INDEX 



Rhinoceros : 

 Horns : 



ConijDosition of, etc., 144 

 Creatiu'es allied to the 

 rhinoceros, horns of, 

 144, 146 

 Sktills compared — African 

 square-mouthed rhino- 

 ceros and Rhinoceros 

 antiquitatis, 9, 10 

 Square-mouthed African 

 rhinoceros (white rhi- 

 noceros), 144 

 Rhinoceros antiquitatis — 

 woolly rhinoceros of 

 late Pleistocene period 

 in Eiu-ope and Siberia : 

 Hairy coat, 143 

 Skeleton of, 143 

 Ripple marks preserved in 



Triassic strata, 53 

 Rising and sinking of surface 

 of the land see title, 

 Changes in the Earth 

 Rivers and rains — amount of 

 naaterial washed from 

 surface of land and 

 carried away by, 43 

 Roman remains at Puzzuoli, 

 condition of — proof of 

 changes that take place 

 in the level of the land , 

 32-38 

 Rootzikul — marine scorpion- 

 like animal from Silu- 

 rian rocks, 282 

 Russia — Theromorph reptiles, 

 discovery and working 

 out of skeletons near 

 Archangel in North Rus- 

 sia by Professor Ama- 

 litzki,* 210, 212-222 



Samos, Island of — Samo- 

 thorium, giraffe - like 

 animal found in Mio- 

 cene beds, 159, 160 

 Samotherium — giraffe - like 

 animal : 

 Skull — photograph, 161 

 Teeth — crown of tooth in 

 lower jaw divided by 

 slit into two halves, 

 described as bi-foliate, 

 159 

 Saxony — Triassic rock from, 

 showing footprints of 

 Cheirotherium, 55 

 Scales of fishes see Fishes 

 Schweinfurth, traveller, 123 

 Sclater, Dr., 164 

 Scorpions : 



Ancient and important ani- 

 mal — number of dis- 

 tinct species : extinct 

 species, etc., 276, 277 

 Animal which connects 

 scorpions with extinct 

 Eurypterids and Tri- 

 lobites — king-crab, 280 

 Desert scorpion — drawing, 



276 

 Silurian scorpions and enor- 

 mous aquatic scorpion- 

 like creatures, 277-282 

 King-crab see that title 

 Scotland — Fishes : 



Fishes with head and body 

 shields found in ' ' corn- 

 stones," 258 

 Miller's, Hugh, investiga- 

 tions relating to the 

 Pterichthys, 252-256 



323 



