he 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

FIG. PAGE

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--Palaeomastodon 89

14. Restored Model of the Skull and Lower Jaw of the
Ancestral Elephant--Palaeomastodon 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 Gr