COXTE^^TS. 



LECTUEE III. 

 On the Marsupials, or Pouched Animals (Metatheria). 



A Supposed Common Root 



stock, .... 

 Embryonic Membranes, 

 Embryo of Opossum, 

 New-born Kangaroo, 

 Early Life of a Marsupial, 

 Mighty Hunters, 

 Feeding-Grounds, 

 The Earth's Shaking Fits, 

 Pouch-bearing Animals, 

 An opposable Inner Toe, . 

 The Skull in Marsupials, . 

 Skull of Embryo Pig, 

 Ear-drum of Marsupials, . 

 Exit of the Optic Nerve, . 

 Links in the Chain of Life, 



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I A Bye-path ]\readow, 



59 j The hard palate, 



60 A Semi-Marsupial Insectivore, 



61 : Crocodile, Bird, and Opossum, 



62 , The Turkish Saddle, 



63 \ The Stirrup and Columella, 



64 I The Arch of the Tongue, . 



65 { Mimetic Types, 



6Q ! "Works on the Marsupials, 



67 I Fossil Marsupials, 



68 I An Oak Tree, . 



69 j The Australian Flora and Fauna 



70 I Frogs and their Progeny, . 



71 ! Newts and Frogs, 



72 Nourishment of Early Germ, 



73 : Development of the Germ, 



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LECTURE IV. 



Edentata. 



Distiibution of the Edentata, 



Specialisation of Low Types, 



Nature's dull Children, 



The Struggle for Life, 



Dwarf Edentata, 



The Extinct Glyptodon, . 



Hair turned into Armour, 



The Aard-Yark, 



A stunted Genealogical Ti'ce, 



Isolation of the Edentata, 



Variation of the number in the 



Neck-Joints, . 

 Dying out of the Teeth, . 

 When the Yertebrata had no 



Lungs, .... 

 The Hard Palate, 

 The Deep Things of Morphology 

 Skull of Sloth and Ant-eater, 

 Toothless Jaws, 

 The Feeble-faced Pangolin, 



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107 I 



Hinge 



for the Lower 



A new 



Jaw, 



Nature's Amputations, 

 Structure, Habits, and Classifi 



cation of the Edentata, . 

 Papers on the Edentata, . 

 Ant-eaters and Pangolins, 

 The Captive Pangolin, 

 Strong Evidence for Darwinism 

 Gigantic Sloths, 

 Ant-eating Birds and Lizards, 

 Food and Safety, 

 Love of Ofispring, 

 Mother Carey, ... 

 An L^nclean Sacrifice, 

 Southey as a Darwinian, . 

 The Green Turtle and the Glyp 



todon, .... 

 Plucking up Cedars, , 

 The Grave of the Giant, 



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LECTURE V. 



Insectivora. 



Materials for AYork, . . .125 

 Edentata and Insectivora com- 

 pared, ..... 126 

 The First Beast- namer, . . 127 

 Development of tlie Whale and 



the Bat, . . ... 128 



Organic Root-stocks, . . 129 



Wasted Types, .... 

 Adaptive Changes, . 

 Ungulate Lemurs and other 



Generalised Types, . 132, 



The Number Five in Digits, 

 Plastic Types, .... 

 Layers of the Skull, . 



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