“King Henry VI.,” extract from, 161, 208, 224, 246, 266, 296, 304 “King Henry VIII.,” extract from, 286 “King Lear,” extract from, 254 King of beasts, 116; of birds, 232; of fishes, 334; of serpents, 266 Kite, sagacity of, 177 “Knight of Malta,” extract from, 176 Lady loup-garou, 109 Lalla Rookh, extract from, 210 Lamia, 294 Lamb-tree, 223 Land of the pygmies, 57 Landseer’s animal painting, 175 Language of beasts, to learn, 42 Lapwing, 177 Lark, sagacity of, 177 Larva of tiger-moth, 306 Laterrade on the unicorn, 131 Lavender as a remedy, 301 Legend of the robin, 250 Legh, “Accedence of Armorie,” 52, 121, 144, 178, 187, 242 Leo, “History of Africa,” 158, 271 Leontophonos, 128 Leopards, men turned to, 104 Leviathan, 334 Licking little bears into shape, 161 Lightning, protection against, 258 Like to like, 300 Lily, “Euphues” of, 281 Lion, 116, 232, 270, 276, 294, 303, 310 Lipless men, 73 “Livre des Creatures” of De Thaun, 50, 124 Lizard, 8, 296 Lomie, 197 Long-eared men, 42, 77 Long-headed men, 78 Longfellow, extract from, 247, 279 Loup-garou, 108 Love of the marvellous, 10 “Love’s Martyr” of Chester, 170 “Loyal Scot” of Andrew Marvel, 69 Luminous ink, 312 Lupton, extract from, 282 “Lusiad” of Camoens, 181 Luther on whale, 334 Lycanthropy, 101 “Macbeth,” extract from, 192 Macaulay on books, 32 “Maccabees,” extract from, 145 Macer on fennel, 47 Mad as a March hare, 165, 166 Mad dog, 9 “Magick of Kirani,” 251, 270 Maneless lions, 123 Manticora, 156, 197 Manufacture of mermaids, 91; of pygmies, 58 Maori traditions, 61 “Mappæ Clavicula,” extract from, 182 Marcellus, cure of blindness, 248 Marco Polo, travels of, 40, 144, 211 Marlowe, extract from, 241, 255 Marmalade for students, 46 Martin’s “Philosophical Grammar,” 132 Marvellous Isle of Dondum, 75 Matthew Prior, drawing of elephant, 143 Maundevile, extract from, 15, 16, 110, 138, 147, 151, 195, 202, 244, 276, 308, 336 Mauritius veal, 89 Medical zoology, 4, 45 Mediæval theory of creation, 125 Melancholia, its cause, 166 Men who lived on odours, 58, 75 Mendez Pinto the marvellous, 41 Mermaid, 79, 80, 313 Metacollinarum, 294 “Merchant of Venice,” extract from, 54, 192, 229 “Metamorphoses,” Ovid, 101 Metempsychosis, 107 Mewing nuns, 105 “Midsummer night’s dream,” extract from, 83 Milton, extract from, 226, 253, 258, 334 “Miracles of Art and Nature,” extract from, 18, 19 “Mirror for Mathematics,” 262 Mirror of stones, 247 Mithridate, 299 Mole, 168, 172, 335 Monoceros, 130 “Monstrorum Historia” of Aldrovandus, 63 Moon-worshipping elephants, 139 Moore, Extract of, 210 Moral-pointing treatment of zoology, 4, 6, 173, 244, 287, 293 Moss from dead man’s skull, 278 Moufflon in Munster’s book, 35