Williams, on the marriage-customs of the Fijians.
Wilson, Dr., on the conical heads of the natives of North-Western
Africa; on the Fijians; on the persistence of the fashion of
compressing the skull.
Wing-spurs.
Wings, differences of, in the two sexes of butterflies and Hymenoptera;
play of, in the courtship of birds.
Winter, change of colour of mammals in.
Witchcraft.
Wives, traces of the forcible capture of.
Wolf, winter change of the.
Wolff, on the variability of the viscera in man.
Wollaston, T.V., on Eurygnathus; on musical Curculionidae; on the
stridulation of Acalles.
Wolves, learning to bark from dogs; hunting in packs.
Wolves, black.
Wombat, black varieties of the.
Women, distinguished from men by male monkeys; preponderance of, in
numbers; selection of, for beauty; effects of selection of, in
accordance with different standards of beauty; practice of capturing;
early betrothals and slavery of; freedom of selection by, in savage
tribes.
Wonder, manifestations of, by animals.
Wonfor, Mr., on sexual peculiarities, in the wings of butterflies.
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