INDEX. 



495 



Lyell, Sir C, on transport of seeds 

 by icebergs, 364. 

 on great alterations of climate, 



378. 

 on the distribution of fresh-water 



shells, 382. 

 on land-shells of Madeira, 395. 

 Lyell and Dawson, on fossilized 



trees in Nova Scotia, 308. 

 Lythrum salicaria, trimorphic, 280. 



Macleay, on analogical characters, 



413. 

 Macrauchenia, 335. 

 M'Donnell, Dr., on electric organs, 



168. 

 Madeira, plants of, 92. 



beetles of, wingless, 122. 



fossil land-shells of, 345. 



birds of, 386. 

 Magpie tame in Norway, 231. 

 Males fighting, 77. 

 Maize, crossed, 285. 

 Malay Archipelago compared with 

 Europe, 311. 



mammals of, 889. 

 Malm, on flat-fish, 208. 

 Malpighiaceae, 407. 



small imperfect flowers of, 192. 

 Mammae, their development, 211. 



rudimentary, 439. 

 Mammals, fossil, in secondary for- 

 mation, 314. 



insular, 388, 389. 

 Man, origin of, 473. 

 Manatee, rudimentary nails of, 442. 

 Marsupials of Australia, 99. 



structure of their feet, 423. 

 Marsupials, fossil species of, 344. 

 Martens, M., experiment on seeds, 



360. 

 Martin, Mr. W. C, on striped 



mules, 145. 

 Masters, Dr., on Saponaria, 194. 

 Matteucci, on the electric organs 



of rays, 168. 

 M atthiola, reciprocal crosses of, 270. 

 Maurandia, 218. 

 Means of dispersal, 358. 

 Melipona domestica, 244. 

 Merrill, Dr., on the American 



cuckoo, 235. 

 Metamorphism of oldest rocks, 319. 

 Mice destroying bees, 65.- 



acclimatization of, 127* 



Mice, tails of, 210. 



Miller, Prof., on the cells of bees, 



245, 249. 

 Mirabilis, crosses of, 269. 

 Missel-thrush, 67. 

 Mistletoe, complex relations of, 3. 

 Mivart, Mr., on the relation of hair 

 and teeth, 129. 

 on the eyes of cephalopods, 169. 

 various objections to Natural Se 



lection, 196. 

 on abrupt modifications, 214. 

 on the resemblance of the mouse 

 and antechinus, 413. 

 Mockmg-thrush of the Galapagos, 



395. 

 Modification of species not abrupt 



468. 

 Moles, blind, 123. 

 Molothrus, habits of, 238. 

 Mongrels, fertility and sterility oi 

 284. ' 

 and hybrids compared, 287. 

 Monkeys, fossil, 314. 

 Monachanthus, 411. 

 Mons, Van, on the origin of fruit 



trees, 23. 

 Monstrosities, 37. 

 Moquin-Tandon, on sea-side plants. 



120. 

 Morphology, 422. 

 Morren, on Z&e leaves of Oxalis 



219. 

 Moths, hybrid, 266. 

 Mozart, musical powers of, 228. 

 Mud, seeds in, 383. 

 Mules, striped, 143. 

 Muller, Adolph, on the instincts of 



the cuckoo, 235. 

 Muller, Dr. Ferdinand, on alpine 



Australian plants, 374. 

 Muller, Fritz, on dimorphic crusta- 

 ceans, 40, 257. 

 on the lancelet, 112. 

 on air-breathing crustaceans, 170. 

 on the self-sterility of orchids, 



264. 

 on embryology in relation to clas- 

 sification, 407. 

 on the metamorphoses of crusta- 

 ceans, 432, 437. 

 on terrestrial and fresh-water 

 organisms not undergoing any 

 metamorphosis, 435. 

 on climbing plants, 218. 



