INDEX 



421 



Instinct and reason in courtship, 205 

 Instincts, 267 



Intestine, the large, a disharmony, 

 228 



Japan, the umbrella pine of, 330 

 Javanese story of a bird produced by 



a shell-iish, 138 

 Jaw, lower surface of the Piltdown, 

 compared with that of man 

 and of chimpanzee, 282 

 from Moulin-Quignon, 289 

 Heidelberg, compared with Pilt- 

 down, 286 

 Piltdown, 283 

 Jelly-fish, 91, 94, 9S, 96. 97 

 Jelly-fishes which sting, 95 

 Juniper, the, 308, 330 

 Junipers, 330 



Kauri resin, similar to amber, 73 

 Kowalewsky, the Russian zoologist, 



Labouchere, Mr. Henry, his view on 



food, 293 

 Lacteals, or milky lymphatic vessels, 



333 



Lampyris noctiluca, the common glow- 

 worm, 233 



Lancelet, the, 2 



Langouste, 99 



Larch tree, the common, 307, 319 



Laughter in apes, 241 



Leather-jackets, the grubs of the 

 Crane-fly, 221 



Lebanon, cedar of, 320 



Lepas anatifera, the ship's barnacle, 

 109 



Leprosy and fish-diet, 357 



favoured by same conditions as 

 scurvy, 296 



Lervik (Norway), 3 



Lights, nocturnal, attract insects and 

 birds, 230, 232 



Lily of St. Bruno, 166 



Limpet and cockle compared, 146, 

 148 



Lizard, the parachute, is the model 

 upon which the heraldic 

 dragon is founded, 382 



Lobsters, 99, 100 



Loch Fyne herrings, their food, 155 



Longevity of a sea-anemone, 86 



Lophohelia, 9 



Luciola italica, the fire-fly of South 

 Europe, 233 



Luges, or mountain sledges, 167 



Lug-worm, 79 



Luminous bacteria, 158 

 grub of Paraguay called the railway - 



beetle, 234 

 or luminescent insects, 232 



Lyell, Mr., his Bill for the preserva- 

 tion of the Great Grey Seal, 



32, 34 

 Sir Charles, used the term " missing 

 link," 276 

 Lymph, amount of, in man's body, 



333, 348 

 and lymphatic system, 332 et.seq. 

 Lymphatic vessels of the human arm 



(figure), 334 

 Lymph-hearts, 337 



Magi, the priests of Zoroaster, 368 

 Magic, history of, 369, 370 



sympathetic, 369 

 Male, the seeker and wooer, 185, 



190 

 Man, his conscious memory, 187 



primitive, courtship of, 195 

 Mandrill, beautiful colours of the, 



205 

 Man's modern method of courtship, 



215 



structure compared with that of the 

 gorilla and chimpanzee, 239, 

 240, 241 



Manu, the Indian Noah, 353 



Mare, Lord Morton's, 400 



Mares not infected by sire, 399-4CK), 

 401 



Mastodon, fragments of teeth of, found 

 with the Piltdown jaw, 289 



Mate-hunger, Mr. Pycraft on, 191, 

 192 



Maternal impressions, 396 et seq. 



Max Muller, Professor, his suggestion 

 as to the origin of the beUef 

 that barnacles give rise to 

 geese, 1 39-141 



May-flies or Ephemerids, 230 

 some are phosphorescent or lumin- 

 escent, like glow-worms, 231 



Mechanisms of instinct, inherited, 

 268, 269 

 of the mind, distinguished, 211, 212 



Medicines, quack, and credulity, 

 366 



