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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872. Excerpt: ... AGASSIZ, M., 2, 3, 65, 278, 355-38S Ambient medium, 309 Amphibians, 215 Amphioxus, 226, 319, Ampullae of internal ear, 344 Anabas scandens, 67 Ancestor, man's remote, 325 Angle of rotation in wing of bird, 37S Angora cat, skeleton of, 401 Animal life, structure of, 3 Animals, faculties of, 133 Annulosa, 195 Ape-like man, 155, 325 Appendix, the, 395-412 Aquinas, Thomas, 3S9 Arachnida, 197 Argus pheasant, 21S, 227 Argyll, Duke of, 21S, 223, 224, 257, 25S Aristotle's division of animal king-dom, 403 Armstrong's, Sir Win., 600-pounder gun, 3S3 Arthropoda, 195 Ascidia intestinalis, 314 Ascidian, larva of, 315, 316--adult of, 317 Asses, S7-411 Association, British, 13, 294-6 Association, mental, 167 Astronomy, 6S Atheism, 39 'Atheaaeum, ' 2, S, 9 Atmospheric air, 350 CAT Attention, 129 Auditory canal, internal, 345 Auditory nerve, 351 Augustine. St. 3S9 Australian skull, 279 Ava, miocene of, 292 BACK stroke, 376--law of production of, 376 Biier, von, 54, 56, 66 Beale, Professor, 7, 26, 2S, 29 Belief, man's, 51 Bennett, Professor Hughes, 21 Berkeley--Buffon--Bonnet, 97 Birds' nests, 261 Birds, notes of, 131 Birds, sexual selection of, 216 Birgos latro, 196 Bison priscus at Walton-on-Naze, 296 Blainville, M., 405 Bonheur, Mademoiselle, 23S Bonnet monkey, 176 Bos primigenius at Walton-on-Naze, 296 Brain of savages, 267 Buffon, M., 399-407 CANARY islands, 300 Cancer cells, 57 Catarrhine monkeys, 170 Cats, S7 Cattle, S8 CEL Cell, human, 60 Cetacea, the, 323 Chameleon bifurcas, 215 'Cheer' pheasant, 219 Classification, 60 Cochlea of internal ear, 340, 341, 344 Cochin china monkey, 233 Ccelenterata, 192, 274 Coleoptera, 203 Colour in birds, cause of, 22S Conscience, 145 Consciousness, 44 'Contemporary Review, ' the, 269, 280 Corti, fibres of, 347, S, 391 Creation, not b.