individual, i it was it was then hen affirmed th that it is physiologically , 
and intellig: All expe- 
any pay it in ` one animal | 
Gat wan olde good for the ot holds good for 
nd hen nee that man i rch 
rhai on that both are under the 
thia T Tr 
rol of| 
f h ind a 
ti 
e the fr of the other. 
ka 
returned to their aunties | png Everyw ar sterili ity 
ely allied 
and na l life in this , that the t odmian, ie and 
big oe an Amgen particle i in the person answers to 
produci 
d hybridism, as was seen in the oloa 
— of me horse and the ass. Mr. Darw: 
sions were an hypothesis, S, 3 s, raised most 
s conclu- 
far the pro expla! of all the 
phenomena presente | iy axe clusion, distribution 
structure, and dev ent of plan 
doctri 
unphilosophieally | had iost i in pe pre ening 
ave an account 
odes om e purely physiological SARETA 
to historical f and selecting the only Europ 
that the g aad names in science were op spose ed to this 
n | theory, which he mise to be opposed to the ‘okaseetn | | 
of science a nd h — Pro of. Huxley defen nded Mr. | 
of 80 enta 
he subj i of tuna mai 
B described the apparat s he had employed, and 
stat ed that, after passing air r through sulphuric acid, he 
“Iag 
reek mental develo) me nt answa 
ual life, 
or pa 
c 
Sceptics Riho f hered 
expedition and ER by mi splendid ashiovements 
of Abe Alexandrian, schoo), erated into Neopla- 
z in a wohl the ys 
the variation 
of ‘Gr ek philosophy, given ea 
es of its ie, Be showed that iti is spot | inte elligent. 
its being rely 
coche <3 He ah it was an explan ' pheno: | i 
— in Natural History, as the snag theory was | 
— of light. No oa cted t o that 
A ause 
bare ga mae of 1 ors never | 
indications of organic life. —Dr. Bowerbank pointed ou 
two sources of iri 
n’s li was an expla- 
bg was full of new 
out asserting 
bear his theo Wi 
the | th at every p ee of the theory P iad, been o confirmed, | 
t 
he maintained that it 
wa: splanation |p |p 
| of the origin of species which had „yet bee: 
a nes pe 
ion 
animals; man himself was mad—a 
ere atom, and Eie uld say at “es AY in 
the } history of his Peo ge he gini consciously 
The q was not so much one of a 
produc- 
ni | man With 
a fi re 
M Raa the 
aan, i and to establish 
of 
passing Be 
the variations 
Next, to 
raper 
Its first period close l 
el 
gregate, Pro that 
ady in part repeated these „phases in its | 
as 9 the 
Th us 
ween | à Fungi. "These were bataci. derived rs i 
» source 
| of error pester ox out by Dr. Bowerbank, in the me and 
| Linse ore 
Mr, twood read a communication from Prof. 
outer “On the Effect of iota and Time on 
| the De evelopment of certain Lepido hs table was 
| tion of forms which iota permanent, 
‘were hatched. maag pria tables it 
h al ate par rent fe py: pa 
had been kept up by a ri 
of artificial pan raa —Admir: 1 
publicati. o 
in dy 
it has alre 
y peed ute 
of the power of 
ks tion of Constantinople, the third with the 
ish invasion of Europe: we are living in the | 
fourth. Detailed proofs of the correspondence of these 
periods to those of se life, and through them 
those of individual life, are given in a wor a now 
printing on this subj ih by the author, in Americ 
is) his et Pore thei Prof. Draper next 
d to ) many collateral problems or inquiri 
= 
Pook Tica Rome, the second With the | Huxley’ 3 Sa that it was a logical arrangement 
B: 
ba facts. eale p 
x Tigustri 
posi Magt a great ae of the insects were 
hatched in iddle of Jun 
Mr. "se sled read a pt on “The Geographical 
Distribution pA Animals. Y —The reading of this aoi 
led = anoth —Mr, 
he Darwinian theo 
ith whic ory had to deal, show 
| Stali oe vital tendencies of allied pice hinds 
to | seemed Mr. 
Lu 
independent of ail external agents. — 
ck sed hi i 
and not ot, interior influences, and that in this phot 
anation is like a seed, which ean only develope when |as 
be 
or 
way; that the time for psychical change corresponds 
with that for a ai md that a nation cannot vadveings 
=: material co be touched,—this having |t 
case inkara Europe, as is ™ 
of the races: 
en man are 
ristics, continnance, 
tod } 
anifested 
thereof; 
for their character’ and life 
on _ the physical conditions under which the ey live; 
= favoural 
he audience hi y piken Ber A o awane however, 
he had been asked for his opinion, he would briefly rnd 
In the first place, his lordship, | € 
as it to him, y mis- 
hypothesis: his lordship 
— 
understood Mr. Darwin’s 
| intimated that it aeaea the pf prey of the 
the 
anisation is the direct consequence o 
| of existing species one into another, and 
h q 
ving ass 
| hostile to Mr, Darwin’ a Se peor onda * himself | pı 
ble could address 
in his eloquent | of 
estwood exhibited a series of specimens 0 butte bterflies, 
ing the close relationship between the forms of 
h erica.—Prof. Huxley e-d 
Hi 
fom of th 
some Monstrous F: —The 
illu ENOT bys a large number of fotent: 
of ‘monstrous paa oiik ——, of plants. 
