GEOLOGY AND HISTORY 



physical characters, 51 ; his 

 remains at Cro-magnon, 51 ; 

 skeleton of, at Mentone, 58 ; 

 varieties in skull of, 60 ; gi- 

 gantic size of, 62 ; a feebler 

 race, 63 ; conditions of, 71; 

 Dupont on primitive, 73 ; 

 unprogressive character of 

 men of mammoth age, 75 ; 

 beliefs of, 76 ; mortuary cus- 

 toms of palanthropic, 77 ; 

 change of, from palaeocosmic 

 to neocosmic, 91 ; neolithic, 

 IOI ; of Britain, 103 ; in 

 Eden, US; condition of 

 palanthropic, 116; recency of, 

 213 ; locality of his origin, 216 



Meeting-place of geology and 

 history, 13 



Mentone skeleton, the, 58 



Mesozoic age, the, 19 



Metals, the knowledge of, 118 



Miocene age, the, 23 ; changes 

 of, 24 ; monkeys of, 27 



Mitanni, 181 



Mizraim, 193 



Monkeys, miocene, 27 



Mortillet on the stone age, 69 



Moses : his knowledge of Divine 

 name, 180 



Mourlon on pleistocene remains, 



30 



Musical instruments, invention 

 of, 118 



NAHR-EL-KELB, caverns of, 44 j 



people of, 203 

 Neanderthal skull, the, 60 

 Neanthropic age, definition of, 



17 ; events of, 39 ; men of, 



95 



Nebula, picture of, 1 8 

 Necklace, a shell, 48 

 Neocosmic age, appearance of, 



men of, 91, 102 

 Neolithic age, men of, IOI 

 Niagara, Lyell's use of, 124 

 Nile valley, limestones of, 1 68, 



241 ; appearance of, 174 

 Nimrod, kingdom of, 190 

 Noah, story of, 121 

 Nuesch on deposits at Schweiz- 



ersbild, 87 



OLD man of Cro-magnon, 53 ; 



supposed history of, 65 

 Ornaments, remains of, 48, 58 



PALAEOLITHIC implements, dis- 

 coveries of, 31 



Palaeozoic age, the, 19 



Palanthropic age, definition of, 

 17; number of species of 

 mammals in, 37 ; climate of, 

 38 ; land of, 40 ; caves of, 46 ; 

 animals of, 50 ; man of, 5 1 ; 

 conditions of, 69; divisions 

 of, 70 ; tragic end of, 85 ; 

 changes in fauna of, 80 ; 

 subsidence of, 88 



Palestine, people of, 197 ; his- 

 tory of, 20 1 



Paviland skull, the, 60 



Petrie : his photographic por- 

 traits, 1 80 



Pharaoh of the Exodus, the, 179 



Phoenicians, the, 193 



