1910.] 



Index. 



519 



Linnsean Epoch, 23. 



Linnseus, 23, 27; general place in 



mammalogy, 103. 

 Lipotyphla Haeckel, 233, 404; types of 



humer figured, 437. 

 Lisseiicephala Owen, 89. 

 Litopterna, 378-380; defined, 384. 

 Loricata Flower, 334. 

 Lycosuchus, lower jaw figured, 124. 

 Lydekker, 89. 

 Lyell, indirect influence on mammalogy, 



103. 



Macleay, 73. 



Macraucheniidir, 384. 



Macropodidse, 216. 



Macropus, humerus figured, 437. 



Macroscelides, origin of molars, 290; 

 description of l)rain, skeleton, etc., 

 278-281. 



Macroscelididse, 280; phyletic relations, 

 283. 



Major, Fosyth, 89. 



Malar, postorbito-malar bar, 118, 120. 



Malleus: body of, 130; manubrium, 

 127, 132; proce-ssus longus, 132. 



Mammalia: recognition of, 21, 28; 

 definition by Linnseus, 28; derivation 

 of word, 28. 



Mammalogy, diagram illustrating his- 

 tory of, 103; analysis of the present 

 content of, 104. 



Man: origin, 321; relationship with 

 Apes, etc., recognized by Linnseus, 

 24, 29. 



Manidse, 337. 



Manus: evolution of, 438; m. of an- 

 cestral Placentals, 443. 



Marmosa, skull figured, 219; described, 

 217. 



Marsupialia Illiger, 69, 464; Australian 

 ra. discovered, 38, 45; de Blainville's 

 classification of, 78; evolution of, 197; 

 primitive types of humerus figured, 

 437; manus, 443; astragalus, 453- 

 454; astragalus of primitive types 

 figured, 454; summary of genetic 

 relations, 225. 



Marsupio-Placental characters, 253, 277. 



.Mastoid, 426. 



Matthew, 87, 88, 89. 



Maxilla, 424. 



Megacheiroptera Dobson, 318. 



Megalohyrax, 362 



Meniscal cartilage, in Perissodactyla, 398. 



Meniscotheriida", characters, 357. 



Meniscotherium, 355; carpus, 447; re- 

 semblances to Chalicotheres, 399. 



Meniscus, or inte; articular disc, 135, 

 138. 



Mentotyphla Haeckel, 233, 465; char- 

 acters of, 268-285; genetic relations, 

 284; Tertiary history, 285. 



Mesaxonia Marsh, 466. 



MesonychifUe, 300, 306; manus and pes 

 of Dromocyon, figured, 405. 



Meseutheria Osborn, 4.58. 



Metatheria Huxley, taxonomic history, 

 225. 



Miacida^, 308, relations to Ca^neutheria , 

 459. 



Microbiotherium, 205. 



Microcheiroptera Dobson, 318. 



Microconodon, 163; lower jaw figured, 

 137. 



Microgale, 237; molar figured, 238; 

 carpus figured, 440; pes figured, 2.50; 

 skull figured, 243. 



Microlestes, 167. 



Micropternodus, 258, 259. 



Migrations, secular, 87, 104, 106. 



Milk, nature of in ancestral mammals, 

 148. 



Milk dentition, of Insectivores, 291. 



Mixodectidir, .331, 465. 



Moeritherium, 366-368; resemblances to 

 Eosiren, 408. 



Molars, theories of evolution of: " Pre- 

 molar Analogy theory," 180, 325; 

 "Cusp Rotation theory," 175; Tri- 

 tuberculy, 88, 182; "Wedge Theory," 

 191; origin of family types of m. in 

 Insectivores, 290-291. 



Moropus, 397. 



Monodelphes de Blainville, 76 



Monodelphia, 464; diagnosis, 231. 



Monomial group names, 20 (Ray), 25 

 (Linnseus). 



