INDEX. 



531 



Palaeolithic age proposed by, 199- 

 202 ; on the Cassiterides of the an- 

 cients, 404. 



Mountains in the Eocene age, 23 ; Pen- 

 nine range, 24 ; of Somerset, Devon, 

 Ireland, Scotland, 24 ; Meiocene age, 

 44 ; of Pleiocene age, 74. 



Mouse ( Mus musculus], 98. 



Mousterien, epoch of the Palaeolithic 

 age, 199. 



MUDGE on Irish log houses (note), 269. 



Mull, base of the volcano of, 45. 



Muntjak, the nearest living analogue 

 of the Meiocene deer, 89. 



Mus musculus (mouse), 98. 



Musk sheep skull discovered by author 

 at Crayford, 99, 100, 136 ; musk 

 shrew, 96. 



Mussel ( Unio pictorum), 149. 



Mussels, 303. 



Mustela (genera of beasts of prey), 40, 

 54. 



Mustela martes (marten), 98 ; erminea 

 (ermine), 98 ; putorius (stoat), 98. 



Mygale moschata (musk shrew), 98. 



My odes torquatus( Norwegian lemming), 

 99 ; lemmus (arctic lemming), 99. 



Myogale (water-shrew), 40. 



Myoxus (dormouse), 40 ; Melitensis (gi- 

 gantic dormouse), 104. 



N 



NATHORST on flora of Norfolk cliffs, 

 130. 



Navigation, Neolithic, 281. 



Necklace, amber, Lake, Wilts (fig. ), 357, 



Necrolemur (of the Primates order), 34. 



Needle, bone (fig), 185 ; La Madelaine 

 (fig.), 200. 



Neolithic, Cro-Magnon race supposed 

 to be, 229 ; pottery, 229 ; survivals 

 from age, 335 ; general conclusions, 

 340 ; Britain (fig. ), 254 ; civilisa- 

 tion, 246 ; culture, traces of, in 

 Basque dialects, 334 ; inhabitants of 

 Britain and Ireland, 265 ; hut circles, 

 266 ; knowledge of spinning by, 

 267, 275 ; pottery, 267, 275 ; as 

 farmers, 268 ; hunters and fishermen, 

 268 ; Irish, log-houses, 269 ; home- 

 stead, 271 ; axe, Rhos-Digre cave 

 (fig. ), 273 ; food of farmers, 273 ; 

 flint mines near Brandon, 276 ; 

 manufactory and camp at Cissbury, 

 279 ; commerce, 280 ; navigation, 

 281 ; warfare and camps, 282 ; tribal 

 communities, 283 ; burial of the 

 dead, 284 ; tombs, 284 ; human 



sacrifices, 287 ; belief in a future 

 state, 287 ; general conclusions as to 

 culture in Britain, 290 ; civilisation 

 on the Continent, 290 ; food, 293, 

 294 ; domestic animals, 295 ; dog, 

 295 ; hog, 255 ; oxen, sheep, and 

 goats, 297 ; animals probably derived 

 from central Asia, 300 ; cultivated 

 seeds and fruits, 300 ; shell-mounds 

 of Denmark, 302 ; birds, 303 ; forest- 

 growths, 304 ; mammalia, 304 ; art, 

 305 ; civilisation derived from cen- 

 tral Asia, 306 ; general conclusions, 

 307 ; inhabitants of Britain of Iber- 

 ian race, 309 ; skulls, 312 ; popula- 

 tion in Britain and Ireland, their 

 physique, 309 ; range on the Conti- 

 nent, 313 ; identification with Iber- 

 ian race, 314 ; Celtic invaders of 

 France and Spain in Neolithic age, 

 315. 



NESTI, Cervus dicranios of, 84. 



Nero obtains amber from the Baltic, 

 418. 



NILSSON, on oxen, 297, 298, 299 ; on 

 sculpture on tomb at Kivik, 393. 



NORDENSKIOLD, on Eskimos in Siberia, 

 233. 



North polar region in connection with 

 the dispersion of the Tertiary floras, 

 20. 



North Sea of Pleiocene age, 72, 73. 



Norwich Crags, 71. 



Nummulitic group of Eocene strata, 

 15, 16 ; age, one of depression, 17. 



Nuts, chestnut and walnut, 293 ; beech- 

 nuts, 294. 







Ober Meilen harbour excavation, 291. 

 Opossum (Didelphys], 22, 32, 33, 40, 54. 

 Ore, tin, mode of reducing, at Zamora, 



in Spain, by J. A. Phillips, 401. 

 Oreston, cavern at, 144. 

 Oreopithecus (ape), 58. 

 Ornaments of Bronze folk in Britain, 



355 ; of the Bronze age, 387 ; of 



the Iron age, 428. 

 Osmunda regalis, ferns closely allied 



to, 26, 125. 

 Ossiferous deposit at Windy Knoll 



(fig-X 188. 



Otter (Lutra), 40, 57, 98, 257, 262. 

 Ouse, section through the valley of the 



(fig.), 170. 



Overlap of history, 446. 

 Ovibos moschalus (musk sheep), 99. 

 OWEN, on turtles in London clay, at 



