750 Meeting of the British Association. | Oct., 
In it the author contended that the following conditions were required 
for wild animals to become domesticated. 1st. They should be hardy. 
2nd. They should have an inborn liking for man. 38rd. They should 
be comfort loving. 4th. They should be found useful to the savages. 
5th. They should breed freely. 6th. They should be gregarious. The 
first domestication of animals was due to a vast number of half-uncon- 
scious attempts made through the course of ages, and at length, after 
slow degrees and many relapses, and continued selection, the several 
domestic breeds now existing became firmly established. 
Dr. Gibb read a paper, “ On the Larynx of the Negro,” in which he 
stated that the essential point of difference between this organ in the 
white man and the Negro consisted in the invariable presence of the 
cartilages of Wrisberg, in the oblique or shelving position of the true 
vocal cords, and the pendent position of the ventricles of Morgagni in 
the latter. His observations were based on the examination of the 
larynx in 500 whites and 58 blacks. 
A paper was contributed by Dr. Crisp, “On the Anatomy of the 
Quadrumana, with a Comparative Estimate of the Intelligence of the 
Apes and Monkeys.” The author in the first place described a method 
of displaying the comparative anatomy of an animal by means of 
plaster and wax casts of the most important parts, and showing these 
alongside of the skeleton and stuffed skin. He then adduced many 
facts in the anatomy of the Quadrumana, and came to the following 
conclusions :—Ist. That the anthropoid apes, both anatomically and 
in reference to their amount of intelligence, are not entitled to the 
elevated position in which they have been placed by some anatomists. 
Qnd. That the line of demarcation between man and these brutes is so 
wide and clearly defined as to entitle the human family, as maintained 
by Blumenbach, Cuvier, and others, to a separate and exclusive division 
in the animal scale. 
The Rev. H. B. Tristram then read a paper, “ On the Ornithology 
of Palestine and the Peculiarities of the Jordan Valley.” The author, 
during a residence there last year, obtained fourteen different kinds of 
chats, and some birds like the golden plover and the blackwing. 
Various new species, or new to that locality, were described ; amongst 
these were specimens of the following new and hitherto undescribed 
species :—The Ceylonese eagle-owl, only hitherto known in South 
Jndia and China; Gurney’s sparrow-hawk, peculiar to Palestine; the 
Peregrine falcon, on the coast; the Lanner falcon, on the highlands ; 
and the Saker falcon, the largest of all, in the interior ; a new species 
of night-jar, confined exclusively to the Dead Sea; the Galilean swift, 
confined to the Jordan Valley ; the great Alpine swift, and many other 
species which our limited space will not allow us to name. 
Dr. Cobbold, F.R.S., read a paper, ‘On the Development and Mi- 
grations of the Entozoa,” in which he related a number of experiments 
made on the mode of propagation of flukes, tapeworms, round-worms, 
or their larve. He pointed out that the larve of the smallest tape- 
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