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INDEX. 



mouth of Thames, 19 ; on Eocene 

 mammals (note), 26 ; on the lower 

 Eocene birds, 28 ; on the ape, Dry- 

 opithecus Fontani, 58. 



Owl, snowy, 219. 



Ox (Bos etruscus), 83 ; (Eos), first ap- 

 pearance, 87; (Urus\ 127; (Bos palce- 

 indicus), 166 ; wild, 257 ; of the 

 Neolithic age, 297, 298. 



Palaeolithic tribes, 5 ; implements in 

 the Thames valley, 156 ; implements 

 found at Battersea and Hammer- 

 smith, 159 ; implements in the late 

 Pleistocene river beds, 163 ; Inter- 

 glacial (note), 171 ; man in the Vic- 

 toria Cave (note), 187 ; men of the 

 caves of Somerset, 193 ; of Kent's 

 Hole, 194 ; age, subdivisions of, pro- 

 posed by de Mortillet, 199. See also 

 River-drift man and Cave-man. 



Palermo caves, flint flakes, etc., found 

 by FALCONER, 205. 



Palestine, River-drift man in, 165, 166. 



Palms, Meiocene, 50 ; dwarf fan, 50 ; 

 feather, 51 ; Palmacites, 25, 48 ; Fla- 

 bellaria, 26 ; Nipadites, 26. 



Palstave, Nettleham, Lincolnshire (fig. ), 

 350 ; bronze, tin mine, Villeder (fig. ), 

 404. 



Panicum miliaceum (common millet), 

 301. 



Papaver somniferum antiguum (pop- 

 pies), 301. 



Parroquets, 55. 



PARROT, M. J., on the Grotte de 

 1'Eglise, 198 ; researches into the 

 caves of the Vezere (note), 202. 



PARRY, on the Eskimos and their dead, 

 235. 



Partridge, gray, 219. 



PATON, on the discovery of mammoth 

 in Caithness, 152. 



Pears, 302. 



Peas (Pisum sativum}, 301 



PENGELLY, on the lignites of Bovey 

 Tracey (note), 47 ; exploration of 

 Kent's Hole, 194 ; conclusions as to 

 two sets of implements representing 

 two social states, 198 ; on submerged 

 forest of Torbay, 251 ; on stalagmite 

 (note), 264. 



PENNINGTON, Rooke, specimens of 

 bones, etc., from Windy Knoll, 188. 



Personal ornaments in the Iron age, 

 428. 



PERTHES, Boucher de, researches in 

 strata of the Somme valley, etc., 163. 



Pharaoh, Thothmes III., hunts ele- 

 phants in 16th century B.C., 107. 



Pheasants, 59, 61 ; introduced by the 

 Romans, 489 



Philip of Macedon, gold staters of, 437. ' 



PHILLIPS, J. A., on a mode of re- 

 ducing tin ore at Zamora, Spain, 

 401 ; analysis of ancient bronzes, 

 410. 



Phosnicians and their influence, 451 ; 

 possessed no art of their own, 455 ; 

 in the west, 456 ; spread of com- 

 merce in Britain, 457. 



Physical relations of forest bed (fig. ), 

 130 ; characters of the French people 

 (map), 326. 



Physique of Neolithic population in 

 Britain and Ireland, 309 ; of Bronze- 

 folk in Britain, 315. 



Pick, miner's, Grimes Graves (fig.), 

 277. 



PIERSON, W., history of amber (note), 

 417. 



Pika (Lagomys), 40, 96, 98. 



Pike incised on canine of bear, Duruthy 

 cave (fig.), 219. 



Pile-dwellings, 291, 292 ; in Bronze 

 age in Britain, 352. 



Pin Hole, Cress well Crags, superstition 

 connected with, 176. 



Pinus abies (spruce fir), 145 ; plutonis 

 (fir tree), 49; sylvestris, montana, 145. 



Pisum sativum (peas), 301. 



Placental mammals, invasion of Europe 

 by, the starting-point for inquiry 

 into the ancient history of man, 14. 



Pleiocene stage of the Tertiary period,, 

 characteristics of, 9 ; group of the 

 Tertiary strata, 10 ; period, biologi- 

 cal and physical changes in north- 

 western Europe before the arrival 

 of man, 70-93 ; strata of Britain, 71 ; 

 grouping of, 72 ; age, geography of 

 Britain in the, 72 ; (map), 73 ; 

 mountains, 74 ; rivers, 75 ; (lower) 

 mammalia of France, 79 ; flora, 77 ; 

 climate, 78 ; mammalia in Britain, 

 84 ; (upper) mammalia of France, 80 ; 

 of Italy, 83 ; (upper) mammalia (fig. ), 

 86 ; man, evidence of, in France and 

 Italy unsatisfactory, 90. 



Pleistocene period, stage of the Tertiary 

 period, characteristics of, 10 ; defini- 

 tion of, 94 ; survivals from Pleiocene 

 period, 95 ; incoming living species 

 of temperate habit, 96 ; incoming 

 Arctic species, 99 ; incoming species 



