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■ever naw, and the least provided with water : it has no streams. 

 What cultivation there is exists in small patclies, and these look as 

 if they had been lake-bottoms. There is plenty of wood, but there 

 are no coals ant! no minerals. In Montenegro nearly every third 

 man one met was a soldier, and the liill-tops were dotted over 

 with forts. 



(3n his return the Lecturer M'ent by the coast from Cattaro, 

 •stopping first of all at Ragusa, off wliich place, at the Isle of 

 Lacroma, Richard Ca3ur-de-Lion landed. 



Civilisation breaks over barriers, and the most picturesque 

 ■costumes are now giving way to the horrible caricatures of the 

 modern tailor. Each village at one time had its distinctive dress, 

 but tliis is now passing away, and, bef(n'e long, all will be reduced 

 to one common level of millinery, derived probably from France. 



TUESDAY, :\rARCH 2nd. 



A Lecture on "The Lion and its Kindred" was delivered by 

 ■J. (}. GooDOHiLD, Esq., F.G.S., E.Z.S. 



The Lecturer chose this subject because m-c know more of its 

 history than we do of that of most otlier animals. The Lion is a 

 vertebrate and a mammal. It is a carnivore. It is an animal with 

 nails more or less pointed, and Avith never fewer than four toes on 

 each foot. It has milk teeth which are shed, and permanent teeth 

 of three kinds. We find that the muscle which works the lower 

 jaw is very massive and powerful. In Cats the true molars are 

 reduced to one above and one below. Throughout the whole of the 

 Cats there is a strong family likeness, both internally and externally. 

 Cats are found at the sea level, and as far upwards as 18,000 feet 

 above it. There is a rusty spotted Cat in the northern part of India. 

 The Leopard has a very wide distribution. Closely allied to the 

 Leoi)ard is the Jaguar. The r)unce is a large cat, it is found in 

 higli mountain regions about the snow line. Other Cats are those 

 witli tufted ears. Cats hunt as a rule singly, and not in packs as 

 <logs do. Tlie Lynx is an animal with strongly tufted ears ; in 

 former times it was a British animal. A close ally of the Lynx is 

 the Egyptian Cat, which is probably the ancestor of our domestic 



