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tion of the original engravings, they nevertheless 

 offer figures which are readily recognizable. Among 

 them one may distinguish the ibis, the vulture, the 

 screech-owl, the falcon, the Egyptian goose, the lap- 

 wing, the rail, the asp, the horned viper, the long- 

 eared Egyptian hare and the hippopotamus. 1 



The monuments of Chaldea and Babylonia tell 

 the same story as those of Egypt. On a magnifi- 

 cent bas-relief found among the ruins of Babylon, 

 dating, it is said, from the time of Nabuchodonosor, 

 is depicted the figure of a noble mastiff, which in 

 form, proportions and physiognomy is so like unto 

 that of the finest type of a modern mastiff, that one 

 would say the engraving was made from a photograph 

 of one of our prize exhibition dogs. Similarly, Layard 

 gives us, in his " Nineveh and Babylon," a drawing of 

 a type of dog of which the characteristics are so 

 marked that naturalists have had no difficulty in 

 identifying it with a race still occurring in Thibet. 



Evidence From Plants. 



What has been said of animals may also be 

 iterated, and with equal truth, of plants both wild 

 and cultivated. There is no certain evidence that 

 even one of them has undergone any specific change 

 since the earliest dawn of history. More than this, 

 as far back even as paleobotany will serve as a 

 guide, we are unable to point to a single well-at- 

 tested instance of transmutation in a single species 

 of plant. 



1 Op. cit. 



