3640 The Zoologist — August, 1873. 



is not less than seven hundred miles, and it is announced as a positive fact 

 that a vessel can be launched above Murchison Falls, at the head of Lake 

 N3'anza and sail a-n-ay to Ujiji, or lower, through ten degrees of latitude. ■■' * * 

 I send you this intelligence direct from the lips of the Emancipator of Central 

 Africa." — Extract from the ' Daily Telegraph' of July 8, 1873, received from 

 " Our Own Correspondent." 



[The "details" of the journey southward and of the return journey 

 northward are too meagre to deserve that name. Eager as all are to 

 receive news of Africa and African explorers, we must exercise caution hoth 

 in accepting or rejecting such information as this ; its bearing on the coloni- 

 zation, the investigation, the mercantile and Natural History future of 

 Central Africa, are incalculable. — Edward Neicman.] 



The Anatomy of the Negro. — " I have pointed out over a hundred specific 

 differences between the bonal and nervous system of the white man and the 

 negro. Indeed, their frames are alike in no particular. There is no bone 

 in the negro's body which is relatively the same shape, size, articulation, or 

 chemically of the same composition, as that of the white man. The negro's 

 bones contain a far greater proportion of calcareous salts than those of the 

 white man. Even the negro's blood is chemically a very different fluid 

 from that which courses in the veins of the white man. The whole 

 physical organization of the negro differs quite as much from the white 

 man's as it does from that of the chimpanzee — that is, in his bones, 

 muscles, nerves and fibres, the chimpanzee has not much farther to 

 progress to become a white man. This fact Science inexorably demon- 

 strates. Climate has no more to do with the difference between the 

 white man and the negro than it has with that between the negro and 

 the chimpanzee, or between the horse and the ass, or the eagle and the 

 owl. Each is a distinct and separate creation. The negro and the 

 white man were created as specifically different as the owl and the eagle. 

 They are designed to fill different places in the system of Nature. The 

 negi'o is no more a negro by accident or misfortune than the owl is the kind 

 of bird he is by accident or misfortune. The negro is no more the white 

 man's brother than the owl is the sister of the eagle, or the ass the brother 

 of the horse. How stupehdous and yet how simple is the doctrine that the 

 Almighty Maker of the universe has created different species of men, just as 

 He has different species of the lower animals, to fill different places and 

 offices in the grand machinery of Nature." — Professor Agassiz, as quoted in 

 the * Popular Science Review.' 



A Dog eating Stoats. — During a walk on the 20th of May in some 

 marshes near the sea, our two dogs found and scratched out a nest of 

 young stoats by the side of a ditch next to a large piece of reeds ; there 



