INDEX 255 



Schuchert, Charles, on collecting fossils, 17 



collector of Zeuglodon bones, 63 

 Seals, covering of, 128 

 Sea-serpent, belief in, 56 



possibility of existence, 57 

 Shaler, Professor, on changes in Miocene flora of 



Europe, 236, 237 

 Sharks, early, 31 



Great-toothed, 65 



known from spines and teeth, 29 



Port Jackson, 29 



teeth of, 69 



"VVliite, or Man-Eater, 65 

 Skeleton, basis of all restorations, 127 



best testimony of animal's relationships, 124 



information to be derived fi'om, 120, 122, 123, 



124, 125, 126, 127 



a problem in mechanics, 102, 124 



reconstruction of, 120 



relation of, to exterior of animal, 121, 127 



of Triceratops, 103,* 121 

 Spines and plates, 130 

 Stegosaui'us, description of, 106 



restoration of, 108* 

 Survival of the fittest, 173 



Teeth, birds with, 79 



of gnawing animals, 1 69, 200 

 of gi-ass-eaters, 169 



