438 



INDEX 



Metals, the seven ancient, 387; es- 

 sential for civilisation, 388 



Metamorphosis of insects, 321 



Mexico and Central America, flora 

 of, 64 



Microbes, use of in nature, 412 



Migration, origin of bird, 159; 

 facts and inferences, 160-63 



Mimicry, 169 



Minahassa, N. Celebes, flora oF, 55, 

 85 



Mind and purpose in life-develop- 

 ment, 299 ; and life, different de- 

 grees of, 307; produces brain, 307 



Minerals, number of species of, 

 418 



Mivart, St. George, on recognition- 

 marks, 179 



Morgan, Professor L., on germinal 

 selection, 292; on rapid cell- 

 growth, 375 



Mosquitoes, uses of, 145; descrip- 

 tion of Arctic, 146; food for most 

 young birds, 151 



Mosses and hepaticse, peculiar 

 British, 135 



Mountain floras, in Japan, 40; not 

 richest, 97 



MtJLLER on insect-fertilisation of 

 flowers, 333 



Mylodon, contemporary of man, 

 254 



Mylodon rohii^tus, skeleton of, 254 



Narwhal's tusk an extreme devel- 

 opment, 296 

 Natural selection, illustrative cases 



of, 134; of sparrows at Ehode 



Island, 138; process of at Porto 



Santo, 138 

 Nature, the sanctity of, 301; our 



defacement of, 301; is it cruel? 



398 

 New Guinea, biologically unique, 



51 ; flora of, 55 : richness of its 



bird fauna, 96, 98 

 Newton, Professor A., on passenger 



pigeon, 128 

 North American floras in various 



latitudes, 34 

 Nototherium, extinct Australian 



wombat, 260 

 Nuclear division, diagram of, 370 

 Nucleus, importance of, 373 

 Nummulites, 363 

 Nuts, why intended to be eaten, 



337 



Ocean, carbon in, 392 



Orchids, abundance of in Cape 

 Peninsula and New South Wales, 

 41 ; in British India, 48 



Okeodontid.e, early American rumi- 

 nants, 242 



Organising spirit the cause of life- 

 production and control, 425 



Organs, beginnings of new, 271 



Ornithosaltiia, 224 



Pain, its purpose and limitations, 

 398; a product of evolution, 404; 

 beneficent purpose of, 412; where 

 useless does not exist, 413; in na- 

 ture, Huxley's exaggerated view 

 of, 400, 414 

 Pal.eomastodons, early elephants, 



244-45 

 Palceotherium magnum, restoration 



of, 244 

 Paleozoic era described, 206 

 Palms, abundance of in the Malay 

 Peninsula, 47; in the Philippines, 

 54 

 Pangerango, Mount, rich flora of, 



81 

 rarndoxides hohemicus, 287 

 Pariasaurus hainii, skeleton of, 214 

 Passenger pigeon now extinct, 125; 

 enormous population of less than 

 a century ago, 125 

 Penang, rich flora of, 79 

 Phascolotherium, 231 

 Phenacodiis primcBvus, early ungu- 

 late, 235 

 Philippines, rich flora of, 54 

 Physiological allegory on growth, 



319 

 Plant-cell, Kerner on, 371; iden- 

 tity with animal cell, 372 

 Plants of wide distribution, 21; 

 abundance of compared, 23; of 

 very small areas, numbers of, 98 

 Pleistocene mammalia, teachings 



of, 259 

 Plesiosaurus macrocephalus, skeleton 



of, 222 

 PoE, extracts from supposed im- 



pressional poem by, 428 

 Porto Santo rabbits, newly formed 



species, 137 

 Potentilla rupestris, one locality in 



Britain, 27 

 PouLTON, Prof. E. B., on beginnings 



of new organs, 272 

 Primates, fossil species of South 

 America, 249 



