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instincts of the species, whether they be simply morbid, and known 
as hereditariness, or appear to give rise to new species. 
The author finally shows, that as unity of structure implies unity 
of function, we have in these principles the foundation for an inves- 
tigation of what has hitherto been considered wholly inscrutable, 
namely, the relations of the organization to the consciousness ; or, in 
other words, the connection of body and mind. Mind is not merely 
inseparably associated with the primary forces of matter ; it acts in 
and by them. Their phenomena are its signs. Hence, since the 
order of these phenomena and the action of the forces can be ex- 
pressed numerically, it follows that the results or ends arrived at 
can be expressed numerically ; or, in other words, the teleological 
laws can be reduced to numerical formula. This can be done al- 
ready as to nutrition and development, and the forms of vegetables 
and animals ; but since all the successional states of our conscious- 
ness correspond to successional vital states, occurring according to 
the teleological law of the physical and vital forces, it is clear that 
the signs which express the law of succession of the one series, might 
be made to correspond to the laws of succession of the other. In 
this way, the brain may be looked upon as the instrument whereby 
the mind is brought into immediate relation, — not with matter alone, 
— but with the forces of matter ; and our intuitive cognitions may 
be considered as direct and immediate cognitions of the teleological 
operations of those forces in our organization. 
2. Verbal Notice respecting the Remains of a Seal found at 
Portobello. By Dr Allman. 
Professor Allman called attention to some bones discovered by 
Dr Andrew Balfour in a clay field near Portobello, and forwarded 
by him for presentation to the Museum of Natural History. They 
prove to be bones of a seal, and consist of some vertebrae, a portion 
of a scapula, a radius, a femur, and a fibula. They thus afford an 
additional instance to the few already recorded, of the occurrence of 
phocine remains in the British Islands. The deposit in which they 
occurred appears to belong to the period of the boulder clay. They 
were found about 20 feet above the present level of highwater, and 
about 15 feet below the surface of the soil. 
