Contents  
  Front Matter, Volume I
  Introduction 1
  I Domestic Dogs and Cats 15
  II Horses and Asses 51
  III Pigs - Cattle - Sheep - Goats 68
  IV Domestic Rabbits 107
  V Domestic Pigeons 137
  VI Pigeons continued 189
  VII Fowls 236
  VIII Duck - Goose - Peacock - Turkey - Guinea Fowl - ... 290
  IX Cultivated Plants: Cereal and Culinary Plants 322
  X Plants continued - Fruits - Ornamental Trees - Flowers 352
  XI On Bud Variation, and on Certain Anomalous Modes of Reproduction and Variation 397
  XII Inheritance 445
  Front Matter, Volume II  
  XIII Inheritance continued - Reversion or Atavism 1
  XIV Inheritance continued - Fixedness of Character - Prepotency - Sexual Limitation - Correspondence of Age 37
  XV On Crossing 62
  XVI Causes which Interfere with the Free Crossing of Varieties - Influence of Domestication on Fertility 78
  XVII On the Good Effects of Crossing, and on the Evil Effects of Close Inbreeding 92
  XVIII On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Changed Conditions of Life: Sterility from Various Causes 127
  XIX Summary of the Last Four Chapters, with Remarks on Hybridism 157
  XX Selection by Man 176
  XXI Selection continued 209
  XXII Causes of Variability 237
  XXIII Direct and Definite Action of the External Conditions of Life 260
  XXIV Laws of Variation - Use and Disuse, etc. 283
  XXV Laws of Variation continued - Correlated Variability 311
  XXVI Laws of Variation continued - Summary 333
  XXVII Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis 349
  XXVIII Concluding Remarks 400
  Index 429