Part 30

Maxwell, 187

Mediterranean Sea, Temperature of the, 27

Mexico, Striped horses of, 83

Micrococcus bombycis, 116 ovatus, Examination of the moth for traces of, 115

Millais, Sir Everett, Telegony not proved, 81

Mitscherlich, Observations on the optical properties of tartaric acid, 105

Möbius on pearl formation, 4

Mollusca, Fossil, 2

Monaco, Prince of, 20

Monocaulus imperator, Size of, 39

Monorhaphis, 39

Moore, Thomas, 1

Morley, John. See Carnegie, A.

Morton, Lord, Letter to Dr. W. H. Wollaston, 75 Lord Morton’s Mare, 75, 80

Mosely Educational Commission, 183

Mosquitoes, Anopheles. See under Anopheles Blasts, 144 Boöphilus bovis, 146 Culex, 147 fatigans, 158 pipiens, 146, 147 Culicidæ, 147 ‘Day-mosquito,’ 163 Derivation of the word ‘mosquito,’ 147 Destruction of, 152, 153, 154 by paraffin, 162 Fish used in the, 153 Kerosene oil used in the, 153 at Sassari, 154 Growth of the zygote in, 144 Lesions in the bodies of, 160 Meres, 144 Mosquito-nets, Importance of, 141 Origin of malaria in, 141 Process of ‘biting’ by, 160 Production of the zygote in, 144 Proof of mosquito theory, 151 Suffering of, 150

Mother-of-pearl, Formation of, 1, 2

Mulatto mated with Benazrek, 85 Loch Corrie, 85 Matopo, 84

Mulgrave, Lord, 18

Murray, Sir John, 20, 30, 32, 67

Musca domestica, or house-fly, described and named by Linnæus, 174, 175

Muscidæ, 167

Mycoderma aceti, 112

Myers, Dr. See Rivers, Dr.

Mytilus, 5 edulis, 5, 7 galloprovincialis, 8

Nacreous layer, 2

‘Nagana’ disease caused by Trypanosoma brucei, 168

Nathusius, 88 Telegony not proved, 81