INDEX. 
A 
^PYORNis. 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 
C 
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 ; 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 
D 
Darwin, Charles, 20 ; on extinct 
Sloths, 1 81 
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, 1 55 
Dinornis. Vid. Moa-bird. 
Dinosaurs, chaps, v., vi., vii. ; anatomy 
of, 64 ; geographical range of, 75 ; 
