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genus Homo was one and distinct, and that the study of the cerebral 
organization and development of the various typical races was one of the 
most effectual means of better understanding and elucidating the psycholo- 
gical differences which characterize them. The Sandwich Islanders have 
excellent memories, and learn by rote with wonderful rapidity, but will 
not exercise the thinking faculties. It was found practically that negro 
children could not be educated with white children. In these cases the 
cognate faculties have not reached a complexity equal to the complexity of 
the relations to be perceived ; and moreover this is not only so with the 
purely intellectual cognitions, but it is the same with the moral cognitions. 
In the Australian language there are no words answering to “justice,” 
“ sin,” “guilt.” Amongst many of the lower races of man, acts of gene- 
rosity or mercy are utterly incomprehensible — facts which the author 
thought were in accordance with what might have been anticipated from 
the organic differences of the higher psychical activities. 
Anthropological Society. — From the above paragraphs it will be seen that 
the science of Man is one at the present time much studied, and a new 
society under the above title has just been formed, with Dr. James Hunt 
as president, and Mr. C. Carter Blake as secretary. The society meets at 
4, St. Martin’s-place, on alternate Tuesday evenings. 
The Unicorn of the Ancients. — Dr. Brehru, the African traveller, speaks 
thus of the unicorn : “ Also in the interior of Africa, where I have 
travelled, the ‘ unicorn’ ( Anasa of the natives) is nothing more than the 
rhinoceros.” The Rev. W. Houghton, in the “ Annals of Natural History ” 
for December, quoted Ctesias as describing unicorns under the name of 
wild asses, of whose horns drinking cups were made, of such virtue that 
those who drank from them were said to be subject to neither spasm nor 
epilepsy, nor to the effects of poison. Dr. Brehm remarks that, at the 
present day, in the interior of Africa, for example, at Carthum (Khar- 
toum) drinking vessels and cups are still made from the horn of the 
rhinoceros, to which they attribute the very same properties as Ctesias did. 
Preservation of Birds . — While the English farmer is energetically de- 
stroying small birds on his farm, the New Zealand farmer is making 
great efforts to obain a supply of such birds on his, for the purpose of 
destroying the insects which ravage his crops. The Acclimatisation Society 
of New Zealand are doing all in their power to promote the introduction 
into the colony of English field birds. The undermentioned amounts will 
be paid by the Society upon the delivery in Auckland, in a healthy con- 
dition, of a cock and hen of the following birds : — Blackcock (or grouse), 
cock and hen, 10 guineas ; silver pheasants, ditto, £ 5 ; nightingales, £5 ; 
English partridges, £4 ; cuckoos, £3 ; missel thrushes, £2 ; common 
thrushes, £2 ; blackbirds, £2 ; starlings, £2 ; skylarks, £2 ; rooks, £2 ; 
crows, £2 ; jays, £1. 10s. ; robins, 30s. ; wrens, 30s. ; bullfinches, 
£1 ; grey linnets, 15s. ; green linnets, 15s. ; sparrows, 15s. ; goldfinches, 
15s. ; English quails, <£1. 
Walking Fish. — An observer in Province Wellesley, passing along 
during a shower of rain over the wide sandy plain whiclr bounds the 
sea in the neighbourhood of Panaga, witnessed an overland migration of 
a fish much resembling the tench, called Ikan Puya, from a chain of 
