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tion of, 202; origin of, 206. LIMPET, homing sense in, 194; Romanes on the homing sense in, 195. LIOTHE, fowls cleaned by, 129. LIZARD, Ada Sterling's account of Kate Field's music-loving, 119; fondness for music in the tree, 119; Chilhowie "singing," 120; author's experiment with the piccolo on, 120. LOBSTER, love of offspring in the, 137; battle between monkey and gravid, 137. LOCUST, love of cleanliness in, 130; diamond mistaken for dewdrop by, 131; carnivorous tastes in the, 131; description of the toilet of a, 132. LYCOSA, love of music in, 108; tameness of, 110. M MAMMOTH CAVE, eyeless spider of, 11; eyeless fish of, 11; homing sense in the beetles of, 196. MANDRIL, a revengeful, 95. MEDUSA, intoxicated, 15. MELANOPLUS, reenforcing auditory ganglia of, 32. MEMORY, its discussion under four heads, 60. MIMOSA PUDICA, death-feigning by, 208. MIMOSA STRIGILOSA, death-feigning by, 208. MIND, definition of, 1. MOLE, degeneration of sight organs in, 10. MONERON, non-differentiation of nerve-cells in, 3; nervoid elements in, 3. MONKEY, author chosen as a friend by, 82; a laughing, 89; sorrow and reproach manifested by, 97; faculty of computing in the, 177; use of hammer by a, 222. MORPHOLOGY, its correlation with physiology, 2. MOUSE, love of music in, 116; musical discrimination in, 117; Quigley's observations, 117; Benedick's experiments with, 117; author's observations and analysis of the song of "singing," 118; Ada Sterling's observations of music-loving, 118, 119. MULE, idea of time evinced by a, 175, 176. MYRIANIDA, eyes of, 17; reproduction in, 18. MYRMECA RUGINODIS, memory of friends (kindred) in, 68; experiments with, 68. MYRMECOCYSTUS, the honey-making, 157; natural history of, 158; author's experiments in testing the reasoning powers of, 158, 159; division of labor in a colony of, 161. N NECTOCALYX, marginal bodies in jelly-fish's, 51. NERVE, transmission of impressions through, 41; the power of discrimination in, 41; the association of ideas (impressions) in, 43; memory in, 43. NEWT, tinctumutation in, 186; author's experiments with, 186. O OEQUOREA, eyes of, 15. OESTRUS EQUI, selection of foreleg of horse for oviposition by, 103. ONCHIDIUM, cephalic eyes of, 26; dorsal eyes of, 26. OPOSSUM, letisimulation in the, 202, 212. ORANG-UTAN, laughter i
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