MANX cats.
MARCEL DE SERRES, fertility of the ostrich.
MARIANNE Islands, varieties of Pandanus in.
MARKHAM, GERVASE, on rabbits.
MARKHOR, probably one of the parents of the goat.
MARQUAND, cattle of the Channel Islands.
MARRIMPOEY, inheritance in the horse.
MARROW, vegetable.
MARRYATT, Capt., breeding of asses in Kentucky.
MARSDEN, notice of Gallus giganteus.
MARSHALL, Dr. W., on Gallus sonneratii.
MARSHALL, Mr., voluntary selection of pasture by sheep. -adaptation of wheats to soil and climate. -"Dutch-buttocked" cattle. -segregation of herds of sheep. -advantage of change of soil to wheat and potatoes. -fashionable change in the horns of cattle. -sheep in Yorkshire.
MARTENS, E. VON, on Achatinella.
MARTIN, W.C.L., origin of the dog. -Egyptian dogs. -barking of a Mackenzie River dog. -African hounds in the Tower menagerie. -on dun horses and dappled asses. -breeds of the horse. -wild horses. -Syrian breeds of asses. -asses without stripes. -effects of cross-breeding on the female in dogs. -striped legs of mules.
MARTINS, defective instincts of silkworms.
MARTIUS, C., fruit-trees of Stockholm.
MASON, W., bud-variation in the ash.
MASTERS, Dr., on bud-variation and reversion. -potato-grafting. -on pollen within ovules. -reversion in the spiral-leaved weeping willow. -on peloric flowers. -on Opuntia. -pelorism in a clover. -position as a cause of pelorism.
MASTERS, Mr., persistence of varieties of peas. -reproduction of colour in hyacinths. -on hollyhocks. -selection of peas for seed. -on Hibiscus syriacus. -reversion by the terminal pea in the pod.
MASTIFF, sculptured on an Assyrian monument. -Tibetan.
MATTHEWS, PATRICK, on forest trees.
Matthiola annua.
Matthiola incana.
MAUCHAMP merino sheep.
MAUDUYT, crossing of wolves and dogs in the Pyrenees.
MAUND, Mr., crossed varieties of wheat.
MAUPERTUIS, axiom of "least action."
MAURITIUS, importation of goats into.
MAW, G., effects of change of climate. -correlation of contracted leaves and flowers in pelargoniums.
MAWZ, fertility of Brassica rapa.
Maxillaria, self-fertilised capsules of.
Maxillaria atro-rubens, fertilisation of, by M. squalens.
MAXIMOWICZ, direct action of pollen.
MAYERS, on gold-fish in China.
MAYES, M., self-impotence in Amaryllis.
MECKEL, on the number of digits. -correlation of abnormal muscles in the leg and arm.
MEDUSAE, development of.
MEEHAN, Mr., weeping peach. -effects of parasites. -comparison of European and American trees.
Meles taxus.
MELONS. -mongrel supposed to be produced from a twin-seed. -crossing of varieties of. -inferiority of, in Roman times. -changes in, by culture and climate. -serpent, correlation of variations in. -analogous variations in.
MEMBRANES, false.
MENETRIES, on the stomach of Strix grallaria.
MENINGITIS, tubercular, inherited.
MERRICK, potato-grafting.
METAGENESIS.
METAMORPHOSIS.
METAMORPHOSIS and development.
METZGER, on the supposed species of wheat. -tendency of wheat to vary. -variation of maize. -cultivation of American maize in Europe. -on cabbages. -acclimatisation of Spanish wheat in Germany. -advantage of change of soil to plants. -on rye. -cultivation of different kinds of wheat.
MEXICO, dog from, with tan spots on the eyes. -colours of feral horses in.
MEYEN, on seeding of bananas.
MICE, grey and white, colours of, not blended by crossing. -rejection of bitter almonds by. -naked.
MICHAUX, F., roan-coloured feral horses of Mexico. -origin of domestic turkey. -on raising peaches from seed.
MICHEL, F., selection of horses in mediaeval times. -horses preferred on account of slight characters.
MICHELY, effects of food on caterpillars. -on Bombyx hesperus.
MICROPHTHALMIA, associated with defective teeth.
MIDDENS, Danish, remains of dogs in.
MIGNONETTE.
MILLET.
MILLS, J., diminished fertility of mares when first turned out to grass.
MILNE-EDWARDS, on the development of the crustacea.
MILNE-EDWARDS, A., on a crustacean with a monstrous eye-peduncle.