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flakes struck-off in the manufacture of more perfect implements, and 
adverted to the fact that the same kind of flint was always used for this 
purpose, even though it must have been frequently brought from long dis- 
tances, none occurring naturally in the vicinity. 
Mr. W. W. Stoddart exhibited the new chemical toy, " How to make 
Green Tea." Red crystallised bichromate of ammonia was heated on a 
plate of metal over a lamp, and the sesquioxide of chromium which was 
left, much resembled green tea in appearance. 
Mr. T. H. Yabbicom exhibited a fern with fronds of Lastrea spinulosa 
and L. dilatata growing from the same root, which had originally been 
brought from Portbury as a specimen of L. spinulosa. These two ferns 
had been regarded as distinct species, and many considered them even 
at the present time as separate varieties. 
Mr. C. O. Groom-Napier, F.G.S., F.A.S.L., then read a paper 
entitled " The Horse and his Master : or the Analogy between the Horse 
and Man." He explained a course of investigation which he had been 
for a long time pursuing, with reference to " Man the Microcosm," — how 
he had been led to examine nature in her lowest and in her highest forms, 
and how he had found illustrations of man in every department, as a being 
and as an individual. His paper on the horse was a brief extract from his 
researches in this direction. He proceeded to draw the analogy between 
the temperaments of men and horses, and said — 
" The sorrel or roan horse, answers to the sanguine temperament in man, which 
has great working power, but is even more remarkable for the impunity with 
which it bears long continued fatigue and exposure." He pointed out that 
horses of mixed colors were the most hardy and enduring, as for instance those 
with a light colored body and black feet, which answered to light- corn plexioned 
persons with grey eyes and black hair. In race-horses the nervous-bilious 
temperament was illustrated, they united the highest nervous sensibility, the 
greatest muscular development, and but just sufficient vital force to carry them on 
at a rapid rate for a short distance. Men he had found whose career resembled 
that of the race-horse. White horses, he said, were chiefly of the sanguine- 
lymphatic temperament, which was indicated by fleshiness and softness of muscles, 
and a liability to certain diseases, in which they shewed a resemblance to a class 
of very fair men whose hair had a bleached appearance. White horses were 
altogether less serviceable, but more mild and quiet than the black or chestnut, 
but shewed the frequent accompaniment of mildness and quietness, — a relative 
want of spirit. The iron and dappled grey horses, had temperaments analogous 
to the bilious-lymphatic amongst men. They had great muscular strength, but 
united with a good deal of stoutness and fleshiness, and at the same time a calm- 
ness and steadiness not found in the black and chestnut horses, which were 
frequently convulsive in then* movements. In the black horse he saw a tempera- 
ment strongly resembling the bilious and its combinations. In the smaller and 
more delicate breeds the nervous was largely mixed ; and in proportion as it was 
extensively prevalent, so the breed was found to be sensitive and delicate. But 
