530 



INDEX, 



Lowe, Rev, R. T., on locusts 

 visiting Madeira, 386. 



Lubbock, Sir J., on the nerves of 

 coccus, 41. 



, on secondary sexual charac- 

 ters, 147. 

 -, on a diving bymenopterous 



insect, 169. 

 — , on affinities, 331. 



-, on metamorphoses, 455, 458. 



Lucas, Dr. P., on inheritance, 11 

 , on resemblance of child to 



parent, 308. 

 Lund and Clausen, on fossils of 



Brazil, 367. 

 Lyell, Sir C, on the struggle for 



existence, 58. 

 , on modern changes of the 



earth, 89. 

 , on terrestrial animals not 



having been developed on isl- 

 ands, 213. 

 -,on a carboniferous land-shell. 



320. 



— , on strata beneath Silurian 

 system, 386. 



— , on the imperfection of the 

 geological record, 342. 

 — , on the appearance of 



species, 342. 



— , on Barrande's colonies, 344. 



— , on tertiary formations of 



Europe and North America, 352. 



on parallelism of tertiary 



formations, 356. 

 — , on transport of seeds by 

 icebergs, 388. 

 -, on great alterations of cli- 



mate, 404. 

 — , on the distribution of fresh- 

 water shells, 407. 

 -, on land-shells of Madeira, 



421. 

 Lyell and Dawson, on fossilized 



trees in Nova Scotia, 328. 

 Lythrum salicaria, trimorphic, 



300. 



Macleay, on analogical characters, 



440. 

 Macrauchenia, 857. 



M'Donnell, Dr., on electric organs, 



178. 

 Madeira, plants of, 98. 



, beetles of, wingless, 129. 



, fossil land-shells of, 367. 



, birds of, 411. 



Magpie tame in Norway, 246. 



Males fighting, 81. 



Maize, crossed, 304. 



Malay Archipelago compared with 



Europe, 331. 



, mammals of, 415. 



Malm, on flat-fish, 221. 

 Malpighiacesp, small imperfect 



flowers of, 204. 



, 433. 



Mammae, their development, 224. 



, rudimentary, 467. 



Mammals, fossil, in secondary 



formation, 335. 



, insular, 414. 



Man, origin of, 504. 



Manatee, rudimentary nails of, 



471. 

 Marsupials of Australia, 106. 



, structure of their feet, 450. 



Marsupials, fossil species of, 367. 

 Martens, M., experiment on seeds, 



384. 

 Martin, Mr. W. C, on striped 



mules, 153. 

 Masters, Dr., on Saponaria, 207. 

 Matteucci, on the electric organs 



of rays, 178. 

 Matthiola, reciprocal crosses of, 



287. 

 Maurandia, 232. 

 Means of dispersal, 381. 

 Melipona domestica. 260. 

 Merrill, Dr., on the American 



cuckoo, 251. 

 Metamorphism of oldest rocks, 



339. 

 Mice destroying bees, 68. 



, acclimatization of, 134. 



, tails of, 223. 



Miller, Prof. , on the cells of bees, 



261, 265. 

 Mirabilis, crosses of, 287. 

 Missel-thrush, 70. 

 Mistletoe, complex relations of, 3. 



