252 INDEX 



Mastodon, size, 211 



skeletons on exhibition, 218 



species, 203 



teeth, 198, 199,* 218 



tusks, 199, 200 

 Mesohippus, 167 

 Mimicry, not conscious, 128 

 Missourium of Koch, 207,* 208 

 Moas, collections of, 156, 157 



contemporary witli man, 143, 144! 



deductions from distribution, 143 



destruction of, 143, 144 



discovery of bones, 140 



elephant-footed, 1 42 



feathers of, 141 



Giant, 141 



supposed food of, 142 



legends of, 139, 140 



literature, 158 



scientific names, 146 



size of, 141 



species of, 141 

 Moloch, an Australian lizard, 1 00 * 

 Mosasaurs, abundance of, in Kansas, 52 



books on, 69 



collections of, 68 



extinction of, 56 



first discovery, 50 



jaw of, 54 * 