The Rey. . Her w made 
grow th of W iaat prea from mummies, 
intro 
org: 
priv neh me but i if that should suffer 
modification, instant the fanciful doctrine of the 
immutability as specie S wou ia rhe rig to y dwan 
value. The organic world appear: o be 
because natural feria have ili 
first. of th nese Ph was so a i emeR: to 
facts, reason 
he could not co neeive ct ane one who had read it 
could mes such 
A marble may remain motionle: 
table, but det the table be a ttle “Inclined, and the 
ver on a level ies 
‘the i 
ings; and results of Mr. Darwin’s work, that | zer 
duced his observations 
tion af how 
f 
s cain 
e 
species, he understood his lordshi firm that|a Committee of thi had rope on 
in ee we Prom his work on — iology, published these did esent cl rs t should lead the Spaas but they had not succeeded in making 
in 1856, vo gave his views in support of the doctrine of careful and philosophical naturalists to favour Mr. he had been kept atap than two 
the transmutation of species; the transitional form f easier ies > To this assertion xX- oa ra "He then showed a all experiments 
the animal and shes the human ty ype; perience of the Vegetable Kingdom was diametrica’ ded growth my Wheat were 
new et! el o1 f opposed. He considered that at least one half of the fiom, ona especialy noticed $ thaveeds ich had 
origin, duration, and death.—The his wn kinds of plants were disp osable in groups, of n reli so much, of the growth of mummy 
paper attracted a audience to the ee ion, To ats e species were connec a by ‘the Rev. Mr. “Tapper from s supplied 
which met this nor reed the Library of the New common, to all in that Fron al Smeets differing in | him 
The discussion was commenced by the Rev. 
Mr. Mr. Cresswell, we denied that any parallel cowl 
so much so that 
if each group be likened toa cobweb, and one species 
pe nt paan of the Jo 
be supposed to stand in the pe of that web, its 
s 
I ower animals, So far from | varying characters might a. warrior, found in the per ppg: of Corfe 
a. r bein: a ect with PEPR to the history of | and concentric t pei oe the other species would Castle, and stated that the old seeds werè pee 
its mast odi iad ‘and | be re esented b ints of „nnion of taco in eae tats at re Horticultural Society on the same 
its national ies. short, ti x g a — Ned ra, ones, so that they might Pegs 
t species s differed in This is uite a mistake. 
E of from those of varieties, and afforded re sed. a cases a EA the | supposed 
he could not subseribe to | countenance to eS otl > ae oe rot seeds were given, but no ease which could 
germ |] 5 : pee epe eame proof. 
pr go “ P a ce stor He ed. He knew | 
ERA pri creeds in scientific mat e rI begun | Douglas, 
sere found in the iiher inl ace i he odd | th the stu udy © tural science under the oe hag E spee cies President in the ne Snel ee 
not se see — Wil ct ould originate in lower organisms. [sere original creations ; ie it should be steadily kept | folio containing a portion of a collectio of European 
This of man was race al with the Divine | in view at Le was ae ris hypothesis tg | Lit optera, formed b by transferring the Seales from the 
Thtelligzence ; and to suppose that this could originate | in the abst eithe: no ntitled wings of the i io keli process unknown, 
with matter, involv zed the nbsurdity of supposing the e |a acceptance tha an "M T. Dad aem sper ms roa in and by which ua deal eai of the species 
~ pe vad chee ine pow = re ae the p state of science, capablo of demonstration, and | were beantifully preserved ; it sonata that the ¢ol- 
—The Bishop of odin stated „that the each must be tested by its power of explaining the | lection had been formed in Gi an by the labour of & 
Derwinien theory, pen The by the principles of | mutual dependence of the phenomena of life. For many | lifetime, ar se been fereandba to this for 
inductive _ Science, broke ae The fi facts. “Brongtit years he had held to the old hypothesis, having no|sale.. Mr. sen exhibited some tish 
_ Thie permanence | : [botany ad erp ee y veer ger a aa 46 the progress of} including fireren us septentrionis, Scolytus Ratze- 
thad 5 i * found in 
The senate “of. animals, pron dnd = £ dit na bjecti to] Perthshire. Me Man bonariae, Ine ound o 
earliest records of the human race—the On the other yers drong; ser years ago been | ample of Chrosis Audouiana, from Darenth Wood, Kent. 
seine Jig spoke their r identity with | privately made acquainted with ne Darwin’s views, ||'Mr. Douglas exhibited some Coleoptera. d in the 
the woas endeney of | he had eS a t period applied these to botanical | exudit of trees infested by the larva of Cossus 
| Sa of all kinds i in the most distant parts of | ligniperda, including Tachi i } alir 
qwas lithe globe, ph , Homalota ci : ita, &e,; he 
— Floras at a en that | also exhibited Conopalpus testaceus- from rotten 
| Mr. Darwin had pnblished paga nE antreen apa eera hes during net eee Mr. Rye 
high. publicly sable his hypothesis, as that which offers exhibited some examples of variegatus 
Mr. T. M. Masters som paper “C “On the ihoia 
Pp: 
some piet. on the 
