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INDEX 



Man, 1 6, 370, 371 et seq. ; divided into 



three sub-species or species, 372 ; 



dwarfish races of, 3, 375 ; origin of 



man, 372 



Man, Caucasian, 372, 373 et seq. 

 Man, Neolithic, 3, 16, 168, 318, 350, 



361 

 Man, Palaeolithic, 3, 15, 134, 170, 318, 



370 



Man, Isle of, 93, 317, 382, 388 

 Manchester Literary and Philosophical 



Society, 60, 6 1 

 Manchuria, 299, 318 

 Margate, 24 



Marsupials, 1 1, 53, 54, 115, 116, 210 

 Marten, the Beech, 150, 153 

 Marten, the Pine, 151 et seq. 

 Martens, the, 150, 184 

 Mastodon, 261, 262 

 Mauritania (the projecting peninsula of 



North Africa), 357 

 Mediterranean, Mediterranean regions, 



16, 34, 41, 288, 319, 366, 375 

 Megaceros (the gigantic Irish deer), 3, 



307, 314 et seq., 338, 374, 390; 

 development and varieties of, 291, 

 315, 316; antlers of, 316 



Megacheiroptera (fruit- eating bats), 79 



Megaptera, 46, 381 



Meles, 143, 384 



Mendip Hills, 3 



Mesoplodon, 42, 381 



Metacarpal bones, 18, 46, 281, 282, 292, 



306, 343. 349 



Metatarsal bones, 282, 292, 306, 344 

 Mexico, 212, 265, 347 

 Mice, devastations of, 247, 251 

 Microcheiroptera (insect-eating bats), 79 



et seq. 



Microtus, 250 et seq., 388 

 Milk, 8, 10, 34, 58 

 " Milk" teeth, 115, 262, 263 

 Millais, Mr. John Guille, i, 98, 296, 301, 



308, 326, 328, 334 

 Miller, Mr. G. S., 84, 90 

 Milton Abbas, 299 



Miocene period, 16, 68, 132, 142, 284, 



290 

 Moeritherium, 260 



Molar teeth : original number of, in 

 primitive Mammals, 115, 116; 

 number of, in most Mammals, 116; 

 four pairs of, in both jaws in primi- 

 tive Mammalia and in a few modern 

 examples, 115, 116; in bears, 132; 

 in bats, 80 ; in Insectivores, 54 ; in 

 Artiodactyles, 282 ; in oxen and 

 tragelaphs, 353 ; in voles, 238, 253 ; 

 in mice, 238 ; in elephants, 262 ; in 

 horses, 273. 



Mole, the, 4, 59 et seq. ; limbs of, 60 ; 

 nose of, 62 ; eye of, 60, 61 ; external 

 genitalia, 6 1 ; colour, 61, 62; teeth 

 of, 56, 62 ; breeding, 62, 63, 67 ; 

 food, 63 ; molehills or " fortresses," 

 64 et seq. ; distribution, 68 



Molehill. See Mole 



Molluscs, 45 



Mongolian man, 372, 373 et seq. 



Monkey, 7, 124, 368 et seq. 



Monkeys, American, 14, 366 



Monodon (see Narwhal), 21, 380 



Monotremes, 8, 9 et seq., 12, 16, 53, 69 



Moose. See Elk 



Morocco, 179, 319 



Mouflon, the, 351 



Mouse, the common, 242 



Mouse, the field. See Vole 



Mouse, the harvest, 248 



Mouse, the long-tailed field, 4, 244, 373 



Mull, Isle of, 381 



Muntjac deer, 289 



Muridcs, 238 



Mus, 239, 387 



Mus sylvaticus, 244, 248, 388 



Muscardinus, 235, 387 



Museum, British, 100; of Natural His- 

 tory, 45, 84, 100, 326 



Musk ox, 6, 15, 281, 343 ; horns of, 344, 



345 



Musk, pygmy. See Tragulines 

 Mustela, 150, 384 

 Myodes, 256, 388 

 Myotis, 84, 93, 98, 382 

 Myoxus, 237 

 Mystacoceti (whalebone whales), 19, 42 



Narwhal, 15, 21, 22, 23 



