INDEX. 



425 



Lyell, Sir C., on terrestrial animals 

 not having been developed on 

 islands, 168. 



, on a carboniferous land -shell, 



254. 



, on strata beneath Silurian 



system, 269. 



, on the imperfection of the geo- 

 logical record, 271. 



, on the appearance of species. 



271. 



, on Barrande's colonies, 273. 



, on tertiary formations of 



Europe and North America, 279. 



, on parallelism of tertiary for- 

 mations, 282. 



, on transport of seeds by ice- 

 bergs, 308. 



, on great alterations of climate, 



321. 



, on the distribution of fresh- 

 water shells, 324. 



, on land-shells of Madeira, 335. 



Lyell and Dawson, on fossilized trees 

 in Nova Scotia, 260. 



Lythrum salicaria, trimorphic, 238. 



Macleay, on analogical characters, 

 350. 



Macrauchenia, 283. 



M'Donnell, Dr., on electric organs, 

 140. 



Madeira, plants of, 78. 



, beetles of. wingless, 101. 



, fossil land-shells of, 292. 



, birds of, 327. 



Magpie tame in Norway, 195. 



Males fighting, 64. 



Maize, crossed, 241. 



Malay Archipelago compared with 

 Europe, 263. 



, mammals of, 330. 



Malm, on flat-fish, 174. 



Malpighiacese, small imperfect flowers 

 of, 161. 



, 344. 



Mamm.-B, their development, 176. 

 , rudimentary, 372. 



Mammals, fossil, in secondary forma- 

 tion, 266. 



, insular, 329. 



Man, origin of, 402. 



Manatee, rudimentary nails of, 376. 



Marsupials of Australia? 84. 



Marsupials, structure of their feet, 



358, 359. 



, fossil species of, 291. 



Martens, M., experiment on seeds, 



304. 

 Martin, Mr. W. C., on striped mules-, 



121. 



Masters, Dr., on Saponaria, 163. 

 Matteucci, on the electric organs of 



rays, 140. 



Matthiola, reciprocal crosses of, 228. 

 Maurandia, 184. 

 Means of dispersal, 03. 

 Melipona domestica, '20G. 

 Merrell, Dr., on the American cuckoo, 



198. 



Metamorphism of oldest rocks, 269. 

 Mice destroying bees, 53. 



, acclimatisation of, 105. 



, tails of, 176. 



Miller, Prof., on the cells of bees, 



207, 210. 



Mirabilis, crosses of, 227. 

 Missel-thrush, 55. 

 Mistletoe, complex relations of, 2. 

 Mivart, Mr., on the relation of hair 



and teeth, 107. 

 , on the eyes of cephalopods, 



142. 

 , various objections to Natural 



Selection, 164. 

 . on abrupt modifications, 187,. 



188. 

 , on the resemblance of the 



mouse and antechinus, 350. 

 Mocking-thrush of the Galapagos, 



335. 

 Modification of species not abrupt, 



398. 



Moles, blind, 102. 

 Molothrus, habits of, 200. 

 Mongrels, fertility and sterility of, 



239. 



and hybrids compared, 242. 



Monkeys, fossil, 266. 

 Monachanthus, 349. 

 Mons, Van, on the origin of fruit- 

 trees, 20. 

 Monstrosities, 31. 

 Moquin-Tandon, on sea-side plants, 



99. 



Morphology, 358. 



Morren, on the leaves of Oxalis, 181* 

 Moths, hybrid, 224. 

 Mozart, musical powers of, 192. 

 Mud, seeds in, 324. 



