54^ INDEX. 



offspring a iburce of great pleafures, 277 ; remarkable in- 

 ftances oF its ftrength, 278, 279, 280. Marriage or pair- 

 ing frequently exhibited in the brute creation, 282. Moft 

 animals have feafons, 283. 



Lunibricus. See worms. 



Lychnis dioica. Dr. Hope's experiments upon that plant ex- 

 amined, 260, 261. Female lychnis ripened feeds with- 

 out the poffibility of fexual commixture, 263, 264^. 



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Magpies. Defcription of their nefts, 325. 



Males. See fexes, and man. Differences between males and 

 females, 243, 244, 245. Changes produced by puberty, 

 269. In pairing animals, the males and females produced 

 are nearly equals 283. 



Man. Of his itrudlure and organs, 54, From his internal 

 organs he could not live upon herbage alone, 69. His fu- 

 periority over the other animals derived folely from his 

 mental faculties, 70, 111, 164, 381. He alone is endow- 

 ed with the faculty of articulate fpeech, 117, 420. The 

 moft inconliftent of all animals, 161. His inftin6ts im- 

 proveable by obfervation and experience, 162. Deiigned 

 by Nature to live parth/ on animal and partly on vegetable 

 fubftances, 223, 224. His texture more firm and compa6l 

 than that of woman, 242. See women. Changes produced 

 by puberty, 269. After puberty, marriage is his natural 

 ftate, 271. A ftriking inftance of his parental affedion, 

 278. Undergoes many changes in form after birth, 291. 

 His mind undergoes changes as well as his body 292. The 

 moft rapacious of all animals, 379. Without fociety, his 

 powers are limited, 381. Not the only animal that makes 

 war with his own fpecies 388. The moft docile of all ani- 

 mals, 439. His body capable of great exertions, 441. 

 The refemblance of men to particular animals an indica- 

 tion of their difpofitions, 469. Of man's longevity and 

 dirroliition, 506. No being fuperior to him could exift in 

 this world, 527. 



Manners and difpofttions of animals connedled with their 

 form and ftrudture, 63, 66, 98, 108. 



Mantis. See camel-cricket. 



Mirmot, Alpine. Defcription of its architedlure and man- 

 ners, 316, 317. 



