INDEX. 



669 



Vengeance, instinct of, 110. 



Venus Erycina, priestesses of, 581. 



Vermes, 261. 



Vermiform appendage, 21. 



Verreaux, M., on the attraction of 

 numerous males by tlie female 

 of an Australian Bombyx, 248. 



Vertebrae, caudal, number of, in 

 macaques and baboons, 56; of 

 monlieys, partly imbedded in 

 the body, 57. 



Vertebrata, 327; common origin of 

 the, 153; most ancient progeni- 

 tors of, 156; origin of the voice 

 In air-breathing, 561. 



Vesicula prostatica, the homo- 

 logue of the uterus, 23, 157. 



Vibrissee, represented by long 

 hairs in the eyebrows, 18. 



Vidua, 397. 456. 



axillaris, 215. 



Villerme, M., on the Influence of 

 plenty upon stature 30. 



Vinson, Aug., courtship of male 

 spider, 269; on the male of Bp- 

 eira nigra, 269. 



Viper, difference of the sexes in 

 the, 347. 



Virey, on the number of species 

 of man, 170. 



Virtues, originally social only, 113; 

 gradual appreciation of, 128. 



Viscera, variability of, in man, 26. 



Vlaoovich, Prof., on the isohio- 

 pubic muscle, 40. 



Vocal music of birds, 364. 



■ organs of man, 85; of birds, 



87, 444; of frogs, 346; of the Inses- 

 sores, 366; difference of, in the 

 sexes of birds, 367; primarily 

 used in relation to the propaga- 

 tion of the species, 661. 



Vogt, Karl, on the origin of spe- 

 cies, 1; on the origin of man, 3; 

 on the semilunar fold in man, 

 17; on microcephalous idiots, 34; 

 on the imitative faculties of mi- 

 crocephalous idiots, 85; on skulls 

 from Brazilian caves, 164; on the 

 evolution of the races of man, 

 173; on the formation of the 

 skull in women, 552; on the 

 Ainos and negroes, 655; on the 

 increased cranial difference of 

 the sexes in man with race de- 

 velopment, 560; on the obliquity 

 of the eye in the Chinese and 

 Japanese, 572. 



Voice in mammals, 521; In mon- 

 keys and man, 563; In man, 661; 

 origin of, in air-breathing verte- 

 brates, 561. 



Von Baer, definition of advance- 

 ment in the organic scale, 159. 



Vulpian, Prof., on the resem- 

 blance between the brains of 

 man and of the higher apes, 6. 



Vultures, selection of a mate by 

 the female, 410; colors of, 488. 



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Waders, young of, 481. 



Wagner, R., on the occurrence of 

 the diastema in a Kaffir skull, 

 39; on the bronchi of the black 

 stork, 370. 



Wagtail, Ray's, arrival of the 

 male before the female, 208. 



Wagtails, Indian, YO"ig of, 463. 



Waist, proportions of, in soldiers 

 and sailors, 31. 



Waltz, Prof., on the number of 

 species of man, 170; on the lia- 

 bility of negroes to tropiea.1 fe- 

 vers after residence in a cold 

 climate, 189; on the color of Aus- 

 tralian infants, 553; on the 

 beardlessness of negroes, 565; on 

 the fondness of mankind for 

 ornaments, 568; on negro ideas 

 of female beauty, 573; on Javan 

 and Cochin Chine'se ideas of 

 beauty, 574. 



Walckenaer and Gervais, spider 

 attracted by music, 270; on the 

 Myriapoda, 271. 



Waldeyer, M., on the hermaph- 

 roditism of the vertebrate em- 

 bryo, 157. 



Wales, North, numerical propor- 

 tion of male and female births 

 in. 237. 



Walker, Alex., on the large size 

 of the hands of laborers' chil- 

 dren, 32. 



, F., on sexual differences in 



the diptera, 277. 



Wallace, Dr. A., on the prehensile 

 use of the tarsi in male moths, 

 205; on the rearing of the Ailan- 

 thus silkmoth, 247; on breeding 

 Lepidoptera, 247; proportion of 

 sexes of Bombjrx cynthia, B. 

 yamamai, and B. Pernyi reared 

 by, 249; on the development of 

 Bombyx cynthia and B. yam- 

 amai, 276; on the pairing of 

 Bombyx cynthia, 314. 



, A. R., on the origin of 



man, 3; on the power of imita- 

 tion in man, 66; on the use of 

 missiles by the orang, 79; on the 

 varying appreciation of truth 

 among different tribes, 118; on 

 the limits of natural selection 

 in man, 47, 124; on the occur- 

 rence of remorse among sav- 

 ages, 128; on the effects of nat- 

 ural selection on civilized na- 

 tions, 130; on the use of the con- 

 vergence of the hair at the el- 

 bow in the orang, 147; on the 

 contrast in the characters of the 

 Malays and Papuans, 164; on the 

 line of separation between the 

 Papuans and Malays, 165; on the 

 birds of paradise, 214; on the 

 sexes of Ornithoptera Croesus 

 246; on protective resemblances, 



