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they being best adapted to the purpose from several points of 
view—a number of both sexes would be secured; the most intel- 
ligent individuals of the most intelligent species being selected; 
probably that known as “French poodle.” They would be taught 
in classes in order to profit by ambition and example; and a 
judicious system of rewards and punishments adopted. The in- 
telligent and healthy would be mated; the stupid or weakly 
would be discarded. 
In each generation the standard of ability being raised as the 
circumstances justified, the law of adaptation would be brought 
to bear in conjunction with artificial selection. 
Then the laws of heredity would be so followed as to render 
probable the production of exceptional individuals in the direc- 
tion desired; thus profiting by the tendency to radical variation 
to secure a new variety of exceptional capabilities. 
Is it not possible that inquiries into the operation of the lower 
orders of mind may suggest improvements in the training of the 
higher grades ?— Wm. B. Cooper. 
[Nore BY THE Eprrors.—A valuable article on this subject ap- 
peared in the number of the London Journal of Science, corre- 
sponding to the number of the Natura ist in which Mr. Cooper's 
article was published, viz. Jan. 1883. Mr. Cooper’s present note 
expresses recommendations contained in the Journal of Science 
article, which, however, prefers parrots to dogs as the best ani- 
mals for experiment. ] 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
