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the size of the animal, become, relatively to the continually increasing 

 development and magnitude of the cerebral hemispheres, as con- 

 tinually less and less. 



Instinct, then, in this class, according to the testimony of Physi- 

 ology, should — without losing much or perhaps any of its intrinsic 

 energy, as exhibited in preceding classes — cease to assert the para- 

 mount power and influence it has hitherto exerted : and accurate and 

 trustworthy observation, so far as its results have yet been accumu- 

 lated in anything like a satisfactory or sufficient amount, goes far 

 towards supporting the inference. Instinct may be still, in the lowest 

 classes, the influential motive to action, though still, in general terms, 

 rather less so than in the bird ; but somewhere between the lowest 

 and the highest classes — it is perhaps impossible, in the present state 

 of our knowledge, to fix the precise place where — there is a point at 

 which Instinct, never ceasing throughout the class to exert its own 

 appropriate power and produce the requisite results, yet seems to 

 forego its hitherto imperious claims, and either to employ, in a much 

 greater degree than ever before, or else become subservient to, the co- 

 ordinate power of Rationality. Any way it is most certain, that as we 

 go from link to link in the long chain presented by the Mammalia, 

 whether it be that the beings composing those links, especially towards 

 the higher part of the chain, are for the most part better and more 

 familiarly known to us, or that the workings of their rational part or 

 intellectual essence are more distinctly visible to us, — constellations, 

 as it were, contrasted with nebulae, — we are, as our attention is roused 

 to note their proceedings, sometimes almost startled, always strongly 

 impressed with the signs and tokens and proofs that their mind is a 

 reality, — a something far, very far beyond a mere engine of nothing 

 better than instinctive workings. 



J. C. Atkinson. 



Danby Parsonage, Grosmont, York, 

 February, 1859. 



The Tiger " Jungla" and a Bull-calf of the gigantic Gaour (Bos gaums) shipped 

 for England. — By the "Nile,' which proceeded down the river yesterday morning, we 

 hear that the celebrated huge tiger " Jungla," the largest and most beautiful of the 

 famous fighting tigers of Lucknow, is shipped for sale in Eugland. This splendid 

 animal is not only remarkable for his size, which far surpasses that of any tiger or lion 

 yet seen in Europe, but for the extraordinary beauty of his colouring and markings, 

 having all his body-stripes double : he is, moreover, extremely tame and gentle to 

 those he kuows ; but man)' a big buffalo has been felled by his tremendous sledge- 

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