INDEX 



407 



Eiger glacier, 11, 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 Csesar, 128 



Shakespeare on the legs of, 130 



size of, 123 



teeth of, 126, 141 



Topsellon, 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, 117 



the ancestors of flowers, 107 



which produce seed, 1 1 7 

 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-backedl 

 duck, whales, flounders, 

 eels, mutton and beef, 190 

 Flies, house-, danger and diminution 



of, 332. 344. 34S 

 Flower, diagram of, 1 1 1 

 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 sexua( 



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 Gorner, 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, i6 

 Gnaphalium leontopodium, 6 

 Goa-stone, 94 



Goat, skull and jaw of common,. 

 ISO, 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, 102 



