| Charles Darwin |
Frontispiece |
| Fig. 1.— |
The Great Nebula in Orion |
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| Fig. 2.— |
The Great Spiral Nebula |
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| Fig. 3.— |
An Elongated Irregular Nebula |
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| Fig. 4.— |
Lunar Craters: Hyginus and Albategnius |
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| Fig. 5.— |
The Cluster in Hercules |
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| Fig. 6.— |
A Pillar of Stratified Rocks |
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| Fig. 7.— |
Segmentation of the Fertilized Ovum and Gastrulation |
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| Fig. 8.— |
Cambrian Fossils and Upper Silurian Fossils |
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| Fig. 9.— |
The Amphioxus |
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| Fig. 10.— |
The Earliest Known Form of Fish and |
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Three Other Early Forms of Fishes |
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| Fig. 11.— |
Lampreys—The Mouth of a Lamprey |
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| Fig. 12.— |
Lung Fishes |
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| Fig. 13.— |
The Flying Fish |
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| Fig. 14.— |
The Climbing Perch |
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| Fig. 15.— |
The Evolution of the Frog |
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| Fig. 16.— |
The Head of the Famous Archaegosaurus |
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| Fig. 17.— |
The Ceratosaurus |
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| Fig. 18.— |
The Archaeopteryx |
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| Fig. 19.— |
The Duck-bill, known in Australia as the Platypus |
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| Fig. 20.— |
A Kangaroo with her Young One in her Pouch |
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| Fig. 21.— |
The Pariasaurus Baini |
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| Fig. 22.— |
The Ring-tailed Lemur of Madagascar |
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| Fig. 23.— |
The Slow Loris—another type of Lemur |
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| Fig. 24.— |
The Baboon |
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| Fig. 25.— |
The White-handed Gibbon |
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| Fig. 26.— |
A Female Gorilla |
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| Fig. 27.— |
Male Giant Gorilla |
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| Fig. 28.— |
The Baldheaded Chimpanzee |
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| Fig. 29.— |
The Skeleton of Man and of the Four Anthropoid Apes |
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| Fig. 30.— |
Skull of the Fossil Ape-man of Java |
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| Fig. 31.— |
A Restoration of the Neanderthal Man |
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| Fig. 32.— |
Evolution of the Proboscidea |
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| Fig. 33.— |
Eohippus, the “Dawn Horse,” from the Lower Eocene Rocks |
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| Fig. 34.— |
Fossil Antlers |
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| Fig. 35.— |
Antlers of One Deer at Different Stages of Their |
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Development |
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| Fig. 36.— |
Embryos of Four Mammals |
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| Fig. 37.— |
Tail of a Six-Months-old Boy |
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| Fig. 38.— |
The Vermiform Appendix in the Orang, |
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in Man, and in the Human Foetus |
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| Fig. 39.— |
The Rudimentary Muscles of the Ear |
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| Fig. 40.— |
Hair Tracts on Arms of Man and Ape |
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| Fig. 41.— |
The Head of Miss Julia Pastrana |
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| Fig. 42.— |
The Brains of Anthropoid Apes and Men |
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| Fig. 43.— |
Joe and Sallie at Home |
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| Fig. 44.— |
The Genealogical Tree of Humanity |
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| Fig. 45.— |
Two Pigs |
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| Fig. 46.— |
Dogs |
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| Fig. 47.— |
Pigeons |
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