INDEX 



Don, in European geographical names, 



84 ; a Keltic name, 84. 

 Door, Aryan words for, 117, 118. 

 Dorians, 45. 

 Dragons of the prime, 6. 

 Drake, Sir Francis, 82. 

 Dravidian languages, 138. 

 Dryopithecus, 23, 24. 

 Duelling nearly obsolete, 208. 

 Dumbarton, meaning of the word, 



1 1 6. 



Dundee, meaning of the word, 1 1 6. 

 Dunkeld, meaning of the word, 1 1 6. 



Eagles, Miocene, 22. 



Earth, crust of the, how long solidi- 

 fied, 9 ; oscillations of, 13, 314. 



Earth's orbit, changes of, the cause 

 of glacial period, 48 ; as affecting 

 our change of seasons, 48 ; periods 

 of high eccentricity of, 50, 59, 

 61,65; as affecting the climate 

 of the northern hemisphere, 51, 

 55, 56 ; as affecting die climate 

 of the southern hemisphere, 53, 

 56 ; as the cause of various glacial 

 periods, 60. 



Easter, adoption of, 239. 



Ecuador, its flora and fauna com- 

 pared with those of the Galapagos 

 Islands, 315-318- 



Educability, of the lower animals, 

 284; of higher mammals, 286. 



Edwards, Jonathan, as a materialist, 

 250. 



Effective desire of accumulation and 

 the complication of mental and 

 moral processes, 197-201. 



Egyptian hieroglyphics, simultaneous 

 discoveries in, 332. 



Ejects or inferred existences, 300- 

 302, 305. 



Elagabalus and persecution, 194. 



Electric telegraph, invention of, 332. 



Elephant, first appears in Pliocene 

 age, 27 ; Pleistocene, 29 ; Re- 

 cent, 41 ; is teachable, 286. 



Elk, in Yorkshire, 31, 41 ; Irish, in 

 Recent period, 41. 



348 



Elms, Miocene, 22. 



Embryology, facts of, in proof of 

 Darwinian theory, 322. 



England, advantage of her social 

 plasticity in her rivalry with France, 

 291. 



English Channel, in the Miocene 

 age, 21 ; in Recent period, 40. 



English language, the probable future 

 of, 82, 144 ; a branch of Teu- 

 tonic speech, 86, 100 ; few Kelt- 

 isms in, 90 j half made up of Latin 

 words, 90. 



English people, as Aryans, 76 j 

 much Keltic blood and few Keltic 

 words among the, 90 ; many 

 Latin words and little Roman 

 blood among the, 90. 



Environment, and geniuses, 162, 

 1 86 ; its influence in causing so- 

 cial changes, 166, 168 j Grant 

 Allen on, 169 ; and industrialism, 

 186-188. 



Eocene age, 7 ; beginning of, 10 ; 

 physical contour of Europe in, 

 1 6 ; mammals of, 16-20, 28 ; 

 animals less distinctly specialized 

 in, 1 8, 19, 28, 320 ; vegetation 

 of, 1 8 ; man did not exist in, 

 20 ; lemuroids of, are the link 

 between man and horse, 1 8 ; cli- 

 mate of Europe in, 60. 



Eozoon, Canadian, 4, 7. 



Equinoxes, precession of, 50. 



Ericsson, John, precursors of, 185. 



Erin, etymology of the word, 80. 



Error, Laplace's law of, 297. 



Eskimos, probably sole survivors of 

 the Cave-men, 40 j allied to the 

 Samoyeds, 151. 



Esthonian as a non-Aryan language, 

 88. 



Ethel, as the root of Old English 

 proper names, 76. 



Ethics and evolution, 276. 



Ethnology, change in our point of 

 view of, in recent years, 133. 



Etruskan possibly an aboriginal lan- 

 guage in Europe, 88. 



