INDEX 



443 



Liimsean species, 412. 

 Linnaeus, 222, 226, 228. 

 Linnean Society, 340, 385. 

 lithium larvae, 157. 

 Lithobius, host of Coccidium, 87. 

 Litopterna, 253, Fig. 109. 

 lizards, pineal eye, 258. 



shoulder girdle, 234, Fig. 89. i 

 llama, Buffon on, 367. 



feet, 241. 

 Lock, B, 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. 

 Lygosoma 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. 172. 

 magnesium larvee, 157, Fig. 75. 

 maize root, section, 37, Fig. 7. 

 male animal, 1 14. 



,, f characters, 84, 85, 127. 

 malic acid, attracting spermatozoa, 



141. 



Malthus, 386. 

 Mammalia, compared with Eeptilia, 



232235. 

 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, ^5. 

 ,, ,, ,, Buffon on, 



370. 



,, ,, ,, Lamarck 



on, 382. 

 antiquity, 284, 303, 422, 423. 



man, control of environment, 426. 

 ,, evolution, 422 427. 

 Charles Darwin on, 



423. 

 ,, influence on other organisms, 



396. 



,, limbs, 237, Fig. 94. 

 Mendelian inheritance in, 205. 

 ,, progress of, 422427. . 

 races of, 423. 

 ,, reversion in, 262. 

 ,, vestigial hair, 261. 

 taU, 261. 



Mantidsa, 338, 339. 

 inanubrium, 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, 194 209. 

 ,, inheritance in Leptiiio- 



\ tarsa, 160. 



in Primula, 356. 

 ,, principles, application of, 



205. 



,, proportions, 199. 



Mendelism, 195. 



and mutations, 415. 



