INDEX 



409 



Martagon lily, 20 



Marten cat, 24 



Mastodon, the American, 142 



Meaning and real nature of things, 



390 

 Medicine and magic, 94 

 Memory and smells, 185 

 Mercedonius, the intercalary month, 



261 

 Meritherium, 147 

 Metchnikoff and phagocytes, 352, 



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Miani, pygmies brought to Naples 



by, 234 

 Microbes, Pasteur's word, 339 

 Milton, his notion of creation, 223 

 Mincopies, a pygmy race, 230 

 Miracle, the perpetual, of existence, 



403 

 Miracles — a buttercup, a rock- 

 crystal, a glacier, the 

 noonday sun, 402 

 Misconceptions about science, 388 

 Mites and itch insects, 296 

 Mithridates and poison, 349 

 Molar teeth of man, 169 

 Monaco, the Prince of, books pro- 

 duced at his charges, 247 

 Monkeys and typhus fever, 336 

 Montagu, Lady, introduced inocula- 

 tion for smallpox, 347 

 Month, lunar and calendar distin- 

 guished, 261 

 the Greek, 259 

 Months, Chinese names of the, 264 



Roman names of the, 261 

 Moon, apparent size of, 79 

 artists' errors about the, 75, 81 

 the, and the stage, 83 

 the other side of, not seen, 403 

 suppositions as to what is there 

 cannot be entertained, 404 

 track of the rising (figure), 77 

 Moraines (of glaciers), 50 

 Morot, Aim^, painter of the photo- 

 graphed gallop, 56 

 Moulton, Lord, his definition of 



health, 346 

 Muses, ancient and later names of, 



3". 312 

 Museum and Mus^e of Paris, 310 

 Ashmole's at Oxford, 313 

 of Alexandria, 312 



Museum, the British, 313 



the Victoria and Albert, 316 

 Museums, 310 

 badly governed, 318 

 no agreement as to their purpose 



or methods, 317 

 service rendered to the State by,. 

 321, 322 

 Musk, 188 

 Musk-ox, rapidly being exterminated 



by man, 378 

 Muybridge, his photographs of 



galloping horse, 54 

 Mycenaean art and the gallop, 62, 63, 

 gallop (figure), 57 



Narwhal, the, 385 

 National Portrait Gallery, 327 

 Nature effaced by man, 365 

 of things, a miracle, 403 

 the order of, 389 

 Neandermen, 245 

 Negrilloes, 232 

 Negritoes, 232 



Negroid race of Mentone caves, 238' 

 Newgate, gaol fever at, 330 

 New Year's Day, 257 

 laughter on, 209 

 of the Jews, 258 

 of the Greeks, 259 

 of the Mahometans, 258 

 of the Romans, 258 

 of Julius Caesar, 259 

 New Zealand, animal life in, 357 

 failure of the colonists to intro- 

 duce birds, 364 

 rabbits flourished too much and 

 ferrets introduced to check 

 them — failed to do so an(i 

 became a serious nuisance, 

 363 

 slaughter of native birds, and 

 destruction of forests and 

 bushes by colonists, 361 

 success in introduction of sheep' 

 and eattle, 363 

 Nightmares of our half animal an- 

 cestry, 399 

 Notochord, the, of the Ascidian. 

 tadpole, 284 



Onions, smell of, 189 

 Opsonins or relishes, 354 



