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about our smaller streams, and contains many references 

 to the zoological experiences of my father's own boy- 

 hood. 



Then there is "The Dominion of Man," a larger 

 and more important work, recently published by 

 Messrs. Richard Bentley and Co., under the motto of 

 " The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon 

 every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the 

 air, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand 

 are they delivered." The book treats of the sovereignty 

 of man over the lower animals, and traces back that 

 sovereignty to pre-historic times, through the medium 

 of the cave and rock inscriptions which have of late so 

 much attracted the attention of scholars. This book 

 was begun and finished in 1887, and is very characteristic 

 both in style and treatment. 



Lastly, there is a small book on " Ant Life," which 

 was written in the first place for The Sun magazine, 

 and of which the two last chapters were still incomplete 

 at the time of my father's death. The preceding 

 fourteen chapters have already appeared in the magazine 

 in question, and probably will sooner or later be pub- 

 lished in volume form. 



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