[54] The resuming process has not yet been adopted by the modern Fuegians, for Dr. Hooker informs us that at the extreme south of Tierra del Fuego, and in mid-winter, he has often seen the men lying asleep in their wigwams, without a scrap of clothing, and the women standing naked, and some with children at their breasts, in the water up to their middles gathering limpets and other shell fish, while the snow fell thickly on them and on their equally naked babies.’--Sir J. Lubbock, ‘Prehistoric Times,’ p. 532. Jerome declares that he had himself seen the Attacotti, a British tribe, eating human flesh. See Gibbon (vol. iii. p. 270, ed. 1854), who in several passages refers to the practice among various British tribes of going naked, especially in war, citing Appian, Ammianus, and Giraldus Cambrensis as his authorities for British customs. It will be remembered that Cæsar speaks even of the Southern Britons as fighting ‘omnibus membris expediti.’ [55] ‘Report of British Association, 1869,’ p. 201. [56] Nov. 21, 1870. [57] A formation later than the Devonian, and earlier than the New Red Sandstone. [58] Revelation x. 6, Authorised Version. [59] See Mr. Pengelly’s paper on the subject in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for 1868. [60] ‘Acadian Geology,’ Dawson, p. 386. [61] See ‘Lecture on Coal,’ by W. Boyd Dawkins, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Manchester, 1870. [62] Address to the British Association, 1868, p. 66 of the Report. [63] In the Collection of W. Pengelly, Esq., F.R.S. [64] This and the three following letters were originally addressed to the Editor of the _Torquay Directory_, in answer to a gentleman who, in company with large multitudes of his fellow-Britons, both male and female, holds and upon occasion upholds a mass of opinions on Science and Religion, any one of which opinions individually may be right or may be wrong, but which, when held collectively, seem to my humble understanding to be logically incoherent. [65] Reprinted from ‘Nature,’ No. 30. [66] Reprinted from ‘Nature,’ No. 56. [67] Applying to these caterpillars Mr. A Murray’s recent hypothesis for explaining ‘mimicry’ by hybridization, we should draw the poetical inference that a happy marriage is possible between a butterfly and a rose-bush. [68] ‘Nature,’ No. 66. [69] ‘Genesis of Species,’ p. 57, quotation (somewhat obscure as it stands) from the North British Review for June, 1867. [70] ‘Animals and Plants under Domestication,’ vol. ii. p. 63. INDEX. Abiogenesis, note on hypothesis of, 126-132. Addison, his opinion about Instinct, 71; his description of the brood-hen, 72; his account of a hen with brood of ducks, 73; on the insensible gradations of species, 74. African desert, geological evidence of, 122. Anabas scandens, its climbing powers, 28; Dr. Day’s opinion thereon, 28, note. Androcles, story of, 82. Animal mounds, of Wisconsin, 105.