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“producing fertile offsprings. Does anyone seriously assert that 
“their several classes must severally originate in a single pair?” 
Mr. Broca (specialist), as well as Dr. Knox, expressly denies 
human hybrids are fertile. 
Dr. North stated half-casts are short lived, and if they inter- 
marry are unprolific. 
Another paper by the Rev. F. Farrar, entitled ‘‘Climate and 
Color,” did something to dispel popular errors in England. In the 
extract before me, he states that so far from being an important agent, 
climate has on color little influence. Eastern Asia, from 70 degrees 
to the Equator, with every variety of temperature, has one type, the 
Mongolian, whose hue grows darker tothe north. By fair Circassians 
we find brown Calmucks, short, dark Lapps, tall, fair Finns. The 
Nepaulese, inhabiting a temperate mountainous region, are far darker 
than Bengalese. ‘The descendants of the Dutch at the Cape are as 
fair as the fairest European, remaining so, though 300 years there. 
We find Negroes, not only in Africa, but in Assam, Formosa, the 
Andamans, Phillipines, etc. The real African is copper colored. 
Dr. Hunt expressed the opinion the Negro was a distinct species ; 
Pusey and Dr. Salmon coinciding in this. So you may perceive 
‘““The American Association for the Advancement of Science” have 
many influential supporters of its views in the old country. ‘‘ Heresy- 
hunting” there has been nearly abandoned. The ‘ Blasphemy Act” 
passed in the time of William III. has never been repealed, but no 
government would dare enforce it. 
In all our theological seminaries where we make ministers there 
ought to be professors to give lesssons in Natural History, remarks a 
well-known preacher in a sermon, a copy of which the writer received. 
We may cordially agree with him in that. We may, however, feel 
inclined to imagine the teacher of science would not long hold his 
position if he expressed disbelief in the soldiers arresting the sun tn tts 
course. Did not some foolish astronomer assert ’twas the earth that 
moved, and not the sun? How long would he occupy the chair if 
he ventured to remark that he agreed with a certain branch of the 
church at Chicago which taught in its Sunday-schools that the Gen- 
esis account of the creation is not historical or scientific; that men 
never lived to so great an age as is asserted, and that the marginal 
chronology has been proved to be absolutely worthless. 
