INDEX.
321
- Knole Park, beech-woods, worms absent, 12
- Koninck, De, on the disintegration of rocks, 235
- Laburnum leaves, 67
- Land, denudation of, 230
- Lankester, Ray, on the structure of worms, 18
- —Lankester, Ray, on worms from Kerguelen Land, 121
- La Plata, dust storms of, 236
- Layard, Mr., on the habits of the cobra, 94
- Leaves, worms distinguish the taste of different kinds, 32
- —Leaves, consumed by worms, 35
- —Leaves, their decay not hastened by the alkaline secretion with which they are bathed, 38
- —Leaves, decayed, generate acids, 50
- —Leaves, used in plugging up burrows, 65
- —Leaves, used to line burrows, 112
- Ledges of earth on hill-sides, 278
- Léon, F., on the digestive fluid of worms, 38
- Light, perception of, by worms, 20
- Lime, carbonate, concretions of, 45
- Maer Hall, amount of earth brought to surface, 130
- Mallett, Mr., on the sinking of the ground under great buildings, 158
- Meat, raw, eaten by worms, 36
- Mental qualities of worms, 34
- Mint, leaves of, only nibbled, 33
- Mississippi, drainage area of, 233
- Möbius on the habits of a pike, 94
- Moniligaster, 246
- Morren on worms surviving long immersion, 13
- —Morren on worms lying motionless near mouths of their burrows, 15
