XVI.Prehistoric Petticoats[180]
Early Carvings and Pictures—Paintings in Caverns—Painting of Human Figures—Artistic Sympathy—Aurignacians and Bushmen Allied.
XVII.New Year's Day and the Calendar[191]
Make-believe and New Year—Divisions of Time—The Difficulties of the Calendar—Pope Gregory's Ten Days—The Astronomer Royal and the Shah.
XVIII.Eastertide, Shamrocks and Spermaceti[201]
The Real Shamrock—Sham Shamrock—Leonardo or Lucas?—Various Fats.
XIX.Museums[209]
The Muses—The Museum of Alexandria—Picture Galleries and Museums—The Purposes of Museums—The First Business of Museums—National Value of Museums—University Museums—Not for Children but for Adults—Screens and Electric Lifts—Frames and Setting of Pictures.
XX.The Secret of a Terrible Disease[227]
The Angel of Death—The Tyranny of Parasites—Typhus and Monkeys—Typhus Fever in Russia.
XXI.Carriers of Disease[235]
The Entrance of Parasites—Man as a Carrier of Disease—House Flies and Disease.
XXII.Immunity and Curative Inoculations[241]
Inoculation of Smallpox—Antitoxins—The Wonderful Properties of Blood—Germ-killing Poisons in the Blood—Opsonins or Sauce for Germs.
XXIII.The Strange Story of Animal Life in New Zealand[251]
Strange Birds—Destroyed by Europeans—Introduced Animals.
XXIV.The Effacement of Nature by Man[259]
Disappearance of Great Animals—Man's Reckless Greed—Hope in Irrigation.

XXV.The Extinction of the Bison and of Whales[266]
Drowning in a Dead Whale's Heart—The Value of Whalebone—No more Turtle Soup.
XXVI.More about Whales[273]
The Shape of Whales—Enormous Pressure of Gas in the Blood—The Killer and the Narwhal—Fossil Whales.
XXVII.Misconceptions about Science[281]
What Science does not explain—Darwin's Theory is adequate—The Aquosity of Water—Need for Interpreters of Science—The Exploded Ghost called "Caloric"—Nightmares Destroyed by Science—When did the Soul arrive?—The Great Silence.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FIGURES

1.Flower of the Yellow Sage[4]
2.The Edelweiss[5]
3."Folding" of Rock Strata[8]
4.A Man Extracting the Jewel from a Toad's Head[58]
5.The Palate of the Fossil Fish Lepidotus[60]
6.The Indian Elephant[66]
7.The African Elephant[67]
8.The Crowns of Three "Grinders" or Molars of Elephants Compared[71]
9.Skeleton of the Indian Elephant[81]
10.The Teeth in the Upper and Lower Jaw-bone of the Common Pig[84]
11.A Reconstruction of the Extinct American Mastodon[86]
12.Skull and Restored Outline of the Head of the Long-jawed Extinct Elephant called Tetrabelodon[87]
13.Head of the Ancestral Elephant—Palæomastodon[89]
14.Restored Model of the Skull and Lower Jaw of the Ancestral Elephant—Palæomastodon[90]
15.Head of the Early Ancestor of Elephants—Meritherium—as it appeared in life[91]
16.Skull and Lower Jaw of a Goat[94]
17.Teeth in the Lower and Upper Jaw of the Goat[95]
18.Skull of a Typical "Rodent" Mammal, the Coypu Rat[96]
19.Teeth of the Coypu Rat[97]
20.Skull of the Rat-toothed Goat, Myotragus[99]
21.Skull of a Clouded Tiger[103]
22.Teeth of the Lower and Upper Jaw of the same Clouded Tiger's Skull[104]
23.Figure from a Group Drawn on a Greek Vase[171]
24.Group of Women Clothed in Jacket and Skirt with "Wasp-like" Waists[185]
25.Further Portion of same Group as Fig. 24[186]

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