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male mind is best fitted for education by that process of inductive 

 training by demonstration and experiment which leads to new ad- 

 vances. The methods employed in the general instruction of young 

 men and young women should not therefore be identical. With the 

 one the field may be very wide and the methods empirical, and with 

 the other the range more narrow and the methods more strictly logical. 

 In this way each type of mind will be developed in the manner for 

 which it has an especial fitness ; and we have the strongest grounds 

 for the belief that this method would also gradually result in the ex- 

 tension of that congenital acquaintance with nature which is the com- 

 mon stock of the race, and would thus leave more time for the special 

 training of those minds which are by nature best fitted to receive it. 

 It is unavoidable that a bald outline of a view which has such wide 

 implications should afford many openings for serious criticism ; but the 

 present article does not admit of the expansion of the idea, even if its 

 detailed examination could be fairly included in the province of 

 biology. Having traced the origin and significance of sex from its 

 lowest manifestations to a point where it becomes purely intellectual, 

 the biologist may fairly leave the subject in the hands of the psycholo- 

 gist. 



A VISIT TO THE NEW ZEALAND GEYSERS. 



By CLEMENT BUNBUKY. 



THE Geyser district of New Zealand is, at some future day, to be 

 the great sanatorium of the southern world ; meanwhile, it is so 

 little known that some account of a visit lately made to it may not be 

 uninteresting. 



While " globe-trotting " with a friend, we found ourselves in April 

 last year at Auckland, New Zealand, and Avere kindly invited by the 

 Governor to join him in a visit he was going to make, with the Com- 

 modore and a large party, to the geysers. 



The party assembled at Tauranga, a port about a hundred and forty 

 miles southeast of Auckland, and the most convenient starting-point 

 for Ohinemutu, the headquarters of the hot-lake country. The little 

 town was gay with flags and triumphal arches, and crowded with 

 Maories looking forward to a bis: drink in return for the dance with 

 which they received the Governor. I was disappointed to find the 

 natives were broad-nosed, thick-lipped, tattooed savages, or at least so 

 they appeared at first sight. The men are decidedly superior in ap- 

 pearance to the women, and among the young people tattooing is be- 

 coming unfashionable. 



From Tauranga to Ohinemutu is about forty miles over a good 

 road, except through what is called "the eighteen-mile bush," where 



