533 INDEX. 



flrength, 273, 274, 275. Marriage or pairing frequently exhibited in the brute' 



creation, 277. Moft animals have feafons 280. 

 Lumbricus. See worms. 

 Lychnis dioica. Dr Hope's experiments upon that plant examined, 254, 255, Fe= 



male lychnis ripened feeds without the poffibility of fexuaL commixture, 257, 258, 



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Magpies. Defcription of their nefts, 320. 



Males. See fezes, and man. Differences between males and females, 239, 240, 241. 

 Changes produced by puberty, 264. In pairing animals, the males and females pro- 

 duced are nearly equal, 278. 



Man. Of his ftru^lure and organs, 44. From his internal organs he could not live 

 upon herbage alone, 60. His fuperiority over the other animals derived folely from 

 his mental faculties, 62, 102, 153, 377. He alone is endowed with the faculty of 

 articulate fpeech, 108, 417. The moft inconfiftent of all animals, 15:2. His inftinfts 

 improveable by obfervation and experience, 153. Defigned by Nature to.live partly 

 on animal and partly on vegetable fubftances, 217, 218. His texture more firm and 

 compaA than that of woman, 236. See women. Changes produced by puberty^ 

 264. After puberty, marriage is his natiu-al fbate, 266. A ftriking inftance of his 

 parental afieftion, 273- Undergoes many changes in form after birth, 286. His 

 Blind undergoes changes as well as his body, 287. The moft rapacious of all ani- 

 mals, 375. Without fociety, his powers are limited, 377. Not the only animal 

 that makes war with his own fpecies, 386. The moft docile of all animals, 435. 

 His body capable of great exertions, 437. The refemblance of men to particular 

 animals an indication of their difpofitions, 467. Of man's longevity and dilTolution, 

 J04. No being fuperior to him could exift in this world, 526. 



Manners and difpofitions of animals connec5ted with their form and ftrufture, 53, 57^ 

 89, 102. 



Mantis. See camel-cricfeet. 



Marmot, Alpine Delcription of its architefture and manners, 311, 3i2» 



Marriage, after the age of puberty, is the natural ftate ©f man, 266. Difadvantages of 

 too early marriages, 270. Bad effefts of imerefted and imprudent ones, 27K Ar- 

 guments in favour of monogamy, 277, 278. 



Martin. Mr Hunter's account of the free-martin, 242, 243, 244. 



Martins are birds of paffage, 477^ 



Mafon-bee. See bee. 



Matter. Its w in^r/jaf, 132. 



Ivfechanifm inadequate to account for animal a£tion, jjjw 



Medufe, 



