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Vermiform appendix, 83.

Vertebrae of skull, 172.

Vertebral column, 162, 171.

Vertebrate limbs, 38, 163.

Vertical h.o.m.ology, 165.

Vesicle, umbilical, 82.

"Vestiges of Creation," 3.

View here advocated, 5.

Vitreous humour, 76.

Vogt, Professor, 12, 273.

Voice of man, 54.

Voltaire, 230.

W.

Wagner, J. A., 13.

Wagner, Nicholas, 170.

Walking leaf, 35.

Walking-stick insect, 33.

Wallace, Mr. Alfred, 2, 10, 26, 29, 30, 32, 35, 36, 54, 83, 84, 87, 89, 90, 103, 117, 191, 197, 226, 274, 281-283.

Weaver fishes, 39.

Weitbrecht, 179.

Whale, foetal teeth of, 7.

Whale, mouth of, 40.

Whalebone, 40.

Whales, 78.

White silk fowls, 122.

Wife selling, 198.

Wild animals, their variability, 120.

Wilder, Professor Burt, 180, 184.

Windpipe, 82.

Wings of bats, birds, and pterodactyles, 64, 130.

Wings of birds, origin of, 106.

Wings of b.u.t.terflies, outline of, 86.

Wings of flying-dragon, 64, 158.

Wings of humming-bird, 157.

Wings of humming-bird hawk moth, 157.

Wings of insects, 65.

Wombat, 83.

Women, old Fuegian, 192.

Worms undergoing fission, 169, 211.

Wyman, Dr. Jeffries, 185.

Y.

York Minster, a Fuegian, 197.

Z.

Zebras, 134.

Zoological Gardens, Superintendent of, 126.

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, LONDON.

Notes

[1] In the last edition of the "Origin of Species" (1869) Mr. Darwin himself admits that "Natural Selection" has not been the exclusive means of modification, though he still contends it has been the most important one.

[2] See Mr. Wallace's recent work, ent.i.tled "Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection," where, at p. 302, it is very well and shortly stated.

[3] "Natural Selection" is happily so termed by Mr. Herbert Spencer in his "Principles of Biology."

[4] Biology is the science of life. It contains zoology, or the science of animals, and botany, or that of plants.

[5] For very interesting examples, see Mr. Wallace's "Malay Archipelago."

[6] See Muller's work, "Fur Darwin," lately translated into English by Mr.

Dallas. Mr. Wallace also predicts the discovery, in Madagascar, of a hawk-moth with an enormously long proboscis, and he does this on account of the discovery there of an orchid with a nectary from ten to fourteen inches in length. See _Quarterly Journal of Science_, October 1867, and "Natural Selection," p. 275.

[7] "Lectures on Man," translated by the Anthropological Society, 1864, p.

229.

[8] Ibid. p. 378.

[9] See Fifth Edition, 1869, p. 579.

[10] _The Rambler_, March 1860, vol. xii. p. 372.

[11] "In prima inst.i.tutione naturae non quaeritur miraculum, sed quid natura rerum habeat, ut Augustinus dicit, lib. ii. sup. Gen. ad lit. c. l." (St.

Thomas, Sum. I^ae. lxvii. 4, ad 3.)

[12] "Hexaem." Hom. ix. p. 81.

[13] Suarez, Metaphysica. Edition Vives. Paris, 1868. Vol. I. Disputatio xv. -- 2.

[14] "Pangenesis" is the name of the new theory proposed by Mr. Darwin, in order to account for various obscure physiological facts, such, _e.g._, as the occasional reproduction, by individuals, of parts which they have lost; the appearance in offspring of parental, and sometimes of remote ancestral, characters, &c. It accounts for these phenomena by supposing that every creature possesses countless indefinitely-minute organic atoms, termed "gemmules," which atoms are supposed to be generated in every part of every organ, to be in constant circulation about the body, and to have the power of reproduction. Moreover, atoms from every part are supposed to be stored in the generative products.

[15] "Animals and Plants under Domestication," vol. ii. p. 192.

[16] "Animals and Plants under Domestication," vol. ii. p. 414.

[17] "Origin of Species," 5th edit., 1869, p. 110.

[18] Ibid. p. 111.

[19] Ibid. p. 227.

[20] The order _Ungulata_ contains the hoofed beasts; that is, all oxen, deer, antelopes, sheep, goats, camels, hogs, the hippopotamus, the different kinds of rhinoceros, the tapirs, horses, a.s.ses, zebras, quaggas, &c.

[21] The elephants of Africa and India, with their extinct allies, const.i.tute the order _Proboscidea_, and do not belong to the Ungulata.