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, 247 Music a late acquisition of man, 208 Mussel, the edible, 145 Name-gods or totems of ancient Greeks, 356 Naples, 2, 52, 203 Naturalist on the seashore, 25 Nature reserves, 13 Nature-worship, the ancient, 352 Nauplius, the young form or larva of crustaceans, 105, 106, 107 Neander or Moustierian man, 280 Necromancy, or communication with the dead, 371 Needles of firs and pine trees, 303, 315 of pine-trees in tufts of one to five, 321 Nero, the Roman Emperor, and amber, 71 "Nigromantia" and the black at, 371 Nobel prizes, 412 Normand, Rev. Canon, 3 Norway, 1 Noverre, "the Shakespeare of the dance," 176 "Nullius in verba," the motto of the Royal Society, 128, 362, 407 Nutrition, not so simple a matter as supposed, 293 Occultism, modern, 363 Octopus, courtship of the, 203 Odours as attractions and guides in courtship, 209 Opal, 57 Orchestia, a sand-hopper, 153 Orpheus, the fish-god, substituted for Dionysus, the wine-god, 355 the warden of the fishes, a fish-god, 355 Ovules and sperms, 181 Oxygen carried by the red corpuscles of blood, 347 Oysters growing on trees, 145 Palmistry or chiromancy, 372, 373 Paradisia liliastrum, 166