By dividing the ophryo-tentorial line into 100 units, and using those units as measures, the depths of the brain cavity in the regions plumbed by the lines d, e, and f, can be expressed numerically and their differences in a series of skulls stated in percentage of the ophryo-tentorial length.



CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I. —Nature’s Insurgent Son[1]
CHAPTER II. —The Advance of Science, 1881–1906[66]
CHAPTER III. —Nature’s Revenges: The Sleeping Sickness[159]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece:— Profile views of the Cranial Dome of Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape-like man from an ancient river gravel in Java, and of a Greek skull.
Fig. 1.— Frontal view of the Cranial Dome of Pithecanthropus[16]
Fig. 2.— Frontal view of the same Greek skull as that shown in the frontispiece[16]
Fig. 3.— Eoliths, of ‘borer’ shape, from Ightham, Kent[18]
Fig. 4.— Eoliths of trinacrial shape, from Ightham, Kent[20]
Fig. 5.— Brain casts of four large Mammals[23]
Fig. 6.Spironema pallidum, the microbe of Syphilis discovered by Fritz Schaudinn[37]
Fig. 7.— The Canals in Mars[43]
Fig. 8.— The Canals in Mars[44]
Fig. 9.— Becquerel’s shadow-print obtained by rays from Uranium Salt[73]
Fig. 10.— Diagrams of the visible lines of the Spectrum given by incandescent Helium and Radium[76]
Fig. 11.— The transformation of Radium Emanation into Helium (spectra)[83]
Fig. 12.— Dry-plate photograph of a Nebula and surrounding stars[90]
Fig. 13.— The Freshwater Jelly fish, Limnocodium[97]
Fig. 14.— Polyp of Limnocodium[97]
Fig. 15.— Sense-organ of Limnocodium[97]
Fig. 16.— The Freshwater Jelly-fish of Lake Tanganyika[98]
Fig. 17.— Sir Harry Johnston’s specimen of the Okapi[99]
Fig. 18.— Bandoliers cut from the striped skin of the Okapi[99]
Fig. 19.— Skull of the horned male of the Okapi[100]
Fig. 20.— The metamorphosis of the young of the common Eel[101]
Fig. 21.— A unicellular parasite of the common Octopus, producing spermatozoa[102]
Fig. 22.— The Coccidium, a microscopic parasite of the Rabbit, producing spermatozoa[102]
Fig. 23.— Spermatozoa of a unicellular parasite inhabiting a Centipede[103]
Fig. 24.— The motile fertilizing elements (antherozoids or spermatozoa) of a peculiar cone-bearing tree, the Cycas revoluta[104]
Fig. 25.— The gigantic extinct Reptile, Triceratops[106]
Fig. 26.— A large carnivorous Reptile from the Triassic rocks of North Russia[107]
Fig. 27.— The curious fish Drepanaspis, from the Old Red Sandstone of Germany[107]
Fig. 28.— The oldest Fossil Fish known[108]
Fig. 29.— The skull and lower jaw of the ancestral Elephant, Palæomastodon, from Egypt[109]
Fig. 30.— The latest discovered skull of Palæomastodon[110]
Fig. 31.— Skulls of Meritherium, an Elephant ancestor, from the Upper Eocene of Egypt[111]
Fig. 32.— The nodules on the roots of bean-plants and the nitrogen-fixing microbe, Bacillus radicola, which produces them[114]
Fig. 33.— The continuity of the protoplasm of vegetable cells[116]
Fig. 34.— Diagram of the structures present in a typical organic ‘cell’[117]
Fig. 35.— The Number of the Chromosomes[119]
Fig. 36.— The Number of the Chromosomes[120]
Figs. 37 to 42. — Phagocytes engulphing disease germs— drawn by Metschnikoff[136-7]
Fig. 43.— A Phagocyte containing three Spirilla, the germs of relapsing fever, which it has engulphed[137]
Fig. 44.— The life-history of the Malaria Parasite[142]
Fig. 45.— The first blood-cell parasite described, the Lankesterella of Frog’s blood[144]
Fig. 46.— Various kinds of Trypanosomes[145]
Fig. 47.— The Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association on the Citadel Hill, Plymouth[155]
Fig. 48.— The Tsetze fly, Glossina morsitans[172]
Fig. 49.— The Trypanosome of Frog’s blood[173]
Fig. 50.— The Trypanosome which causes the Sleeping Sickness[176]
Fig. 51.— The Trypanosome of the disease called “Dourine”[177]
Figs. 52 to 56. — Stages in the growth and multiplication of a Trypanosome which lives for part of its life in the blood of the little owl, Athene noctua, and for the other part in the gut of the common Gnat (Culex)[180-3]