Mr Wayne on Dr Knox's Observations, fyc. 43 



graded race of human beings and the highest in the scale of 

 irrational creatures, or those whose form approaches to that 

 of man, we believe, with Blumenbach, that there exist differ- 

 ences, both in anatomical structure, and in the more distin- 

 guishing qualities of Reason and Speech, which mark an in- 

 calculable distance between the Lord of Creation and every 

 other class of organized beings. At the same time, as M. 

 Bory has, we presume, satisfied himself by drawing the con- 

 tinuous, and, in his mind, connected line, from the Homo 

 Japeticus to the Hottentot and the ape, there seems no 

 good reason for his not following out the chain still farther, 

 till he connects man with the races of reptiles, or ends the series 

 in an infusory animalcule. We only object to our being includ- 

 ed in this fancied chain of connection ; for we feel, at this mo- 

 ment, too proud to be ranked in the unique Order BIMA- 

 NUS, the superlative genus Homo, the rational species Sa- 

 piens, and the happy variety whose country is Great Bri- 

 tain, — to listen with patience to details prompted by the vanity 

 of system-making, even although their author be no less a na- 

 turalist than M. Bory de St-Vincent. 



Art. VII. — Remarks on Dr Knox's " Observations on the 

 Habits ofHycenas? contained in the Fifth Number of the 

 Edinburgh Journal of Science. By W. H. Wayne, Esq. 

 Fellow of the Cam. Phil. Soc. Communicated by the Au- 

 thor. 



It had not been my good fortune to meet with the fifth Num- 

 ber of the Edinburgh Journal of Science till within these few 

 days ; and I am ignorant whether Dr Buckland has, or has 

 not, made any remarks on Dr Knox's paper, in which he re- 

 fers' to a former one by himself, published in the " Transac- 

 tions of the Wcrnerian Society,''' and to Dr Buckland's " com- 

 ment 11 upon it. I have had no opportunity of seeing either of 

 these, and may possibly repeat some things contained in one 

 or other of them. If, however, these suggestions should ap- 

 pear worthy the Edinburgh Journal of Science, I shall feel 

 honoured by their insertion. 



