The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, vol 1 | Page 5

IN THE HORSE-- LONGEVITY AND
VIGOUR--ASYMMETRICAL DEVIATIONS OF
STRUCTURE--POLYDACTYLISM AND REGROWTH OF
SUPERNUMERARY DIGITS AFTER AMPUTATION--CASES OF

SEVERAL CHILDREN SIMILARLY AFFECTED FROM
NON-AFFECTED PARENTS--WEAK AND FLUCTUATING
INHERITANCE: IN WEEPING TREES, IN DWARFNESS,
COLOUR OF FRUIT AND FLOWERS-- COLOUR OF
HORSES--NON-INHERITANCE IN CERTAIN
CASES--INHERITANCE OF STRUCTURE AND HABITS
OVERBORNE BY HOSTILE CONDITIONS OF LIFE, BY
INCESSANTLY RECURRING VARIABILITY, AND BY
REVERSION--CONCLUSION.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
FIGURE.
1. DUN DEVONSHIRE PONY, WITH SHOULDER, SPINAL, AND
LEG STRIPES.
2. HEAD OF JAPAN OR MASKED PIG.
3. HEAD OF WILD BOAR, AND OF "GOLDEN DAYS," A PIG OF
THE YORKSHIRE LARGE BREED.
4. OLD IRISH PIG WITH JAW-APPENDAGES.
5. HALF-LOP RABBIT.
6. SKULL OF WILD RABBIT.
7. SKULL OF LARGE LOP-EARED RABBIT.
8. PART OF ZYGOMATIC ARCH, SHOWING THE PROJECTING
END OF THE MALAR BONE OF THE AUDITORY MEATUS, OF
RABBITS.
9. POSTERIOR END OF SKULL, SHOWING THE
INTER-PARIETAL BONE, OF RABBITS.
10. OCCIPITAL FORAMEN OF RABBITS.
11. SKULL OF HALF-LOP RABBIT.
12. ATLAS VERTEBRAE OF RABBITS.
13. THIRD CERVICAL VERTEBRAE OF RABBITS.
14. DORSAL VERTEBRAE, FROM SIXTH TO TENTH
INCLUSIVE, OF RABBITS.
15. TERMINAL BONE OF STERNUM OF RABBITS.
16. ACROMION OF SCAPULA OF RABBITS.
17. THE ROCK-PIGEON, OR COLUMBA LIVIA.
18. ENGLISH POUTER.
19. ENGLISH CARRIER.
20. ENGLISH BARB.

21. ENGLISH FANTAIL.
22. AFRICAN OWL.
23. SHORT-FACED ENGLISH TUMBLER.
24. SKULLS OF PIGEONS, VIEWED LATERALLY.
25. LOWER JAWS OF PIGEONS, SEEN FROM ABOVE.
26. SKULL OF RUNT, SEEN FROM ABOVE.
27. LATERAL VIEW OF JAWS OF PIGEONS.
28. SCAPULAE OF PIGEONS.
29. FURCULA OF PIGEONS.
30. SPANISH FOWL.
31. HAMBURGH FOWL.
32. POLISH FOWL.
33. OCCIPITAL FORAMEN OF THE SKULLS OF FOWLS.
34. SKULLS OF FOWLS, VIEWED FROM ABOVE, A LITTLE
OBLIQUELY.
35. LONGITUDINAL SECTIONS OF SKULLS OF FOWLS,
VIEWED LATERALLY.
36. SKULL OF HORNED FOWL, VIEWED FROM ABOVE, A
LITTLE OBLIQUELY.
37. SIXTH CERVICAL VERTEBRAE OF FOWLS, VIEWED
LATERALLY.
38. EXTREMITY OF THE FURCULA OF FOWLS, VIEWED
LATERALLY.
39. SKULLS OF DUCKS, VIEWED LATERALLY, REDUCED TO
TWO-THIRDS OF THE NATURAL SIZE.
40. CERVICAL VERTEBRAE OF DUCKS, OF NATURAL SIZE.
41. PODS OF THE COMMON PEA.
42. PEACH AND ALMOND STONES, OF NATURAL SIZE,
VIEWED EDGEWAYS.
43. PLUM STONES, OF NATURAL SIZE, VIEWED LATERALLY.
TABLE 1: PRINCIPAL ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS IN THIS
(SECOND) EDITION.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 34. Second Edition Volume I., Page 35.
Dr. Burt Wilder's observations on the brains of different breeds of the
Dog.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 38. Second Edition Volume I., Page 40.
Degeneracy of Dogs imported into Guinea.

First Edition, Volume I., Page 51. Second Edition Volume I., Page 54.
Difference in the number of the lumbar vertebrae in the races or species
of the Horse.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 102. Second Edition Volume I., Page
106. Hairy appendages to the throats of Goats.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 162. Second Edition Volume I., Page
170. Sexual differences in colour in the domestic Pigeon.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 217. Second Edition Volume I., Page
228. Movements like those of the Tumbler-pigeon, caused by injury to
the brain.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 290. Second Edition Volume I., Page
306. Additional facts with respect to the Black-shouldered Peacock.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 296. Second Edition Volume I., Page
312. Ancient selection of Gold-fish in China.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 314. Second Edition Volume I., Page
332. Major Hallett's 'Pedigree Wheat.'
First Edition, Volume I., Page 326. Second Edition Volume I., Page
345. The common radish descended from Raphanus raphanistrum.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 374. Second Edition Volume I., Page
398. Several additional cases of bud-variation given.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 396. Second Edition Volume I., Page
420. An abstract of all the cases recently published of graft-hybrids in
the potato, together with a general summary on graft-hybridisation.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 399. Second Edition Volume I., Page
429. An erroneous statement with respect to the pollen of the date-palm
affecting the fruit of the Chamaerops omitted.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 400. Second Edition Volume I., Page
430. New cases of the direct action of pollen on the mother-plant.
First Edition, Volume I., Page 404. Second Edition Volume I., Page
435. Additional and remarkable instances of the action of the male
parent on the future progeny of the female.
First Edition, Volume II., Page 14. Second Edition Volume I., Page 459.
An erroneous statement corrected, with respect to the regrowth of
supernumerary digits after amputation.
First Edition, Volume II., Page 23. Second Edition Volume I., Page 467.
Additional facts with respect to the inherited effects of circumcision.
First Edition, Volume II., Page 23. Second Edition Volume I., Page 467.

Dr. Brown-Sequard on the inherited effects of operations on the
Guinea-pig.
First Edition, Volume II., Page 24. Second Edition Volume I., Page 469.
Other cases of inherited mutilations.
First Edition, Volume II., Page