246 INDEX 



Diplodocus, estimated weight, 99 

 supposed habits, 99 



Egg of ^pyornis, 147, 148 ; Apteryx, 147 ; Ostrich, 



146; Moa, 148 

 Eggs, casts of, 87 

 Elephant, size, 180 



size of tusks, 181, 182 

 Elephas ganesa, tusks, 196 

 Encrustations, 14 

 Extermination. See Extinction 

 Extinction, ascribed to great convulsions, 225 



ascribed to primitive man, 188, 224 



of Dinosaurs, 221 



local, 225 



by man, 224, 225 



of Marine Reptiles, 222 



often unaccountable, 222, 223 



of Pliocene rhinoceros, 232 



sometimes evolution, 221, 226 



of Titanotheres, 222 



Feathers, imprints of, 76, 132 

 Fishes, abundance of, 25 



armored, 23, 24, 25, 28 



collections of, 32 



killed by cold, 230 



killed by volcanoes, 231 

 Fish-crows, killed by cold, 231 

 Flesh does not petrify, 10 



