lass="pginternal">400 Dawson, Mr. Charles, discovers the missing link, 284 Deodar, the Himalayan cedar, 320 Destruction of native animals in England, 15 Dewar, Sir James, on suspended animation of luminous bacteria, 158 Diet, certain substances necessary to be healthy, 294 Diptera or two-winged flies, divisions of, 222 Disharmonies in animal structure and habit, 227 in man's structure, 228 Display in courtship, 197 et seq. Divination, 371 by the forked twig, 384 by throwing a rod into the air, 383 varieties of methods in, 371 Divining-rod, the, 383 Dormouse, easily loses the skin of its tail, 219 Dousers and dousing, 385 dishonest variety of, 388 or water-finders tested by a committee, 392 some honest, 387 Dragon, the heraldic, and the parachute lizard, 382 Dredge, the naturalist's, 1 Duclaux, Professor, his advice as to diet, 299 Dunwich, a submerged city, 50 Earth-worm, coelom of the, 338 Educability, 213, 268-269 Elaterids, a family of beetles, 225 phosphorescent species of, 234 Emperor moth, attractive smell of female, 209 Eoanthropus Dawsoni, the Piltdown Hominid, 283 Erosion of the coast, 51 Euphausia, a phosphorescent shrimp, picture of, 154 Evergreens, our native, list of, 312 Ewart, Prof. Cossar, his experiments on telegony, 400 Experience, learning by individual, 212 Expression by the face, greater in man than apes, 273 Eyes of deep-sea animals, 93 Fabre, his opinion of animal intelligence, 197, 198 Fainting, men, at sight of blood, 345 Fast days, 351, 352 Felixstowe beach, 56 erosion of the coast at, 50 large piece of amber found at, 70 Fertilization, 180 Fir, Scots, 305, 321 Silver, or Abies pectinata, 315 used to build the Trojan horse, 306 Fire-flies of Southern Europe, 233 Firestones, 65 Fish, a young, saves Manu from the Deluge, 353 and Christian ornament, 369 Male, the seeker and wooer, 185, 190 Man, his conscious memory, 187 primitive, courtship of, 195 Mandrill, beautiful colours of the, 205 Man's modern method of courtship, 215 structure compared with that of the gorilla and chimpanzee, 239, 240, 241 Manu, the Indian Noah, 353 Mare, Lord Morton's, 400 Mares not infected by sire, 399-400, 401 Mastodon, fragments of teeth of, found with the Piltdown jaw, 289 Mate-hunger, Mr. Pycraft on, 191, 192 Maternal impressions, 396 et seq. May-flies or Ephemerids, 230 some are phosphorescent or luminescent, like glow-worms, 231 Mechanisms of instinct, inherited, 268, 269 of the mind, distinguished, 211, 212 Medicines, quack, and credulity, 366 Memory essential to consciousness, 264 unconscious, 266 unconscious and conscious, distinguished, 212, 214 MendÉs, Catulle, the French poet, and jelly-fish, 97 Metchnikoff on disharmonies, 367 Midge (Chironomus), its grub has red blood, 346 Midges, large kind of, 223 Milk and infantile scurvy, 296 Pasteurized, 300 supply of pure, 292 et seq. Millais, Sir Everett, on telegony, 400 Millionaire and sodium in the sun, 378 Milton the poet, his belief in spontaneous generation, 126 Mind, the, of apes and of man, 262 et seq. of man differs from that of animals, 213 Missing link, the, 275 et seq. Molluscs, alternate swelling of and shrinking of parts of the body, 149 and their shells, 142 et seq. Monboddo, Lord, his views on man and apes, 276 Monkey-puzzle or Araucarian pine, 329 Moray, Sir Robert, on the transformation of the ship's barnacle into a goose, 115, 127 Moth, the, and the candle, 226 et seq. vapourer, male pursues female living in water and is drowned, 210 Mules, 399 MÜller, Iwan, and the microscope, 28 MÜller, Professor Max, his suggestion as to the origin of the belief that barnacles give rise to geese, 139-141 Murray, Sir John, at Millport, 155 Muscles of apes and men, Printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh
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