INDEX 



483 



M'Donnell, Darwin on work of, i. 178 

 Macgillivray, reference to his History of 



British Birds, ii. 83 

 Machetes pugnax, polygamy of, ii. 69 

 Mackintosh, D., biographical note, ii. 

 167 ; on boulders of Ashley Heath, 

 ii. i68j letters to, ii. 166, 167, 170, 

 171 ; on Moel Tryfan, ii. 166 ; on 

 sources of erratic blocks in, England, 

 ii. 168 

 McNab, Prof., J. Scott and, i. 217; 



ii. 319 ; mentioned, ii. 308 

 Macraiichenia, skull of, i. 460 

 Madagascar, existence of insects capa- 

 ble of fertilising Angrcecum in, i. 282 ; 

 fossil Hippopotamus of, i. 454 ; Owen 

 on fauna of, i. 242, 243 ; plants of, 

 i. 489 ; ii. 25, 27 ; former extension 

 of, ii. 19 ; as a geographical region, 

 ii. 13 ; Viola of, ii. 25 

 Madeira, birds of, i. 484, 488 ; British 

 plants compared with those of, 

 i. 492 ; Canary Islands formerly 

 connected with, i. 480 ; flora of. i. 92, 

 143, 407, 410, 480. 482, 485 ; in- 

 sects of, i. 167, 483, 485 ; ii. II, 67 ; 

 land-extension, of, i. 427 , ii. 135 ; 

 land-shells of, i. 92, 483 ; Lowe on, 

 i. 100 ; Tertiary plants of, i. 445, 482 ; 

 elevation of, ii. 136 

 Maer, the home of the Wedgwoods, 



i. 28, 29 

 Magellan Straits, H.M.S. Beagle in, 



i. 16, 17 

 Magnus, review by Krause of his work 



on colour, ii. 47 

 Magpies, pairing of, ii. 65, 74 

 Mahon, Lord, compliment to Darwin, 



ii. 229 



Mahonia t natural crossing of, ii. 383 

 Maillet, evolutionary views of, i. 280 

 Maize, hybrids of, i. 285; ii. 314 : see 



also Zea 



Malaxeas, and Epidendreae, ii. 281 

 Malaxis, course of vessels in flower, 



ii. 275 ; fertilisation of, ii. 272 

 Malaxis paludosa, epiphytic on Sphag- 

 num, i. 474 



Malay archipelago, Darwin on Wal- 

 lace's book on, i. 271 ; ii. 142-4 ; 

 translation by Meyer of Wallace's 

 book, ii. 358 



Malay region, glacial epoch and the, 

 i. 116; Wallace on butterflies and 

 pigeons of, i. 263, 265 ; ii. 32 

 Malpighiaceae, degraded flowers of, 

 i. 77 ; Erythroxylon included in, 

 i. 83 ; ii. 283 



Malta, Forbes on geology of, i. 41 1 

 Mai thus, Darwin derives help from 



reading, i. 118 ; Haughton sneers 

 at, i. 153 ; misunderstood, i. 271 



Malva, ii. 411 



Mammae, as rudimentary organs in 

 man, ii. 38 



Mammals, alteration in skulls of, i. 

 343 ; Australian cave-, i. 132, 133 ; 

 birds compared with, i. 168 ; Dana's 

 classification, i. 236 ; distribution, 

 i. 439, 461 ; ias indices of climatic 

 changes, i. 457 '> as proof of union 

 between England and Continent 

 since Glacial period, i. 482 ; Water- 

 house's Natural History of, i. 448 ; 

 Glacial period and extinction of, ii. 

 13 ; origin and migration, ii. 14 



Mammoth (Bog), i. 207 



Mammoth, Darwin's eagerness to col- 

 lect bones of, i. 15 ; Falconer on the, 

 i. 205 



Man, ii. 30-112; antiquity of (see 

 Antiquity of Man, and Lyell, Sir C); 

 and apes, i. 237, 334 ; brain of, 

 i. 337 ; criticism of Lyell's chapter 

 on, i. 272 ; Huxley's book on, i. 216, 

 237, 238. 242, 274 ; McClennan on 

 primitive, i. 315 ; and Natural Selec- 

 tion, i. 277 ; origin of, i. 238, 239 ; 

 races of, i. 168, 284 ; selection by 

 Nature contrasted with selection by, 

 i. 268 ; slow progress of, i. 260, 261 ; 

 Darwin on Wallace's paper on, 

 ii. 33 ; descent of, ii. 30-55 ; ears of, 

 ii. 53, 107 ; geological age of, ii. 36, 

 37 ; and geological classification, 

 ii. 220 ; hairiness of, ii. 39 ; intro- 

 duction of, ii. 220, 221 ; rank in 

 classification, ii. 33, 36 ; Turner on 

 evolution of, ii. 105 ; Wallace on 

 evolution of, ii. 31, 34-9 



Mankind, descent from single pair, i. 

 377' 378 5 early history of, i. 263 ; 

 progress of, ii. 30 



Mantell, Owen's attack on, i, 65 



Manual of Scientific Inquiry, Darwin's, 

 i. 59, 60, 64 ; ii. 228 



Manx cats, ii. 382 



Maranta, sleep-movements of, ii. 363, 



364 

 Marble, MacCulloch on metamorphism 



of, ii. 206 

 Marianne Islands, subsidence of, ii. 



195, 226 ; want of knowledge of 



flora, i. 458 

 Marion, Devolution du Regne vegetal, 



by Saporta and, i. 392 

 Marlatt, C. L., on Cicada, ii. 89 

 Marquesas Islands, subsidence of, ii. 226 

 Marr, J. E., on the rocks of Bohemia, 



i. 81 ; mentioned, ii. 241 



