INDEX 
487 
Kernel', Professor, on use of external 
characters of plants, 133 
on seeds found on glaciers, 366 
Kingfishers illustrating divergence of 
character, 109 
L 
Lacerta muralis, diagram of varia¬ 
tion of, 47 
Lagopus scoticus, origin of, 107 
Lamarck, on origin of species, 3 
Land debris deposited near coasts, 
343 
and ocean, diagram showing 
comparative height and depth 
of, 345 
Large animals, cause of extinction of, 
394 
Larvae of moths, variability of, 46 
Laughers, Frill-backs, Nuns, Spots, 
and Swallows, 93 
Law of relation of colour and nest, 
278, 279 
Laws of animal coloration, 296 
Lawson Tait, on uses of tails, 136 
Leaf-butterflies, 207 
Leguminosae, rare in oceanic islands, 
368 
Lemuria, an unsound hypothesis, 354 
Lepidoptera, variation of, 44 
Leyden Museum, diagram showing 
variability of birds in, 61 
Life, Weismaun on duration of, 437 
(note) 
Limenitis misippus mimics Danais 
archippus, 248 
Ursula mimics Papilio philenor, 
248 
Linnaeus, on rapid increase of the 
flesh-fly, 25 
Livingstone, his sensations when 
seized by a lion, 38 
Lizards, variation among, 46 
diagram of variation of, 48 
sexual colours of, 281 
Local colour adaptations, 199 
Locusts with warning colours inedible, 
267 
Longicorns mimic Malacoderms, 257 
Low, Mr., on effects of close inter¬ 
breeding, 160 
Low, Mr., on fertile crosses between 
sheep and goat, 162 
on selective association, 172 
Low forms of life, continued exist¬ 
ence of, explained, 114 
forms, persistence of, 121 
temperature of tropics not 
needed to explain plant dis¬ 
persal, 370 
Lower types, extinction of, among the 
higher animals, 114 
Lubbock, Sir John, on forms of 
leaves, 133 
on imperfect counting of early 
man, 464 
Lyell, Sir Charles, on variation of 
species, 4 
on the shifting of continents, 
342 
M 
Madagascar and New Zealand, 
347 
Madeira, wingless beetles of, 105 
Maize, origin of, 98 
Male rivalry, a real cause of selec¬ 
tion, 283 
Males of many animals fights to¬ 
gether, 282 
Malm, on eyes of flatfish, 129 
Mammalia, variation of, 65 
sexual colours of, 281, 282 
afford crucial tests of theories of 
distribution, 353 
early forms of, 407 
geological distribution of, 408 
Mammary glands, supposed origin 
of, 129 
Man, summary of animal character¬ 
istics of, 454 
geological antiquity of, 455 
early remains of, in California, 
456 
probably as old as the Miocene, 
457 
probable birthplace of, 459 
origin of moral and intellectual 
nature of, 461 
possesses mental qualities not 
derived exclusively from his 
animal progenitors, 474 
