94 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



his ever having set eyes upon them ; and 

 likewise of Goethe's description of the way 

 in which certain speculators evolve their 

 ideas respecting their supposed ancestors. 

 A Frenchman, an Englishman, and a 

 German were commissioned to give the 

 world the benefit of their views on that 

 lively animal the CAMEL. 



Away flew the Frenchman to the Jardin 

 des Plantes, spent an hour there in rapid 

 investigation, and then without a moment's 

 delay wrote currente calamo, a treatise on 

 the animal, without adding a single idea to 

 man's previous knowledge of Natural His- 

 tory. He was, however, so satisfied with 

 his work, that he was constrained to 

 exclaim in the exuberance of his joy, " Le 

 voila, le chameau ! " 



The Englishman packed up his tea 

 caddy and a store of comforts, pitched his 

 tent in the desert, remained there two 

 years studying THE CAMEL in its habits 

 without order, expounded without philo- 

 sophy, but serving as valuable materials for 

 all who came after him. 



