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The application for the use of a room, in the building of the Canadian Institute, 
for the purposes of the Society, was brought before the Council, by the President 
at their meeting, on Saturday, the 18th, when they very liberally granted it, free 
of expense. 
The Society thus formed, will, we trust, be a prosperous one. The number of 
Entomologists in this country is not large, but they are amply sufficient to sus- 
tain an organization of this sort. The advantages the Society offers to its mem- 
bers are not by any means small. The general collection will be open to all for 
purposes of reference and comparison, and will thus afford valuable opportunities 
to those who wish to name their specimens; while the cabinet of duplicates will 
offer means of exchange with all parts of Canada. It is intended that duplicate 
copies of Entomological papers published by those connected with the Society 
shall be left with the curator for distribution among members. It is probable, 
also, that as soon as the funds will permit an Entomological library will be added 
to the other attractions in the Society’s rooms ; and that a stock of pins will be 
purchased from which members may obtain supplies at cost price. 
That the meetings of the Society may be made as interesting and attractive as 
possible, it is desirable that members from a distance would furnish short monthly 
records of interesting captures in their localities, accompanied, where convenient, 
with specimens of the insects spoken of. 
All lovers of Entomology may become members of the Society by remitting the 
amount of the yearly subscription to the Secretary-Treasurer, 
? Witttam Saunpsrs, London, C. W. 
THE GORILLA. 
During the last meeting of the British Association at Cambridge a smart 
attack was made upon Professor Owen’s views respecting the importance of the 
characters of the brain in man as distinguishing him from the monkeys as well 
as from inferior animals, by Professor Huxley, supported by Professor Rolleston 
and Mr. Flowers. It is known to all students in zoology, who attempt to keep - 
up with the times, that Professor Owen some time since proposed an improved 
arrangement of Mammalia, in which the leading divisions are made to depend 
on the degree of development of the brain. In this system there are four 
primary divisions; one of which is occupied by man alone, whilst in the second 
the Quadrumas™ (the ape and monkey tribe), with the Carnivora and other 
important tribes of Mammals, form an extensive group. The tabular view of 
Professor Owen's plan was given in this Journal at the time of its publication, 
and may be referred to by our readers. Professor Huxley immediately called in 
question the importance, and, to a certain extent, the reality of the distinctions 
drawn by Owen, and a controversy has been carried on for several years. On 
the present occasion Professor Owen brings before the Natural History section 
of the association a paper entitled, ‘On the Zoological significance of the Brain 
and Limb-characters of Man, with remarks on the cast of the Brain of the 
Gorilla.” The main object of this paper is to justify the system previously 
proposed by a further exposition of the differences between the Human brain 
