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VAUREAL. 



INDEX. 



WALLACE. 



Vaureal, human bones from, 22. 



Veddahs, monogamous habits of, 591. 



Veitch, Mr., on the aversion cf 

 Japanese ladies to whiskers, 581. 



Vengeance, instinct of, 113. 



Venus Erycina, priestesses of, 587, 



Vermes, 264. 



Vermiform appendage, 21. 



Verreaux, M., on the attraction (f 

 numerous males by the female of 

 an Australian Bombyx, 252. 



Vertebrae, caudal, number of, in 

 macaques and baboons, 58 ; of 

 monkeys, partly imbedded in the 

 body, 59. 



Vertebrata, 330 ; common origin of 

 the, 158 ; most ancient progenitors 

 of, 161 ; origin of the voice in air- 

 breathing, 567. 



Vesicula prostatica, the homologue of 

 the uterus, 24, 161. 



Vibrissa?, represented by long hairs 

 in the eyebrows, 19. 



Vidua, 403, 462. 



■ axillaris, 219. 



Villerme, M., on the influence of 

 plenty upon stature, 31. 



Vinson, Aug., courtship of male 

 spider, 273 ; on the male of Epeira 

 nigra, 273. 



Viper, difference of the sexes in the, 

 351. 



Virey, on the number of species of 

 man, 174. 



Virtues, originally social only, 116 : 

 gradual appreciation of, 151. 



Viscera, variability of, in man, 27. 



Vlacovich, Prof., on the ischio-pubic 

 muscle, 41. 



Vocal music of birds, 368. 



•— — organs of man, 87 ; of birds, 90, 

 450; of frogs, 350; of the Inses- 

 sores, 370 ; difference of, in the 

 sexes of birds, 371 primarily used 

 in relation to the propagation of 

 the species, 566. 



Togt, Karl, on the origin of species, 1 ; 

 on the origin of man, 3 ; on the 

 semilunar fold in man, 17 ; on mi- 

 crocephalous idiots, 35 ; en the imi- 

 tative faculties of microcephalous 

 idiots, 87 ; on skulls from Brazilian 

 caves, 168 ; on the evolution of the 

 races of man, 177 ; on the formation 

 of the skull in women, 557 ; on the 



Ainos and negroes, 560 ; on the in- 

 creased cranial difference of the 

 sexes in man with race development, 

 566 ; on the obliquity of the eye in 

 the Chinese and Japanese, 578. 



Voice in mammals, 525 ; in monkeys 

 and man, 558 ; in man, 566 ; origin 

 of, in air-breathing vertebrates, 567. 



Von Baer, definition of advancement 

 ui the organic scale, 164. 



Vulpian, Prof., on the resemblance 

 between the brains of man and of 

 the higher apes, 6. 



Vultures, selection of a mate by the 

 female, 416 ; colours of, 493 



W. 



Waders, young of, 486. 



Wagner, R., on the occurrence of the 

 diastema in a Kaffir skull, 40 ; on 

 the bronchi of the black stork, 374. 



Wagtail, Ray's, arrival of the male 

 before the female, 212. 



Wagtails, Indian, youug of, 468. 



Waist, proportions of, in soldiers and 

 sailors, 32. 



Waitz, Prof, on the number of spe- 

 cies of man, 174 ; on the liability 

 of negroes to tropical fevers after 

 residence in a cold climate, 194; 

 on the colour of Australian infants, 

 558 ; on the beardlessness of 

 negroes, 560 ; on the fondness of 

 mankind for ornaments, 573 ; on 

 negro ideas of female beauty, 579; 

 on Javan and Cochin Chinese ideas 

 of beauty, 580. 



Walckenaer and Gervais, spider at- 

 tracted by music, 273 ; on the Myri- 

 apoda, 274. 



Waldeyer,M., on the hermaphroditism 

 of the vertebrate embryo, 161. 



Wales, North, numerical proportion ot 

 male and female births in, 242. 



Walker, Alex., on the large size of the 

 hands of labourers' children, 33. 



, F., on sexual differences in 



the diptera, 280. 



Wallace, Dr. A., on the prehensile 

 use of the tarsi in male mcths, 209 ; 

 on the rearing of the A'ilanthus 

 silkmoth, 251 ; on breeding Lepi- 

 doptera, 251 ; proportion of sexes of 

 Bombyx cynthia, B. yamamai, and 



