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INDEX. 



Lowe, Rev. R. T., on locusts 



visiting Madeira, 386. 

 Lubbock, Sir J., on tlie nerves of 



coccus, 41. 

 , on secondary sexual charac- 

 ters, 147. 

 , on a diving hymenopterous 



insect, 169. 



, on affinities, 331. 



, on metamorphoses, 455, 458. 



Lucas, Dr. P., on inheritance, 11. 

 , on resemblance of child to 



parent, 808. 

 Lund and Clausen, on fossils of 



Brazil, 367. 

 Lyell, Sir C, on the struggle for 



existence, 58. 

 , on modern changes of the 



earth, 89. 

 , on terrestrial animals not 



having been developed on isl- 

 ands, 213. 

 ,on a carboniferous land-shell, 



320. 

 , on strata beneath Silurian 



system, 386. 

 , on the imperfection of the 



geological record, 342. 

 , on the appearance of 



species, 343. 



, on Barrande's colonies, 344. 



, on tertiary formations of 



Europe and North America, 352. 

 , on parallelism of tertiary 



formations, 356. 



on transport of seeds by 



on great alterations of cli- 

 mate, 404. 



' , on the distribution of fresh- 

 water shells, 407. 



, on land-shells of Madeira, 



421. 



Lyell and Dawson, on fossilized 

 trees in Nova Scotia, 328. 



Lythrum salicaria, trimorphic, 

 300. 



Macleay, on analogical characters, 



440. 

 Macrauchenia, 357. 



M'Donnell, Dr., on electric organs, 



178. 

 Madeira, plants of, 98. 



, beetles of, wingless, 129. 



, fossil land shells of, 367. 



, birds of, 411. 



Magpie tamf in Norway, 246. 



Males fighting, 81. 



Maize, crossed, 304. 



Malay Archipelago compared with 



Europe, 331. 



, mammals of, 415. 



Malm, on flat-fish, 221. 

 Malpighiacese, small imperfect 



flowers of, 204. 



, 433. 



Mammae, their development, 224. 



, rudimentary, 467. 



Mammals, fossil, in secondary 



formation, 335. , 



, insular, 414. 



Man, origin of, 504. 



Manatee, rudimentary nails of, 



471. 

 Marsupials of Australia, 106. 



, structure of their feet, 450. 



Marsupials, fossil species of, 367. 

 Martens, M. , experitoent on seeds, 



384. 

 Martin, Mr. W. C, on striped 



mules, 153. 

 Masters, Dr., on Saponaria, 207. 

 Matteucci, on the electric organs 



of rays, 178. 

 Matthiola, reciprocal crosses of, 



287. 

 Maurandia, 232. 

 Means of dispersal, 381. 

 Melipona domestica, 260. 

 Merrill, Dr., on the American 



cuckoo, 251. 

 Metamorphism of oldest rocks, 



339. 

 Mice destroying bees, 68. 



, acclimatization of, 134. 



, tails of, 223. 



Miller, Prof. , on the cells of bees, 



261, 265. 

 Mirabilis, crosses of, 287. 

 Missel-thrush, 70. 

 Mistletoe, complex relations of, 3. 



