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and in other portions Morgan’s work on the beaver, or Romanes’ 
excellent book do not seem to have been known to the author 
or his translator. Indeed the authors quoted are largely French, 
though the recent remarkable papers and books of Favre are not 
referred to. The book is not therefore to be classed with the 
more critical and authoritative works of the authors which we 
have named, though it is a very interesting collection of anec- 
dotes which throw more or less light on the mental powers of 
animals, particularly of those domesticated by man. The cuts 
are attractive, but that of the “ chimpanzee at table,” carving with 
a knife and fork, and filling his glass from a-bottle held zm a tight 
coil of his tail, represents a creation of the studio rather than a 
result of the processes of evolution zz re tails. 
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larities. The resemblances which have been noticed in human 
arts and inventions throughout the world arise, according to the 
essay, in the four following ways: 
Due to concausation. 
Adventitious. 
Due to cognation. 
Due to acculturation. 
Autogenous similarities { 
Syngenous similarities 
ple as the Mexican, is well known. This of itself would indicate — 
