CONTENTS. 



LECTURE III, 



ON THE MARSUPIALS, on POUCHED ANIMALS (METATHEKIA). 



A Supposed Common Root- 

 stock 



Embryonic Membranes, . . i 

 Embryo of Opossum, 

 New-born Kangaroo, 

 Early Life of a Marsupial, 

 Mighty Hunters, . . 

 Feeding-Grounds, 

 The Earth's Shaking Fits, 

 Pouch-bearing Animals, . 

 An opposable Inner Toe, . 

 The Skull in Marsupials, . 

 Skull of Embryo Pig, 

 Ear-drum of Marsupials, . . . 

 Exit of the Optic Nerve, . 

 Links in the Chain of Life, 



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A Bye-path Meadow, 



The hard palate, 



A Semi-Marsupial Insectivore, 



Crocodile, Bird, and Opossum, 



The Turkish Saddle, 



The Stirrup and Columella, 



The Arch of the Tongue, . 



Mimetic Types, 



Works on the Marsupials, 



Fossil Marsupials, 



An Oak Tree, . 



The Australian Flora and Fauna, 



Frogs and their Progeny, . 



Newts and Frogs, 



Nourishment of Early Germ, 



Development of the Germ, 



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LECTURE IV. 



EDENTATA. 



Distribution of the Edentata, . 90 



Specialisation of Low Types, . 91 



Nature's dull Children, . . 92 



The Struggle for Life, . .' 93 



Dwarf Edentata, ... 94 



The Extinct Glyptodon, . . 95 



Hair turned into Armour, . 96 



The Aard-Vark, ... 97 



A stunted Genealogical Tree, . 98 



Isolation of the Edentata, . 99 

 Variation of the number in the 



Neck-Joints,. . . .100 



Dying out of the Teeth, . . 101 

 When the Vertebrata had no 



Lungs, 102 



The Hard Palate, . . .103 



The Deep Things of Morphology, 1 04 



Skull of Sloth and Ant-eater, . 105 

 Toothless Jaws, . . .106 



The Feeble-faced Pangolin, . 107 



A new Hinge for the Low. r 



Jaw, .... 108 



Nature's Amputations, . 109 

 Structure, Habits, and Classifi 



cation of the Edentata, . 1 10 



Papers on the Edentata, . Ill 



Ant-eaters and Pangolins, 112 



The Captive Pangolin, . 113 



Strong Evidence for Darwinism 114 



Gigantic Sloths, . 115 



Ant-eating Birds and Lizards, 116 



Food and Safety, ,. .- 117 



Love of Offspring, . . 118 



Mother Carey, . . . 119 



An Unclean Sacrifice, . 120 



South ey as a Darwinian, . 121 

 The Green Turtle and the Glyp 



todon, . . . . . 122 



Plucking up Cedars, . . 123 



The Grave of the Giant, . . 124 



LECTURE V. 



INSECTIVOIIA. 



Materials for Work, . . .125 

 Edentata and Insectivora com- 

 pared, 126 



The First Beast-namer, . . 127 

 Development of the Whale and 



the Bat, . . . . 128 



Organic Root-stocks, . ~ . 129 



Wasted Types, . . . .130 



Adaptive Changes, . . . 131 

 Ungulate Lemurs and other 



Generalised Types, . 132, 133 



The Number Five in Digits, . 134 



Plastic Types, . . . .135 



Layers of the Skull, . . .136 



