INDEX 



421 



Instinct and reason in courtship, 205 

 Instincts, 267 



Intestine, the large, a disharmony, 

 228 



Japan, the umbrella pine of, 330 

 Javanese story of a bird produced by 



a shell-fish, 138 

 Jaw, lower surface of the Piltdown, 

 compared with that of man 

 and of chimpanzee, 282 

 from Moulin-Quignon, 289 

 Heidelberg, compared with Pilt- 

 down, 286 

 Piltdown, 283 

 Jellyfish, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97 

 Jelly-fishes which sting, 95 

 Juniper, the, 308, 330 

 Junipers, 330 



Kauri resin, similar to amber, 73 

 Kowalewsky, the Russian zoologist, 

 II 



Labouchere, Mr. Henry, his view on 



food, 293 

 Lacteals, or milky lymphatic vessels, 



333 



Lampyris noctiluca, the common glow- 

 worm, 233 



Lancelet, the, 2 



Langouste, 99 



Larch tree, the common, 307, 319 



Laughter in apes, 241 



Leather-jackets, the grubs of the 

 Crane-fly, 221 



Lebanon, oedar of, 320 



Lepas anatifera, the ship's barnacle, 

 109 



Leprosy and fish-diet, 357 



favoured by same conditions as 

 scurvy, 296 



Lervik (Norway), 3 



Lights, nocturnal, attract insects and 

 birds, 230, 232 



Lily of St. Bruno, 166 



Limpet and cockle compared, 146, 

 148 



Lizard, the parachute, is the model 

 upon which the heraldic 

 dragon is founded, 382 



Lobsters, 99, 100 



Loch Fyne herrings, their food, 155 



Longevity of a sea-anemone, 86 



Lophohelia, 9 



Luciola italica, the fire-fly of South 



Europe, 233 

 Luges, or mountain sledges, 167 

 Lug-worm, 79 

 Luminous bacteria, 158 



grub of Paraguay called the railway - 



beetle, 234 

 or luminescent insects, 232 

 Lyell, Mr., his Bill for the preserva- 

 tion of the Great Grey Seal, 



32, 34 

 Sir Charles, used the term " missing 

 link," 276 

 Lymph, amount of, in man's body, 



333, 348 

 and lymphatic system, 332 et seq. 

 Lymphatic vessels of the human arm 



(figure), 334 

 Lymph-hearts, 337 



Magi, the priests of Zoroaster, 368 

 Magic, history of, 369, 370 



sympathetic, 369 

 Male, the seeker and wooer, 185, 



190 

 Man, his conscious memory, 187 



primitive, courtship of, 195 

 Mandrill, beautiful colours of the, 



205 

 Man's modern method of courtship, 



215 

 structure compared with that of the 



gorilla and chimpanzee, 239, 



240, 241 

 Manu, the Indian Noah, 353 

 Mare, Lord Morton's, 400 

 Mares not infected by sire, 399-400, 



401 

 Mastodon, fragments of teeth of, found 



with the Piltdown jaw, 289 

 Mate-hunger. Mr. Pycraft on, 191, 



192 

 Maternal impressions, 396 ei seq. 

 Max Miiller, Professor, his suggestion 



as to the origin of the belief 



that barnacles give rise to 



geese, 1 39-141 

 May-flies or Ephemerids, 230 



some are phosphorescent or lumin- 

 escent, like glow-worms, 231 

 Mechanisms of instinct, inherited, 



268, 269 

 of the mind, distinguished, 211, 212 

 Medicines, quack, and credulity, 



366 



