INDEX. 



491 



Law of refreshment, 478. 



of muscular action general, ap- 

 plication of, 442. 



Least action in nature, principle of, 

 238. - 



Lehmann, on quantity of blood in 



body, 150. 

 Leopard, tendons of foot in, 98. 

 — — muscles of, 391. 



adductors of, 349, 354. 



Levret, cubic contents of uterus, 153. 

 Length of fibres, 1. 

 Levator ani, 208. 



Lioness, friction in tendons of, 96. 



biceps of, 1 75. 



anatomy of, 390. 



Lion, anatomy of, 390. 



biceps, 179. 



pectineus of, 329. 



tensor vaginae femoris, 366. 



Lithopsedus Stenonensis, on the forces 



of parturition, 162. 

 Llama, toe tendons, 119. 



hand tendons, 132. 



pectineus, 329. 



adductors, 352. 



Loss of work in triangular muscle, 



187. 



Lower, on volume of ventricles, 440. 



Macaques, tendons of, 92, 123. 

 Macacus cynomolgus, 400. 



nemestrinus, 92. 



hand tendons of, 123. 



rhesus, anatomy of, 400. 



Macalister, experiments of, 468, 479. 

 Macaw, wing of, 297, 314. 

 Maclaren's experiment, 50. 

 Macnamara, experiments on the ra- 

 pidity of absorption, 150. 

 Magrath, Master, history of, 343. 

 muscles of, 344, 397. 



Man, muscular type of, 400. 



tendons of foot of, 76. 



,, hand of, 121. 



pectoral of, 187. 



muscles of, compared with those 



of monkeys, 402. 

 anomalous hand tendon of, 



122. 



— — adductors of, 327. 

 Mansfeldt on cross section of muscle, 

 64. 



Marsupials, muscles of foot of, 111. 



muscles of hand of, 133. 



Mangabey, anatomy of tendons of, 



92, 127. 

 Martinus Scriblerus, 52. 

 Mastiff, ratio of sections of muscles 



to tendons, 89. 



tendons of foot in, 10 r. 



muscles of, 398. 



Matteucci, work done by frog 



muscles, 72. 

 Mechanical conditions of equilibrium 



of skew muscles, 236. 

 Moment of muscular force, 63. 

 Monkeys, New World, tendons of 



foot in, 94. 

 New World, tendons of hand 



in, 124. 



Old World, tendons of hand in, 



123. 



Old World, tendons of foot in, 



92. 



Motor nerves, rate of action of, 14. 

 Mouth, muscles around, 204. 

 Muscles, absolute force of, 63. 



cross sections of, 84. 



classification of, 164. 



coefficient of the contraction of, 



71. 



dynamical work done by, 62. 



prismatic, 104. 



