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himself on a neighboring mountain, on a rock on which his seat and the print of 
his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were: 
slaughtered, except the Big Bull, who, presenting his forehead to the shafts, 
shook them off as they fell; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the 
side; whereon springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the 
Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.” 
THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN AND THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 
BY PRINCIPAL J. Ww. DAWSON, MONTREAL, P. Q. 
Among the numerous books and articles constantly inviting the attention 
of readers to the subjects of evolution and the antiquity and origin of man, some 
are rather of an argumentative and polemical character than of the nature of origi- 
nal investigation; others relate to new facts, and constitute actual contributions to 
the data of questions as yet too scantily supplied with fundamental truths. Of 
the former class many are interesting, able, and suggestive; but it is on work of 
the second class that the actual settlement of these disputes must depend, though in 
the meantime this may be comparatively unknown to the general reader, whose 
ideas as to the present state of these questions are likely to be derived rather 
from the confident assertions and well-put arguments of popular writers than from 
the more solid though less showy and far less startling andless assured conclusions. 
of actual painstaking work. 
Of works which may claim to contain results of original and useful investiga- 
tion, the following, which are now in the hands of scientific men and embrace a 
very wide range of inquiry, may afford the material for profitable discussion in 
this Review: Dawkins on ‘‘ Early Man in Britain’’ is a work limited in its 
range, but embracing the results of the investigations of an acute obsever, well 
up in the paleontology of the more recent formations. Barrande’s ‘‘ Brachio- 
pods,” extracted from the great work on the Silurian System of Bohemia, is the 
production of the first paleozoic paleontologist of our age, and with regard to the 
group to which it relates, as well as to the cephalopods and trilobites previously 
treated by the author in the same manner, is an exhaustive inquiry as to what. 
they have to say for and against evolution. ‘‘ Les Enchainements du Monde 
Animal,” by Gaudry, may be regarded as a popular book; but it is the work of 
one of the most successful collectors and expositors of the Tertiary mammalia.. 
‘¢Le Monde des Plantes,’’ by Saporta, is also in some degree popular in its scope, 
but is replete with scientific facts admirably put together by a most successful 
and able paleo-botanist. Of the above writers Barrande is an uncompromising 
opponent of evolution as ordinarily held. In other words, he finds that the facts 
of the history of life in the Paleozoic period lend no countenance to this hypothe- 
sis. The others are theistic evolutionists, holding the doctrine of derivation with 
more or less of modification, but not descending to the special pleading and one- 
