INDEX 



Orthoceras— extinct allies of 



pearly nautilus, 268 

 Osteolepis — extinct ganoid 

 fish: 

 Beautifully preserved speci- 

 men found in the De- 

 vonian strata, 248 

 Drawing, 251 

 Ostrich-like bird — ^New Zea- 

 land moa see New 

 Zealand 

 Owen, Sir R., 68, 69, 70, 184, 



186, 271 

 Oxen : 



Skull of ox, photograph 

 showing occipital con- 

 dyles, 73 

 Urus of Julius Csesar, 16, 



17 

 Wild cattle still to be found 

 in England, ancestry 

 of, 16, 17 



Palseomastodon, Eocene 

 (Egypt), 126, 127, 128 



Palceophonus hifateri — draw- 

 ing of the remains of a 

 scorpion from Upper 

 Silurian of Lesmahago, 

 277, 278 



Palceophonus nuncius — Silu- 

 rian scorpion of Goth- 

 land, 278 



Palaeotherium — skeleton 

 found in calcareous 

 rock at Montmartre, 

 Paris — photograph, 46 



Palaeozoic strata — no reptile, 

 bird, or mammal found 

 in, 245 



Pariasaurus : 



Nodules containing skele- 

 tons — Professor Ama- 

 litzky's discoveries, 

 216-220 

 Remoteness of the time 

 when these reptiles 

 lived, 218 

 Size of the reptile, 220 

 Skeleton set up by Pro- 

 fessor Seeley, 211 

 Skeleton and skull removed 

 from an archangel nod- 

 ule, 218, 219 

 Skull of Pariasaurus dis- 

 covered in Russia : 

 species similar to one 

 discovered in South 

 Africa, 220 



Pearly nautilus — structure of 

 shell, species now liv- 

 ing, etc., 267, 268 



Penguins — use of wings as 

 swimming organs, 244 



Pentacrini see Stone-lilies 



Permian strata on banks of 

 the Dwina, North 

 Russia — Professor 

 Amalitzky's dis- 



coveries, 212-222 



Peterborough — skeleton of a 

 Plesiosaur removed by 

 Mr. A. N. Leeds— pho- 

 tograph, 223 



Phenacodus — five-toed an- 

 cestor of the horse, 139, 

 141 



Phororachus of South Amer- 

 ica — photograph, etc., 

 239, 240 



320 



