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, and sale of ivory in the tenth century, 107.

Acacias, 51.

Acheuléen, epoch of the Palæolithic age, 199.

Achilles, shield of, 410.

Acton gravel (fig.) 159, 160.

, Leith, the discovery of mammoth, etc., in Ireland, 152; doubts existence of Irish elk in peat, 258.

Adapis (of the order Primates), 34; classified by with the Anoplotheres, 34;  on the same (note), 34.

Africa, River-drift man in, 165.

Agriculture of Neolithic age, 300; of Bronze age, 368.

Alca impennis (auk), 303.

Alders, 51, 125.

, J. A., history of American bison (note), 190.

Almond trees, 51.

Alpine chain in Meiocene age, 62.

Amber necklace, Lake, Wilts (fig.), 357; cup found at Hove, 361; the distribution of, 417; possessed by the Emperor Nero, 418; employed for purposes of ornament in the Neolithic age, 419; rarely used in the Bronze age in Scandinavia, 419; quantity collected in Prussia in year 1770, 418; also obtained from Denmark, France, Spain, and Italy, 418; red variety, 418.

Amphibians of the Meiocene age, 64.

Amphicyon (fox-like animal), 32.

Amphitragulus (deer-like animal), 32.

Analysis of British Bronze articles of Bronze age, 408; of French, 409.

Anchilophus, 30.

Anchithere, 22, 31, 54, 57.

Ancient stone implements, superstitions concerning, 335, 336.

Ancylotherium, 61.

, antler of reindeer found by, at Victoria Docks, 260.

Animal life common to Britain and America, proves connection between, 22.

Animals, evidence from distribution of as to European geography, 109.

Anona (custard apple), 48.

Anoplothere, 22, 143.

Anoplotherium, 32 (fig.), 33.

Antelope (Antilope), 40, 143, 166; cordieri, 80; rupricapra (chamois), 101; (saiga), 96, 98.

Anthracotherium, 54.

Antlers of the deer (figs.), 60, 81, 82, 84, 85; development of; 88, not possessed by deer in the lower Pleiocenes, 89; rod made from (fig.), 185; harpoon heads of (figs.), 201.

Apamasan lake, pile-dwellings, 292.

Ape (mid Meiocene) (fig.) 56; in mid Meiocene forests, 57; in mid Meiocene forests, identified by with the genus Hylobates, 57; considered by  and  to indicate an extinct genus Pliopithecus, 58; in mid Meiocene forests, Dryopithecus Fontani, Colobus grandævus, Oreopithecus, 58; existed in France during Meiocene age, 68; relation to flint implements of Thenay (note), 68, 69; Macacus, 79; Semnopithecus, 80; appear in Europe and America during Eocene period, 90; disappear from Europe at the close of the Pleiocene age, 90; (Barbary) introduced into Gibraltar (note), 90.

Apples, 48, 293, 302.

Archæology and history in their relation to geology, 1-12; continuity of these three sciences, 3.

Arctic mammalia in mid Pleistocene age, presence of, 138; waters in North Sea, existed in Pleiocene age, 74.

Arctocyon primævus, 27.

Arctomys marmotta (Alpine marmot), 87, 101.

Ardnamurchan, volcano, 45.

Armoricans, the, 327.