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INDEX. 



Vaureal, humau boues fruin, 22. 



V■edllah^. nmnuganitmh habits of, 591. 



Veitch, Mr., un the aversion of 

 Japanese ladies to whiskers, 581. 



Veiigeauce, instinct of, 1113. 



Venus Krycina, priestesses of, 587. 



Vermes, 264. 



Vermiform appendage, 21. 



Verreaux, M., on the attraction (f 

 numerous males by the female of 

 an Australian Boinbyx, 252. 



Vertebra;, caudal, number of, in 

 macaques and baboons, 58 ; of 

 monkeys, partly imbedded in the 

 body, 59. 



Vertebi-ata, 3o0 ; common origin of 

 the, 158; most ancient progenitors 

 of, 161 ; origin of the voice in air- 

 breathing, 567. 



Vesicuia prostatica, the homologue of 

 the uterus, 24, 161. 



Vibrissae, rejiresented by long hairs 

 in the eyebrows, 19. 



Vidua, 40H, 462. 



axillaris, 219. 



Villerme, M., on the influence of 

 plenty upon stature, 31. 



Vinson, Aug., courtship of male 

 spider, 2l'6\ on the male of Epcira 

 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, 131. 



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, 56H. 

 /ogt, Karl, on the origin of species, 1 ; 

 on the origin of man, 3 ; on the 

 semilunar fold in man, 17 ; on mi- 

 crocephalous idiots, H5 ; en the imi- 

 tative faculties of microcephalous 

 idiots, 87; on skulls from Brazilian 

 caves, 168; on rhe evolution of the 

 races of mau, 177; uu the formation 

 of the skull in womej, 557 \ on the 



Ainos and negroes, 5G0 ; on the in* 



creased cranial difference of thfl 

 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 advauccmiat 

 )ji the oi'ganic scale, 164. 



Vulpian, Prof., on the resemblan.'^c 

 between the brains of man and of 

 the higher apes, 6. 



Vultures, selection of a mate by the 

 female, 416 ; colours of, 4H;-i 



W. 



Waders, young of, 486. 



Wagner, R., on the occurrence of the 

 diastema in a Katfir skull, 40; on 

 the bronchi of tlie black stork, 374. 



Wagtail, Ray's, ai-rival of the mal*> 

 before the female, 212. 



Wagtails, Indian, young of, 46b. 



Waist, proportions of, in soldiei's and 

 sailors, 82. 



Waitz, Prof., on the number of spe- 

 cies of man, 174; on the liability 

 of negroes to tropical fevers aftei' 

 residence in a cold climate, 194; 

 on the colour of Australian infants, 

 558; on the beardles.suess of 

 negroes, 560; on the foniUiess of 

 mankind for ornaments, 573; on 

 negro ideas of female beauty, 579 ; 

 on Javan and Cochin Chinese ideas 

 of beauty, 580. 



Walekenaer and Gervais, spider at- 

 tracted by music, 273 ; on the Myri- 

 apoda, 274. 



Waldeyer,M , on the hermaphroiiitism 

 of the vertebrate embryo, 161. 



Wales, Noi-th, numerical pro])ortiou ot 

 male and female births in, 242. 



Walker, Alex., on the large size of th« 

 hands of labourers'children, 33. 



, F., on sexual differences in 



the diptera, 280. 



Wallace, Dr. A., on the prehensile 

 use of the tarsi ia male mcths, 209 ; 

 on the rearing of the A'ilanthui 

 silkmoth, 251; on breeding Lepi- 

 doptera, 251 ; proportion of sexes of 

 Botnbyx cynthia, B. ijatnamai, and 



