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INDEX. 



Danes, ancient, food and weapons of, 

 104. 



Darwin, his account of the deve- 

 lopment of his theory, 4 ; his 

 calculation about elephants, 13 ; 

 allusion to his theory of Pangenesis, 

 33 ; his explanation of the fauna 

 and flora of mountain-tops, 46 ; his 

 account of slave-making ants, 69 ; 

 his treatment of geology, 134, 

 his chapter on instinct, 163. 



Darwinism, 3-33 ; obscurely anti- 

 cipated, 2 ; its supporters, 3 ; 

 prejudice against, 4, 152 ; its 

 bearing on the seeming imper- 

 fection of nature, 24 ; inconsistent 

 with a recent universal deluge, 



31, 34- 



Dawkins, Mr. W. Boyd, lecture on 

 coal by, 143. 



Dawson, Dr., Acadian Geology, 120, 

 140. 



Day, Dr., paper by, on the Mud-fish 

 and Anabas scandens, 28. 



Denudation, 143. 



Deucalion's Flood, argument from 

 rebutted, 150. 



Development, theory of, by whom 

 originated and supported, 4 ; opin- 

 ion of its absurdity, 6 ; facts and 

 principles necessary to, (variation, 

 7 ; Inheritance and Reversion, 9 ; 

 struggle for life, 1 1 ; antiquity of 

 the globe, 30 ; freedom of the globe 

 from any recent universal cata- 

 strophe 31) ; application of, to 

 human body and mind, 62, 95 ; 

 time required for, 122; not ma- 

 terially affected by hypothesis of 

 spontaneous generation, 127. 



Ducklings, experiment with, 73. 



Earth, immense age of, required by 

 Theory of Development, 30, 67 ; 

 proved by geology, 31, 54, 107, 

 121 ; popular impression as to age 

 of, 93, 121; reckoned by millions 



. of years, 123. 



Egypt, its monuments, 51; its 

 chronology, 56, 101. 



Elephant, its sagacity, 3 ; its rate of 

 breeding, 13 ; its different species, 



46 ; its memory, 66 ; epithet ap- 

 plied to it by Pope, 74 ; in 

 Devonshire, 112. 



Esquimaux, their ignorance of arith- 

 metic, 103. 



Flint-tools, 109, in, 113. 



Flood, the Noachian, 34-61 ; his- 

 torical account of, 38 ; explanation 

 suggested, 41 ; how consistent with 

 Darwinism, 50; traditions of a, 58 ; 

 no traces of its universality, 59. 



Food, its influence on the animal 

 and vegetable kingdoms, 12 ; in 

 the competition for life, 22. 



Fossils, an evidence of variation, 20 ; 

 different in different strata, 116; 

 time required for vicissitudes of, 

 119; necessary imperfection of, 

 134 ; their scarcity and abundance, 

 141 ; numerous chances of loss and 

 destruction for, 146. 



Fuegians, nakedness of, 112, note. 



Galileo, his doctrine of the earth's 



motion condemned, 60, 148. 

 Genesis, book of, its chronology, 55. 

 ' Genesis of Species,' by Mr. Mivart, 



173- 



Geology, its conclusions, 31, 53 ; 

 imperfection of its record, 133-146. 



Giraffe?, 176, 179. 



Glacial Period, its effect on dis- 

 tribution of species, 47. 



Gooseberry, the big, 16. 



Horse, career of, in America, 48 ; 

 its endurance and ambition, 3 ; its 

 intelligence, 66 ; instance thereof, 

 74 ; its intercourse with man, So. 



Hypotheses, use of, 131. 



Inheritance, 9 ; at different periods 

 of life, 1 8. 



Instinct, of bees, 25 ; employment 

 and gradations of, in various 

 animals, 28 ; compared with rea- 

 son 62-81, 164; fallacious theory 

 of, 67 ; ignored by ducklings, 73 ; 

 fancied excellence of, 86. 



Kent's cavern, 109-115. 



