w Zealand -- Maori
Tales -- Evidence of Recent Existence -- Story of an English Seaman --
Examination of its Truth -- Fossil Eggs -- Comparison of Dimensions --
Larger Eggs in Madagascar -- AEpyornis -- Its Present Existence Possible
-- Discovery of the Notornis -- Tertiary Britain -- Fossil Man -- Worked
Flints -- Associated with Fossil Bones -- Species -- Age of Man --
Alluvium of the Nile -- Conclusions from it Delusive -- Rates of
Geologic Changes Variable -- Examples -- Evidence of Contemporaneity of
Man with the Tertiary Fauna -- Irish Elk -- State of its Remains --
Traditionary and Documentary Evidence of its Recent Existence --
Slaughtered by Man -- Proof of this Fact -- Great Accumulation of Skulls
at Lough Gur -- Weapons found with Elk Relics -- Proofs of its having
been Cooked -- Manner of Hunting the Elk -- Ancient Irish Poem on
Animals -- No Allusion to the Elk in it -- This Explained -- Notices of
Early Oxen -- Their Fossil Relics -- Caesar's Account of the Urus -- Wild
Oxen in Ancient Greece and Western Asia -- Guy of Warwick and the Dun
Cow -- The Turnbulls -- The Urus Fossil in Britain -- Vast Size of
Fossil Oxen -- Scanian Fossil Ox bearing a Spear-wound -- Other Ancient
Oxen -- European Bison -- British Bears -- Period of their Extinction --
Extinction of the Wolf -- Beaver Extinct in Britain -- Almost Extinct in
Europe -- Dodo -- Accounts of Voyagers -- Seen in London -- Museum
Relics -- Paintings -- Stelleria -- Cheiromys -- Moho -- Kaureke --
Manu-mea -- Nestor of Norfolk Island -- Great Auk -- Its Recent
Abundance -- Catalogue of Specimens and Eggs in Cabinets -- Falkland Fox
-- Musk Ox -- Hand-tree of Mexico -- Attempt to Estimate the Rate of
Species-extinction -- Perhaps One a Year -- Question of Continuous
Creation of Species -- Causes of Extinction -- Thoughts of Owen and
Darwin -- Geographic Distribution an Important Element -- Fauna Peculiar
to Islands -- Red Grouse -- Precariousness of its Existence, 1

II. THE MARVELLOUS.

Vulgar Love of Marvels -- False Causes -- Counter Tendency of Science --
Blood-Showers -- Traced to Butterfly-discharges -- Worms in Horse Pond
-- Crimson Snow -- Discharges of Birds -- Real Red Rain -- Waters turned
to Blood -- Oscillatoria -- Infusoria -- "Raining Cats and Dogs" --
Snail-showers -- Frog-showers -- At Portobello -- At Leeds -- On the
Continent -- Fish-showers -- The Aberdare Shower