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putable human remains discovered by Dr. Lund in certain Brazilian 

 caverns, and others since disinterred in the valley of the Mississipi ! 

 The human organism pertains strictly to the catarrJdne as opposed 

 to the platyrrliine division of anthropomorphous creatures, the former 

 proper to the major continent, the latter to the minor continent, — 

 the former (as in mankind) having invariably but two prse-molars 

 above and below on either side, the latter as constantly a series of 

 three pra?-molars, &e. &c. : and it need hardly be added that the 

 naked frame (with hah' on scalp affording some protection from the 

 sun, but certainly not from cold,) most surely indicates the original 

 and indigenous abode of mankind to have been in a hot region of 

 the earth, even where, at the present time, the animals most nearly 

 akin to humanity — so far as their bodily organization is concerned — 

 inhabit. But what do we know of the geology of the regions 

 tenanted by the Gorilla, the Chimpanzee, and the Orangs ? Just a 

 little ! Of their palaeontology, almost nothing. It is therefore 

 exceedingly premature to dogmatize or to venture to affirm whether or 

 not a nearer (fossil) link may even yet be brought to light than is 

 the formidable Gorilla Ape, itself a re-discovery but of yesterday, 

 when the proper regions of the earth for such a quest shall have been 

 duly investigated. These remarks are meant to afford little more 

 than a hint ; but it is one that will be understood by those for whom 

 it is intended. — E. B. 



A NOTE ON DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN GENERAL. 



In page 291 antea, it is remarked that the efforts of modern Zoolo- 

 gical and other Societies have not been attended with much result 

 hitherto, as regards the domestication of wild animals ; and I believe, 

 as there intimated, that the subjection of all the more important 

 domestic creatures was effected by human beings in a very rude state 

 of savagery. Since writing those remarks, I have seen the article 

 in No. CCXXV of the ' Edinburgh Review' on the " Acclimatization 

 of Animals," in which the results hitherto attained are brought to 

 notice. " The acclimatization of the Eland," we are told, " may be 

 now considered a fait accomple ;" but this is, at most, a preliminary 

 to its domestication, which by no means necessarily follows, or may 



