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INDEX. 



Muscles, quadrilateral, action of, in a 



plane, 232. 

 skew, 236. 



statical work done by, 29, 62. 



striped, 3. 



sexual differences in, 3. 



■ uterine, weight of, 154. 



■ unstriped, 3. 

 Muscular fibre, nature of, 1. 

 1 contraction, nature of, 5. 



contraction, effect of, 5. 



susurrus, 18. 



type of bat's wing, 423. 



■ ,, bird's wing, 419. 



,, cassowary, 429. 



— - ,, emu, 429. 



< ,, man, 400. 



„ ostrich, 427. 



,, rhea, 427. 



„ struthionidae, 417. 



,, canidae, 39 r. 



felidae, 399. 



,, swimming animals, 425. 



action, application of general 



laws of, 442. 

 Musical note of muscular susurrus, 18. 

 Mylohyoid muscle in man, 177. 



Nature of muscular fibre, 1 . 



of muscular contraction, 5, 14. 



Natural selection, 158. 

 Nervous supply of ocular muscles, 

 203. 



New World monkeys, tendons in, 94. 

 Nipher's experiments, 442, 462, 475. 

 Nylghau, biceps of, 169. 



Obturator, externus, 385. 



internus, 373. 



,, in Struthionidae, 427. 



Obliquus externus, tensile strain of, 

 219. 



Obliquus internus, tensile strain of, 

 222. 



Old World monkeys, tendons in, 94. 

 Orbicularis palpebrarum, 201. 



malaris, 205. 



oris, 204. 



Ostrich, foot tendons, 113. 



muscular type of, 411, 427. 



Otter, tendons of foot in, 100. 



Ox, foot tendons of, 103. 



length of fibres in heart of, 441. 



Papio maimon, 400. 



Parturition, muscular forces in, 131. 



total forces available in, 1 62. 



Parkes quoted, 47. 



Paviours, work done by, 57. 



Pectoral muscles, human work done 

 by, 190. 



Pectineus muscle in lion, 328. 



muscle in llama, 329. 



Pedlars, work done by, 60. 



Penniform muscles, 167. 



Pennated muscles in relation to pris- 

 matic, 170. 



Personal equation, 14. 



Phalanger, foot tendons of, 12. 



Pheasant, silver, foot tendons of, 115. 



silver, wings of, 299, 315. 



Piers Plowman, quoted, 8. 



Poisseuille on discharge of liquids 

 through capillary tubes, 142. 



on blood pressure, 142. 



Poppel, cubic contents of uterus, 1 54. 



Porcupine, foot tendons of, 110. 



hand tendons of, 133. 



Postulate of teleology, 238. 



of work done by skew muscles, 



358. 



Pope quoted, 53. 

 Pound, Roman, 8 1 . 

 Porters, work done by, 60. 



