The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals

by Jr. James Weir

• Ichneumon, method of ovipositing in the bodies of caterpillars used by, [104].
• Instinct, definition of, [147], [148].

[J]

• Jay, parental love in the, [142];
  • battle between cat and, [143].
• Jelly-fish, anatomy, physiology, and psychology of, [4];
  • nerve-ring in nectocalyx of, [5];
  • "eyes" of, [5];
  • manubrium or "handle" of, [5];
  • sensitiveness of nervous system in, [5];
  • pulsing of nectocalyx in, [5];
  • intoxicated, [15];
  • light sought by, [15];
  • effect of the excision of the marginal bodies of, [52];
  • conscious determination in, [52];
  • effect of alcohol on, [219].

[K]

• Katydid, color-changing function in, [191], [192].

[L]

• Land terrapin, memory of locality in, [65];
  • homing sense in, [65];
  • author's experiments with, [65].
• Lasius flavus, author's experiments with, [67];
  • slow in recognizing kin, [67];
  • ants of the same species disinter buried, [101].
• Lasius niger, memory of kindred in, [66].
• Lepidoptera, organs of hearing in, [35].
• Letisimulation, definition 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, reënforcing 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]