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486 INDEX.Man, importance of mental and moralcharacters, 173his dignity and supremacy, 181his influence on nature, 182his future development, 182range of intellectual power in, 191rudiments of all the higher facultiesin savage, 192his feet and hands, difficultiesonthe theory of natural selection,197his voice, 198his mental faculties, 198difficulty as to the origin of themoral sense in, 199development of, probably directedby a superior intelligence, 204antiquity and origin of, 416indications of extreme antiquityof, 420highly developed at very earlyperiod, 421antiquity of intellectual, 424antiquity of, in North America,433in America coeval with extinctmammalia, 438in America in the glacial period,439fossil remains of, in the auriferousgravels of California, 446concluding remarks on antiquityof, 448Mantidae, adaptive colouring of, 46mimicking white ants, 70tropical forms of, 286Mantis resembling an orchis -flower,349Mangroves, 262Manicaria saccifera, 249Marantaceae, 254Marmosets, 307Marshall, Messrs., on barbets, 297Martins, Mr. Charles, on increasedsize of leaves of arctic plants, 407Mates readily found by birds, 370Matter, the nature of, 207Mr. Bayma on, 208is force, 210Mauritia, palm, 248Maximiliana regia, 249Mechanitis and Methona, mimickedby Leptalis, 59Mecocerus gazella, 67Megapodidae, sexual colouring andnidification of, 128Meiglyptes, 332Meldola, Mr. R., on variable colouring"n insects, 347Meliphagidas in Auckland isles probablyflower-fertilisers, 408Mesembryanthemum, stone, 396Meteorological phenomena, intensityof, at the equator, 234Midas dives, 69Mimeta, mimicking Tropidorhynchus,73Mimicry, meaning of the word, 54theory of, 55among Lepidoptera, 55how it acts as a protection, 57of other insects by Lepidoptera,64among beetles, 65of other insects by beetles, 68of insects by species of otherorders, 69among the vertebrata, 70among snakes, 72among tree-frogs, 73among birds, 73among mammals, 76objections to the theory of, 76by female insects, 78never occurs in the male only,137theory of, 362Mimosa pudica, 262Mivart, Professor, on animal origin ofman, 419on the divergent affinities of manand apes, 422Momotidae, sexual colouring andnidification of, 125Mongredien, Mr., on showy and fragrantflowers, 402Monkeys and pigeons, 295abundance of, in the tropics, 306Moral sense, difficulty as to theorigin of, 199Morphos, how protected, 53Moseley, Mr., on humming-birds ofJuan Fernandez, 327Moths and conspicuously colouredcaterpillars, uneatable, 351Motmots, 297