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place at the head of creation. To quote the 

 eloquent language of Professor Sedgewick, in his 

 discourse on the studies of Cambridge, " Man 

 stands by himself, the despotic lord of the living- 

 world ; not so great in organic strength as many 

 of the despots that went before him in nature's 

 chronicle, but raised far above them all by a 

 higher development of the brain, by a framework 

 that fits him for the operation of mechanical 

 skill ; by superadded reason ; by a social instinct 

 of combination ; by a prescience that tells him to 

 act prospectively; by a conscience that makes 

 him amenable to law ; by conceptions that tran- 

 scend the narrow limits of his vision ; by hopes 

 that have no full fruition here; by an inborn 

 capacity of rising from individual facts to the 

 apprehension of general laws ; by a conception of 

 a cause for all the phenomena of sense ; and by 

 a consequent belief in a God of nature." 



Note. — Since my paper was read, I have been favoured by my friend, 

 Professor Quekett, with the result of his investigations. He has ex- 

 amined a very large number of aucient British skulls without detecting 

 a trace of dental caries; but in several skulls which are known to have 

 been those of Romanized Britons, he has shown me examples of true 

 dental caries, occurring on the grinding surface of the molars, and also 

 on the approximal surfaces of the molares and bicuspides. 



