INDEX.

Age of bronze, 161;

of iron, 161;

of reptiles, 81

Aleph, 125

Amber, 69

Ammonites, 90, 97

Animal Part, the, 77;

animals of coal period, 71

Ants, white, 61

Arctic climate, 67;

expedition, 67

Archæopteryx, 91, 93

Australian savages, 127

Babylon and Nineveh, 164, 165

Bear, grisly, 106

Beginning of life, 58

Bird forms, earliest, 89;

reptiles, 85

Blacklead, 58

Boulders carried by ice, 48

Bogwood, 70

Boiling springs, 54

Bronze, age of, 161, 162;

implements in British Museum, 162

Brighton Downs, 99

Burning mountains, 19

Calamites, 42, 68

Cañons of Colorado, 8

Caves of Engis and Cromagnon, 163;

near Belfort and of Switzerland, 141;

of the Vezère, 139

Cetiosaurus, 86

Chalk, nature of, 26;

pits, 20;

ammonites and foraminifera in, 27;

period, 95;

under the ocean, 29, 99

“Challenger” expedition, 27

Changes have been gradual, 43

Cissbury camp, 134

Clay, London, 21, 22;

and mud, 33

Climate, Arctic, and of coal formations, 67

Club-mosses, 61

Clothing, 138

Coal beds, 31;

in Arctic regions, 67;

plants of the, 63;

is fossil wood, 73;

is sunlight compressed, 30

Colorado, the people in, 142

Compressed plants, 15

Conclusion, 168

Cookery, 137

Corals, 78

Creation, the plan of, 117

Cretaceous period, 96

Cromagnon and Engis, caves of, 163

Dawn of life, 56;

plant, 59

Denudation, 49, 50

Dinornis, specimens of, in British Museum, 116

Dinosaurus, 89

Dinotherium, 114

Drawings, pre-historic, 135

Dwellings and food of men, 137

Early histories, 123;

plant life, 59

Earth, early history of, 1, 2, 3;

interior of, 18;

intense heat of, 24;

climate of, 48;

not yet fit for man, 75;

‘foraminifera earth’, 30

Earthquakes, 18, 19

Earthworks of Ohio, 165

Easter island monuments, 164

Egypt, monuments of, 166

Eodendron, 59

Eophyton, 59

Eozöon, 57, 77

First weapons, 121

Fish-lizards, 85

Fishes, fossil, 71

Flint, origin of, 14;

in chalk, 96;

weapons, where found, 131;

tool manufactory, 134

Foraminifera, 20;

‘foraminifera earth’, 30;

drawings of, 97;

specimens of, in British Museum, 99

Forests under the sea, 75, 76

Fossil, derivation of, 10;

plants, 61;

sunlight, 73;

footprints, 83;

human, 157, 159

Food and dwellings, 137

Footprints, fossil, 83

Flying reptiles, 89

Geological part, 17

Geology, derivation of, 19

Geysers, 54

Gigantic animals, 101;

birds, 115

Glaciers and icebergs, 47

Granite, raised, 23;

appearance of, 24

Gravel, &c., 35

Great Irish Stag, drawing, &c., of, 108

Guadaloupe human fossil, 157

Heat of the Earth, 3, 18

Hebrew letters, 125

Hesperornis, 92

Hippopotamus in England, 105

Histories, early, 123

Human part, the, 120;

fossils, 157

Ice age, 45;

more than one, 48

Icebergs and glaciers, 47

Ichthyornis, 92

Ichthyosaurus, 85

Implements, flint and stone, in British Museum, 131;

bronze, 162

India, elephants in, 145

Insects in coal forests, 64

Irish stag, 107

Islands appear and disappear, 39

Jet, 69

Jurassic age, 89

Kangaroo, fossil, 115

Kitchen-middens, 152

Labyrinthodon, 2

Lake-dwellers, 146;

dwellings in Europe, Africa, Asia, and New Guinea, 149

Language, origin of; and of pre-historic man, 155

Laurentian rocks, 57

Lena river, mammoth found, 102

Life, the dawn of, 56;

‘life-dawn animal’, 57

Lignite, 69

Lion, English sabre-toothed, 106

Mammalia, 102

Mammoth, 49, 102-3;

bones of, in Siberia, Asia, North America, &c.;

drawing of, on ivory, 135;

in Essex, 104;

skull of, in British Museum, 104

Man and his works, 121;

his earliest inventions, 122;

mammoth, mastodon, reindeer, &c., contemporary with, 116;

pre-historic, 127, 131;

dwellings and food of, 137

Marsupial animal, 95

Mastodon, 102;

in Europe, America, India, &c., 104;

in Missouri, 128;

skeleton of, in British Museum, 104

Megalosaurus, 89

Megatherium, in South America, 110;

drawing of, 112;

account of, 113;

skeleton of, in British Museum, 113

Mexican writings, 124

Middens, kitchen, 152-4;

makers, life of, 153

Moa, 115-16

Monkeys, fossil, 102;

at Gibraltar, 102

Monuments of Easter Island, 164;

of Egypt and Assyria, 166

Mountains, burning, and covered with snow, 19

Moresby, Captain, in New Guinea, 143

New Guinea, stone age of, 143

New Zealand dinornis, 115;

moa, 116;

stone age of, 143

Nineveh and Babylon, ruins, &c., of, 164, 165

Norway, raised terraces of, 38

Ohio, earthworks of, 165

Oolite, 41, 86

Origin of language, 155

Papyrus writings, 125

Paris, built of shells, 100

Parts, the, are called fossils, 11

Past life, the signs of, 13

Peat, 70

Plan of creation, 117

Plants of coal forests, 63

Plesiosaurus, 85

Pottery, 141, 142

Pre-historic art, 133;

drawings, 135;

man, 127, 131;

weapons and tools, 129

Pterodactyl, derivation of, 89;

description of, 90

Puzzle, the framework of, 1-16;

parts of, where found, 5

Pyrenees, when raised, 100

Rain-drops, marks of, 84

Reindeer, drawing of, on slate, 135

Reptiles, the age of, 81

Rhinoceros in England, 105

Rocks, raising of the;

how placed, 21, 25;

carried by ice, 48

Sandstone, formation of, 25, 26;

Old Red, 62, 81;

New Red, 77

Slate hardened mud, 15

Sponges, 15, 78

Star-fish, 78

Stone age, 128;

first stone age, 137;

second, 138;

of New Guinea and New Zealand, 143, 145

Subsidence, 37

Succession of formations, 41, 42

Sucklers, 102

Sunlight, fossil, 73

Tertiary period, 34, 100

Time, the work of, 167

Tools, polished and rough, 139

Trilobite, 78

Upheaval and depression, 36, 38

Vegetable part, the, 56

Vertebrata, 101

Volcanoes and earthquakes, 19

Water, a powerful tool of Nature, 34, 45;

thrown out of the earth, 54

Weapons, early, 121;

and tools, where found, 131

Whales, 101

World, early history of the, 3, 4;

size and shape, 17;

materials of, 17;

heat of, 18

Work, the, of time, 167

Writing, origin of, 123;

Mexican, Egyptian, and Assyrian, 124, 125;

on papyrus, 125;

by signs, 125

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