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exists to-day), who is prejudiced against Darwinian views, go to 
the forests of Borneo. Let him there watch from day to o day this 
strangely human form in all its various phases of existence. Let 
him see it climb, walk, build its nest, eat and drink, and fight like 
human ‘roughs.’ Let him see the female suckle her young and 
carry it astride her hip precisely as do the Coolie women of Hin- 
doostan. Let him witness their human-like emotions of affec- 
tion, satisfaction, pain and childish rage—let him see all this and 
then he may feel how much more patent has been this lesson 
than all he has read in pages of abstract ratiocination 
ZoOLocicaL News.—In his presidential address “before the 
British Association, Prof. Allman takes the ground that the deep- 
sea Bathybius may be an organism, as he thinks it not easy to 
believe that the very elaborate investigations of Huxley and 
Haeckel can be easily set aside. uxle ey, at the close of the 
address, stated that his mind, at present, was in a state of suspense 
about it, though within a short time he had disowned it. Haeckel, 
himself, has, in recent papers, urged its recognition as an organ- 
ism, while we may add that Dr. Bessels, in a letter to us, thinks 
that under the circumstances it is best to wait for more light as to 
the organic nature of the Protobathybius which he examined in 
the high Arctic regions———-The pamphlet of Prof. Moebius has 
made a strong impression on some minds previously in doubt, 
that Eozoon is of mineral rather than organic origin. In the 
Proceedings of the Natural Science Association of Christiania, 
Norway, Prof. G. O. Sars ee excellent drawings of three whales, 
Balenoptera rostrata, B. musculus and B. sibbaldit. One can form 
Some idea how these whales look from such admirable and 
evidently life-like sketches. The Zodlogy of the Fiords near 
Bergen, Norway, by the Rev. A. M. Norman. (Journal of Con- 
chology, ii, 1879. Eadie, pp. 77-) This paper contains a list 
of 261 species of Mollusca collected at Bergen, Norway, by the 
author, and a supplemental list of ninety-two more which have 
been quoted from that region. No ne w species are described, but 
the notes on the synonymy of the species and their geographical 
distribution make the article both valuable and interesting. 
PREHISTORIC IMPLEMENTS OF THE Rivers COYOTE AND GUADA- 
LOUPE, SANTA CLARA ppa e three years ago my 
interest was awakened rning | rehisto oric implements by 
finding what were, without doubt, “stone and flint celts, though 
of rude workman 
re this time then had been und’ in various places through- 
out the valley, while plowing fields and digging away river banks 
in bridge building, mortars in different stages of preservation. 
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