fondness of mankind for ornaments; on negro ideas of female beauty; on
Javan and Cochin Chinese ideas of beauty.
Waldeyer, M., on the hermaphroditism of the vertebrate embryo.
Wales, North, numerical proportion of male and female births in.
Walkenaer and Gervais, spider attracted by music; on the Myriapoda.
Walker, Alex., on the large size of the hands of labourers children.
Walker, F., on sexual differences in the diptera.
Wallace, Dr. A., on the prehensile use of the tarsi in male moths; on
the rearing of the Ailanthus silkmoth; on breeding Lepidoptera;
proportion of sexes of Bombyx cynthia, B. yamamai, and B. Pernyi reared
by; on the development of Bombyx cynthia and B. yamamai; on the pairing
of Bombyx cynthia.
Wallace, A.R., on the origin of man; on the power of imitation in man;
on the use of missiles by the orang; on the varying appreciation of
truth among different tribes; on the limits of natural selection in
man; on the occurrence of remorse among savages; on the effects of
natural selection on civilised nations; on the use of the convergence
of the hair at the elbow in the orang; on the contrast in the
characters of the Malays and Papuans; on the line of separation between
the Papuans and Malays; on the birds of paradise; on the sexes of
Ornithoptera Croesus; on protective resemblances; on the relative sizes
of the sexes of insects; on Elaphomyia; on the pugnacity of the males
of Leptorhynchus angustatus; on sounds produced by Euchirus longimanus;
on the colours of Diadema; on Kallima; on the protective colouring of
moths; on bright coloration as protective in butterflies; on
variability in the Papilionidae; on male and female butterflies,
inhabiting different stations; on the protective nature of the dull
colouring of female butterflies; on mimicry in butterflies; on the
bright colours of caterpillars; on brightly-coloured fishes frequenting
reefs; on the coral snakes; on Paradisea apoda; on the display of
plumage by male birds of paradise; on assemblies of birds of paradise;
on the instability of the ocellated spots in Hipparchia Janira; on
sexually limited inheritance; on the sexual coloration of birds; on the
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