74 Scientific Intelligence. 
spikes, we found the following: About three dozen knives, forks 
and spoons, all the butcher knives, three in number, a large carv- 
ing knife, fork and steel; several large plugs of tobacco; the out- 
side casing of a silver watch was disposed of in one part of the 
pile, the glass of the same watch in another, and the works in still 
apace an Bice urse containing some silver, matches and to- 
e 
coe some sire ses as they were originally stored in different 
parts of the hou 
e ingenuity sed skill displayed in the construction of this 
nest and the curious taste for articles of iron, many of them heavy, 
for component parts, struck me with surprise. The articles of 
value were I think stolen se the men who had broken into the 
house for temporary lodgi Ihave preserved a sketch of this 
iron-clad nest, which I think unique in natural bistory. 
Many curious facts have since been related me, concerning the 
habits of this little Shaner A miner told me the following : 
He once, during the ing excitement in Siskyiou County, 
became in California parlanoe “dead broke,” and applied for and 
obtained employment in a mining camp, where the owners, hands 
and all slept in the same cabin. Shortly after his arrival small 
articles commenced to erat gain : a whole plug of tobacco were 
left on the table, it would be gone in the morning. Finally a bag, 
containing one hnndved or more ee in gold dust, was taken 
from a small table at the head of a “ bunk,” in which one of the 
proprietors of the claim slept. Suspicion fell on the new comer, 
and he would perhaps have fared hardly; for, with those rough 
aici punishment is short and sharp; but, just in time, a 
large rat’s nest was discovered in the garret of the cabin, snd in 
The Doctrine of Evolution: its data, its principles, bon 
speculations, and its Theistic bearings. By ALE N- 
LL, LL.D., Chancellor of Syracuse University, &c. et pe 
120, New York, 1874. (Harper & Brothers.)}—This volume is 
argument again nst the derivation of species by gradual variation 
The author sustains the idea of a system of evolution in the organ 
kingdoms, but with this qualification, that “the evolution, eile 
a real evolution in its main features,” has “many facts of a 
avougly disboedhart character” in its details. He observes that 
ution admitting of pro y considerable 
oe that make the progress gradual. In his concluding re- 
s, after a recapitulation of his deductions from known facts, 
the : bes says that there exists no “a@ priori ground for denying 
that some phase of the doctrine of filiative evolution i in the organic 
world may yet become proven and established,” and then rightly 
adds, cre if so established there will be in this | “no sd steth of dectg 
sence 0: 
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