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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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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