INDEX. 



523 



DESOR, on cup-stones, 339. 



Diadem of bronze, Denmark (fig. ), 389. 



Didclphys (opossum), 26, 40. 



Disc-shaped barrow of Bronze age (fig. ), 

 367. 



Distribution of animals as evidence of 

 European geography, 109. 



Dog family (Canis\ first appearance, 

 87 ; no trace of dog, or other domestic 

 animals, with Cave-men, 217 ; some- 

 times used for food in Neolithic age, 

 304. 



Dogger Bank, collection of bones, 

 antlers, etc., found at, 149. 



Dol-ar-Marchnant, plumed hatchet on, 

 305. 



Domestic animals of Prehistoric age, 

 262 ; animals of Neolithic age, 295 ; 

 dog, hog, 295 ; oxen, sheep, goats, 

 297 ; animals not older than Pre- 

 historic age (note), 300. 



Dordogne, sketch of glutton found in 

 caves of, 215. 



Dormouse, 40, 54 ; gigantic (Myoxus 

 melitensis], 104, 105. 



Downs Bog, bronze articles found in, 

 363. 



Dress and ornaments of Cave-men, 211. 



Drinking-cup, East Kennet (fig. ), 361. 



Dryandra, 52. 



Dryandroides, 48. 



Dryopitlwcus Fontani (ape), 58. 



Duck, wild, engraved in la Madelaine, 

 219, 303. 



DUPONT, on the caves of Belgium (note), 

 203 ; on Cave-men in Belgium, 204 ; 

 on the mode of obtaining fire by the 

 Cave-men, 210 ; on the bones of 

 Cave-men, 224. 



Duration of Pleistocene and Prehistoric 

 periods, 265. 



Diirnten, lignites of, present no traces 

 of man, 145. 



Duruthy cave; see Caves. 



Dwellings of the Cave-men, 205. 



DYER on the dispersion of the Tertiary 

 floras, 20. 



E 



Early Bronze age ; see Bronze age. 



Early Pleistocene age ; see Pleistocene, 

 early. 



Edentata (fig. ), 56. 



EDWARDS, A. Milne-, on the specialisa- 

 tion of birds in Tertiary period, 12 ; 

 on the lower Eocene birds, 28 ; birds 

 of the upper Eocene lake of Paris, 33 



Eguishcim, cranium found at, 167. 



Egyptian tin, probable source of, 407. 

 Egyptians and their influence, 447. 

 Elba, tin-stone found at, 405. 

 Elephants (eUpka\ first appearance, 

 87 ; African (Elephas AJricanus], 



103 ; hunting in sixteenth century, 

 107 ; Falconer's and pigmy (Elephas 

 Falconeri, melitensis, mnaidrensis\ 



104 ; straight-tusked (Elepluts anti- 

 quus), 104, 126, 145, 187 ; primi- 

 genius (mammoth), 104 ; (Falconeri) 

 melitensls, mnaidrensis (Falconer's 

 and pigmy elephant), 104 ; armeni- 

 acus, 107 ; mcridionalis, 81, 85, 86, 

 126 ; namadicus (Stegodon) insignis, 

 166. 



Elk, Irish (Magaceros hibernicus\ 104, 

 127 ; sole survivor from the Pleisto- 

 cene into the Prehistoric age, 257 ; 

 remains found in Ballybetagh bog, 

 258 ; proved to have been hunted, 

 258 ; discoveries of, by USSHER, in 

 Ireland, 258 ; discovered in Berk- 

 shire and Ayrshire, .259 ; their ex- 

 istence in peat doubted by Leith 

 Adams, but recorded by Kinahan 

 (note), 258 ; Irish, 257 ; true, 257, 

 260, 262. 



ELLIOT, Sir "Walter, antlers of moose 

 found by, 260. 



ELLIS on flint -flakes in submerged 

 forest of Barnstaple, 251. 



Emys (turtle), 19. 



Enamelling, art of, first appearance, 

 435. 



English conquest, 490. 



Engraved slab tomb, Kivik, Scania 

 (fig.), 395. 



Engraving by Cave-men, 220, 221. 



Eocene, the lowest Tertiary strata, 10 ; 

 classification, 14 ; Britain part of a 

 great continent, 23 ; (lower) plants 

 and animals, 25 ; (lower) mammalia, 

 26 ; (lower), birds, 28 ; (mid) flora, 

 28 ; (mid) mammalia, 30 ; (mid) 

 temperature according to Starkie 

 GARDNER, 35 ; (upper continental) 

 mammalia, 32, 34 ; south-eastern 

 coast-line of Britain during the, 17 ; 

 north-west coast-line during the, 17 ; 

 geography of north-western Europe 

 in the, 18 ; sea, 17 ; rich in reptilian 

 life, 19 ; mountains of the, 23 ; rivers 

 of the, 25 ; plants and animals of 

 the, 25 ; strata divided into three 

 groups : Pre-nummulitic, nummuli- 

 tic, post-nummulitic, 15 ; classifica- 

 tion of (table), 16 ; stage of the Ter- 

 tiary period, characteristics of, 9. 



