INDEX 



407 



Eiger glacier, n, 16 

 Eismeer, 1 1 



Elephant, African, north of the 

 Sahara, 249 



African (figure), 121 



Indian (figure), 120 

 Elephants (chapter), 119 



ancestors of, 143-147 



dig with their tusks, 131 



ears of, 125 



food consumed by, 123 



foot of, 128 



in menageries in ancient times, 127 



in war, 134 



intelligence of, 133 



legs of, 129 



Mr. Rudyard Kipling on, 130 



of Julius Caesar, 128 



Shakespeare on the legs of, 130 



size of, 123 



teeth of, 126, 141 



Topsell on, 130 



trunk of, 132 



tusks of, 124 



weight of, 123 



Elk, approaching extinction, 367 

 Emin Pasha, elephant tusks of, 125 

 Equinox and solstice, 260 

 Evans, Sir Arthur, his discoveries in 



Crete, 250 

 Existence is the perpetual miracle, 



403 



Explained, things, and things not 

 explained by science, 388 



Explanation of existence and the 

 nature of things not pos- 

 sible, 403 



Explanations, barbaric, of life and 



consciousness, 397 

 pretended, destroyed by science, 



399 

 which are no explanations, 399 



Fatherless frogs, 213 



Fern, a sexless spore-bearer, 106 



spore, germination of, 99 

 Ferns as big as trees, 1 17 



of the coal-measures, 1 17 



the ancestors of flowers, 107 



which produce seed, 117 

 Fern-seed, 96 



how to gather, 98 



tradition as to, 97 



Fertilisation by the wind, 228 

 of clover by bees, 363 

 of ferns, 106 

 of frogs' egg, 213, 214 

 of sage, 4 



Figs and capri-figs, 103 

 Flavours of grouse, canvas-backed 

 duck, whales, flounders, 

 eels, mutton and beef, 190 

 Flies, house-, danger and diminution 



of, 332, 344, 345 

 Flower, diagram of, in 

 Flowering fern (Osmunda), no 

 Flowering plant and fertilisation, 



116 



Food and habit, 173 

 Forests, injury caused by cutting 



them down, 370 

 Frames, picture, 327 

 Frogs, tadpole (figures), 291 



Gallop, flying (figures of), 57 



Galloping horse, 52 



Gaol fever, 330 



Generations of fern, alternate sexual 



and sexless, 106 

 Geneva, lake of, 15 

 Germicidal poison in the blood, 348 

 Gericault, his picture of a galloping 



horse, 57 



Ginko tree, 106, 114 

 Gioconda, La, 212 

 Glacial periods, 38, 39, 41 

 Glacier grains, 26 



scratches and polish, 49 



the Corner, big enough to build 



three cities, 46 

 Glaciers, 29 

 flow of, 45 



increase and shrinkage of, 35 

 movement of, 35 

 vast size of ancient, 35 

 Gletsch, 23, 25 

 Globe-flower, 16 

 Gnaphalium leontopodium, 6 

 Goa-stone, 94 

 Goat, skull and jaw of common, 



150, 151 



the rat-toothed (figure), 155 

 Gregory XIII, Pope, suppressed ten 



days in the calendar, 263 

 Grew, the discoverer of the fertilising 

 action of pollen, 103 



