REVIEWS. 

Dr. Hooxer’s ADDRESS AT THE NORWICH MEETING OF THE B 
Assocration* should be read by every reader of the Naturatist. The 
Study of Man, pN and Ethnology, Fossil Botany, Darwinism, 
and the more practical subject of the proper arrangement of museums 
are discussed. We quote at length, first, as regards the discovery of a 
race of existing cromlech-builde 
Ae yy wil, no doubt, ppr ae d En be be told — there exists within three hundred 
semi-savage: h bitually erect dolmens, men- 
e 

hirs, cysts and cromlechs, almost as gigantic in their pro 
ance ae onstruction to the e S0- -called Dr uidical remains of Western abi ; and, what is 
ury ago by Colonel Yan 

curious, a 4 uar ter of 
a ce t Oriental ae except p eed J. Lubbock, ap are porian alluded to 
modern literature of prehistoric mon! 
Read the sensible rak a pi Hooker on Museums, their arrange- 
ment and objects: : 
Se ape RO Ha for in the present state 
afford t only n means of efficiently teachin A schools the elements 
ogy. Isa aria n thé présent state of eaucation, | be Ganee e Ibe set e it will si 
either provincial or private schools will be supplied with much Peay ate S 7 
‘essential for the teacher’s purposes. Confining myself to the considera ation rovineial and 
loca al menina and mar r requirements tor educational sana se vip should contain a series 
Į lesser divisions of the animal and 
able kingdoms, so disposed in well-lighted cases as cunt n inqu uiri ing observ 
therefrom the principles upon which animals and plants are classified, ~ mehin of their 
of those o ~ gi other mat- 
cfr believe that an pri p baga far 
tome 
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ters —~ to prea — uses and place in the economy of # tur S 
i hough Peat attained if enn at on 
wich; 13 D cg, fois some space, N Po illustrations, m agnified as ws of the ee a 
and cop bels; an t should not con 

pa ns'a eir 
kinge specimen mora than is wanted, ‘The other quia sofa ie ais 
ons ovinee, which shou 
else 
cial museum are-~ 
1d be kept entirely 

complete 
hs Bag wt we oe i onstrations (not —— 
the may possess) upon an epes sê 
E schools and others, for which a fee should ve wander and go e su 
tion. t similar condit eos of prio i he a 
and other demonstrations. Did such a museum exist in ‘Norwich, I am S rate 
coe b collet- 
strator’s o fips bor 8 harunt who would grudge the trifling fee. You b of a super 
scion or biroa sed ieee bios sisal = afose hops val ue o of this be | enhanced we were it a 
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by an exhibition of the skeleton a jae ected organs of one hawk and one ow a ers bones, 
ticketed that a school-boy should see the structure of their beaks, feet, ¥ ki s pg birds for 
j 3 ot fie as see omnes for rately pgm pe a tena i 
of life,—should see, in short, the affinities and stent attributes of birds of prey? t maining te 
refers to the teaching of natural seater, | » an — — altogether apart oa od in 
as i ly admitted, is 

by Professor Henslow’s method of iie w 

*Every Saturday, Sept. 28. Boston, Ticknor & Fields. Price 10 cent 
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