HEREDITARY INFLUENCE. 
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affection, whether contagious or not, doubtless belongs to the 
class of epizootic diseases, and as such its introduction into 
any country does not entirely depend on the importation of 
diseased animals. 
UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION OE HORSES. 
The French government has-just decided that prizes shall 
be offered for the competition of horses of all countries at the 
great French Agricultural Exhibition of next year. It will 
be remembered that Mr. Evelyn Denison, M.P., the President 
of the Royal Agricultural Society, in his report on the exhi- 
bition of 1855, and likewise in his speech at the Chelmsford 
meeting, expressed his regret at the absence of so interesting 
a department of the show as that of agricultural horses. 
This decision of the French government, and the other new 
features intended to be added to next year’s meeting in Paris, 
will materially tend to render that great gathering even more 
numerous and magnificent than its predecessors. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
HEREDITARY INELUENCE, ANIMAL AND HUMAN. 
( Continued from p. 670.) 
This is the conclusion inevitable on a wide survey of 
the facts. It is equally inevitable a priori, if we take our 
stand upon the evidence of embryology ; and as some readers 
prefer logical deductions to any massive accumulation of 
facts, we will ask them to consider the question from this 
point of view. Reproduction, in the vegetable and animal 
kingdoms, is known to naturalists under three forms. In 
the first, a single cell spontaneously divides itself into two 
cells. Here it is quite clear that the child reproduces the 
totality of the parent. In the second form, the process called 
“budding” takes place: the child here grows out of the 
substance of the parent, until its development is completed, 
and then it separates itself from the parent to live a free life. 
Here also the parent is reproduced in its totality. In the 
third form, a higher complexity of organization has led to a 
