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MINERALS 



INDEX 



QUEENSLAND 



Minerals, number of species of, 388 

 Mivart, St. George, on recognition- 

 marks, 166 

 Morgan, Professor L., on germinal 



selection, 271 ; on rapid cell-growth, 



348 

 Mosquitoes, uses of, 135 ; description 



of Arctic, 138 ; food for most young 



birds, 146 

 Mosses and hepaticae, peculiar British, 



125 

 Mountain floras, in Japan, 37 ; not 



richest, 80 

 Muller on insect -fertilisation of 



flowers, 308 

 Mylodon, contemporary of man, 237 

 Mylodon robustus, skeleton of, 237 



Narwhal's tusk an extreme develop- 

 ment, 274 

 Natural selection, illustrative cases 



of, 124; of sparrows at Rhode 



Island, 128; process of at Porto 



Santo, 129 

 Nature, the sanctity of, 279 ; our 



defacement of, 279 ; is it cruel ? 369 

 New Guinea, biologically unique, 49 ; 



flora of, 52 ; richness of its bird 



fauna, 89, 91 

 Newton, Professor A., on passenger 



pigeon, 119 

 North American floras in various 



latitudes, 30 

 Nototherium, extinct Australian 



wombat, 243 

 Nuclear division, diagram of, 343 

 Nucleus, importance of, 346 

 Nummulites, 336 

 Nuts, why intended to be eaten, 313 



Ocean, carbon in, 364 



Orchids, abundance of in Cape 

 Peninsula and New South Wales, 

 38 ; in British India, 44 



Oreodontid^, early American rumi- 

 nants, 227 



Organising spirit the cause of life- 

 production and control, 395 



Organs, beginnings of new, 253 



Ornithosauria, 209 



Pain, its purpose and limitations, 369; 

 a product of evolution, 374 ; bene- 

 ficent purpose of, 375 ; where use- 

 less does not exist, 376 ; in nature, 

 Huxley's exaggerated view of, 371, 

 384 



PaL/EOMAStodons, early elephants, 



228-9 

 Palveotherium magnum, restoration of 



227 

 Paleozoic era described, 191 

 Palms, abundance of in the Malay 



Peninsula, 45 ; in the Philippines, 50 

 Pangerango, Mount, rich flora of, 74 

 Paradoxides bohemicus, 267 

 Pariasatirus bainii, skeleton of, 198 

 Passenger pigeon now extinct, 116; 



enormous population of less than a 



century ago, 1 16 

 Penang, rich flora of, 72 

 Phascolotherium, 213 

 Phenacodus prit/itevus, early ungulate, 



219 

 Philippines, rich flora of, 50 

 Physiological allegory on growth, 



296 

 Plant-cell, Kerner on, 344 ; identity 



with animal cell, 345 

 Plants of wide distribution, 19; 



abundance of compared, 2 1 ; of very 



small areas, numbers of, 81 

 Pleistocene mammalia, teachings of, 



242 

 Plesiosaurus macroceplialus, skeleton of, 



207 

 Poe, extracts from supposed impres- 



sional poem by, 398 

 Porto Santo rabbits, newly formed 



species, 127 

 Potentilla rupestris, one locality in 



Britain, 24 

 Poulton, Prof. E. B., on beginnings 



of new organs, 253 

 Primates, fossil species of South 



America, 233 

 Primula imperialis, small range, 18 

 Proteid molecule, complexity of, 



355 



Prothylacinus, a Patagonian mar- 

 supial, 224 



Protoplasm, its chemical nature, 292 



Pteranodon occidentalis, skeleton of, 

 2IO; longiceps, skull of, 21 1 



Pterodactyl, restoration of long- 

 tailed, 210 



Pterodactylus spectabilis, skeleton of, 

 209 



Ptychoceras emericianum, 269 



Purpose of our universe to produce 

 variety of human character, 277, 393 



Pyrotheria, 235 



Queensland, flora of, 54 



