INDEX 



Dodo: 



Extinct, causes, etc. — contd. 

 Loss of power of flight, 



causes, etc., 243 

 Mauritius, discovery in, 26 

 Oxford University speci- 

 men, fate of, 27 

 Photographs of bird and 



skeleton, 26, 27 

 Skeletons and bones dis- 

 covered since extinc- 

 tion, 28 



Dog-fish — most ancient kind 

 of fish known, 247 



Dogs' skulls, shortening of 

 face in bulldogs and 

 pugs, 104, 105 



Dragon-fly's wings preserved 

 in stratified rock, 46, 

 47 



Drawing, skill of primitive 

 men^photographs of 

 engravings on ivory 

 and bone, etc., 90-92 



Drepanaspis — strange fossil 

 fish same age as the 

 Pteraspis — Professor 

 Traquair's drawings, 

 etc., 260, 261, 262 



Dromatherium— lower jaws 

 of ancient mammals, 

 189 



Dryolestes — lower jaws of 

 ancient mammals, 189 



Dunwich, city swallowed up 

 by the sea, 43 



Divina, river — cliffs where 

 nodules containing 



skeletons of reptiles 

 are found — Professor 

 Amalitzky's discover- 

 ies, 212-222 



305 



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Ear — spiral internal ear, dis- 

 tinctive mark of a 

 mammal, 74-76 



Earthquakes, cause of, 50 



Edentata — group of mam- 

 mals peculiar to South 

 America, extinction of 

 the monstrous animals, 

 167 

 {refer also to titles, Sloths, 

 Armadilloes, Mylodon, 

 etc.) 



Education, art of — logical 

 method v. exciting the 

 desire to know, 4 



Eggs, size compared — eggs 

 of the apteryx, ostrich 

 and giant moa, 242, 243 



Egypt — Fayum Desert, dis- 

 coveries of bones by 

 Dr. Andrews and the 

 Egyptian survey, 123- 

 132 



Elasmotherium, 144 



Elephants : 



Ancestral history traced 

 back through series 

 from bulldog - faced 

 elephants to ordinary 

 mammals see title, 

 Mastodons 

 *' Bull-dogging " or short- 

 ening of the face, 103, 

 104, 105, 106 

 Photographs of skulls, 

 104, 107, 108, 109 

 Dinotherium — extinct side- 

 branch of elephant 

 family, 117, 118 

 Hairy skin of new-born 

 young, 95 



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