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of butterflies and bees on the fertilisation of flowers ; while 

 Riitimeyer explained with keen perception mammalian re- 

 lationships in accordance with the Darwinian theory. These 

 contributions to scientific knowledge, it is hardly necessary to 

 say, were only a small percentage of the mass which laborious 

 Germany has accumulated within the last twenty years. 



b. 1834. Lubbock (Sir John) added valuable information 

 to that furnished by Malpighi, Leuwenhoeck, Swammerdam, 

 Spallanzani, Reaumur, and Lamarck, who had paid much 

 attention to insects. Sir John has supplemented our know- 

 ledge of BEES AND ANTS by wonderful details. Nothing in 

 nature is more beautiful than the instinct, the habits, the 

 order, the intelligence of these insects, and nothing in science 

 is more admirable than the love, the patience and cleverness Sir 

 John has displayed in this study. To say that he watched 

 one individual insect queen for fourteen years is to give an 

 idea of the thoroughness of his work. His books are de- 

 lightful reading. Anthropology is also much indebted to 

 Sir John Lubbock for his extensive investigations. His 

 persevering researches resulted in valuable works, the pur- 

 port of which is accurately described by their titles : (f Pre- 

 historic Times," which came out about the same time as 

 Tylor's "Early History of Mankind" (1865); "Origin of 

 Civilisation " (1870), and " Primitive Condition of Man." In 

 those books the author has accumulated conclusive evidences 

 of the remote antiquity of man and man's slow evolution from 

 the lowest state of brutishness to his civilised condition. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 



1752 1840. Blumenbach founded this new science was 

 the first who gave a serious attention to the natural history of 

 man, neglected until then. His "Skulls of All Nations" 

 opened the road to the STUDY OF MANKIND in all parts of 

 the globe the configuration of the. skull, stature, colouration, 

 of the skin, eyes, hair, ethnology, philology, worship becoming 

 so many subjects of serious investigation, and so much 

 material to establish a basis for the divisions of the human 

 races. 



