INDEX 255 
_Schuchert, Charles, on collecting fossils, 17 
collector of Zeuglodon bones, 63 
Seals, covering of, 128 
Sea-serpent, belief in, 56 yr 
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 
White, or Man-Eater, 65 
Skeleton, basis of all- restorations, 127 
’. best testimony of animal’s relationships, 124 
information to be derived from, 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 
Stegosaurus, description of, 106 
restoration of, 108* 
Survival of the fittest, 173 
Teeth, birds with, '79 
of gnawing animals, 169, 200. 
of grass-eaters, 169 _ 
