Acting.
Actiniae, bright colours of.
Adams, Mr., migration of birds; intelligence of nut-hatch; on the Bombycilla carolinensis.
Admiral butterfly.
Adoption of the young of other animals by female monkeys.
Advancement in the organic scale, Von Baer’s definition of.
Aeby, on the difference between the skulls of man and the quadrumana.
Aesthetic faculty, not highly developed in savages.
Affection, maternal; manifestation of, by animals; parental and filial, partly the result of natural selection; mutual, of birds; shewn by birds in confinement, for certain persons.
Africa, probably the birthplace of man; South, crossed population of; South, retention of colour by the Dutch in; South, proportion of the sexes in the butterflies of; tattooing practised in; Northern, coiffure of natives of.