Landor, Dr., on remorse for not obeying tribal custom.
Language, an art; articulate, origin of; relation of the progress of, to the development of the brain; effects of inheritance in production of; complex structure of, among barbarous nations; natural selection in; gesture; primeval; of a lost tribe preserved by a parrot.
Languages, presence of rudiments in; classification of; variability of; crossing or blending of; complexity of, no test of perfection or proof of special creation; resemblance of, evidence of community of origin.
Languages and species, identity of evidence of their gradual development.
Lanius, characters of young.
Lanius rufus, anomalous young of.
Lankester, E.R., on comparative longevity; on the destructive effects of intemperance.
Lanugo of the human foetus.
Lapponian language, highly artificial.
Lark, proportion of the sexes in the; female, singing of the.
Larks, attracted by a mirror.
Lartet, E., comparison of cranial capacities of skulls of recent and tertiary mammals; on the size of the brain in mammals; on Dryopithecus; on pre-historic flutes.
Larus, seasonal change of plumage in.
Larva, luminous, of a Brazilian beetle.
Larynx, muscles of the, in songbirds.
Lasiocampa quercus, attraction of males by the female; sexual difference of colour in.
Latham, R.G., on the migrations of man.
Latooka, perforation of the lower lip by the women of.
Laurillard, on the abnormal division of the malar bone in man.
Lawrence, W., on the superiority of savages to Europeans in power of sight; on the colour of negro infants; on the fondness of savages for ornaments; on beardless races; on the beauty of the English aristocracy.
Layard, E.L., on the instance of rationality in a cobra; on the pugnacity of Gallus Stanleyi.
Laycock, Dr., on vital periodicity; theroid nature of idiots.
Leaves, autumn, tints useless.
Lecky, Mr., on the sense of duty; on suicide; on the practice of celibacy; his view of the crimes of savages; on the gradual rise of morality.
Leconte, J.L., on the stridulant organ in the Coprini and Dynastini.
Lee, H., on the numerical proportion of the sexes in the trout.
Leg, calf of the, artificially modified.
Legitimate and illegitimate children, proportion of the sexes in.
Legs, variation of the length of the, in man; proportions of, in soldiers and sailors; front, atrophied in some male butterflies; peculiarities of, in male insects.
Leguay, on the occurrence of the supra-condyloid foramen in the humerus of man.
Lek of the black-cock and capercailzie.
Lemoine, Albert, on the origin of language.
Lemur macaco, sexual difference of colour in.
Lemuridae, ears of the; variability of the muscles in the; position and derivation of the; their origin.
Lemurs, uterus in the.
Lenguas, disfigurement of the ears of the.
Leopards, black.
Lepidoptera, numerical proportions of the sexes in the; colouring of; ocellated spots of.
Lepidosiren.
Leptalides, mimicry of.
Leptorhynchus angustatus, pugnacity of male.
Leptura testacea, difference of colour in the sexes.
Leroy, on the wariness of young foxes in hunting-districts; on the desertion of their young by swallows.
Leslie, D., marriage customs of Kaffirs.
Lesse, valley of the.
Lesson, on the birds of paradise; on the sea-elephant.
Lessona, M., observations on Serranus.
Lethrus cephalotes, pugnacity of the males of.
Leuciscus phoxinus.
Leuckart, R., on the vesicula prostatica; on the influence of the age of parents on the sex of offspring.
Levator claviculae muscle.
Libellula depressa, colour of the male.
Libellulidae, relative size of the sexes of; difference in the sexes of.
Lice of domestic animals and man.
Licentiousness a check upon population; prevalence of, among savages.
Lichtenstein, on Chera progne.
Life, inheritance at corresponding periods of.
Light, effects on complexion; influence of, upon the colours of shells.
Lilford, Lord, the ruff attracted by bright objects.