Interesting, the more interesting the animal the more evolution Buffon
puts into his account of it, 84
Intermediate forms, Lamarck on, 283, 286
---- C. Darwin, 284, 285
Inventions, small successive improvements in man's, and development of,
analogous to that of organism, 44, 46, 47, 54, 55, 384
Irony, good-natured and the reverse, 91
---- an apology for, and explanation how far it is legitimate, 111, 112
---- Buffon's, 78, &c., 91, 92, 93, 155, 157, 163, 164
JARDINE, Sir W., on Buffon's character, 82
Johnson, Dr., and Erasmus Darwin, 184, 185
Joints, Paley on the human, 19, 20
Juggle, Paley's argument a juggle, unless man has had a _bona fide_
personal, and therefore organic designer, 14, 16
KNEE-PAN, Paley on the human, 18
Knowledge, nomenclature mistaken for, 141
LABOUR, glory comes after, if she can, 76
Lamarck, had brain upon the brain, 36
---- never quite recognized design, 39
---- Haeckel's surprising statement concerning, 73
---- wherein he mainly differs from Buffon, 105
---- memoir of, 235
---- his connection with Buffon, as tutor to his son, &c., 237, 258
---- his daughters, 242, 253
---- his poverty and blindness, 242, 253
---- Isidore Geoffroy on, bad caricature of his teaching, 244-246
---- Haeckel on, 246, 247
---- never seriously discussed, 247
---- "the well-known doctrine of," C. Darwin's reference
to, 249, 250, 251, 298, 314, 376
---- on the opposition his theory met with, 252
---- too old to have begun his unequal contest, 253
---- on the feeling of animals, 254, 255
---- too theory-ridden, 254
---- misled by Buffon (query), 255
---- took from Buffon without sufficient acknowledgment,
255, 258, 260, 311
---- as compared with Dr. Erasmus Darwin, 257
---- like Dr. E. Darwin, sees struggle and modification turn
mainly round three great wants, 257, 279, 300, 309
---- when and how he came over to the side of mutability, 258
---- and the French translation of the "Loves of the Plant," 259
---- on comparative anatomy, 266
---- on species, 267, &c.
---- on conditions of existence (_circonstances_), 105, 268, 270, 271,
275, 277, 278, 281, 291, 292, 294, 295, 298, 299, 300, &c.
---- on instinct, 274
---- on animals and plants under domestication, 275, 293, 296, 297, 300
---- on extinct species, 277
---- anticipated Lyell in rejecting catastrophes, 277
---- on the geometrical ratio of increas
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