LYELL, CHARLES (the elder), botanist and student of Dante, 41; intercourse with the Hookers, 126
MALTHUS, _On Population_, influence of work on Darwin, 107; on Wallace, 112
Man, descent of, Darwin's work on, 142, 144; Wallace's views on, 144
MANTELL, Lyell's researches with, 48; correspondence with, 55, 89
MATTHEW, P., anticipation of theory of Natural Selection, 92
MILTON, description of creation, 13; Darwin's early love of his poetry, 134; at Christ's College, Cambridge, 13
Mimicry, doctrine of, Lyell's early recognition of importance, 85, 86
MURCHISON, accompanies Lyell to Auvergne, 56; opinion of Lyell, 57; Lyell's opinion of, 57, 58; 3rd Vol. of _Principles_ dedicated to, 66; correspondence with, 59
MURRAY, JOHN, and _Quarterly Review_, 60; publishes Lyell's works, 60; publishes Darwin's works, 130; his reminiscences of Darwin, 132
Music, Darwin's loss of power to appreciate, and its cause, 134, 135
Natural Selection, theory of, defined by Huxley, 106; forestalled by Wells, Matthew &c., 18, 19; first conception of by Darwin, 107; by Wallace, 112
'Neptunism' or 'Wernerism' and Catastrophism, 18
NEWTON, Professor A., on vague hopes of solution of 'species question' before Darwin, 94, 109
_Origin of Species_, first idea of, 121; plan proposed to follow _Principles_, 123; first sketch of 1842, enlarged draft of 1844, commencement of great treatise on Evolution in 1856, interruption by arrival of Wallace's papers, 128, 129; the 'Abstract' or _Origin of Species_ commenced, 130; finished, 131; reception of, 132-139; influence of, 1, 159
OSBORN, H. F., his _From the Greeks to Darwin_, 16; on Lamarck, 87
PHILLIPS, JOHN, his attitude towards Lyell's views, 30, 71
PLAYFAIR, JOHN, his _Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory_, 29; explains the causes of Hutton's failure, 30
'Plutonism,' 'Vulcanism,' or 'Huttonism,' 18
PRESTWICH, Sir J., opposition to Lyell's views, 72
PREVOST, CONSTANT, aid to Lyell, 50; opposition to Cuvier, 50
_Principles of Geology_, first idea of, 55; early draft sent to publisher in 1827, 56; withdrawn and rewritten in 1830, 56; issue of first volume, 63; success, 64; review by Scrope, 60-62; decision to confine Vol. II. to Organic Evolution, 65; 3rd volume, classification of Tertiaries and Metamorphic theory, 66; later editions, 66; _Elements, Manual and Student's elements_, 67; success of work, 67; Darwin's opinion on, 67; of Huxley, 67, 80, 81; Wallace on, 79; criticisms of, 68, 69, 70, 71