INDEX 
Man, importance of mental and moral 
characters, 173 
his dignity and supremacy, 181 
his influence on nature, 182 
his future development, 182 
range of intellectual power in, 191 
rudiments of all the higher facul- 
ties in savage, 192 
his feet and hands, difficulties on 
the theory of natural selection, 
197 
his voice, 198 
his mental faculties, 198 
difficulty as to the origin of the 
moral sense in, 199 
development of, probably' directed 
by a superior intelligence, 204 
antiquity and origin of, 416 
indications of extreme antiquity 
of, 420 
highly developed at very early 
period, 421 
antiquity of intellectual, 424 
antiquity of, in North America, 
433 
in America coeval with extinct 
mammalia, 438 
in America in the glacial period, 
439 
fossil remains of, in the auri- 
ferous gravels of California, 446 
concluding remarks on antiquity 
of, 448 
Mantidae, adaptive colouring of, 46 
mimicking white ants, 70 
tropical forms of, 286 
Mantis resembling an orchis - flower, 
349 
Mangroves, 262 
Manicaria saccifera, 249 
Marantacetc, 254 
Marmosets, 307 
Marshall, Messrs., on barbets, 297 
Martins, Mr. Charles, on increased 
size of leaves of arctic plants, 407 
Mates readily found by birds, 370 
Matter, the nature of, 207 
Mr. Bayma on, 208 
is force, 210 
Mauritia, palm, 248 
Maximilians regia, 249 
Mechanitis and Metliona, mimicked 
by Leptalis, 59 
Mecocerus gazella, 67 
Megapodidse, sexual colouring and 
nidification of, 128 
Meiglyptes, 332 
Meldola, Mr. R., on variable colouring 
in insects, 347 
Meliphagidse in Auckland isles prob- 
ably flower-fertilisers, 408 
Mesembryanthemum, stone, 396 
Meteorological phenomena, intensity 
of, at the equator, 234 
Midas dives, 69 
Mimeta, mimicking Tropidorhynchus, 
73 
Mimicry, meaning of the word, 54 
theory of, 55 
among Lepidoptera, 55 
how it acts as a protection, 57 
of other insects by Lepidoptera, 
64 
among beetles, 65 
of other insects by beetles, 68 
of insects by species of other 
orders, 69 
among the vertebrata, 70 
among snakes, 72 
among tree-frogs, 73 
among birds, 73 
among mammals, 76 
objections to the theory of, 76 
by female insects, 78 
never occurs in the male only, 
137 
theory of, 362 
Mimosa pudica, 262 
Mivart, Professor, on animal origin of 
man, 419 
on the divergent affinities of man 
and apes, 422 
Momotidse, sexual colouring and 
nidification of, 125 
Mongredien, Mr., on showy and fra- 
grant flowers, 402 
Monkeys and pigeons, 295 
abundance of, in the tropics, 306 
Moral sense, difficulty as to the 
origin of, 199 
Morphos, how protected, 53 
Moseley, Mr., on humming-birds of 
Juan Fernandez, 327 
Moths and conspicuously coloured 
caterpillars, uneatable, 351 
Motmots, 297 
