146 EVOLUTION AND DOGMA. 



Among the mummies thus collected were those 

 of wild as well as those of domestic animals. " My 

 learned colleague, M. Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire," writes 

 Cuvier in his great work, " Discours sur les Revolu- 

 tions de la Surface du Globe," ' " has collected in 

 the temples of upper and of lower Egypt all the 

 mummies of animals he was able to procure. He 

 has brought back ibises, birds of prey, dogs, mon- 

 keys, crocodiles, the head of a bull, all embalmed; 

 and one does not discern any greater difference 

 between them and those we now see, than -is ob- 

 served between human mummies and the skeletons 

 of men of the present day." 



Interesting, however, as are the mummified 

 remains of wild animals, those of domestic animals 

 have a greater value in all discussions bearing on 

 the question of transmutation of species. Among 

 the animals frequently embalmed were the dog, the 

 cat and the bull. But since the times when these 

 animals were worshipped on the banks of the Nile, 

 representatives of their species have been trans- 

 ported by man to almost every portion of the Old 

 and New Worlds, and have been exposed to every ex- 

 treme of climate and to the most diverse conditions 

 of life. And yet, notwithstanding all these great 

 changes of environment, the cat and the dog have 

 undergone little or no mutations, and the bull Apis 

 which was such a special object of worship among 

 the Egyptians, was in no wise different from repre- 

 sentatives of the same species now living. 



1 P. 132, edition of 1830. 



