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HOMO V. DARWIJT. 



the eye. Some persons have black eyes, some have blue 

 eyes, and some have them grey, or even green ; but I don't 

 suppose that the fact of some of the lower animals having 

 eyes similarly coloured would prove them to be our relations. 

 Mr. Darwin speaks of " the whole external ear being per- 

 manently pressed backwards," but he does not tell us how, 

 or by whom, this was done. 



Lord C. Is not that portion of the ear called the lobe, 

 occasionally wanting ? I have seen persons with scarcely 

 any lobe whatever to their ears. Would Mr. Darwin argue 

 from this fact that the hairy quadruped — man's progenitor 

 — while he had pointed ears, was unprovided with the ap- 

 pendage to which ladies are so fond of attaching ornaments ? 

 Homo. Mr. Darwin, my Lord, will perhaps reply to that 

 question in some subsequent edition of his work. But I 

 beg to suggest another point for his consideration. It is 

 well known that the nose varies in development, as well as 

 the ear, and that, occasionally, persons have what is called 

 the aquiline nose. Are we to regard this as a vestige of a 

 formerly aquiline nose possessed by our ape-like progenitors, 



or as an indication that we are 

 allied to the eagle and the 

 parrot, the beaks of these crea- 

 -.A tures, and even the mandibles 

 of the cuttle-fish, often having 

 this peculiar curve ? I beg also 

 to remark that there are other 

 points on the ear besides the one 

 in question, which Mr. Woolner 

 does not show on his model, and 

 to which Mr. Darwin does not 

 refer. In this engraving, Mr. Woolner's point is shown at 

 A, the other points at b and c. 



