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405 



JUDD, Professor, on strange forms of 

 ammonites, 269 



KAMBANGAN island, rich flora of, 73 

 KAROO formation, reptiles of, 198 

 KEARTON on increase of rabbits, 114 

 KERNER, Dr. A., on power of increase 

 of plants, 113; on the insect enemies 

 of flowers, 307 ; on " vital force," 

 330 ; on arrangement of atoms in the 

 carbon-compounds, 356 

 KOORDERS, Dr., on the flora of 

 Celebes, 51, 79; on rich floras of 

 small areas in Java, 74 



LAGOA SANTA, flora of, 63, 70 

 LAND-SHELLS, peculiar British, 125 

 LATITUDE as influencing floras, 29 

 LEMMING, periodical migrations of, 



119-22 



LEPIDOPTERA, number of British, 83 ; 

 number known, 85 ; peculiar 

 British, 125 ; wealth of colour in, 

 320-24 



LIFE, definition of, 3 ; Haeckel on, 

 4, 7 ; the cause of organisation, 8 ; 

 reactions of animal and plant, 282 ; 

 the sole cause of life, 284 ; a sugges- 

 tion as to origin of, 392 

 LIFE-DEVELOPMENT of mesozoic era, 



215 ; conclusion on, 277 

 LIFE-FORMS, causes of diversity of, 



385 

 LIFE-WORLD, progressive development 



of, 1 88 

 LIMESTONE, progressive increase of, 



217 

 Lithospermum gastoni, narrow range 



of, 1 8 



LLAMAS, extinct S. American, 233 

 LLOYD-MORGAN, statement of theory 



of germinal selection, 271 ; on rapid 



cell-growth, 348 



LYDEKKER, Mr., on Patagonian mar- 

 supials, 224; on affinities of American 



and Australian marsupials, 241 

 LYELL, Sir C. , on causes of extinction, 



246 



LONDON, how to stop growth of, 285 

 LOWNE, Mr. B. T., on development 



of blow-fly, 299 



Macharodus neogaus, skull of, 266 

 Macrauchenia patachonica, 234 

 Macroscaphites ivanti, 269 

 MADAGASCAR, flora of, 55 

 Maritherium lyonsi, skull of, 228 



MALAY ISLANDS, flora of, 48 ; insects 

 of, 86 



MALAY PENINSULA, table of chief 

 orders of plants, 45 ; characteristic 

 plants of, 46 



MAMMALIA, teachings of pleistocene, 

 242 



MAMMALS, extinct Australian, 239 



MAN, the cause of extinction of pleisto- 

 cene mammals, 246-9 ; the glory 

 and distinction of, 373-4 ; the most 

 sensitive of organisms, 377 



MANTELL, Dr., discovered extinct 

 reptiles in Kent, 201 



MARSH, Professor O. C., on Bronto- 

 saurus, 204; on Dinocerata, 221; 

 on small brains of early mammals, 

 223 ; causes of extinction of mam- 

 mals, 245 



MARSUPIALS in Patagonian miocene. 

 224 ; of the Australian type still 

 living in the Andes, 241 



MARTI us's flora of Brazil, 57 



MASTIGOPHORA, 336 



MASTODON in S. America, 235 



Mastodon americanus, skeleton of, 231 



MASTODONS, less developed elephants, 

 230 



MAX VERWORN on chemistry of proto- 

 plasm, 292 ; on vital force, 293 



MEDIOCRITY, recession towards, 103 



MEDITERRANEAN flora, species in, 31 



MEGATHERIUM, extinct ground sloth, 



237 



Megatherium giganteum, restoration 

 of, 237 



MENDELISM and mutation inefficient 

 as substitutes for Darwinian evolu- 

 tion, 123 



MERRILL, Mr. E. D., on flora of the 

 Philippines, 50 



MESOZOIC era, 197 ; mammalia of, 

 212; insects of, 212; life-develop- 

 ment of, 215 



METALS, the seven ancient, 359 ; 

 essential for civilisation, 360 



METAMORPHOSIS of insects, 297 



MEXICO and Central America, flora of, 

 60 



MICROBES, use of in nature, 382 



MIGRATION, origin of bird, 148; facts 

 and inferences, 149-52 



MIMICRY, 157 



MINAHASSA, N. Celebes, flora of, 51, 79 



MIND and purpose in life-development, 

 277 ; and life, different degrees of, 

 284 ; produces brain, 284 



