486 



INDEX. 



Man, importance of mental and moral 



characters, 173 



his dignity and supremacy, 181 

 his influence on nature, 182 

 his future development, 182 

 range of intellectual power in, 191 

 rudiments of all the higher facul- 

 ties in savage, 192 

 his feet and hands, difficulties on 

 the theory of natural selection, 

 197 



his voice, 198 

 his mental faculties, 198 

 difficulty as to the origin of the 



moral sense in, 199 

 development of, probably directed 

 by a superior intelligence, 204 

 antiquity and origin of, 416 

 indications of extreme antiquity 



of, 420 

 highly developed at very early 



period, 421 



antiquity of intellectual, 424 

 antiquity of, in North America, 



433 

 in America coeval with extinct 



mammalia, 438 

 in America in the glacial period, 



439 



fossil remains of, in the auri- 

 ferous gravels of California, 446 

 concluding remarks on antiquity 



of, 448 



Mantidae, adaptive colouring of, 46 

 mimicking white ants, 70 

 tropical forms of, 286 

 Mantis resembling an orchis -flower, 



349 



Mangroves, 262 

 Manicaria saccifera, 249 

 Marantaceae, 254 

 Marmosets, 307 



Marshall, Messrs., on barbets, 297 

 Martins, Mr. Charles, on increased 



size of leaves of arctic plants, 407 

 Mates readily found by birds, 370 

 Matter, the nature of, 207 

 Mr. Bayma on, 208 

 is force, 210 

 Mauritia, palm, 248 

 Maximiliana regia, 249 

 Mechanitis and Methona, mimicked 

 by Leptalis, 59 



Mecocerus gazella, 67 



Megapodidae, sexual colouring and 



nidification of, 128 

 Meiglyptes, 332 

 Meldola, Mr. R., on variable colouring " 



n insects, 347 



Meliphagidas in Auckland isles prob- 

 ably flower-fertilisers, 408 

 Mesembryanthemum, stone, 396 

 Meteorological phenomena, intensity 



of, at the equator, 234 

 Midas dives, 69 

 Mimeta, mimicking Tropidorhynchus, 



73 



Mimicry, meaning of the word, 54 

 theory of, 55 

 among Lepidoptera, 55 

 how it acts as a protection, 57 

 of other insects by Lepidoptera, 



64 



among beetles, 65 

 of other insects by beetles, 68 

 of insects by species of other 



orders, 69 



among the vertebrata, 70 

 among snakes, 72 

 among tree-frogs, 73 

 among birds, 73 

 among mammals, 76 

 objections to the theory of, 76 

 by female insects, 78 

 never occurs in the male only, 



137 



theory of, 362 

 Mimosa pudica, 262 

 Mivart, Professor, on animal origin of 

 man, 419 



on the divergent affinities of man 



and apes, 422 

 Momotidae, sexual colouring and 



nidification of, 125 



Mongredien, Mr., on showy and fra- 

 grant flowers, 402 

 Monkeys and pigeons, 295 



abundance of, in the tropics, 306 

 Moral sense, difficulty as to the 



origin of, 199 



Morphos, how protected, 53 

 Moseley, Mr., on humming-birds of 



Juan Fernandez, 327 

 Moths and conspicuously coloured 



caterpillars, uneatable, 351 

 Motmots, 297 



