Grammatizing _v._ naturalizing in decorative art, 202, 203
Grouse, the red and allied species, 116, 117
Harpoons of Azilian and Magdalenian period, 3
Horses, cave-men's pictures of, 43, 45
Horses' heads drawn with bridle or halter, 44, 45
Hybrids, 131-138
among allied species of fish, 133, 134
infertile and fertile, 134, 135
Inter-Glacial climate and animals, 9
Kaleidoscope, the living organism compared to a, 112
Kelvin, Lord, on the origin of life, 186
Kipling, Mr. Rudyard, on primitive man, 4
Koban necropolis, swastikas from, 196
Lake dwellings of Switzerland, 4
Lalanne, M., discovery by, of human statuettes, 50
Laussel, rock-shelter of, human statuettes from, 50
Life-saving qualities not alone survive in nature, 127
Lime-juice, action of, was not understood, 231
and scurvy, 229-237
on long voyages, 231
shown to be effective when prepared from the true lemon, 236
the original lime-juice was lemon-juice, not the juice of the
sour-lime, 236
when prepared from West Indian sour-lime not effective, 232
Linnæus, his method of naming and classifying animals and plants, 99
Lion, wall engraving of, 48
Lister Institute, investigations carried on there, 233
Lodge, Sir Oliver, on life, 185
Lortet, cavern of, 1
Mammoth, engraving of, on ivory, from the cave of La Madeleine, 26
Mammoths, engravings of, on walls of caves, 32, 33
Man, Isle of, and the Sicilian three-legged emblem, 203
Mantell, Dr. Gideon, discoverer of gigantic extinct reptiles, 84
Marsh-gas, 220
Milne-Edwards, Alphonse, his proposed experiment on cross-breeding of
races and species, 141
Miscegenation or cross-breeding of human races, 148-156
Monaco, Prince of, his researches and publications, 29
Mongrels defined as distinct from hybrids, 138, 145
may exhibit fine qualities, 147
Monsters, 132
Mules between horse and ass, 103
Mykenæan age, swastikas of, illustrated, 194, 195
Neander men, 8
Negro with European features disliked by other negroes, 155
Neolithic people, 10
Ogee, a vague term, 215
swastika, so-called, 210, 213
Oil, boring for, 223
Oil-boring industry, 226
Oil-shales, 227
Okapi of the Congo Forest, not a hybrid, 133
Olefines, 224
Osborn, Rev. Lord Sydney Godolphin, 179
Pairing as a test of species, 101, 131
Palæolithic or ancient Stone Age, 5
Papilio, the genus of swallow-tailed butterflies, 97
Paraffin series, 224
Peat, 219
Pedalion, the leg-bearing wheel animalcule, 161, 163
to be compared with young of certain prawns, 164
Petroleum, the name invented in 1855 by Prof. Silliman, 225
Pictet and de Candolle on suspended animation, 175
Picture, the earliest, in the world, 1-25
of the Three Red Deer, 12, 13
Piette, Edouard, his excavations of caves, 1
Pigs and the paint-root, 119, 145
Pimpernel, red and blue, will not inter-breed, 145
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