INDEX 



293 



Sceptre Life Insurance Co., 67 

 Seddon, The Rt. Hon. R. J., 155 

 Sedgwick, Professor Adam, 201 

 Selection, Alcoholic, 85 

 Selection, Artificial, 55, 246 

 Selection, Reversed, 245 

 Selection, Natural, difficulty of 



observing, 25 

 Self-control, 79, 121, 160 

 Seventy - one - mile - bush (New 



Zealand), 154 

 Sherwell and Rowntree, "The 

 Temperance Problem," 146-157 

 Simpson, Sir James, 175 

 Small-pox, 33 

 Smith, Adam, 107 

 Social evolution, 241 

 Society for the Study and Cure of 

 Inebriety, Report of Research 

 Committee, 272 

 Sons of Temperance, rate of 



mortality, 67 

 South Sea Islands, the Tapu System 



in, 173 

 Spanish Empire and disease, 50 

 Spencer, Herbert, 206, 217, 239 

 Sponge, 214 

 Strachy, Sir John, 140 

 Stevenson, R. L., 44 

 Stylonychia Pustulata, 212 

 Syphilis, 33 



Tapu, the sexual, 174 



Tapu System, 173 



Telegony, 20 



Temperament and alcohoHsm, 124, 



275, 281 

 Temperance Reforms, schemes of, 



144, 167 

 Tennyson, Lord, 223 

 Tierra del Fuegians, 89 



Theories of Evolution, 7 

 Theories and practices of breeders, 



8 

 Tobacco, 128 

 Transmission of acquirements, 



alleged, 18, 46, 89, 202, 217 

 Turner, Dr J. E., 162 

 Typhoid fever, 32 



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United Kingdom Temperance 

 and General Provident Insti- 

 tution, 65 



United States, Temperance Reform 

 in, 146-152 



Vaccination, 32 



Variations, definition of, 11, 203; 



cause of, 201 

 Venereal disease, 181-191, 265, 271 

 Visigoths, I02 

 Vivisection, 37 



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Wade, Sir Thomas, 137 

 Weismann, 207, 243, 247 

 WeUington, Duke of, 116 

 Westcott, Dr Wynn, 273, 283 

 West Indies, Spanish Conquest 



of, 43 

 Wheldon, Professor, 33 

 Whooping-cough, 33 

 Will-power, 83 

 Woodhead, Professor, 277 



Zymotic diseases, classification of, 

 28 ; evolution against, 31 



