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Malayan countries, the Bos sondiacus is the species sure to be 
intended; but “wild cow” in Orissa can only refer to the nilgai, 
which moreover is not otherwise indicated as inhabiting the Puri 
district, though well-known to occur there. Since the publication 
of the late Dr. Jerdon’s useful ‘Mammals of India’ and ‘ Birds of 
India,’ and with the facilities for identification which are offered 
by the Government Museum of Natural History in Calcutta, there 
is surely no reason why the common mammals and birds of any 
part of India should not be designated intelligibly to non-Indian 
readers who happen to feel an interest regarding them. 
Epwarp BLiyTu. 
N.B.— The additions within editorial brackets are Mr. Blyth’s.—EZ. 
Newman. 
Hotices of Hew Books, 
An Exposition of Fallacies in the Hypothesis of Mr. Darwin. 
By C. R. Bree, M.D., F.Z.S. London: Longmans, 
Green & Co. 1872. 
THE expositors of ‘ Fallacies in the Hypothesis of Mr. Darwin’ 
may be divided into three sections :—I1st. Teachers of the Christian 
religion, who clearly see that if Mr. Darwin’s views are established 
as true, their own teaching must be false, and their occupation 
gone; for, as Mr. Mivart expresses it, “ No one can at the same time 
accept the Christian religion and deny the dogma of Creation”: 
their name is Legion. 2nd. Naturalists who have antagonistic 
hypotheses to support, and of whom I consider Mr. Mivart an 
illustrious, and myself a very humble, example: we are very few. 
5rd. Authors of reputation who seek to support that reputation 
by a display of argumentative powers and forcible writing. 
Dr. Bree is an excellent example of the third section, and may 
fairly claim to be considered as its leader, for he has long since 
published a volume of the same import, under the title of ‘ Species 
not Transmutable’: the present work appears to me in reality a 
second and elaborate edition of the first, and I fail to see any 
advantage in the new title, more especially as it seems to prejudge 
the whole question by assuming that there are “fallacies” to be 
“exposed,” which I think is really the question to be discussed: 
