his failure to connect memory and instinct, as with birds' nests, 201-203 ---- failed to see the four main propositions which I contended for in "Life and Habit," 37, 203, 204 ---- on the analogies between animal and vegetable life, 206, &c. ---- on sensitive plants, 206, 210 ---- on the individuality of buds, and his theory of bark, 207, 208 ---- on the movements of climbing plants, 209 ---- on the oneness of personality between parents and offspring, 214; the embryo not a new animal, 215 ---- on animals under domestication, 223 ---- on the effects of accidents transmitted to offspring, 224 ---- sees struggle, and hence modification, turn mainly round three great wants, 226, 229, 257, 279 ---- on desire as a means of modification, 226, 228, 259 ---- by a slip approaches the error of his grandson, 227, 228 ---- on embryonic metamorphoses, 230, 231 ---- believed animals and plants to be descended from a common stock, 233 ---- and Lamarck compared, 257 ---- on the struggle of existence, and the survival of the fittest, 227, 232, 259 Darwin, Mrs. Erasmus, death-bed of, 178 Darwin, Francis, mentioned, 109 ---- his interesting lecture, 206 ---- does not use the expression "natural selection," 368 Darwinising, Coleridge on, 21 Darwinism, the old Darwinism involves desire, invention, and design, 58 ---- modern, falling into disfavour, 60 ---- and evolution not to be confounded, 360, 361 Day, the portrait of, by Wright of Derby, 180 Death, violent, Buffon on, 126 ---- of Dr. Erasmus Darwin, 193, 194