Variations, spontaneous.
Varieties, absence of, between two species, evidence of their distinctness.
Variety, an object in nature.
Variola, communicable between man and the lower animals.
Vaureal, human bones from.
Veddahs, monogamous habits of.
Veitch, Mr., on the aversion of Japanese ladies to whiskers.
Vengeance, instinct of.
Venus Erycina, priestesses of.
Vermes.
Vermiform appendage.
Verreaux, M., on the attraction of numerous males by the female of an Australian Bombyx.
Vertebrae, caudal, number of in macaques and baboons; of monkeys, partly imbedded in the body.
Vertebrata, common origin of the; most ancient progenitors of; origin of the voice in air-breathing.
Vesicula prostatica, the homologue of the uterus.
Vibrissae, represented by long hairs in the eyebrows.
Vidua.
Vidua axillaris.
Villerme, M., on the influence of plenty upon stature.
Vinson, Aug., courtship of male spider; on the male of Epeira nigra.
Viper, difference of the sexes in the.
Virey, on the number of species of man.
Virtues, originally social only; gradual appreciation of.
Viscera, variability of, in man.
Vlacovich, Prof., on the ischio-pubic muscle.
Vocal music of birds.
Vocal organs of man; of birds; of frogs; of the Insessores; difference of, in the sexes of birds; primarily used in relation to the propagation of the species.
Vogt, Karl, on the origin of species; on the origin of man; on the semilunar fold in man; on microcephalous idiots; on the imitative faculties of microcephalous idiots; on skulls from Brazilian caves; on the evolution of the races of man; on the formation of the skull in women; on the Ainos and negroes; on the increased cranial difference of the sexes in man with race development; on the obliquity of the eye in the Chinese and Japanese.
Voice in mammals; in monkeys and man; in man; origin of, in air-breathing vertebrates.
Von Baer, see Baer.
Vulpian, Prof., on the resemblance between the brains of man and the higher apes.
Vultures, selection of a mate by the female; colours of.
Waders, young of.
Wagner, R., on the occurrence of the diastema in a Kaffir skull; on the bronchi of the black stork.
Wagtail, Ray's, arrival of the male before the female.
Wagtails, Indian, young of.
Waist, proportions of, in soldiers and sailors.
Waitz, Prof., on the number of species of man; on the liability of negroes to tropical fevers after residence in a cold climate; on the colour of Australian infants; on the beardlessness of negroes; on the fondness of mankind for ornaments; on negro ideas of female beauty; on Javan and Cochin Chinese ideas of beauty.
Waldeyer, M., on the hermaphroditism of the vertebrate embryo.
Wales, North, numerical proportion of male and female births in.
Walkenaer and Gervais, spider attracted by music; on the Myriapoda.
Walker, Alex., on the large size of the hands of labourers' children.
Walker, F., on sexual differences in the diptera.
Wallace, Dr. A., on the prehensile use of the tarsi in male moths; on the rearing of the Ailanthus silkmoth; on breeding Lepidoptera; proportion of sexes of Bombyx cynthia, B. yamamai, and B. Pernyi reared by; on the development of Bombyx cynthia and B. yamamai; on the pairing of Bombyx cynthia.
Wallace, A.R., on the origin of man; on the power of imitation in man; on the use of missiles by the orang; on the varying appreciation of truth among different tribes; on the limits of natural selection in man; on the occurrence of remorse among savages; on the effects of natural selection on civilised nations; on the use of the convergence of the hair at the elbow in the orang; on the contrast in the characters of the Malays and Papuans; on the line of separation between the Papuans and Malays; on the birds of paradise; on the sexes of Ornithoptera Croesus; on protective resemblances; on the relative sizes of the sexes of insects; on Elaphomyia; on the pugnacity of the males of Leptorhynchus angustatus; on sounds produced by Euchirus longimanus; on the colours of Diadema; on Kallima; on the protective colouring of moths; on bright coloration as protective in butterflies; on variability in the Papilionidae; on male and female butterflies, inhabiting different stations; on the protective nature of the dull colouring of female butterflies; on mimicry in butterflies; on the bright colours of caterpillars; on brightly-coloured fishes frequenting reefs; on the coral snakes; on Paradisea apoda; on the display of plumage by male birds of paradise; on assemblies of birds of paradise; on the instability of the ocellated spots in Hipparchia Janira; on sexually limited inheritance; on the sexual coloration of birds; on the relation between the colours and nidification of birds; on the coloration of the Cotingidae; on the females of Paradisea apoda and papuana; on the incubation of the cassowary; on protective coloration in birds; on the Babirusa; on the markings of the tiger; on the beards of the Papuans; on the hair of the Papuans; on the distribution of hair on the human body.