The puzzle of life and how it has been put together : $b A short history of the formation of the earth, with its vegetable and animal life, from the earliest times, including an account of prehistoric man, his weapons, tools, and worksNicols, Arthur
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The puzzle of life and how it has been put together : $b A short history of the formation of the earth, with its vegetable and animal life, from the earliest times, including an account of prehistoric man, his weapons, tools, and works
Nicols, Arthur
Geology -- Juvenile literature; Prehistoric peoples -- Juvenile literature
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
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