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in a state of domestication were first reclaimed from wildness in 
prehistoric times. Our remote barbarian ancestors, he says, must 
be credited with having accomplished a very remarkable feat, 
which no subsequent generation has rivaled. The utmost that 
weof modern times have succeeded in doing is to improve the 
races of those animals that we received from our forefathers in an 
already domesticated condition. Galton throws out the hypoth- 
esis that only a few species of animals are fitted by their nature to 
come domestic, and that these were discovered long ago by 
the exercise of no higher intelligence than is to be found among 
barbarous tribes of the present day. The failure of civilized man 
to add to the number of domesticated species would on this sup- 
position be due to the fact that all the suitable material whence 
discuss. My conclusion is that all domesticable animals of any 
note have long ago fallen under the yoke of man. In short, 
that the animal creation has been pretty thoroughly, though half 
unconsciously, explored by the every-day habits of rude races 
and simple civilizations.” He then cites numerous cases in sup- 
tied, in terror and hatred of its captors.” Per contra, we saw, in 
1877, a young buffalo, perhaps a yearling, walking freely and like 
an ordinary heifer about one of the stations on the Kansas Pacific 
ilroad, going leisurely across the track before an approaching 
train ; and it is well known that the buffalo can be tamed and 
dized with the domestic cattle. At the same time the vil- 
age Indians of our continent have never d ticated the buffalo ; 
“ike not to be expected that our nomad, hunter Indians would 
act esticar any animals except the horse and dog, and 
re American Quaternary horse, and the Indian dog an offshoot 
the coyote. 
Weas ANTHROPOLOGY. ! 
war PRroverss.—What archeology is to modern art and 
phy : dee the higher religions, folk-lore is to sound philoso- 
pee: . is the, fossiliferous stratum of human thought. Every 
ie by Professor Oris T. Mason, 1305 Q street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
