INDEX. 



. Vid. Moa-bird. 

 Agassiz, 27 

 "Age of Reptiles," 63, 107; "Age 



of Mammals," 147 

 Air, action of, 10 

 Allosaurus, 83 

 Ancients, ideas of the, 35, 61, 155, 



195, 199 

 Apatosaurus, 70 

 Aqueous rocks, 14 

 Arbroath paving-stone, 26 

 Armadillo. Vid. Glyptodon. 

 Articulata, 25 

 Atlantosaurus, 70 



B 



Backbone of fishes, 49 



" Bad Lands" of Wyoming, 157 



Baker, Sir Samuel, on Crocodiles, 

 48 ; on Elephants, 215 



Basalt, 14 



Berossus, the Chaldaean, 34 



Birds, fossilisation of, 19 ; ancestry 

 of, 63, 109. Vid. Hesperornis, 

 Moa. 



Blackie, Prof. J. S., on Ichthyosau- 

 rus, 37 



" Breaks," 21, 147 



Brontops, 160 



Brontosaurus, 66 ; vertebrae of, 68 ; 

 habits of, 69 



Buckland, Dean, 37, 46, 53, 73, 75~ 

 77, 124, 126, 180 



Buffon, 5, 223 



Cautley, Captain, 162 

 Cave-earth, 10 



Ceratosaurus, 84 



Cetiosaurus, 73, 74 



Challenger , H.M.S., 20 



Chinese legends of Mammoth, 199 



Clidastes, 144, 145 



Climate, of Lias period, 51 ; of 

 Eocene period, 159 ; of Tertiary 

 era, 163 



Collini, 123 



Compsognathus, 86 



Conybeare, Rev., on Plesiosaurus, 

 52, 58; on Sea-serpents, 135 



Cope, Prof. E, D., on Sea-serpents, 

 139, 141, 143 ; on Eocene wingless 

 bird, 237 



Correlation, law of, 6, 43, 54, 88, 

 161 



Crustaceans, 24 



Cuvier, 2, 5, 7, 63, 73, 76 ; on Ich- 

 thyosaurus, 36 j on Plesiosaurus, 

 53 ; on Iguanodon teeth, 90, 91 ; 

 on Pterodactyls, 121, 122, 126 ; 

 on Mosasaurus, 135, 136; on 

 Tertiary animals, 148; on Mega- 

 therium, 179; on Mammoth, 193, 

 212; on Mastodon, 217 



Darwin, Charles, 20 ; on extinct 

 Sloths, 181 



Dawkins, Prof. Boyd, 10 ; on Mam- 

 moth, 213 



De la Beche, Sir Henry, 37, 52 



Denudation, 21 



Dimorphodon, 124 



Dinocerata, 149 ; skull and limbs of, 

 150; where found, 155 



Dinornis. Vid. Moa-bird. 



Dinosaurs, chaps, v., vi., vii. ; anatomy 

 of, 64 ; geographical range of, 75 j 



