422 



DIVERSIONS OF A NATURALIST 



Memory essential to consciousness, 



264 



unconscious, 266 



unconscious and conscious, distin- 

 guished, 212, 214 



Mendes, Catulle, the French poet, 

 and jelly-fish, 97 



Metchnikoff on disharmonies, 367 



Midge (Chironomus), its grub has red 

 blood, 346 



Midges, large kind of, 223 



Milk and infantile scurvy, 296 

 Pasteurized, 300 

 supply of pure, 292 et seq. 



Millais, Sir Everett, on telegony, 

 400 



Millionaire and sodium in the sun, 

 378 



Milton the poet, his belief in spon- 

 taneous generation, 126 



Mind, the, of apes and of man, 262 



et seq. 



of man differs from that of animals, 

 213 



Missing link, the, 275 et seq. 



Molluscs, alternate swelling of and 

 shrinking of parts of the body, 

 149 

 and their shells, 142 et seq. 



Monboddo, Lord, his views on man 

 and apes, 276 



Monkey-puzzle or Araucarian pine, 



329 



Moray, Sir Robert, on the transforma- 

 tion of the ship's barnacle into 

 a goose, 115, 127 

 Moth, the, and the candle, 226 et 



seq. 

 vapourer, male pursues female living 



in water and is drowned, 210 

 Mules, 399 



Muller, Iwan, and the microscope, 28 

 Murray, Sir John, at Millport, 155 

 Muscles of apes and men, 247 

 Music a late acquisition of man, 208 

 Mussel, the edible, 145 



Name-gods or totems of ancient 



Greeks, 356 

 Naples, 2, 52, 203 

 Naturalist on the seashore, 25 

 Nature reserves, 13 

 Nature-worship, the ancient, 352 

 Nauplius, the young form or larva of 



crustaceans, 105, 106, 107 



Neander or Moustierian man, 280 

 Necromancy, or communication with 



the dead, 371 



Needles of firs and pine trees, 303, 315 

 of pine-trees in tufts of one to five, 



321 

 Nero, the Roman Emperor, and 



amber, 71 

 " Nigromantia " and the black art, 



371 



Nobel prizes, 412 



Normand, Rev. Canon, 3 



Norway, I 



Noverre, "the Shakespeare of the 



dance," 176 

 " Nullius in verba," the motto of the 



Royal Society, 128, 362, 407 

 Nutrition, not so simple a matter as 



supposed, 293 



Occultism, modern, 363 

 Octopus, courtship of the, 203 

 Odours as attractions and guides in 



courtship, 209 

 Opal, 57 



Orchestia, a sand-hopper, 153 

 Orpheus, the fish-god, substituted for 



Dionysus, the wine-god, 355 

 the warden of the fishes, a fish- 

 god, 355 



Ovules and sperms, 181 

 Oxygen carried by the red corpuscles 



of blood, 347 

 Oysters growing on trees, 145 



Palmistry or chiromancy, 372, 373 

 Paradisia liliastrum, 166 

 Pasteur, the Institut, a great seat of 

 discovery, 416 



what he cost to France, 415 

 Pavlova, Madame Anna, 169, 178 

 Pebbles of the seashore, 55-63 

 Penguins, method of courtship of, 196 

 Pentargon Cove and a young Grey 



Seal, 35, 40 



Perfumes produced by male butter- 

 flies, 210 



use of, by man, 209 

 Phagocytes, 336, 349 

 Phonograph and chants of Australian 



natives, 31 



Phosphorescence of the sea, 153 

 Phosphorescent insects, 232 



sand-hoppers, 156 



shrimps, 154, 155 



