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the War of 1812, constrain immigration. 4. jS^ot accident, but deep 

 affinities, have guided the northern Europeans to North America, 

 Australasia, and South Africa, the southern Europeans to South 

 America and North Africa. In these o/ficince gentium new types 

 will be generated by the fusion of allied varieties. And, finally, it 

 may be that, in the primeval seats of mankind (if such there' were), 

 these new types will be themselves rebl ended into the one original 

 race from which they sprang, but now immeasurably stronger, wiser, 

 happier, and better. 



Emigration is thus at first exclusively, and to the last predomi- 

 nantly, masculine in all its aspects. It is conducted by the heroic 

 strand of humanity, the manlier races and their most vigorous sec- 

 tions; by these at the emergence of national manhood; by indi- 

 viduals of a strenuous type by the masculine classes and professions, 

 aggressive religions, the male sex, and at the age of maturity; they 

 are long actuated by the motives that govern the male animal; the 

 earliest agencies are the spiritualization of the male mode of propaga- 

 tion, and the direction is at the beginning that of greatest attract- 

 iveness (as of a bride) and latterly the line of least resistance (as if 

 toward a bridegroom). The feminine races, ranks, professions, sects, 

 and sex — feminine elements along the whole sociological scale — 

 join one by one in the fugue, and make at length of each colony 

 a complete reproduction, yet with new attributes, of the mother 

 country. 



Secretary Langley, of the Smithsonian Institution, reports that while 

 the bison has been decreasing in the somewhat unfavorable locality of the 

 Yellowstone Park, some increase has occurred in other parts of the country. 

 A part of the great northern herd has been isolated near Ronan, Montana, 

 and a remnant of the southern herd continues to be maintained in the Pan 

 Handle of Texas. The secretarj^ observes that Texas contains many animals 

 that would be of advantage in our national zoological collection. Several 

 of the Mexican species of deer range in this country, and many distinctively 

 Mexican animals, such as the peccary and the jaguar, occur, while on the 

 plains are found wild horses; and there are even a few camels running wild 

 in some of the m.ore inaccessible parts of the country, relics of a herd im- 

 ported many years ago. 



In a paper on "Popularizing Astronomy," read at the eighth annual 

 meeting of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto, Mrs. George 

 Craig dealt with the subject of establishing an observatoi-y which would, 

 under certain regulations, be open to the public, and be used for general 

 observations of the beauties of the heavens rather than for special study of 

 particular objects. She thought it would be comparatively easy to obtain 

 money for such a purpose. Her scheme was considered decidedly oppor- 

 tune, and the society decided to take up the matter during 1898, and make 

 special effort toward carrying it out. 



