Part 15

Origin of life, opinions on, 94.

Oysters, memory of, 66; obscure politics of, 77.

Palæontology, Lyell’s definition of, 135.

Papuan, compared with the Malay, 49, 150.

Parfitt, Mr., on Fossil Sponge Spicules, 136, 139.

Pengelly, Mr., on pre-historic man, 105; exploration of Kent’s cavern by, 109, 110, 113.

Pigeons, subjected to man’s selection, 14, 16, 17.

Plants, their struggle for food, 12; their movements, 28.

Pope, his epithet for the elephant, 74.

Reason, progressive development of, in individual minds, 62, 67; that of men, one in kind with the intelligence of brutes, 66, 84; helps to, 86.

Relative terms, 97, 171.

Religion, development of, 64, 90.

Reversion, 9; limits artificial selection, 17.

Rudimentary organs, 21.

Sandstone, New Red, 118.

Savages, question of their degeneracy, 57; brain, skin, and voice of, 78.

Science, not antagonistic to Christian doctrine, 82, note.

Scripture, no warrant for distinct creations, 20; does not profess to teach Natural Science, 35; its use of ordinary language, 36; its historical account of the Flood, 38; explanation thereof, 41; disregard of secondary causes in, 83; character of genealogies in, 99; mistaken quotation of, 124; invidious connection of, with false science, 151; supposed opposition between it and Darwinism, 157.

Species, permanence of, 9; some benefited by change of habitat, 21; variations of, how advantageous, 27; difficulty of collecting all for the Ark, 43; distribution of, 45.

Spencer, Mr. Herbert, his caution about embryonic forms, 19, note; his accurate phrase, ‘Survival of the fittest,’ 154; his ‘Principles of Biology,’ 161.

Sponges, not to be hurried, 117; range of in geology, 136; final cause of, 138.

Stalagmite, thickness of in Kent’s cavern, 110; time required for forming, 113; dates carved upon, 115.

Stratification, uniform order of, 116, 122.

Struggle for life, 11; great fecundity useful to a species in, 24.

Sylvia Sutoria, the tailor-bird, its nest, 29.

Tails, rudimentary, in man, 22, 155.

Tennyson, language of ‘the Brook’ in, 125.

Theories, when to be accepted, 18.