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Dr. Beddoe had no doubt that the analogy was, in the main, a true one, 
and, as an example, he spoke of the comparison between red-haired men 
and chestnut horses. Youatt, in his standard work on the horse, considered 
the dark chestnut horse as equal to any, for a variety of purposes, while 
the light variety was often weak and delicate, though spirited. The 
speaker observed that constitution could be predicated from colour more 
surely in the horse than in man. 
Mr. Napier, in reply to an observation from Mr. Lobb, said that it 
was an established fact that the Arab horse would outstrip the English in 
endurance, though its swiftness for short distances was not so great. 
Mr. W. W. Stoddart, after some humourous observations upon the 
analogy drawn by Mr. Napier between the " cob breed" and the middle 
classes of society, each race uniting in a measure the characteristics of two 
widely differing tribes, said that he thought that the author's observations, 
to be strictly scientific, should not be so general and wide, and should be 
taken with great reserve ; they should also, as enunciated, be capable of 
application to other domestic animals, and this he .did not consider they 
were. 
Mr. S. H. S wayne confirmed Mr. Sanders' observation upon the early 
geological horse, which had many characters not exhibited now, rendering 
it a much less serviceable animal. He was not disposed to explain the 
resemblance between horses and men so much by analogy, as by the all- 
mastering and moulding power of the human intellect and will ; as exam- 
ples of this, he instanced the Semitic and Cossack horse and man, and 
mentioned several other examples of plasticity among the inferior animals. 
He thought Mr. Stoddart's observations well worthy of attention, especially 
with reference to dogs, which would probably exceed the horse in plasticity. 
Mr. Napier, in replying to some of the above remarks, said he did 
not wish to be understood as believing that the horse was necessarily 
created contemporaneously with man. 
Mr. Henry K. Jordan, F.G.S., read a paper entitled "A Few 
Geological Considerations Suggested by the Peculiar Molluscan Fauna 
Living in the Littoral Zone of the Channel Isles." He pointed out the 
tendency of modern geology to explain all the phenomena of the earth's 
crust by causes now in operation rather than by abnormal forces, sufficient 
time being allowed for them to produce their effects, and showed that there 
was need of careful investigation, so as not to draw conclusions from only 
part of a truth, but rather from the broad basis of well-ascertained and 
corroborated fact. It was generally considered that the depth at which 
fossiliferous strata were deposited might be ascertained pretty accurately 
from the character of the fauna found therein, each bathymetrical zone 
being inhabited by certain characteristic genera or families. The object of 
Mr. Jordan's paper was to show that this was not so universally true as 
