308 
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 24. 
Buechner, Ludwig, Huxley’s disapproval 
of, 211; quoted concerning Pythag- 
oras’s sacrifice of oxen, 281. 
Bureau of Ethnology, the Washington, 
30-31. 
Bushy Run, battle of, 120. 
Cc 
Cambridge University in Milton’s day, 41. 
Carlovingians, period in history of the, 
28. 
Carlyle, Thomas, 9, 24, 235. 
Catastrophism, theory of, 264-265; 
overthrown by Lyell, 265-260. 
Cayuga Indians, the, 93, 94. 
Champlain, Samuel de, 88, 95-96. 
Chancery records, lack of care in pre- 
serving, IO-II. 
Charleston, tea-ships at, 188-189. 
Charlevoix, the Jesuit historian, 101. 
Cherokees, the, 92. 
Chickasaws, the, 92. 
Children, bounties on, in French colo- 
nies, 86. 
Choctaws, the, 92. 
Clarendon, Earl of, 63. 
Cobbler of Agawam, the, 133, 140. 
Commines, 32. 
Committees of correspondence, 189-190. 
Comte, Auguste, Philosophy of Posi- 
tivism of, 203, 282. 
* Comus,” 45-46. 
Conestoga, the sack of, 118. 
Congreve, controversy of Huxley with, 
on scientific aspects of Positivism, 
203. 
Connecticut, settlement of, by men from 
Massachusetts, 142-145; common- 
wealth of, created, 146-147; consti- 
tution of (Fundamental Orders), 
146-149; constitution of, compared 
to that of New Haven, 153; annex- 
ation of New Haven by, 155-156; 
part played by, in formation of fed- 
eral constitution of United States, 
156-159. 
“Conspiracy of Pontiac,” Parkman’s, 
120, 126. 
Constantinople in history, 29. 

INDEX 
Constitution of Athens, Aristotle’s, 15. 
Cook, James, 113. 
Copernicus, 259. 
“Cosmic Philosophy,” Dr. Fiske’s, 204, 
284. 
Cotton, John, 130, 132, 134, 138, 141, 
150. 
Coues, Dr., 127. 
Courtemanche, General, invasion of 
Mohawk country by, 102. 
Crayfish, the, Huxley’s work on, 226, 
Creek Indians, the, 92. 
Cromwell, Oliver, 19, 25, 60, 61-62, 63. 
Cullender, Rose, 277. 
Curtius, Ernst, history of Greece by, 27. 
Cutler, Manasseh, letters of, 13. 
D 
Dante, rank of, among the great poets, 
66. 
Darwin, Charles, confession of, to liking 
for falsifying when a child, 17; the 
“Origin of Species,’ 201, 283; 
similarity between beginnings of 
Huxley’s career and that of, 220; 
Huxley’s support of, 224-225; the 
theory of Natural Selection, 271; 
not the originator of the doctrine of 
evolution, 272-273; rejected for 
membership in the French Academy 
of Sciences, 282. 
Davenport, John, 150, 151, 152, 156. 
Dawn, myths which are stories of the, 
299, 305-306. 
“Decline and Fall of the Roman Em- 
pire,” Gibbon’s, 33, 37-38. 
Deerfield massacre, the, 104. 
“Defence of the English People,” Mil- 
ton’s, 61. 
“Defence of the King,” Salmasius’, 60- 
61. 
‘Delaware Indians, the, 92, 95, 116, 120. 
Dentreath, Dolly, 268. 
“ Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutch- 
inson,” 163. 
Dickinson, John, letters of, 13. 
Dinosaurs, the, 264. 
Dinwiddie, Governor Robert, 106, 166. 
Dipper, an unknown article in England, 
217. 

