INDEX.

Abiogenesis, note on hypothesis of, [126–132].
Addison, his opinion about Instinct, [71];
his description of the brood-hen, [72];
his account of a hen with brood of ducks, [73];
on the insensible gradations of species, [74].
African desert, geological evidence of, [122].
Anabas scandens, its climbing powers, [28];
Dr. Day’s opinion thereon, [28], [note].
Androcles, story of, [82].
Animal mounds, of Wisconsin, [105].
Ants, slave-making, [29], [69];
French philosopher’s account of, [73].
Artificial selection, part of Natural selection, [16].
Baboons, warfare of, [69].
Bacon, Lord, his statement about dogs, [75].
Barbarism, time required for development of, [57].
Bees, progress of, in cell-making, [25];
their accuracy overrated, [69], [86].
Bennett, Mr. A. W., Mathematical test applied by, [168];
Review by, [173].
Birds’ nests, reasoning powers employed in construction of, [69], [86];
compared with human dwellings, [70];
use of human manufactures in, [71].
British Association, exploration of Kent’s cavern by, [109].
Britons, ancient, condition of, [111].
Brookes, Henry, story of a lion quoted from, [76].
Brutes, man’s treatment of, [11], [90];
opinion that God is the soul of, [71];
compared with men, [74];
their moral qualities, [75], [88];
their laws and constitutions, [77];
their perceptions and emotions, [80];
language of scripture about, [84];
motives of pleasure and pain applied to, [88];
children compared with, [89].
Cannibalism, [57];
of British tribes, [112].
Caterpillars, resembling twigs, [170].
Chalk, continuous formation of, [117].
Civilization, its dependence on language and the art of writing, [88].
Coal-measures, [119–121], [140].
Columbus, his opinion of the earth’s spherical form condemned, [60], [148].
Coquand’s Oysters of the Chalk, Professor Flower’s review of, [145], [165].
Correlation, [17], [166], [176].
Creation, sudden, not reconcilable with the order of nature, [25];
theories of, compared, [32];
prejudice in favour of its suddenness, [63], [64];
Biblical theory of, [129].
Creations, many distinct, not warranted by scripture or science, [20], [116], [135];
special, for special localities, untenable, [21].
Danes, ancient, food and weapons of, [104].
Darwin, his account of the development of his theory, [4];
his calculation about elephants, [13];
allusion to his theory of Pangenesis, [33];
his explanation of the fauna and flora of mountain-tops, [46];
his account of slave-making ants, [69];
his treatment of geology, [134];
his chapter on instinct, [163].
Darwinism, [3–33];
obscurely anticipated, [2];
its supporters, [3];
prejudice against, [4], [152];
its bearing on the seeming imperfection of nature, [24];
inconsistent with a recent universal deluge, [31], [34].
Dawkins, Mr. W. Boyd, lecture on coal by, [143].
Dawson, Dr., Acadian Geology, [120], [140].
Day, Dr., paper by, on the Mud-fish and Anabas scandens, [28].
Denudation, [143].
Deucalion’s Flood, argument from rebutted, [150].
Development, theory of, by whom originated and supported, [4];
opinion of its absurdity, [6];
facts and principles necessary to, (variation, [7];
Inheritance and Reversion, [9];
struggle for life, [11];
antiquity of the globe, [30];
freedom of the globe from any recent universal catastrophe, 31);
application of, to human body and mind, [62], [95];
time required for, [122];
not materially affected by hypothesis of spontaneous generation, [127].
Ducklings, experiment with, [73].
Earth, immense age of, required by Theory of Development, [30], [67];
proved by geology, [31], [54], [107], [121];
popular impression as to age of, [93], [121];
reckoned by millions of years, [123].
Egypt, its monuments, [51];
its chronology, [56], [101].
Elephant, its sagacity, [3];
its rate of breeding, [13];
its different species, [46];
its memory, [66];
epithet applied to it by Pope, [74];
in Devonshire, [112].
Esquimaux, their ignorance of arithmetic, [103].
Flint-tools, [109], [111], [113].
Flood, the Noachian, [34–61];
historical account of, [38];
explanation suggested, [41];
how consistent with Darwinism, [50];
traditions of a, [58];
no traces of its universality, [59].
Food, its influence on the animal and vegetable kingdoms, [12];
in the competition for life, [22].
Fossils, an evidence of variation, [20];
different in different strata, [116];
time required for vicissitudes of, [119];
necessary imperfection of, [134];
their scarcity and abundance, [141];
numerous chances of loss and destruction for, [146].
Fuegians, nakedness of, [112], [note].
Galileo, his doctrine of the earth’s motion condemned, [60], [148].
Genesis, book of, its chronology, [55].
‘Genesis of Species,’ by Mr. Mivart, [173].
Geology, its conclusions, [31], [53];
imperfection of its record, [133–146].
Giraffes, [176], [179].
Glacial Period, its effect on distribution of species, [47].
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].
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].
Thought, time required for, [64];
movement of, depending on language, [87].
Time, immense duration of, required by the Theory of Natural Selection, [30], [67];
lapse of, [93–125];
(see [Earth, age of]);
inexhaustible, [98], [125].
Tinière, delta of, [107].
Tyndal, Professor, on ‘The Minuteness of Waves of Light,’ [97].
Usher, archbishop, Bible-chronology of, [99], [110].
Variability, [7];
objection to, considered, [128].
Vertebrate, the first, how originated, [158];
type of, supposed to be connected with cuttle-fish, [161];
definition of, investigated, [161].
Vivian, Mr., exploration of Kent’s cavern by, [109].
Wallace, Mr., his originality recognized, [5];
his opinion of the limits of Natural Selection, [62];
his exposure of fallacious views about Instinct, [67];
his theory of birds’ nests, [69];
his comparison of birds with men as builders, [70];
his speculation about the brain of the savage, [78].
War, in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, [12];
combination of baboons for, [69];
comparison of man and other animals engaged in, [86].
Wasps, their defensive weapon, [25];
materials used by, [86].
Whewell, Dr., his remark on Scientific Phraseology, [160].
Writing, invention of, [103].