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tant approximation to this. The methods recently 

 promulgated by Earey and Baucher are now attracting 

 attention, and deservedly too, not merely for the imme- 

 diate profit resulting from increased value in the sub- 

 jects, but in view of the ultimate results which may be 

 anticipated ; for, as we have seen when treating of the 

 law of similarity, acquired habits may in time become 

 so inbred as to be transmissible by hereditary descent. 



