INDEX. 



Language, time required for varia- 

 tions of, 57; its influence on man- 

 kind, 77, 87 ; origin of, 103. 



Light, rapidity 0^.97. 



Limestone, formation of, 109 ; con- 

 tents of, 115; slow formation of, 

 117 ; Devonian, older than the 

 New Red Sandstone, 1 18. 



Lindley, Dr., his experiment with 

 immersed vegetables, 143. 



Linnaeus, on the common descent of 

 species, 3. 



Lion, its generosity, 3 ; instance of 

 its affection, 76 ; instance of its 

 gratitude, 83; in Britain, 112. 



Locke, on the reason of brutes, 74. 



Lubbock, Sir John, ' Pre-historic 

 Times/ 54, 104, 107, 112; ' Origin 

 of Civilization,' 107. 



Lyell, Sir Charles, ' Principles of 

 Geology,' 3, 54 j ' Antiquity of 

 Man,' 107 ; * Elements of Geo- 

 logy,' 109. 



Madagascar, its species and genera, 

 46. 



Malay, compared with the Papuan 

 by Mr. Wallace, 49, 150. 



Man, his destructiveness, II ; his 

 likeness to other animals in blood, 

 fibre, and skeleton, 29 ; distribu- 

 tion of his varieties, 48 ; traced 

 back for thousands of years, 51; 

 a common origin for all families 

 of, 52 ; his chief endowments, 67 ; 

 compared as a builder with birds, 

 70 ; his brain and hairless skin, 

 73 ; his bodily structure, 85 ; his 

 opinion of war, 86 ; real origin of, 

 forgotten, 102. 



Marriage- customs, slow change of, 

 106. 



Marsupials, 46 ; fossil, 47. 



Matlock Bath, formation of stalag- 

 mite at, no, 114. 



Memory, necessary to intelligence, 

 66 ; unequal distribution of, 66. 



Miracles, treatment of false ones, 

 40 ; of the Old Testament, 83. 



Mivart, St. George, Mr., ' Genesis of 

 Species' by, 173. 



Mushroom, time required for its 

 growth, 55. 



Mygale, the trap-door spider, its in- 

 genious nest, 29. 



Natural Selection, illustrated by 

 artificial selection, 14 ; the slow- 

 ness of its movement, 18 ; ex- 

 plains the order of nature, and in 

 part its seeming disorder, 26 ; 

 limits of, propounded by Mr. 

 Wallace, 62. 



Nile, articles in sediment of, 108. 



Origin of life, opinions on, 94. 

 Oysters, memory of, 66 ; obscure 

 politics of, 77.. 



Palaeontology, Lyell's definition of, 



135. 

 Papuan, compared with the Malay, 



49, 150. 

 Parfitt, Mr., on Fossil Sponge Spi- 



cules, 136, 139. 

 Pengelly, Mr., on pre-historic man, 



105 ; exploration of Kent's cavern 



by, 109, no, 113. 

 Pigeons, subjected to man's selec- 

 tion, 14, 1 6, 17. 

 Plants, their struggle for* food, 1 2 ; 



their movements, 28. 

 Pope, his epithet for the elephant, 



74- 



Reason, progressive development of, 

 in individual minds, 62, 67 ; that 

 of men, one in kind with the in- 

 telligence of brutes, 66, 84 ; helps 

 to, 86. 



Relative terms, 97, 171. 



Religion, development of, 64, 90. 



Reversion, 9 ; limits artificial selec- 

 tion, 17. 



Rudimentary organs, ai. 



Sandstone, New Red, 118. 



Savages, question of their degen- 

 eracy, 57 ; brain, skin, and voice 

 of, 78. 



Science, not antagonistic to Christian 

 doctrine, 82, note. 



Scripture, no warrant for distinct 

 creations, 20; does not profess to 



