TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



LECTUKE I. 



Introductorv. 



The New Thiugs of Biology, 

 Time, the Sexton, 

 Duckbill and Echidna, 

 Groups of the Mammalia, . 

 Charles Darwin, 

 The first Historical Jfan, . 

 The Australian Region, 

 The first Creature with Nails, 

 Primary Amphibia, . 

 Protozoa and jVIetazoa, 

 Low Ancestral Types, 

 Family Arrangements, 



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Care of the Oftspring, 

 The Crown of Creation, 

 Larviform Embryo of the I\Iole, 

 Great Weights on Small Wires, 

 Influence of Surroundings, 

 Adaptation or Extinction, 

 Metamorphosis of the Frog, 

 Man's Ancestors all buried, 

 Eastern Cosmogony, 

 Hyperbolical Asiatics, 

 A Buddhist Miracle, 

 Antiquated Theories, 



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LECTURE ir. 



Pkotothekia (Monotrejiata) 



Compound Nature uf the Lower 



Jaw, .... 

 Bones forming the Ear-chain, 

 New Elements of the Ear, 

 The Egg-breaking Beak, . 

 The Frog's Kindred, 

 Ancestors of the Mammalia, 

 Young Duckbills, 

 All Animals come from Eggs, 

 Evolution of a Hairy Creature, 

 Relation of Mammals to Reptiles 

 Jacobson's Organs, . 

 Old and New Structures, . 

 A Country without Birds, 

 Skeleton of the Prototheria, 

 Primary Respiratory Organ, 

 Respiration of a Soft-shelled 



Turtle, 



Oxygen consumed in Pharyngeal 

 Respiration, . 



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