INDEX. 



403 



MAMMALIA. 



ii. 341-343 ; origin and distribu- 

 tion of, ii. 335 ; Owen's classifica- 

 tion of, ii. 266 ; Owen's classifica- 

 tion of the, Lyell's appreciation of, 

 iii. 10 ; supposed tracks of, in New 

 Zealand, iii. 6 ; absence of, on islands, 

 ii. 77 ; extinction of large, iii. 230 ; 

 on islands, ii. 334, 335. 



Man, ancestor of, ii. 266 ; A. R. Wal- 

 lace's views as to the origin of, iii. 

 116, 117 ; brain of, and that of the 

 gorilla, ii. 320 ; descent of, i. 93, 94 ; 

 influence of sexual selection upon 

 the races of, iii. 90, 95 ; objections 

 to discussing origin of, ii. 109 ; 

 origin of, ii. 263, 264 ; origin and 

 races of, ii. 342-344 ; position of, in 

 classification, iii. 136 ; Sir R. Owen's 

 view of the classificatory position of 

 man, ii. 358 note ; work on, iii. 89, 

 91, 92. 



Manchester, Dean of, visit to, i. 343. 



Mantegazza, anticipation of the theory 

 of Pangenesis by, in his ' Element! 

 di Igiene,' iii. 195. 



Maranteoe, explosive arrangement in 

 the flowers of some, iii. 287 note. 



Marriage, i. 69, 299. 



Marsh, O. C., letter to, on his ' Odon- 

 tornithes,' iii. 241. 



Marshall Archipelago, ii. 77. 



Marsupials, persistence of, in Australia, 

 ii. 75, 340. 



Masters, Maxwell, letter to, ii. 385. 



Materia Medica, a distasteful subject, 



i- 355- 

 Mathematics, difficulties with, i. 170; 



distaste for the study of, i. 46. 

 Matter, eternity of, an insoluble ques- 

 tion, iii. 236. 

 Matthew, Patrick, claim of priority in 



the theory of Natural Selection, ii. 



301, 302. 

 Maw, George, review of the third 



edition of the * Origin ' in the 



' Zoologist,' ii. 376. 

 Medals, awarding of, ii. 100. 

 * Medico-Chirurgical Review,' review 



of the ' Origin ' in the, by W. B. Car- 



penter, ii. 299, 380. 

 Megatherium, i. 360. 

 Mdiponci) ii. 316. 



MONISTIC. 

 Mellersh, Admiral, reminiscences of C. 



Darwin, i. 222. 

 Memory, i. 102. 

 Mendoza, i. 260. 

 Mental peculiarities, i. 100-107. 

 Mesmerism, i. 374. 

 Metaphysical views, ii. 290. 

 Meteyard, Miss, notice of Dr. R. W. 



Darwin, i. 10. 

 Microcephalous idiots examples of 



reversion, iii. 163. 

 Microscopes, i. 145 ; compound, i. 350, 



357- 



Migration and climate, ii. 135, 136, 137. 

 Mildew, varieties of the peach not liable 



to, iii. 348. 



' Mill on the Floss,' iii. 40. 

 Milne-Home, D., on boulders on 



Arthur's Seat, i. 328 note ; on Glen 



Roy, i. 361. 

 Mimetic plants, iii. 70. 

 Mimicry, iii. 151 ; H. W. Bates on, if,_ 



392. 



Minerals, collecting, i. 34. 

 Miracles, i. 308. 

 Misery, existence of, ii. 312. 

 Mission, South American, iii. 126-128.,.. 

 Missionaries in New Zealand and 



Tahiti, i. 264. 

 Mitchella^ pollen of, iii. 301 ; seed of,, 



wanted, iii. 302. 

 Mivart's 'Genesis of Species,' iii. 135,,. 



H3, 144- 



' Lessons from Nature,' review 



of, in the 'Academy,' iii. 184. 



Moggridge, J. Traherne, letter to, on 

 the Bee and Spider Orchids, iii. 276. 



Mojsisovics, E. von, letter to, on his 

 ' Dolomit-Riffe,' iii. 234. 



Molecules, natural selection among, 

 within the organism, iii. 119 ; strug- 

 gle between the, in the same organ- 

 ism, iii. 244. 



Mollusca, bivalve, dispersal of, by 

 clinging to legs of water-beetles, iii. 

 252 ; freshwater, distribution of, ii. 

 93 ; land, difficulty as to dispersal of, 

 ii. 85 ; iii. 231 ; land, on islands, ii. 

 109. 



Monads, continued creation of, ii. 210. 



' Monistic hypothesis,' remarks on the, 

 in the ' Quarterly Review,' iii. 184. 



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