INDEX 



Atlantic ridge, in Cretaceous period, 

 16; in Miocene age, 21 j in 

 Pliocene age, 26, 33. 



Atlantosaurus, discovery of, 6. 



Atoms, motion of, 254; Clifford's 

 description of, 296. 



Australia, as Aryan, 82 ; foreign 

 plants and animals supplanting the 

 native, 317; appearance of mar- 

 supials and monotremes in, 320. 



Automatism of repeated impressions, 

 281-283. 



Auvergne, hippopotamus appears in 

 Pliocene strata of, 27 ; mountains 

 of, in Ice age, 30. 



Avar a in European words, 81. 



Average, the, in species, 158-161 ; 

 in man's mental capacity, 158- 

 161. 



Ayra, applied in Sanskrit to culti- 

 vators of the soil, 75 $ root of 

 Persian proper names, 76. 



Azara, Felix de, on the language of 

 South American Indians, 156. 



Baboons, Miocene, 23. 



Badger in the Recent period, 41. 



Bagehot, Walter, his " golden little 



book," 1 68} on conditions of 



progress, 170. 

 Bakhdhi, creation of, by Ahura- 



Mazda, 69. 

 Baktria, creation of, by Ahura- 



Mazda, 69 ; Zendavesta written 



in dialect of, 69. 

 Baltic Sea, in Tertiary period, 25 ; 



in glacial epochs, 30. 

 Bamboos in Pliocene age, 26. 

 Bask language as an aboriginal lan- 

 guage in Europe, 88. 

 Bask people, complexion of, 93. 

 Batrachians, earliest, 7. 

 Bavaria in Silurian age, 14. 

 Beagle, the voyage of the, 312; 



scientific results of the voyage, 



312-315. 

 Bears, Pliocene, 27 ; Pleistocene, 



29, 41 ; cave, 31, 41 ; Recent, 



41 j intelligence of, developed in 



infancy, 285 ; teachable, 286 j 

 representative of, in Eocene period, 

 320. 



Bee, Aryan words for, 127. 



Beer, doubtful if an Old Aryan word, 

 127. 



Belisarius and his environment, 187. 



Bell, Sir Charles, assisted in publica- 

 tion of results of voyage of Beagle, 



313- 



Berecynthian Mother, adoption of 

 the worship of, 239. 



Berkeley,}. M., assisted in publica- 

 tion of results of voyage of Beagle, 

 313. 



Berwick, meaning of the word, 1 1 6. 



Bignonias, Miocene, 22. 



Bigotry co-existing with elevation of 

 character, 194. 



Biography, how far useful in socio- 

 logy, 175-178. 



Birds, earliest, 6, 7 ; teeth in em- 

 bryonic, 322. 



Bison, Pleistocene, 29 j in York- 

 shire, 31. 



Black Sea in Tertiary period, 26. 



Bleda and the Moriscoes, 222. 



Boar, wild, Pleistocene, 29 ; Re- 

 cent, 41. 



Bogomilians, their puritanism, 241. 



Bohemia, in Silurian age, 14 ; in 

 Cretaceous period, 16. 



Bohemian language as branch of 

 Slavonic speech, 87. 



Bokhara, Tartaric language of, 89. 



Bollandists and the Inquisition, 191. 



Bopp, Franz, his discoveries in com- 

 parative philology, 80, 122. 



Borromeo, Carlo, Saint, and perse- 

 cution, 194. 



Bowditch, Nathaniel, his translation 

 of Mecanique Celeste, 282. 



Brain, feeling and molecular motion 

 in the, 302306. 



Brasseur de Bourbourg, C. E., on 

 migrations, 134. 



Breton language, 85. 



Brigandage, extinct in civilized com- 

 munities, 208. 



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