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tion of a species under domestication as the derived varieties from the Wild 

 Rock Dove {Columha livid). Again, the modifications of the Jungle Fowl of 

 India, where extreme changes may be noted, as in the Japanese longtailed 

 fowls, and the fowls of the woods of the Fiji Islands. Also the group of Ruff 

 and Reeves, illustrating variation, according to sex and season. Demonstration 

 of color adaptation. Protective Mimicry, Albinism, Melanism, etc., all present 

 the Philosophical system ; while the same, carried still further, beyond the 

 limits of mere teleological considerations, converts the museum into an embodi- 

 ment of an evolutionary thesis. 



In this way, from the inorganic through the first phases of organic life to its 

 crowning development in man with all the related phases of ascending civiliza- 



FlG. 98. — South Kensington Museum ; north court. 



tion, what a transcendent picture of life the museum may become ! It is per- 

 haps realized nowhere to-day because the opportunity and the governing mind are 

 not anywhere associated. The Philosophical system in anthropology and eth- 

 nology afTords a field of more than surpassing dimensions. 



The Philosophical system has but a slender regard for systematists, and 

 exults rather in revealing relations, sequences and operations in nature, homol- 

 ogies and analogies, influence of environment, problems of philogeny and those 

 aspects of animal life which elucidate the principles of organic variation. It 

 can, of course, be made most attractive, and has a more popular character than 

 the Scientific system. Its instructions are for the most part quite readily appre- 

 hended, or can be made so, and in the larger subjects its demonstrations admit 

 of a considerable pictorial effectiveness. 



