INDEX 



Brontosaunis — skeleton and 

 probable appearance in 

 life, 204, 205, 206 



Brussels — discovery of com- 

 plete skeletons of huge 

 Iguanodons in coal 

 mine, 200 



Buckle-head fish foimd in 

 oldest Devonian strata, 

 saddler's knife-shaped 

 head, etc., 256 — illus- 

 tration, 258 



" Bull-dogging " of skull in 

 elephants, pugs, etc., 

 103-105, 106 



Bulls: 



Urus of Julius Ctesar, 16, 17 

 Wild cattle still foimd in 

 England, ancestry of, 

 16, 17 



Burchell's rhinoceros or 

 square-mouthed Afri- 

 can rhinoceros see 

 Rhinoceros 



Buthus Australis : Drawing 

 of desert scorpion, 276 



Cambrian Rocks, shells of 

 Lingula found in — fos- 

 sil shells identical with 

 those of a living animal 

 of a high rank in scale 

 of structure, 272, 273 



Cape Colony, refer to Africa, 

 South 



Carboniferous system, variety 

 of amphibia found in, 

 245, 246 



Carcharodon niegalodon — tooth 

 of the great shark, 265 



Carcharodon rondeletii — ^j aws 

 of large recent shark, 

 264 

 Cariama or Screamer— gigantic 

 extinct South American 

 Phororachus, etc., 240 

 Carnegie, Mr. Andrew, 204 

 Cattle : 



" Bull-dogging " of skull in 



Neatta breed, 104 

 Wild cattle still to be foiuid 

 in England, ancestry 

 of, 16, 17 

 Cavises of extinction of ani- 

 mals : 

 Changes in the surface of 

 the earth — conditions 

 of life altered for the 

 animals, 31 and note 

 Development of ancestral 

 form in different direc- 

 tions, 29, 30 

 Man's interference, 28 

 Caves : 



Engravings on ivory and 



bone found in, 90-92 

 Mylodon, remains dis- 

 covered in cave in 

 south-west Patagonia 

 see Mylodon 

 Cephalaspis — saddler's knife- 

 shaped head and scale- 

 bearing body, 256 — il- 

 lustration, 258 

 Ceratodus — Australian lung- 

 fish related to ancient 

 extinct fishes, 248 — il- 

 lustration, 252 

 Ceteosaurus — remains found 

 near Oxford, 204 — pro- 

 bable appearance in 

 life, 206 



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