INDEX OF PRINCIPAL TOPICS.

Air-breathers, their Origin and History, 257, 303. Alpine and Arctic Plants, their Geological History, 425. American Stone Age, 464. Animals, their Apparition and Succession, 169. ---- their Geological History, 176, 187, 194. ---- Permanent Forms of, 87, 180. Anthropic Age, 461. Antiquity of Man, 469. Arctic Climates in the Past, 213. Atlantic, its Origin and History, 57. ---- Cosmical Functions of, 72. ---- its Influence on Climate, 81. ---- Deposits in, 83. ---- Migrations across, 84. ---- Future of, 90. Azores, their Animals, 408. Baphetes planiceps, 263. Bay of Fundy, its Deposits, 312. ---- Footprints on Shores of, 311. Bermudas, their Flora, etc., 85. Boulders, Belts of, on Lower St. Lawrence, 345. Boulder-Clay, Nature, etc., of, 360. Cave Men, 476. Cannstadt Race, 474 Chaos, Vision of, 90. Chronology of Pleistocene, 470. Climate, its Causes, 81. ---- as related to Plants, 215. Climatal Changes, 382. Coal, its Nature and Structure, 235. ---- its Origin and Growth, 233. ---- Summary of Facts relating to, 241. ---- of Mesozoic and Tertiary, 249. ---- its Connection with Erect Forests, 296. Continents and Islands, 402. ---- Permanence of, 31, 403. Contrast of land and sea-borne Ice, 360. Cordilleran Glaciers, 369. Cromagnon Race, 474. Crust and Sub-crust, 62. Dawn of Life, 95. Deluge, The, 467. Dendrerpeton Acadianum, 270. Determination in Nature, 329. Development of Life, 23. ---- Laws of, 194. Distribution of Animals and Plants, 401. Drift of Western Canada, 369 Early Man, 459. Engis Race, 472. Eozoon, Discovery of, 111. ---- Nature of, 112. ---- Contemporaries of, 129. ---- Teachings of, 135.

Eozoon, Preservation of and Structure, 143. Eyes, earliest Types of, 331. Evolution, its partial Character, 188. Flora of White Mountains, 421. Floras originate in the Arctic, 297. Floating Ice, 360. Footprints of Reptiles, 260. ---- of Limulus, 319. Fossils, Preservation of, 136. Fucoids, 311. Galapagos, how Peopled, 412. Geographical Changes and Climate, 390. Geological Record, Imperfection of, 40. Glaciers, Work of, 353. Glacial Period, Conditions of, 375. Gulf Stream, 388. Hydrous Silicates, 144. Huronian as a Geological System, 104. Hylonomus Lyelli, 279. Icebergs, their Nature and Work, 348. Ice Age, the, 343. Imperfection of the Geological Record, 40. Land and Water, 58. Land Snails, Earliest, 247. Labyrinthodonts, their Origin and History, 265. Laurentian System, 97. ---- Life in the, 107. Laurentide Glaciers, 364, 368. Leda Clay of Lower St. Lawrence, 365. Life, First Appearance of, 19, 96, 157. Limbs, the Earliest, 337. Limulus, Footprints of, 319. Magmas under Crust of the Earth, 63. Mammoth Age, 466. Man in Nature, 484. ---- Early, 461. ---- an Imitator of Natural Objects, 490. ---- at War with other Natural Agencies, 495. ---- in harmony with Nature, 496. Markings, Footprints, etc., 301. ---- Rill and Rain, etc., 317. Microsauria, 279. Migrations of Plants, 434. Millipedes of Carboniferous Age, 295. Mineral Charcoal, 237. Missouri Coteau, 271. Mountains, Origin of, 33. ---- Classes of, 66. Mount Washington, 426. Nature, Various Senses of the Term, 483. Neanthropic Age, 472. Ocean, the Atlantic, 58, 67. Oceanic Islands, 407. Palanthropic Age, 462. Permanence of Continents, 31, 403. ---- of Animal Forms, 87, 180. Plants, Geological History of, 202. ---- as Indicators of Time and Climate, 229. ---- of the Erian, Carboniferous, etc., 202. ---- of the Pleistocene, 439.

Pleistocene, Tabular View of, 472. Polygenesis of Species, 418. Pre-determination in Nature, 329. Primitive Rocks, 16. Protozoa, their Place in Nature, 152. Pseudo-Fucoids, 318. Pupa vetusta, 288. Races of Early Men, 474. Rill Marks, 317. Scorpions, Carboniferous, 295. Sigillariæ, Erect, 276. Sorde, Cave of, 476. Species, Permanence of, 87, 180. ---- Origin of, 418. Sponges in Cambro-Silurian, 46. Spore-cases in Coal, 234. Stigmaria, 246. Stone Age in America, 464. Terraces of Lower St Lawrence, 346. Tides of the Bay of Fundy, 312. Time, Geological, 416. Tracks of Animals, 51. Trees, Erect, with Animal Remains, 276. Tuckerman's Ravine, 427. Underclays, their Origin and Nature, 236. Vegetable Life, the Earliest, 338. Vegetable Kingdom, its History, 202. Vertebrates, History of, 183. Vision of Creation, 90. Worlds, the Making of, 9, 14. Worm Tracks, 318. White Mountains, 426. Zoological Regions, 405.

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Transcriber Note

All images were obtained from The Internet Archive. A link to a clearer version of the illustration of Hylonomus Lyelli (facing p. 257) was obtained from Plate 9, The Coal Measures Amphibia of North America, by Roy Lee Moodie. Illustrations were repositioned so as to not split paragraphs. Hyphenation was standardized to the most prevalent form and several presumed typos were corrected.