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* Vauréal, human bones from, 22.
 * Veddahs, monogamous habits of, 591.
 * Veitch, Mr., on the aversion of Japanese ladies to whiskers, 581.
 * Vengeance, instinct of, 113.
 * Venus Erycina, priestesses of, 587.
 * Vermes, 264.
 * Vermiform appendage, 21.
 * Verreaux, M., on the attraction of numerous males by the female of an Australian Bombyx, 252.
 * Vertebræ, caudal, number of, in macaques and baboons, 58; of monkeys, partly imbedded in the body, 59.
 * Vertebrata, 330; common origin of the, 158; most ancient progenitors of, 161; origin of the voice in air-breathing, 567.
 * Vesicula prostatica, the homologue of the uterus, 24, 161.
 * Vibrissæ, represented by long hairs in the eyebrows, 19.
 * Vidua, 403, 462.
 * axillaris, 219.
 * Villerme, M., on the influence of plenty upon stature, 31.
 * Vinson, Aug., courtship of male spider, 273; on the male of Epeira 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 Insessores, 370; difference of, in the sexes of birds, 371; primarily used in relation to the propagation of the species, 566.
 * Vogt, Karl, on the origin of species, 1; on the origin of man, 3; on the semilunar fold in man, 17; on microcephalous idiots, 35; on the imitative faculties of microcephalous idiots, 87; on skulls from Brazilian caves, 168; on the evolution of the races of man, 177; on the formation of the skull in women, 557; on the Ainos and negroes, 560; on the increased cranial difference of the 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 advancement in the organic scale, 164.
 * Vulpian, Prof., on the resemblance between the brains of man and of the higher apes, 6.
 * Vultures, selection of a mate by the female, 416; colours of, 493.


 * Waders, young of, 486.
 * Wagner, R., on the occurrence of the diastema in a Kaffir skull, 40; on the bronchi of the black stork, 374.
 * Wagtail, Ray's, arrival of the male before the female, 212.
 * Wagtails, Indian, young of, 468.
 * Waist, proportions of, in soldiers and sailors, 32.
 * Waitz, Prof., on the number of species of man, 174; on the liability of negroes to tropical fevers after residence in a cold climate, 194; on the colour of Australian infants, 558; on the beardlessness of negroes, 560; on the fondness of mankind for ornaments, 573; on negro ideas of female beauty, 579; on Javan and Cochin Chinese ideas of beauty, 580.
 * Walckenaer and Gervais, spider attracted by music, 273; on the Myriapoda, 274.
 * Waldeyer, M, on the hermaphroditism of the vertebrate embryo, 161.
 * Wales, North, numerical proportion of male and female births in, 242.
 * Walker, Alex., on the large size of the hands of labourers' children, 33.
 * , F., on sexual differences in the diptera, 280.
 * Wallace, Dr. A., on the prehensile use of the tarsi in male moths, 209; on the rearing of the Aïlanthus silkmoth, 251; on breeding Lepidoptera, 251; proportion of sexes of Bombyx cynthia, B. yamamai, and