Part 16

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