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quainted with the poetry and drama of neighbouring nations who 

 use a different tongue, unless perchance one or two brilliant gems 

 should have been translated and set in the formal frame of his 

 native jeweller. And so too it is with science. There are busy 

 hands at work in every part of the world gathering up nature's 

 treasures, and thoughtful brains poring over her secrets and 

 attempting to unravel her mysteries ; but how little do the men of 

 one land know what those in another are about ? 



Such of our readers as are accustomed to glance over the list of 

 publications which are forwarded to us for review, must have been 

 surprised from time to time on reading the titles of books and 

 essays which reach us from far distant lands ; but all we can do, in 

 the majority of cases, is to acknowledge their receipt, or transfer 

 some novelty from their pages to our Chronicles of Science. 



Let us, however, to-day, drink a little deeper of these foreign 

 draughts ; let us, for curiosity's sake, glance cursorily over a few of 

 the pamphlets which have just reached us from various parts of the 

 world. 



Here we have, first of all, an odd-looking pamphlet, innocent of 

 thread or paste, folded in a remarkable sheet of pink paper for a 

 cover, and printed on rough dark-coloured paper. It is called 

 1 Sesion Publica, Aniversario vigesimo-septimo del Instituto Medico 

 Valenciano ; ' then comes a device composed of sundry skulls, stills, 

 books, and a bust, but the engraving of which is so primitive, 

 that we cannot make out whether it is intended for Galen or iEscu- 

 lapius ; and on opening the pamphlet we find it to be the ' Discurso 

 Inaugural pronunciado el dia 31 de Marzo ' de 1867, by "D. Nor- 

 verto de Areas Benitez," Licentiate of the Faculty of Pharmacy, &c, 

 to the Medical Institute of Valencia. It runs on to nearly ninety 

 pages, treats of almost everything material and immaterial, and 

 whilst its orthodoxy is undoubted, it does not convey anything 

 either new or interesting ; in fact, it is essentially Spanish in its 

 character, and, as will be seen from the following statements, per- 

 mits no biological heresy: — 



" l a . Que el instinto y la inteligencia son espicificamente difer- 

 entes. 



" 2 a . Que por el instinto, el animal se mueve sin conocimiento 

 de causa."* " Que no hay voluntad ni facultades sino en el 

 hombre, como llevo probado, y por lo tanto almo."f 



He believes instinct and intelligence to be specifically different ; 

 and as to instinct, the animal moves without consciousness; he 

 believes that he has proved that man alone has a will, and pro- 

 ceeds then to show that his soul is immaterial. What say you to 

 that, Shade of Lamarck ? and you, oh ! Huxley ? believer in the 

 imperceptible transition from " blind force to conscious intellect and 

 * P. 59. t P. 62. 



