Part 14

Gooseberry, the big, 16.

Horse, career of, in America, 48; its endurance and ambition, 3; its intelligence, 66; instance thereof, 74; its intercourse with man, 80.

Hypotheses, use of, 131.

Inheritance, 9; at different periods of life, 18.

Instinct, of bees, 25; employment and gradations of, in various animals, 28; compared with reason, 62-81, 164; fallacious theory of, 67; ignored by ducklings, 73; fancied excellence of, 86.

Kent’s cavern, 109-115.

Language, time required for variations of, 57; its influence on mankind, 77, 87; origin of, 103.

Light, rapidity of, 97.

Limestone, formation of, 109; contents of, 115; slow formation of, 117; Devonian, older than the New Red Sandstone, 118.

Lindley, Dr., his experiment with immersed vegetables, 143.

Linnæus, on the common descent of species, 3.

Lion, its generosity, 3; instance of its affection, 76; instance of its gratitude, 83; in Britain, 112.

Locke, on the reason of brutes, 74.

Lubbock, Sir John, ‘Prehistoric Times,’ 54, 104, 107, 112; ‘Origin of Civilization,’ 107.

Lyell, Sir Charles, ‘Principles of Geology,’ 3, 54; ‘Antiquity of Man,’ 107; ‘Elements of Geology,’ 109.

Madagascar, its species and genera, 46.

Malay, compared with the Papuan by Mr. Wallace, 49, 150.

Man, his destructiveness, 11; his likeness to other animals in blood, fibre, and skeleton, 29; distribution of his varieties, 48; traced back for thousands of years, 51; a common origin for all families of, 52; his chief endowments, 67; compared as a builder with birds, 70; his brain and hairless skin, 73; his bodily structure, 85; his opinion of war, 86; real origin of, forgotten, 102.

Marriage-customs, slow change of, 106.

Marsupials, 46; fossil, 47.

Matlock Bath, formation of stalagmite at, 110, 114.

Memory, necessary to intelligence, 66; unequal distribution of, 66.

Miracles, treatment of false ones, 40; of the Old Testament, 83.

Mivart, St. George, Mr., ‘Genesis of Species’ by, 173.

Mushroom, time required for its growth, 55.

Mygale, the trap-door spider, its ingenious nest, 29.

Natural Selection, illustrated by artificial selection, 14; the slowness of its movement, 18; explains the order of nature, and in part its seeming disorder, 26; limits of, propounded by Mr. Wallace, 62.

Nile, articles in sediment of, 108.