method of teaching anatomy, 28, 29;
opposition to, 34;
personality, 22, 27, 30;
physiognomy, 30;
portrait, 29;
predecessors of, 26;
especial service of, 37;
sketches from his works, 31, 33, 34, 49

Vicq d'Azyr, 146;
portrait, 147

Vinci, Leonardo da, and fossils, 322

Virchow, and germinal continuity, 225;
in histology, 174;
portrait, 174

Vries, Hugo de, his mutation theory, 403;
portrait, 403;
summary of theory, 406


W

Wallace, and Darwin, 420;
his account of the conditions under which his theory originated, 427;
portrait, 428;
writings, 427

Weismann, the man, 399;
quotation from autobiography, 401;
personal qualities, 399;
portrait, 400;
his theory of the germ-plasm, 392-399;
summary of his theory, 405

Whitney collection of fossil horses, 355

Willoughby, his connection with Ray, 115

Wolff, on cells, 240;
his best work, 211;
and epigenesis, 205;
and Haller, 211, 214;
opposed by Bonnet and Haller, 211;
his period in embryology, 205-214;
personality, 214;
plate from his Theory of Generation, 210;
the Theoria Generationis, 210

Wyman, Jeffries, on spontaneous generation, 289


Z

Zittel, in palæontology, 338;
portrait, 339