296 Scientific Intelligence. 
I watched these proceedings with intense interest, es was peachy “nn with the 
marvellous adaptation of the creature to its habits, shown by hi te hearing, 
which enables him aptly to distinguish the different tones shavtted’ tress the wood 
by his gentle ta apping ; ; his evidently acute sense of smell, aiding him in his search ; 
re footsteps o —_ slender branches, to which he firmly clung with his 
quadrumanous members ; his strong rodent teeth, enabling him to tear through the 
wood ; and lastly, by t the curious slender finger, unlike ‘that of any other animal, 
and which he used alternately as a pleximeter (percuteur #), a probe, an Pp 
ul o learn another peculi water to ati ina 
saucer, on cero = stretched tile and, di a finger into it, and d 
liquely thro ah n mouth ; he repeated so rapidly that the water seemed 
to flow into te roe After a while he lapped like a cat; but 
drinking a appeared to me to be his way of caiog water in the nie clefts of ye 
T am told that the <i Aye is an object of veneration at Madagascar, and that 
if any native touches one he is sure to = within a year, he re" hi difficulty of ob- 
specimen, I pr rcame this scruple by a reward of £10... ..-. 
Be ris me, yours very faithfully 
H. SaNDWITuH. 
The “Conclusion” of the memoir will _—s attract very general 
attention, since it contains a distin ct expression of Prof. Owen’s view 
with 
stiecessots ; those who Bay the pivseding on, and assert that all 
_ We do not propos in this “Tiogapbca notice, to enter into a 
discussion of these different theories, but, before citing Prof. Owen’s 
views, we will merely somal that, if the progressive-creation hypothesis 
is ngage we should be glad to see a better answer than has yet been 
made to the question, how and in what condition did the first forms 
make ay pearance?) When a mammal was created, did the oxygen, 
hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon of the air, and the lime, soda, phospho- : 
rus, ater, &c., from the earth, come senetiar and on the in- 
stant combine into a completely formed herse, lion, elephant, or other 
animal? If this question is answered in the affirmative, it will be easily” 
seen that the answer is entirely opposed by the observed analogies of 
he practical history of the earth ° 
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