INDEX. 



391 



Unicellular organisms, 149. 

 Units of life, 177. 

 Unity in Nature, 346. 



of type, 2. 

 Use and disuse, 113. 



Van Beneden on centrosome, 151. 

 Variability, 104. 

 Varieties, 211. 

 Variety in life, i. 



produced by bisexual parentage, 

 27. 

 Vertebrae of deep-sea fishes, 222. 



of extinct fishes, 223. 



of fresh-water fishes, 222. 



of northern fishes, 221. 



of pelagic fishes, 22:3. 



of tropical fishes, 222. 

 Vestigial organs, 33. 

 Virchow on derivation of cells, 



152. 

 Virtue, 264. 

 Vital force, 346. 

 Vital units, 104, 177. 

 Volvox, 167. 

 " Vom Vater hab' ich die Statur," 



27. 

 Von Buch on ammonites, 243. 

 Von Mohl on cells, 152. 



Waagen on ammonites, 249. 

 Wakefield on animal life in New 



Zealand, 201. 

 Waldo, lineage of, 162. 

 Wallace on acquired characters, 

 129. 



on evolution of mind, 352. 



on isolation, 192. 



on the holarctic realm, 197. 

 Ward on acquired characters, 130. 

 Warfare of science, 368, 375. 

 Warner on true function of charity, 



311- 

 on brotherly love, 96. 

 Weasels, white in winter, 25. 

 Weeds, 201. 



Weismann on adaptation, 87. 

 Weismann on acquired characters, 



129, 351- 

 on biophores, 104, 178. 

 on bisexual parentage, 313. 

 on cell division, 94. 

 on Lamarckian factors, 116. 

 on prenatal influences, 134. 

 on stable germ plasm, 109. 

 theory of heredity, 177, 178, 376. 

 Weissmann's theories, no. 

 White on the struggle with dogmatic 



theology, 369, 375. 

 Whitman (Walt) on parental envi, 

 ronment, 133. 

 on structure, the basis of life, 104, 

 iq6. 

 Whymper on cretins, 285, 286. 

 Wiesner on plasomes, 104, 178. 

 Wilberforce on developed turnips, 68. 

 Will, 263. 



William the Conqueror, 141, 142. 

 Wilson on size of sperm cell, 173. 

 Winter pelage white, 25. 

 Wisdom, 263. 



sanction of, 377. 

 Withered branches, 283. 

 Woman, dependence of, 326. 

 deceit of, 319. 



difficulties in being one, 332. 

 in division of labour, 315. 

 emancipation of, 331. 

 enmity of, 320. 

 kindness of, 319. 

 obedience of, 326. 

 on manual labour, 328. 

 normal work of, 328. 

 Philistinism of, 323. 

 secrecy of, 319. 

 the sexus sequior, 323. 

 the unjesthetic sex, 321. 

 triviality of, 318. 

 not undeveloped man, 315. 

 Women as road-menders, 324. 

 Woodruff on Egyptian fatalism, 289. 

 Words, origin of, 216. 



