VERREAUX. 



INDEX. 



WALLACE. 



471 



Verreaux, M., on the attraction of 

 numerous males by the female of 

 an Australian Bc/mbyx^ i. 312. 



Vertebra, caudal, number of, in 

 macaques and baboons, i. 150; of 

 monkeys, partly imbedded in the 

 body, i. 151. 



Vertebrata, ii. 1 ; common origin 

 of the, i. 203 ; most ancient pro- 

 genitors of, i. 212 ; origin of the 

 voice in air-breathing, ii. 331. 



Vesicula prostatica, the homologue of 

 the uterus, i. 31, 208. 



Vibrissa, represented by long hairs 

 in the eyebrows, i. 25. 



Vidua, ii. 181. 



Vidua axillaris, i. 269. 



Villerme, M., on the influence of 

 plenty upon stature, i. 115. 



Vinson, Aug., on the male of Epeira 

 nigra, i. 338. 



Viper, difference of the sexes in the, 

 ii. 29. 



Virey, on the number of species of 

 man, i. 226. 



Virtues, originally social only, i. 93 ; 

 gradual appreciation of, i. 165. 



Viscera, variability of, in man, i. 

 109. 



ViTi Archipelago, population of the, 

 i. 225. 



Vlacovich, Prof., on the ischio-pubic 

 muscle, i. 127. 



Vocal music of birds, ii. 51. 



Vocal organs of man, i. 58 ; of birds, 

 i. 59; ii. 163; of frogs, ii. 28; of 

 the Insessores, ii. 55 ; difference of, 

 in the sexes of birds, ii. 56 ; pri- 

 marily used in relation to the pro- 

 pagation of the species, ii. 330. 



VOGT, Carl, on the origin of species, 

 i. 1 ; on the origin of man, i. 4 ; on 

 the semilunar fold in man, i. 23 ; 

 on the imitative faculties of micro- 

 cephalous idiots, i. 57 ; on micro- 

 cephalous idiots, i. 121 ; on skulls 

 from Brazilian caves, i. 218 ; on 

 the evolution of the races of man, 

 i. 230 ; on the formation of the 

 skull in women, ii. 317 ; on the 

 Ainos and negroes, ii. 321 ; on the 

 increased cranial diffei'ence of the 

 sexes in man with race-develop- 

 ment, ii. 329 ; on the obliquity of 



the eye in the Chinese and Japanese, 



ii. 344. 

 Voice in mammals, ii. 274 ; in mon- 

 keys and man, ii. 319 ; in man, ii. 



330 ; origin of, in air-breathing 



vertebrates, ii. 331. 

 Von Baer, definition of advancement 



in the organic scale, i. 211. 

 VuLPiAN, Prof, on the resemblance 



between the brains of man and of 



the higher apes, i. 11. 

 Vultures, selection of a mate by 



the female, ii. 116; colours of, ii. 



229. 



W. 



Waders, young of, ii. 217. 



Wagner, R., on the occurrence of the 

 diastema in a Kaffir skull, i. 126 ; 

 on the bronchi of the black stork, 

 ii. 60. 



Wagtail, Ray's, arrival of the male 

 before the female, i. 260. 



Wagtails, Indian, young of, ii. 190. 



Waist, proportions of, in soldiers and 

 sailors, i. 117. 



Waitz, Prof, on the number of spe- 

 cies of man, i. 226 ; on the colour 

 of Australian infants, ii. 318 ; on 

 the beardlessness of negroes, ii. 

 321 ; on the fondness of mankind 

 for ornaments, ii. 338 ; on the 

 liability of negroes to tropical 

 fevers after residence in a cold 

 climate, i. 243 ; on negro ideas of 

 female beauty, ii. 346 ; on Javanese 

 and Cochin Chinese ideas of beauty, 

 ii. 347. 



Walckenaer and Gervais, on the 

 Myriapoda, i. 340. 



Waldeyer, M., on the hermaphro- 

 ditism- of the vertebrate embryo, i, 

 207. 



Wales, North, numerical proportion 

 of male and female births in, i. 

 301. 



Walker, Alex., on the large size of 

 the liands of labourers' children, 

 i. 117. 



Walker, F., on sexual differences in 

 the diptera, i. 348. 



Wallace, Dr. A., on the prehensile 



