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BIRDS OF PARADISE 



INDEX 



DARWIN 



Birds of Paradise, new types of, 276 

 Bison, former great population of in 



America, 1 1 5 

 Bolus, Mr. H., on flora of Cape 



peninsula, 37 ; on orchids of Cape 



peninsula, 38 

 Borneo, rich forest flora of, 47 ; birds 



of, 49 

 Botanical reserves, advantages of 



small, 75 

 Boveri's experiments on echini, 346 

 Brain -cavity of Dinocerata very 



small, 223 

 Brains of early vertebrates, small, 270 

 Brazil, richness of flora of, 70 

 Britain, peculiar animals and plants 



of, 125 

 British India, flora of, 43 ; chief 



natural orders of, 44 

 British plants, numerical distribution 



of, 22, 25 ; of limited range, 24 

 Brittan, Mr. L. N., on flora of 



Jamaica, 63 

 Brontosaurus excelstts, skeleton of, 205 

 Butler, Sir W., on mosquito-swarms, 



135 



Butterflies, recognition by, 167, 



172 



Butterfly, stages of development of, 

 301 ; scales on wings of, 301 



Butterfly and caterpillar, diverse 

 structure of, 298 



Caltha palustris, wide range of, 1 7 

 Cambrian age, first known life of, 192 

 Campanula isophylla, small range, 18 

 Cape Colony, flora of, 70 

 Cape peninsula, rich flora of, 37 

 Cape Region, rich flora of, 32, 72 

 Carbon, the mystery of, 362 ; proper- 

 ties of, 363 ; in the ocean, 364 

 Carnivora, early forms of, 224 ; 



extinct South American, 233 

 Cavies, numerous extinct, 235 

 Celebes, flora of, 51, 79 

 Cell, the mystery of, 335 ; character- 

 istics of, 337 ; implies an organising 

 mind, 338 ; described by Professor 

 Lloyd-Morgan, 338; Weismann's 

 description of a dividing, 339 ; 

 Weismann's statement of its powers, 



342 

 Cell-problem, concluding remarks 



on, 349 

 Ceratites nodosus, 268 

 Ceralosaurus nasuornis, skull of, 206 

 Cetiosaurus letdsi from Oxford clay, 204 



Challenger voyage defines area of 

 deposition, 177 



Chemical problems of water, 365 ; 

 nomenclature, illustration of com- 

 plexity of, 388 ;;. 



China and Corea, flora of, 31 



Christianity, gradual rise of a purer, 

 280 



Cities, the " wens " of civilisation, 285 



Coal, wide distribution of palaeozoic, 

 196 ; prepared atmosphere for higher 

 life, 197 



Cobbett, William, on "wens," 285 



Cockerell, on tropical species as com- 

 pared with temperate, 97 



Coleoptera, number of British, 84 ; 

 number known, 85 



Colour, for concealment, 157 ; ex- 

 tremes of, 276 ; of flowers supposed 

 to show inedibility, 308 ; purpose of 

 in nature, 310; of plants and animals 

 in relation to man, 315 ; our sensa- 

 tions of, an argument for design, 

 322-4 



Colour-sense not identical in birds, 

 mammals, and man, 311-12, 317 



Colours of butterflies, uses of, 169 



Colours and ornaments of males, 

 how caused, 262 



Compounds, inorganic, number of, 

 389 ; number of organic (artificial), 

 389 



CONDYLARTHRA, 219 



Conocoiyphe suitzeri, 267 

 Continental extensions, appendix 



on, 249 ; great difficulties of, 250-51 

 Continents, how built up, 182, 184 

 Coryphodon, an early ungulate, 219 

 Creators of matter and life not 



necessarily omnipotent, 393 

 Creodonta, early carnivores, 224 

 Crioceras emerici, 268 

 Crookes, Sir W., gives an example 



of complex chemical nomenclature, 



388 

 Cruelty of nature, supposed, 369 

 Crustacea, early appearance of, 195 



D^dicurus, giant extinct armadillo, 



236 

 Darwin on flora of a very small area, 



81 ; on increase of elephant, 114; 



on Porto Santo rabbits, 127 ; on the 



uses of colour to plants, 305 ; on 



cross -fertilisation of flowers, 306 ; 



on war of nature, 370 ; on intelligent 



cause of the universe, 392 



