144 Scientific Intelligence. 
Orang-utan is quite as bulky asa small sized man, while the Gorilla 
is “conan above the average size of man, as estimated by 
ulk and weight; yet the former has a brain of 0 only 28 cubic 
inches, “id latter, one of 30, or, in the largest specimen yet known, 
of 344 cubic inches. 
“We see, then, that noe ues Des aaah the savage ive the 
higher developments of man, or with the brutes arou 
actual requirements—an organ that seems prepared in vaveute 
only to be fully utilized as he progresses in civilization. A brain 
wo yes larger than that of the gorilla would, according to the 
dence before us, fully have sufficed for the limited mental devel- 
i h 
developed by any of those laws of evolution, whose essence is, 
that they lead to a degree of organization exactly proportionate 
ond 
Orms 
Ivy. ASTRONOMY. 
# Ag obere ogee under the direction of Dr. B. A. GouLp 
eco s, at our request, furnished us with the following 
a regard to the Cordova Ubsartata which has 
fon teed under his charge. He sailed with his family for South 
erica in the latter part of 
The Argentine —— voted to establish a national observa- 
tory at Cordova, at the instance of President Sarmiento, and 
through the mae of the eo Minister of Public Instruc- 
tion, Dr. Avelleneda,—who invited me to organize and taki charge 
of it, knowing my desire to extend the catalogue of the southern 
heavens beyond the limit of 30° to which the zones of Argelander 
extend. Bessel went through the region from 45° N. to 15° S. 
with systematic zone-observations at Kénigsberg, which wii since 
been reduced and published in two catalogues An Weisse of Cra- 
vanced, was not completed at the time of his death, and the Ms. 1s 
_ now stored somewhere in Washington. Let us hope that it eel 
at some time be recovered, the work completed ond aie given to the 
