192 Index. 



Lyell, contrast between the two, 12, et seq. 

 at times used incautious language, 25 



M 



Machines, organised beings compared with, 19, 117 



Major, R. ("Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator"), 



quoted, 57 



Male, mammae in the, 95 



Males, bright-coloured, whether attractive to female animals, 138 

 Mammalian fauna of Australia, 165 



Mammals not less easy to exterminate than lower creatures, 122 

 , female, have they less taste for colour than female birds ? 



141 



, Dr. Andrew Murray on geographical distribution of, 147 



are not found on remote islands, 157 



, large, of the Chinchilla'type existed formerly in the West 



Indies, 159 

 Man, types of, all living beings logically equivalent to, sprang 



from one stock, according to Linnaeus, I 



, growing doubts as to unity of origin of, 2 



, according to Agassiz, created in nations, 2 



, according to Darwin, could only select such differences as 



are externally conspicuous, 17 



, wild birds extinct in the historical period need not be sup- 

 posed to have been destroyed by, 61, 62 

 , primitive likely to have picked out grotesque-looking birds 



for domestication, 63 



, civilized, highly mixed in race, 118 



, the real series of missing links between, and the lower 



monkeys must be supposed lost according to evolutionists, 127 

 Marine faunas of American coasts, Darwin's mistake concerning, 



I 5 6 

 Marsh hog, wild or half wild race, from which the breeds of 



South Europe have been supposed to descend, 36 

 Marsupials, Mivart on, 148, 149 

 in Australia, 165 



