- Man, does he build by reason or imitation, 212; his works mainly imitative, 225; antiquity of, 303, 322; difference of opinion as to his origin, 304; unity or plurality of species, 305; persistence of type of, 306; importance of mental and moral characters, 312; his dignity and supremacy, 324; his influence on nature, 326; his future development, 326; range of intellectual power in, 339; rudiments of all the higher faculties in savage, 341; his feet and hands, difficulties on the theory of natural selection, 349; his voice, 350; his mental faculties, 351; difficulty as to the origin of the moral sense in, 259; development of, probably directed by a superior intelligence, 359.
- Mantidæ, adaptive colouring of, 64; mimicking white ants, 98.
- Malacoderms, a protected group, 93.
- Maluridæ, 255.
- Matter, the nature of, 363; Mr. Bayma on, 363; is force, 365.
- Mechanitis and Methona, mimicked by Leptalis, 83.
- Mecocerus, dimorphism of, 155.
- Mecocerus gazella, 94.
- Megacephalon, 196.
- Megapodidæ, sexual colouring and nidification of, 246.
- Meropogon, 196.
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