INDEX.
- Age of bronze, 161;
- of iron, 161;
- of reptiles, 81
- Aleph, 125
- Amber, 69
- Ammonites, 90, 97
- Animal Part, the, 77;
- animals of coal period, 71
- Ants, white, 61
- Arctic climate, 67;
- expedition, 67
- Archæopteryx, 91, 93
- Australian savages, 127
- Babylon and Nineveh, 164, 165
- Bear, grisly, 106
- Beginning of life, 58
- Bird forms, earliest, 89;
- reptiles, 85
- Blacklead, 58
- Boulders carried by ice, 48
- Bogwood, 70
- Boiling springs, 54
- Bronze, age of, 161, 162;
- implements in British Museum, 162
- Brighton Downs, 99
- Burning mountains, 19
- Calamites, 42, 68
- Cañons of Colorado, 8
- Caves of Engis and Cromagnon, 163;
- near Belfort and of Switzerland, 141;
- of the Vezère, 139
- Cetiosaurus, 86
- Chalk, nature of, 26;
- pits, 20;
- ammonites and foraminifera in, 27;
- period, 95;
- under the ocean, 29, 99
- “Challenger” expedition, 27
- Changes have been gradual, 43
- Cissbury camp, 134
- Clay, London, 21, 22;
- and mud, 33
- Climate, Arctic, and of coal formations, 67
- Club-mosses, 61
- Clothing, 138
- Coal beds, 31;
- in Arctic regions, 67;
- plants of the, 63;
- is fossil wood, 73;
- is sunlight compressed, 30
- Colorado, the people in, 142
- Compressed plants, 15
- Conclusion, 168
- Cookery, 137
- Corals, 78
- Creation, the plan of, 117
- Cretaceous period, 96
- Cromagnon and Engis, caves of, 163
- Dawn of life, 56;
- plant, 59
- Denudation, 49, 50
- Dinornis, specimens of, in British Museum, 116
- Dinosaurus, 89
- Dinotherium, 114
- Drawings, pre-historic, 135
- Dwellings and food of men, 137
- Early histories, 123;
- plant life, 59
- Earth, early history of, 1, 2, 3;
- interior of, 18;
- intense heat of, 24;
- climate of, 48;
- not yet fit for man, 75;
- ‘foraminifera earth’, 30
- Earthquakes, 18, 19
- Earthworks of Ohio, 165
- Easter island monuments, 164
- Egypt, monuments of, 166
- Eodendron, 59
- Eophyton, 59
- Eozöon, 57, 77
- First weapons, 121
- Fish-lizards, 85
- Fishes, fossil, 71
- Flint, origin of, 14;
- in chalk, 96;
- weapons, where found, 131;
- tool manufactory, 134
- Foraminifera, 20;
- ‘foraminifera earth’, 30;
- drawings of, 97;
- specimens of, in British Museum, 99
- Forests under the sea, 75, 76
- Fossil, derivation of, 10;
- plants, 61;
- sunlight, 73;
- footprints, 83;
- human, 157, 159
- Food and dwellings, 137
- Footprints, fossil, 83
- Flying reptiles, 89
- Geological part, 17
- Geology, derivation of, 19
- Geysers, 54
- Gigantic animals, 101;
- birds, 115
- Glaciers and icebergs, 47
- Granite, raised, 23;
- appearance of, 24
- Gravel, &c., 35
- Great Irish Stag, drawing, &c., of, 108
- Guadaloupe human fossil, 157
- Heat of the Earth, 3, 18
- Hebrew letters, 125
- Hesperornis, 92
- Hippopotamus in England, 105
- Histories, early, 123
- Human part, the, 120;
- fossils, 157
- Ice age, 45;
- more than one, 48
- Icebergs and glaciers, 47
- Ichthyornis, 92
- Ichthyosaurus, 85
- Implements, flint and stone, in British Museum, 131;
- bronze, 162
- India, elephants in, 145
- Insects in coal forests, 64
- Irish stag, 107
- Islands appear and disappear, 39
- Jet, 69
- Jurassic age, 89
