NOTES 



north of Vesuvius which with its lofty, semicircular cliff en- 

 circles the active cone of Vesuvius. 



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Mauritius : an island in the Indian Ocean ; Huxley visited 

 the island when on the voyage with the Rattlesnake. He 

 wrote to his mother of his visit : " This island is, you know, 

 the scene of Saint Pierre's beautiful story of Paul and 

 Virginia, over which I suppose most people have sentimen- 

 talized at one time or another of their lives. Until we reached 

 here I did not know that the tale was like the lady's im- 

 prover a fiction founded on fact, and that Paul and Vir- 

 ginia were at one time flesh and blood, and that their verit- 

 able dust was buried at Pamplemousses in a spot consid- 

 ered as one of the lions of the place, and visited as classic 

 ground." 



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Mr. Darwin's coral reefs: The Structure and Distribution 

 of Coral Reefs, published in 1848. 



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Professor Jukes (1811-1869) : an English geologist. 



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Mr. Dana (1813-1895) : a well-known American geologist 

 and mineralogist ; a professor at Yale from 1845. He wrote 

 a number of books among which is Coral and Coral Reefs. 



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Jurassic period : that part of the geological series which 

 is older than the Cretaceous and newer than the Triassic ; 

 so called from the predominance of rocks of this age in the 

 Jura Mountains. The three great divisions of fossiliferous 

 rocks are called the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Creta- 



REFERENCE BOOKS 



The following reference books are suggested for a more com- 

 plete treatment of various points in the text : 

 Andrews' History of England. 

 Green's Short History of the English People. 

 Traill's Social England. 

 Roger's A Student's History of Philosophy. 

 Royce's The Spirit of Modern Philosophy. 

 Huxley's Life and Letters. 



Smalley's Mr. Huxley, in Scribner's Magazine for October, 1905. 

 Darwin's Life and Letters. 



