INDEX 



443 



Linnpean species, 412. 

 Linnaeus, 222, 226, 228. 

 Linnean Society, 340, 385. 

 lithium larva?, 157. 

 Lithobius, host of Coccidium, 87. 

 Litopterua, 253, Fig. 109. 

 lizards, pineal eye, 258. 



shoulder girdle, 234, Fig. 89. 

 llama, Buffon on, 367. 



feet, 241. 

 Lock, E. H., 152. 

 locomotion in Amoeba, 15. 

 Loeb, J., 145, 146. 

 Lubbock, Sir John, 281. 

 Lull, E. S., 307. 

 luminous organisms, 6. 

 lung-fishes (see Dipnoi), 

 lungs and swim-bladder, 255, 256. 

 Lyell, Sir Charles, 324, 385. 

 Lyfjosoma dendyi, 417. 



,, moco, 417. 

 lyre bird, 349, Fig. 178. 

 lysin theory of fertilization, 146, 147. 



M. 



MACCULLOCH, 340. 

 machine, analogy of, 2, 3, 10. 

 Macropodia rostrata, 339, 340, Fig. 1 72. 

 magnesium larvae, 157, Fig. 75. 

 maize root, section, 37, Fig. 7. 

 male animal, 114. 



characters, 84, 85, 127. 

 malic acid, attracting spermatozoa, 



141. 



Malthus, 386. 

 Mammalia, compared with Eeptilia, 



232 235. 

 dispersal, 323. 

 geological history, 284, 



301304. 

 gigantic, 406. 

 limbs, 235. 



nutrition of young, 270. 

 origin, 300. 

 ovum, 140, Fig. 71. 

 mammoth, Buffon on extinction of, 



366. 



man, aesthetic development in- 

 fluenced by insects, 364. 

 ,, and apes, relations, 422, 423, 

 424, 425. 

 ,, ,, ,, Buffon on, 



370. 



,, ,, Lamarck 



on, 382. 

 antiquity, 284, 303, 422, 423. 



man, control of environment, 426. 

 evolution, 422 -127. 

 ,, Charles Darwin on, 



423. 

 ,, influence on other organisms, 



396. 



limbs, 237, Fig. 94. 

 ,, Mendelian inheritance in, 205. 

 ,, progress of, 422 427. 

 ,, races of, 423. 

 ,, reversion in, 262. 

 vestigial hair, 261. 

 tail, 261. 

 Mantidse, 338, 339. 

 manubrium, 120. 

 Maoris and Morioris, 398 400. 

 marginal canal, 120. 

 marine animals, dispersal, 321. 



fauna and flora, 323. 

 Marsh, O. C., 262, 307. 

 marsh tit, distribution, 319, 320. 

 Marsilea, 105. 

 marsupial mole, 253. 

 wolf, 251. 

 Marsupialia, 250, 301, 331. 



distribution, 329, 330, 



331, 332. 

 extinct, 302, 332. 

 Mastodon, 314. 

 Mastodonsaurus, 296. 

 maternal chromosomes, 137, Fig. 68. 

 functions, a handicap, 127. 

 matter, indestructibility of, 6. 

 maturation of germ cells, 132, 137, 



138, Figs. 65, 68. 

 in heredity, 171. 

 Mauritius, 258. 

 Mediterranean fauna, 323. 

 medusae, 120, 121, 123, Fig. 60. 

 megagametes, 85, 88, 90. 

 megalecithal, 267. 

 meganucleus, 39, 92. 

 megasporangia, 107. 

 megaspores, 105, 106, 107, 108. 

 Megatherium, 303. 

 meiosis, 132, 206. 

 memory, 186, 191, 192. 

 Mendel, G. J., 195. 

 Mendelian experiments, 194209. 

 ,, inheritance in Leptino- 



tarsa, 160. 

 in Primula, 356. 

 ,, principles, application of, 



205. 



,, proportions, 199. 

 Mendelism, 195. 



,, and mutations, 415. 



