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
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
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