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INDEX 



keys, partly tanbedded in the body, 



86. 



Yertebrata, 431 ; common origin of the, 

 211-212; most ancient progenitors 

 of, 214-216; origin of the voice in 

 air-breathing, 729-730. 



Vesicula prostatica, the homologue of 

 the uterus, 43, 216. 



VibrisssB, represented by long hairs in 

 the eyebrows, ST. 



Tidua, 520, 596. 



axillaris, 289. 



Villerme, M., on the influence of plenty 

 upon stature, 52-53. 



Vinson, Aug., courtship of male spider, 

 360; on the male of Bpeira nigra, 

 360. 



Viper, difEerence of the sexes in the, 

 456. 



Virey, on the number of species of 

 man, 232. 



Virtues, originally social only, 158- 

 159; gradual appreciation of, He- 

 ll'?. 



Viscera, variability of, in man, 47. 



Vlacovich, Prof., on the isohio-pubic 

 muscle, 64. 



Vocal music of birds, ill-ilS. 



■ organs of man, 122-123 ; of birds, 

 125-126, 580; of frogs, 455; of the 

 Insessores, 481 ; difEerence of, in the 

 sexes of birds,' 481 ; primarily used 

 in relation to the propagation of the 

 species, 729. 



Vogt, Karl, on tha origin of species, 

 17; on the origin of man, 19; on 

 the semilunar fold in man, 36; on 

 microcephalous idiots, 58; on the 

 imitative faculties of microcephalous 

 idiots, 122 ; on skulls from Brazilian 

 caves, 225; on the evolution of the 

 races of man, 235-237 ; on the for- 

 mation of the skull in women, 717; 

 on the Ainos and negroes, 721; on 

 the increased cranial difEerence of 

 the sexes in man with race devel- 

 opment, 728; on the obhquity of 

 the eye in the Chinese and Japa- 

 nese, 744. 



Voice in mammals, 679; in monkeys 

 and man, 719; in man, 729; origin 

 of, in air-breathing vertebrates, 729- 

 730. 



Von Baer, definition of advancement in 

 the organic scale, 219. 



Vulpian, Prof,, on the lesemblance be- 

 tween the brains of man and of the 

 higher apes, 22-23. 



Vultures, selection of a mate by the 

 female, 537; colors of, 637. 



W 



Waders, young of, 627. 



Wagner, E., on the occurrence of the 

 diastema in a KafSr skull, 63; on 

 the bronchi of the black stork, 485. 



Wagtail, Bay's, arrival of the male be- 

 fore the female, 280. 



Wagtails, Indian, young of, 604. 



Waist, proportions of, in soldiers and 

 sailors, 64. 



Waitz, Prof., on the number of species 

 of man, 233 ; on the liability of ne- 

 groes to tropical fevers after resi- 

 dence in a cold climate, 257; on 

 the color of Australian infants, 718; 

 on the beardlessness of negroes, 721; 

 on the fondness of mankind for or- 

 naments, 738; on negro ideas of 

 female beauty, 746; on Javan and 

 Cochin Chinese ideas of beauty, 

 746. 



Walckenaer and Gervais, spider at- 

 tracted by music, 361 ; on the Myri- 

 apoda, 361. 



Waldeyer, M., on the hermaphroditism 

 of the vertebrate embryo, 216. 



Wales, North, numerical proportion of 

 male and female births in, 319. 



Walker, Alex. , on the large size of the 

 hands of laborers' children, 55. 



, F., on sexual differences in the 



Diptera, 368-369. 



Wallace, Dr. A., on the prehensile use 

 of the tarsi in male moths, 277; on 

 the rearing of the Ailanthus silk- 

 moth, 332 ; on breeding lepidoptera, 

 332 ; proportion of sexes of Eombyx 

 Cynthia, B. yamamai, and B. Pemyi 

 reared by, 334 ; on the development 

 of Bombyx cynthia and B. yamamai, 

 366; on the pairing of Bombyx cyn- 

 thia, 615. 



Wallace, A. R., on the origin of man, 

 19; on the power of imitation in 

 man, 98-99; on the use of missiles 

 by the orang, 115; on the varying 

 appreciation of truth among differ- 



