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INDEX 547 M Mackay, on analogical characters, 462. Macrauchenia, 378. M'Donnell, Dr., on electric organs, 198. Madeira, plants of, 118. , beetles of, wingless, 148. , fossil land-shells of, 389. , birds of, 433- Magpie tame in Norway, 266. Males fighting, 102. Maize, crossed, 325. Malav Archipelago compared with Europe, 352. , mammals of, 437. Malm, on flat-fish, 241. Malpighiacea;, small imperfect flow- ers of, 225. • 455- Mammae, their development, 244. , rudimentary, 490. Mammals, lossil, in secondary for- mation, 356. , insular, 435. Man, origin of, 527. Manatee, rudimentary nails of, 494. Marsupials of Australia, 126. , structure of their feet, 473. , fossil species of, 388. Martens, M., experiment on seeds, 406. Martin, Mr. W. C, on striped mules. Masters, Dr.. on Saponana, 227. Matteucci, on the electric organs of rays, 198. Matthiola, reciprocal crosses of, 308. Maurandia, 253. Means of dispersal, 403. Melipona domestica, 280. Merrell, Dr., on the American cuckoo, 270. Metamorphism of oldest rocks, 360. •Mice destroying bees, 88. , acclimatisation of, 153. , tails of, 244. Miller, Prof., on the cells of bees, 281, 285. Mirabilis, crosses of, 308. Missel-thrush, 90. Mistletoe, complex relations of, 22. Mivart, Mr., on the relation of hair and teeth, 156. , on the eyes of cephalopods, 200. , various objections to Natural Selection, 229. , on abrupt modifications, 258, 259- -, on the resemblance of the mouse and antechinus, 462. Mocking-thrush of the Galapagos, 443. Modification of species not abrupt, 523. Moles, blind, 151. Molothrus, habits of, 273. Mongrels, fertility ana sterility of, 322. and hybrids compared, 327. Monkeys, fossil, 356. Monachanthus, 461. Mons, Van, on the origin of fruit- trees, 44. Monstrosities, 58. Moquin-Tandon, on sea-side plants, 146. Morphology, 472. Morren, on the leaves of Oxalis, 254. Moths, hybrid, 304. Mozart, musical powers of, 263. Mud, seeds in, 429. Mules, striped, 173. Miiller, Adolf, on the instincts of the cuckco, 271. Miiller, Dr. Ferdinand, on Alpine Australian plants, 420. Miiller, Fritz, on dimorphic crus- taceans, 61, 295. , on the lancelet, 137. , on air-breathing crustaceans. , on climbing plants, 253. -— •, on the self-sterility of orchids, 302. , on embryology in relation to classification, 456. -, on the metamorphoses of crus- taceans, 482, 488. -, on terrestrial and fresh-water organisms not undergoing any metamorphosis, 486. Multiplication of species not indefi- nite, 140. Murchison, Sir R., on the forma- tions of Russia, 342. — , on azoic formations, 360. J on extinction, 368. Murie, Dr., on the modification of the skull in old age, 197. Murray, Mr. A., on cave-insects, 152. Mustela vision, 184. Myanthus, 461. Myrmecocystus, 292. Myrmica, eyes of, 294. N Nageli, on morphological characters, 222, Nails, rudimentary, 494. Nathusius, Von, on pigs, 209. Natural history, future progress of, 525. selection, 93. system, 452. Naturalisation of forms distinct from the indigenous species, 125. Naturalisation in New Zealand, 213. Naudin, on analogous variations in gourds, 168.