Beviews — R. Brough Smyth's Map of Victoria. 227 



PalcBOtherium and the modern single-hoofed Equiis, through Paloplo- 

 therium, Anchitherium and Hipparion. "Thus the succession in time 

 accords with the gradational modifications by which Palceotherium is 

 linked on to JEquiis." (Owen op. cit. p. 793.) 



Prof. Huxley, in a lecture delivered before the Eoyal Institution 

 of Great Britain on Feb. 7, 1868, pointed out the close affinities 

 existing between the Dinosauria and Birds. The recent discovery 

 by Prof. 0. C. Marsh, of Yale College, Ct., U.S.A., of a remarkable 

 extinct bird with biconcave vertebrae and well-developed teeth in 

 both jaws, adds another link to the remarkable fossil bird from 

 Solenhofen, the Arcliceopteryx lithograpMca, and sufficiently proves the 

 justness of Dr. Darwin's conclusion. Other evidence (we learn) will 

 shortly be forthcoming in this country tending in the same direction. 



Compact as is the Avian class, we have, even among living birds, 

 many anomalous forms, such as the ail-but- wingless Penguins, and 

 the lately exterminated Auk, and Dodo. The Rhea and Ostrich 

 have only rudimentary wings, the Cassowary and Apteryx none at 

 all, nor had the gigantic birds of New Zealand a trace of wings, yet 

 they managed to live on save for the interference of man upon the 

 scene of their existence — notwithstanding Mr. Leif child's condemna- 

 tion of such wingless monstrosities. 



It may be interesting to our readers, as well as to the author of 

 " The Higher Ministry of Nature," to know that there is no-w living 

 on the Continent of Australia a bipedal lizard,^ which certainly goes 

 a long way to meet a bird, with well-developed teeth, biconcave 

 vertebrae, and a long rat-like tail 1 



To those who wish to follow the author "one step further," when 

 he suggests "the probability of Angelic and Human Continuity," 

 we leave the perusal of this singular volume. There can b« no 

 doubt of the earnestness and sincerity of the author, but, like all 

 earnest adA^ocates, he is not altogether impartial ; for whilst, on the 

 one hand, he charges Darwin with gathering a vast army of facts or 

 phenomena, and drilling them during many years upon one system, 

 he has collected an equally extensive series of extracts from ancient 

 and modern writers, and presses them in favour of his own peculiar 

 tenets with all the logic he can command. Mr. Leifchild is an apt 

 illustration of the old adage, " Logically demonstrate your case, and 

 I will undertake to prove by logic that the very reverse of what you 

 have stated is the truth." 



III. — Sketch of a New Geological Map of Victoria. By E. 

 Brough Smyth, F.G.S., etc., Secretary for Mines for the Colony 

 of Victoria. 



WE have lately had forwarded to us the above publication from 

 the Government Mining Department of the Colony of Vic- 

 toria. The sketch is in the form of a lithograph, printed in colours, 

 on the scale of one inch to ten miles, and is intended to accompany 



^ "The great Frilled Lizard," Chlnmyclosaiirus Kingii. This lizard habitually 

 runs about on its hind-legs, seldom or never touching the ground with its fore-paws, 

 which are but little developed. 



