INDEX 



149 



Kolreuter, on crossing male and 

 hermaphrodite flowers, 405. 



Lamarck on adaptive characters, 



334. 

 Land-shells, distribution of, 356. 



of Madeira, naturalised, 362. 



Languages, classification of, 3S0. 

 Lapse, great, of time, 253. 

 Larvae, 395. 

 Laurel, nectar secreted by the 



leaves, S3. 

 Laws of variation, 119. 

 Leech, varieties of, 70. 

 Leguminosae, nectar secreted by 



glands, 83. 

 Lepidosiren, 97, 296. 

 Life, struggle for, 56. 

 Lingula, Silurian, 275. 

 Linnaeus, aphorism of, 372. 

 Lion, mane of, 80. 



young of, striped, 395. 



Lobelia fulgens, 68, 89. 

 Lobelia, sterility of crosses, 224. 

 Loess of the Rhine, 345. 

 Lowness of structure connected 



with variability, 135. 

 Lowness, related to wide distribu- 

 tion, 364. 

 Lubbock, Mr., on the nerves of 



coccus, 42. 

 Lucas, Dr. P., on inheritance, 12. 

 on resemblance of child to 



parent, 247. 

 Lund and Clausen on fossils of 



Brazil, 304. 

 Lyell, Sir C, on the struggle for 



existence, 58. 



on modern changes of the 



earth, 86. 



on measure of denudation, 



254. 



on a carboniferous land-shell, 



259. 



on strata beneath Silurian 



system, 275. 



on the imperfection of the 



geological record, 278. 

 on the appearance of species, 



2S0. 

 on Barrande's colonies, 281. 



on tertiary formations of 



Europe and North America, 

 290. 



on parallelism of tertiary 



formations, 294. 



Lyell, Sir C, on transport of seeds 

 by icebergs, 326. 



on great alternations of cli- 

 mate, 343. 



on the distribution of fresh- 



water shells, 346. 



on land-shells of Madeira, 361. 



Lyell and Dawson on fossilised 

 trees in Nova Scotia, 266. 



Macleay on analogical characters, 



3S4. 

 Madeira, plants of, 97. 



beetles of, wingless, 123. 



fossil land-shells of, 304. 



birds of, 351. 



Magpie tame in Norway, 191. 



Maize, crossed, 242. 



Malay Archipelago compared with 



Europe, 26S. 



mammals of, 355. 



Malpighiaceae, 375. 

 Mammae, rudimentary, 404. 

 Mammals, fossil, in secondary 



formation, 272. 



insular, 353. 



Man, origin of races of, 179. 

 Manatee, rudimentary nails of, 



408. 

 Marsupials of Australia, 105. 



fossil species of, 304. 



Martens, M., experiment on seeds, 



323. 

 Martin, Mr. W. C, on striped 



mules, 149. 

 Matteucci, on the electric organs 



of rays, 173. 

 Matthiola, reciprocal crosses of, 



232. 

 Means of dispersal, 320. 

 Melipona domestica, 202. 

 Metamorphism of oldest rocks. 



276. 

 Mice destroying bees, 68. 



acclimatisation of, 128. 



Migration, bears on first appear- 

 ance of fossils, 267. 

 Miller, Prof., on the cells of bees, 



203. 

 Mirabilis, crosses of, 232. 

 Missel-thrush, 70. 

 Mistletoe, complex relations of, 3. 

 Mississippi, rate of deposition at 



mouth, 255. 

 Mocking thrush of the Galapagos, 



361. 



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