- Kangaroo, fossil, 115
- Kitchen-middens, 152
- Labyrinthodon, 2
- Lake-dwellers, 146;
- dwellings in Europe, Africa, Asia, and New Guinea, 149
- Language, origin of; and of pre-historic man, 155
- Laurentian rocks, 57
- Lena river, mammoth found, 102
- Life, the dawn of, 56;
- ‘life-dawn animal’, 57
- Lignite, 69
- Lion, English sabre-toothed, 106
- Mammalia, 102
- Mammoth, 49, 102-3;
- bones of, in Siberia, Asia, North America, &c.;
- drawing of, on ivory, 135;
- in Essex, 104;
- skull of, in British Museum, 104
- Man and his works, 121;
- his earliest inventions, 122;
- mammoth, mastodon, reindeer, &c., contemporary with, 116;
- pre-historic, 127, 131;
- dwellings and food of, 137
- Marsupial animal, 95
- Mastodon, 102;
- in Europe, America, India, &c., 104;
- in Missouri, 128;
- skeleton of, in British Museum, 104
- Megalosaurus, 89
- Megatherium, in South America, 110;
- drawing of, 112;
- account of, 113;
- skeleton of, in British Museum, 113
- Mexican writings, 124
- Middens, kitchen, 152-4;
- makers, life of, 153
- Moa, 115-16
- Monkeys, fossil, 102;
- at Gibraltar, 102
- Monuments of Easter Island, 164;
- of Egypt and Assyria, 166
- Mountains, burning, and covered with snow, 19
- Moresby, Captain, in New Guinea, 143
- New Guinea, stone age of, 143
- New Zealand dinornis, 115;
- moa, 116;
- stone age of, 143
- Nineveh and Babylon, ruins, &c., of, 164, 165
- Norway, raised terraces of, 38
- Ohio, earthworks of, 165
- Oolite, 41, 86
- Origin of language, 155
- Papyrus writings, 125
- Paris, built of shells, 100
- Parts, the, are called fossils, 11
- Past life, the signs of, 13
- Peat, 70
- Plan of creation, 117
- Plants of coal forests, 63
- Plesiosaurus, 85
- Pottery, 141, 142
- Pre-historic art, 133;
- drawings, 135;
- man, 127, 131;
- weapons and tools, 129
- Pterodactyl, derivation of, 89;
- description of, 90
- Puzzle, the framework of, 1-16;
- parts of, where found, 5
- Pyrenees, when raised, 100
- Rain-drops, marks of, 84
- Reindeer, drawing of, on slate, 135
- Reptiles, the age of, 81
- Rhinoceros in England, 105
- Rocks, raising of the;
- how placed, 21, 25;
- carried by ice, 48
- Sandstone, formation of, 25, 26;
- Old Red, 62, 81;
- New Red, 77
- Slate hardened mud, 15
- Sponges, 15, 78
- Star-fish, 78
- Stone age, 128;
- first stone age, 137;
- second, 138;
- of New Guinea and New Zealand, 143, 145
- Subsidence, 37
- Succession of formations, 41, 42
- Sucklers, 102
- Sunlight, fossil, 73
- Tertiary period, 34, 100
- Time, the work of, 167
- Tools, polished and rough, 139
- Trilobite, 78
- Upheaval and depression, 36, 38
- Vegetable part, the, 56
- Vertebrata, 101
- Volcanoes and earthquakes, 19
- Water, a powerful tool of Nature, 34, 45;
- thrown out of the earth, 54
- Weapons, early, 121;
- and tools, where found, 131
- Whales, 101
- World, early history of the, 3, 4;
- size and shape, 17;
- materials of, 17;
- heat of, 18
- Work, the, of time, 167
- Writing, origin of, 123;
- Mexican, Egyptian, and Assyrian, 124, 125;
- on papyrus, 125;
- by signs, 125
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