Milvus niger.
Mimulus luteus.
MINOR, W.C., gemmation and fission in annelids.
Mirabilis, fertilisation of. -hybrids of.
Mirabilis jalapa.
Mirabilis longiflora.
Mirabilis vulgaris.
Misocampus and Cecidomyia.
MITCHELL, Dr., effects of the poison of the rattlesnake.
MITFORD, Mr., notice of the breeding of horses by Erichthonius.
MIVART, Mr., rudimentary organs.
MOCCAS Court, weeping oak at.
MOGFORD, horses poisoned by fool's parsley.
MOLLER, L., effects of food on insects.
MOLE, white.
MOLL and Gayot, on cattle.
MOLLUSCA, change in shells of.
MONKE, Lady, culture of the pansy by.
MONKEYS, rarely fertile in captivity.
MONNIER, identity of summer and winter wheat.
MONSTERS, double.
MONSTROSITIES, occurrence of, in domesticated animals and cultivated plants. -due to persistence of embryonic conditions. -occurring by reversion. -a cause of sterility. -caused by injury to the embryo.
MOOR, J.H., deterioration of the horse in Malasia.
MOORCROFT, Mr., on Hasora wheat. -selection of white-tailed yaks. -melon of Kaschmir. -varieties of the apricot cultivated in Ladakh. -varieties of the walnut cultivated in Kaschmir.
MOORE, Mr., on breeds of pigeons. -on ground tumblers.
MOORUK, fertility of, in captivity.
MOQUIN-TANDON, original form of maize. -variety of the double columbine. -peloric flowers. -position as a cause of pelorism in flowers. -tendency of peloric flowers to become irregular. -on monstrosities. -correlation in the axis and appendages of plants. -fusion of homologous parts in plants. -on a bean with monstrous stipules and abortive leaflets. -conversion of parts of flowers.
MORLOT, dogs of the Danish Middens. -sheep and horse of the Bronze period.
Mormodes ignea.
MOROCCO, estimation of pigeons in.
MORREN, grafts of Abutilon. -on pelorism. -in Calceolaria. -non-coincidence of double flowers and variegated leaves.
MORRIS, Mr., breeding of the kestrel in captivity.
MORSE, Dr., digits of birds.
MORTON, Lord, effect of fecundation by a quagga on an Arab mare.
MORTON, Dr., origin of the dog.
Morus alba.
MOSCOW, rabbits of. -effects of cold on pear-trees at.
MOSSES, sterility in. -retrogressive metamorphosis in.
MOSS-ROSE, probable origin of, from Rosa centifolia. -Provence roses produced from seeds of.
MOSTO, Cada, on the introduction of rabbits into Porto Santo.
MOT-MOT, mutilation of feathers inherited.
MOTTLING of fruits and flowers.
MOUNTAIN-ASH.
MOUSE, Barbary.
"MOVEN-TAUBE."
MOWBRAY, Mr., on the eggs of game fowls. -early pugnacity of game cocks. -diminished fecundity of the pheasant in captivity.
MOWBRAY, Mr., reciprocal fecundation of Passiflora alata and racemosa.
MULATTOS, character of.
MULBERRY.
MULE and hinny, differences in the.
MULES, striped colouring of. -obstinacy of. -production of, among the Romans. -noticed in the Bible.
MULLER, FRITZ, reproduction of orchids. -development of crustacea. -direct action of pollen. -self-sterile bignonia.
MULLER, H., on the face and teeth in dogs.
MULLER, J., tendency to variation. -atrophy of the optic nerve consequent on destruction of the eye. -on gemmation and fission. -identity of ovules and buds. -special affinities of the tissues.
MULLER, MAX, antiquity of agriculture.
MULTIPLICITY of origin of pigeons, hypotheses of, discussed.
MUNIZ, F., on Niata cattle.
MUNRO, R., on the fertilisation of orchids. -reproduction of Passiflora alata. -self-sterile Passiflora.
"MURASSA" pigeon.
MURIE, Dr., size of hybrids.
MURPHY, J.J., the structure of the eye not producible by selection.
Mus alexandrinus.
Musa sapientium, chinensis and cavendishii.
Muscari comosum.
MUSCLES, effects of use on.
MUSK duck, feral hybrid of, with the common duck.
MUTILATIONS, inheritance or non-inheritance of.
MYATT, on a five-leaved variety of the strawberry.
MYOPIA, hereditary.
MYRIAPODA, regeneration of lost parts in.
NAILS, growing on stumps of fingers.
NAIS, scission of.