278 



THE ZOOLOGIST. 



EDITORIAL GLEANINGS. 



'Christ's College Magazine' (Cambridge), xxiii. No. 70, is a 

 " Darwin Centenary Number." Mr. T. E. Pickering writes on 

 " Shrewsbury Days " ; Mr. A. E. Shipley on " Charles Darwin at the 

 Universities"; the Master of Christ's College contributes a most 

 interesting and original article on "Christ's College in the Years 

 preceding the Entry of Charles Darwin"; "Darwin and the Linnean 

 Society" is from the pen of Dr. B. Daydon Jackson. " Letters from 

 Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace" (two of which are pub- 

 lished for the first time), with Notes by Mr. Francis Darwin ; 

 "Present-day Darwinism," by Mr. Leonard Doncaster ; and "Dar- 

 win's Animals and Plants," by Mr. T. H. A. Marshall, complete 

 another publication to be added to the Darwinian bibliography. 



In his copy of the " Journal of Researches " the Editor some 

 twenty years ago affixed the following cutting, which it may be inte- 

 resting to reproduce at this time : — 



"'The Japan Weekly Mail' states that the 'Beagle,' in which 

 Darwin made his memorable voyage, is now (1888) used as a Japanese 

 training-ship. It was then stationed at Yokosuka, a naval station in 

 the Bay of Yedo, not far from Yokohama." 



Dr. R. L. Garner has recently contributed to the ' Evening 

 News ' (June 15th) an article somewhat sensationally headed " Do 

 Monkeys Speak?" We have frequently alluded to the possibility of 

 man being ultimately enabled to communicate with other animals, 

 but this does not imply a belief in the universality of articulate 

 language, but rather in the majority of cases to what is known as 

 the "gesture language." Dr. Garner states that : — 



" For the last twenty years my time has been chiefly devoted to 

 the study of animal speech or methods of inter-communication, and 

 mainly to that of Monkeys. For the last five years I have lived the 

 life of a recluse in the great forest of the Nkami on the south-east 

 side of Lake Fernand Vaz, about two degrees south of the Equator on 



