INDEX 



Labyrinthodonts ; 



Allied to creatures which 

 form the class Amphi- 

 bia, and essentially 

 aquatic animals, 245 

 Size and shajDe of large alli- 

 gators, 246 



Lanarkshire — ^fishes found in 

 Silurian strata, 261 



Land, rising and sinking see 

 title. Changes in the 

 earth 



Land-dwelling reptiles refer 

 to Reptiles, and names 

 of reptiles 



Lasanius — oldest remains of 

 fishes which have been 

 discovered, 262 



Leeds, Mr. A. N., 223 



Lepidosiren — mud-fish of 

 South America, 248 



Lepidosteus — specimen of ga- 

 noid fish in North 

 American lakes, 248 



Lepidotus helvenis — fossil ga- 

 noid fish — illustration, 

 250 



Limestone — fossilized wings 

 of insects, etc., pre- 

 served in, 46, 47 



Linaestone in solution, amount 

 carried past Kingston 

 by the Thames every 

 year, 44 



Limulus Polyphemus — dorsal 

 view of the king-crab, 

 283 



Lingula, shells of, found in 

 the Cambrian rocks, 

 272 



Lingula — contd. 



Complex structure of living 

 owners of these shells, 

 etc., 272, 273 

 Lizard : 



Chlamydosaur from Queens- 

 land — photograph, 195 



Flying lizards, 234 



Great gu'dled lizard — photo- 

 graph, 196 



Jawbones found in Oolitic 

 strata supposed at first 

 to be those of izards, 

 but afterwards found 

 to belong to small 

 mammals, 188 



Mexican horned lizard or 

 horned toad, 194 



New Zealand lizard Tua- 

 tara — photograph, 193 

 Local naturalists rarer now 

 than they were forty 

 years ago, 296 

 Loligo media — cuttle-fish liv- 

 ing in British seas, 272 

 London — skull of rhinoceros 

 found in Whitefriars, 

 9, 10 

 Lycosaiirus — remains dis- 

 covered in Cape Co- 

 lony — Inostransevia 

 allied to, 221 

 Lyme Regis : 



Ichthyosam'us head from 

 Liassic rocks of, 6 



Strata of cliff at, 48, 49, 51 



M 



Madagascar, wingless birds 



found in, 240 

 Malta, shark's teeth found in, 



264 



315 



