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INDEX 



London, Zoological Society of, 99 



Longfellow, iii 



Lounsbury, C. P., Life -history 



of Hamophysalis leachi, 171 

 Lov^n, 19 



Low, Dr., and Sambon, Dr., Experi- 

 ment against tlie bites of the 

 mosquito, 151 

 Lowe, Bruce, Effects of inbreeding 

 foxhounds, 92 

 On the saturation hypothesis, 

 78 

 Lugard, Colonel, 97 



MacCallum on Malaria parasite, 



143 



Mcintosh, W. C. , 67 



Mackerel, Fertilization of the float- 

 ing ova of the, 46 



Macmrus, Eyes of the, 35 



Magellan, Ferdinand, 16 



Malaria, 129 



jEstivo - autumnal, 135, 138, 



139 

 Africa, Children of natives in- 

 fected with, 152, 162 

 Amoebula, 136 

 carried by gnats, 159 

 Cause of, 134 

 Death of James I. from, 133 



Oliver Cromwell from, 133 

 Death-rate, Average, of white 

 troops in Sierra Leone 

 from, 130 

 Average, of coloured troops 

 in Sierra Leone from, 

 130 

 Average, in Italy from, 130 

 of the British Army in 

 India from, 130 

 Discovery of Protozoa organ- 

 ism in, 134 

 Distribution of, in America, 

 132 

 in Australia, 132 

 in Europe, 131, 132, 133, 



134 

 Endemic foci of the disease, 



131 

 Gametocytes, 136 

 Hamamceba, 135, 138, 140 



vivax, 135, 138 

 Hamomenas, 140 



fracox, 135, 139 

 in England, 133 

 in Fen Districts, 133 

 in the British Army in India, 



129 

 Ireland free from, 134 



Malaria — continued : 



Loss of the European popula- 

 tion of India from, 129 

 Malarial pigment or melanin, 



136 

 Mosquito origin of. 141 

 Quartan, 135, 138 

 Quinine, Use of, in, 139, 150 

 'Quotidian intermittent fever,' 



138 

 Sporocytes, 136 

 Tertian, 135, 138 

 Malarial parasite. Destruction of, 

 by quinine, 162 

 Life-history of the, 145 

 Major Ross'3 work on the, 



125 

 Natives in Africa permeated 

 with the, 152 

 ' Mai de caderas,' caused by T. 



equinum, 168 

 Malm, Professor, of Goteborg, 

 Fertilization of the eggs of the 

 flounder, 46 

 Manaar, Gulf of, 8, 10, 13 

 Mangareva, 14 



Manson, Sir Patrick, Researches 

 on Filaria, 141 

 T. P., Experiment on, to prove 

 that an infected mosquito can 

 convey malaria, 150, 151 

 Marco Polo, 9 

 Margaritifera vulgaris, 8 

 Marichikaddi, 14 

 Marsigli, Count, 17, 18 

 Matopo, 82, 84, 86, 95 

 Maury, 19 

 Maxwell, 187 

 Mediterranean Sea, Temperature 



of the, 27 

 Mexico, Striped horses of, 83 

 Micrococcus bombycis, 116 



ovatus. Examination of the moth 

 for traces of, 115 

 Millais, Sir Everett, Telegony not 



proved, 81 

 Mitscherlich, Observations on the 

 optical properties of tartaric acid, 

 105 

 Mobius on pearl formation, 4 

 Mollusca, Fossil, 2 

 Monaco, Prince of, 20 

 Monocauhts imperator. Size of, 39 

 Monorhaphis, 39 

 Moore, Thomas, i 

 Morley, John. See Carnegie, A. 

 Morton, Lord, Letter to Dr. W. H. 

 Wollaston, 75 

 Lord Morton's Mare, 75, 80 



