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asserted for him, at a later stage, in accounting for the true reading ot 

 a much contested erasure : " The fact is, my client's book shows in 

 many places that he had a most imperfect knowledge of Greek, and I 

 believe did not know how to spell the word physiological.'^ No wonder, 

 therefore, when Mr. Pike, in quoting from Livy about the rutilatae 

 comse, or reddened hair of the Galli, fell into an error, his hapless imi- 

 tator — as is the way with such poachers on literary preserves, — transferred 

 it, blunders and all, to his own pages. So, after prolonged trial, and 

 much argument on both sides, the Vice-Chancellor decided that the 

 plaintiff had made out his case, and was entitled to an injunction to 

 restrain the publication ot his rival's book; to a refunding of all 

 money already obtained by its sale; to costs of suit; and, in fact, to 

 all " the damages in cases of literary piracy." 



This trial has, not unnaturally, excited considerable interest in literary 

 circles. Mr. Grove, Q.C., late President of the British Association, 

 was Mr. Pike's leading counsel; Dr. Beddoe, President of the Anthro- 

 pological Society of London; its Honorary Secretary, Mr. C. Carter 

 Blake, Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at Westminster Hospital; 

 Dr. Kowland Williams; Mr. Watts, of the British Museum Library, 

 and others: appeared as witnesses; and the Court had to listen to 

 citations from Livy, Gildas, Pouchet, Retzius, Prichard, Blumenbach, 

 and other authorities not usually supposed to carry weight in Chancery 

 suits. We now propose to advert to one or two points in which readers 

 of the Canadian Journal may claim some interest. Mr. Kay, Q.C., 

 one of the defendant's counsel, in cross-questioning Mr. Pike, as to the 

 uses made by him of other authorities, asked " whether he had not 

 found the idea of getting information from hatters in Professor Wilson's 

 paper, published in the Anthropological Review f' His answer is, 

 that the paper in question appeared in 1865, while certain letters 

 produced in court in proof of- his researches on the same subject, bore 

 the date of 1864. But, he states, " after seeing Professor Wilson's 

 paper, he added a note to what he had previously written, and men- 

 tioned this agreement in method, with Professor Wilson's name." 



The idea of making the hat a test of the form and size of the head 

 is one so simple and obvious, that it would be childish to attach any 

 great merit to its first application for the purpose. When the mauso- 

 leum of the poet Burns was opened in 1834, for the interment of bis 

 widow, some little scandal was created by a Dumfries Bailie trying his 

 hat on the poet's skull, and publishing to the world the modest truth 



