"Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication," completion of. -delay in publication. -Lyell on. -translation of. -Wallace's opinion of. -Darwin at work on.
Varieties, accumulation of. -distinction between species and. -fertility of. -in insects. -in large genera. -of molluscs. -production of. -species the product of long series of. -use of. -Wallace on. -elimination by crossing. -zoologists neglect study of.
Vaucher, "Plantes d'Europe."
"Vegetable Teratology," Masters'.
Vegetative reproduction, Darwin on.
Veitch, J.
Velleia, fertilisation mechanism of.
Verbascum, crossing and varieties in. -Scott's work on.
Verbenaceae.
Verlot, on variation in flowers.
Veronica, Antarctic species of.
Vessels, course of, as guide to morphology of flowers.
"Vestiges of Creation," Huxley's review of. -the "Origin of Species" and. -Vetch, extra-floral nectaries of.
Vetter, editor of "Kosmos."
Viburnum lantanoides, in Japan and east U.S.A.
Victoria Street Society for Protection of Animals against Vivisection, charge brought against Dr. Ferrier by.
Villa Franca, Baron de, on varieties of sugar-cane.
Villarsia.
Vine, graft-hybrids of. -varieties of. -morphology of tendrils.
Viola, ancestral form of. -cleistogamic flowers of. -pollen-tubes of. -Madagascan. -Pyrenean. -on Peak of Teneriffe. -V. canina, fertilisation of. -V. nana. -V. odorata, floral biology of.
Virchow, Huxley's criticism of. -publication by Hackel of Darwin's criticism of.
Viscum.
Vitality of seeds, in salt-water experiments.
Viti group of islands, effect of subsidence.
Vivisection.
Vochting, H., "Bewegung der Bluthen und Fruchte." -letter to. -"Organbildung im Pflanzenreich."
"Volcanic Geology," Dana's.
Volcanic islands, polymorphic species in. -Darwin's geological observations on. -Darwin's opinion of his book on. -Lyell and Herschel on. -relation to continents.
Volcanic phenomena, cause of. -Darwin on. -and elevation. -as mere accidents in swelling up of dome of plutonic rocks. -and subsidence.
Volcanic rocks.
Volcano, in interior of Asia.
Volcanoes, in S. America. -compared with boilers. -maritime position of. -of St. Jago, Mauritius, and St. Helena. -simultaneous activity of. -and subsidence.
Volucella, as example of mimicry.
Vries, H. de, on plant-movements.
Vulcanicity.
Wagner, M., attacks Darwin. -essay by. -mentioned.
"Wahl der Lebens-Weise."
Wahlenberg, on variation of species in U.S.A.
Wales, Darwin's visit to. -comparison of valleys of Lochaber and. -Darwin on glaciers of. -elevation of land in Scotland and. -Murchison sees no trace of glaciers in. -Ramsay on denudation of S.
Wallace, A.R., on beauty. -criticises the expression, "Natural Selection." -Darwin on cleverness of. -letters to. -letters to Darwin from. -on Mastodon from Timor. -notes by. -on pangenesis. -review of Bastian's "Beginnings of Life." -on sterility. -on success of Natural Selection. -attributes Natural Selection to Darwin. -on colour and birds' nests. -Darwin's criticism of his "Geographical Distribution of Animals." -differs from Darwin. -on evolution of man. -"Island Life." -on wings of lepidoptera. -review of Darwin's book on Expression. -review of Lyell's "Principles of Geology." -on Round Island. -same ideas hit on by Darwin and. -supplies information to Darwin on Sexual Selection. -on variation. -at work on narrative of travels.
Wallace, Dr., on sexes in Bombyx. -on caterpillars.
Wallich, on Oxyspora paniculata.
Wallis, H.M., on ears. -letters to.
Walpole.
Walsh, Benjamin Dann: was born at Frome, in England, in 1808, and died in America in 1869, from the result of a railway accident. He entered at Trinity College, Cambridge, and obtained a fellowship there after being fifth classic in 1831. He was therefore a contemporary of Darwin's at the University, though not a "schoolmate," as the "American Entomologist" puts it. He was the author of "A Historical Account of the University of Cambridge and its Colleges," London, 2nd edition, 1837; also of a translation of part of "Aristophanes," 1837: from the dedication of this book it seems that he was at St.