SEBRIGHT, Sir John, effects of close interbreeding in dogs. -care taken by, in selection of fowls.
Secale cereale.
SEDGWICK, W., effects of crossing on the female. -on the "Porcupine man." -on hereditary diseases. -hereditary affections of the eye. -inheritance of polydactylism and anomalies of the extremities. -morbid uniformity in the same family. -on deaf-mutes. -inheritance of injury to the eye. -atavism in diseases and anomalies of structure. -non-reversion to night-blindness. -sexual limitation of the transmission of peculiarities in man. -on the effects of hard-drinking. -inherited baldness with deficiency of teeth. -occurrence of a molar tooth in place of an incisor. -diseases occurring in alternate generations.
SEDILLOT, on the removal of portions of bone.
SEEDS, early selection of. -rudimentary, in grapes. -relative position of, in the capsule.
SEEDS and buds, close analogies of.
SEEMANN, B., crossing of the wolf and Esquimaux dogs.
SEGREGATION of characters.
SELBY, P.J., on the bud-destroying habits of the bullfinch.
SELECTION. -methodical. -by the ancients and semi-civilised people. -of trifling characters. -unconscious. -effects of, shown by differences in most valued parts. -produced by accumulation of variability. -natural, as affecting domestic productions. -as the origin of species, genera, and other groups. -circumstances favourable to. -tendency of, towards extremes. -possible limit of. -influence of time on. -summary of subject. -effects of, in modifying breeds of cattle. -in preserving the purity of breeds of sheep. -in producing varieties of pigeons. -in breeding fowls. -in the goose. -in the canary. -in the gold-fish. -in the silkworm. -contrasted in cabbages and cereals. -in white mulberry. -on gooseberries. -applied to wheat. -exemplified in carrots, etc. -in potato. -in the melon. -in flowering plants. -in the hyacinth. -applied to bud-varieties of plants. -illustrations of.