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nydus/Contributions to the Theory of Natural SelectionPublic

This volume collects essays written by Alfred Russel Wallace regarding his independent discovery and development of the theory of natural selection. The author provides corrected and expanded versions of his previous scientific writings to demonstrate the scope and application of his findings.

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INDEX.

  • Gymnocerous capucinus, 96.
  • Gymnocerous dulcissimus, 55.
  • Gunther, Dr., on arboreal snakes, 55; on colouring of snakes, 102.
  • Gynecia dirce, 59.
  • Habits, often persistent when use of them has ceased, 234; of children and savages analogous to those of animals, 235; if persistent and imitative may be termed hereditary, 235, 236.
  • Hairy covering of Mammalia, use of, 344; absence of, in man remarkable, 345; the want of it felt by savages, 346; could not have been abolished by natural selection, 348.
  • Harpagus diodon, 107.
  • Heiliplus, a hard genus of Curculionidæ, 94.
  • Heliconidæ, the objects of mimicry, 77; their secretions, 88; not attacked by birds, 79; sometimes mimicked by other Heliconidæ, 85.
  • Helladotherium, 300.
  • Hemiptera, protected by bad odour, 72.
  • Herbert, Rev. W., on song of birds, 221.
  • Hesperidæ, probable means of protection of, 176.
  • Hesthesis, longicorns resembling ants, 96.
  • Hestia leuconoë, 180.
  • Hewitson, Mr., 131.
  • Hipparion, 299.
  • Hippotherium, 299.
  • Hispidæ, imitated by Longicorns, 92.
  • Holothuridæ, 258.
  • Homalocranium semicinctum, 101.
  • Hooker, Dr., on the value of the “specific term,” 165.
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