Index 



Wallace, John (A. R. Wallace's 

 brother), i. 11, 13, 15 



Mary Ann (A. R. Wallace's 



mother), i. 9 



Thomas Vere (A. R. Wallace's 



father), i. 8 ; Librarian of Hert- 

 ford, 13 ; straitened circumstances 

 of, 14, 15 



Violet (daughter of A. R. Wal- 

 lace), reminiscences of her father, 

 u. 103-38 



W. G. (son of A. R. Wallace), re- 

 miniscences of his father, ii. 103-38 



" Wallace's line," i. 43, ii. 19, 232, 233 



War, Wallace's abhorrence of, ii. 245 



Ward, Mr., on muscular fibres of 

 whales, i. 145 



Warington, Mr., and " Origin of 

 Species," i. 191 



Webb, Mr. W. L., ii. 179-80 



Wedgwood, Josiah, and Darwin, i. 18 



Weir, Jenner, on moths, i, 179 ; on 

 plumage of birds, 205 ; Darwin's 

 appreciation of, 220 ; paper at 

 the Entomological Societj', 235 



Weismann, Prof. A., receives Darwin- 

 Wallace Medal, i. 120 ; on colour- 

 ing of caterpillars, 299 ; " Essays 

 upon Heredity," ii. 44 ei seq., 51-2 

 (see also Non-inheritance of ac- 

 quired characters) 



Wells, Dr., and Natural Selection, i. 

 116, 176 



Westminster Abbey, graves and me- 

 morials of men of science in, i. 1 ; 

 petition to Dean and Chapter as 

 to medallion to Wallace in, ii. 253 ; 

 unveiling of the medallion, 254 



Westwood and theory of flight, i. 145 ; 

 Darwin on, 146-7 



Whale, muscular fibres of, i. 145 

 Wilberforce, Bishop, reviews Darwin's 



" Origin of Species," 144 

 Williams, Dr., ii. 192 



Matthieu, i. 264 



Wilson, Mr. D. A., reminiscences of 



Wallace, ii. 151-2 

 Wiltshire, Mr. A., letters to, ii. 162, 165 

 Wimborne, Lord, sale of land to 



Wallace, ii. 119 

 WoUaston, Dr., re\iews " Origin of 



Species," i. 142 ; tribute to Wal- 

 lace, ii. 230 

 WoUaston's " Coleoptera Atlantidum," 



ii. 22-3 

 Woman, independence and future of, 



Wallace's views on, ii. 149-51, 245 

 " Wonderful Century," Wallace's, ii. 



144, 168, 169, 238 

 " Wonders of the World," i. 13 

 Wood, J. G., book on the horse, ii. 113 

 Woodbury, Mr., researches of, i. 146 

 " World of Life," Wallace's, ii, 8, 94, 



167, 172, 176, 178, 182 

 " Worms, Formation of Vegetable 



Mould by Action of," Darwin's, i. 



320 

 Wright, Chauncey, reviews Mivart's 



" Genesis of Species," i. 264, 265-7 



ZoixNER, Prof., and supernormal phe- 

 nomena, ii. 198, 199 



" Zoological Geography of the Malay 

 Archipelago," Wallace's, i. 137, 

 ii. 232 



Zoology, lectures on, at Edinburgh, i. 

 16 ; Darwin's study of, at Cam- 

 bridge, 17 



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