Part 29

Livingstone, Importance of mosquito-nets, 141

Loch Corrie mated with Mulatto, 85

London School of Tropical Medicine, 151

London, Zoological Society of, 99

Longfellow, 111

Lounsbury, C. P., Life-history of Hæmophysalis leachi, 171

Lovén, 19

Low, Dr., and Sambon, Dr., Experiment against the bites of the mosquito, 151

Lowe, Bruce, Effects of inbreeding foxhounds, 92 On the saturation hypothesis, 78

Lugard, Colonel, 97

MacCallum on Malaria parasite, 143

McIntosh, W. C., 67

Mackerel, Fertilization of the floating ova of the, 46

Macrurus, Eyes of the, 35

Magellan, Ferdinand, 16

Malaria, 129 Æstivo-autumnal, 135, 138, 139 Africa, Children of natives infected with, 152, 162 Amœbula, 136 carried by gnats, 159 Cause of, 134 Death of James I. from, 133 Oliver Cromwell from, 133 Death-rate, Average, of white troops in Sierra Leone from, 130 Average, of coloured troops in Sierra Leone from, 130 Average, in Italy from, 130 of the British Army in India from, 130 Discovery of Protozoa organism in, 134 Distribution of, in America, 132 in Australia, 132 in Europe, 131, 132, 133, 134 Endemic foci of the disease, 131 Gametocytes, 136 Hæmamœba, 135, 138, 140 vivax, 135, 138 Hæmomenas, 140 præcox, 135, 139 in England, 133 in Fen Districts, 133 in the British Army in India, 129 Ireland free from, 134 Loss of the European population of India from, 129 Malarial pigment or melanin, 136 Mosquito origin of, 141 Quartan, 135, 138 Quinine, Use of, in, 139, 150 ‘Quotidian intermittent fever,’ 138 Sporocytes, 136 Tertian, 135, 138

Malarial parasite, Destruction of, by quinine, 162 Life-history of the, 145 Major Ross’s work on the, 125 Natives in Africa permeated with the, 152

‘Mal de caderas,’ caused by T. equinum, 168

Malm, Professor, of Göteborg, Fertilization of the eggs of the flounder, 46

Manaar, Gulf of, 8, 10, 13

Mangareva, 14

Manson, Sir Patrick, Researches on Filaria, 141 T. P., Experiment on, to prove that an infected mosquito can convey malaria, 150, 151

Marco Polo, 9

Margaritifera vulgaris, 8

Marichikaddi, 14

Marsigli, Count, 17, 18

Matopo, 82, 84, 86, 95

Maury, 19