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sympathetic and affectionate among themselves, sensitive, curi- 
ous, and capable of domestication. They are even said to be 
attracted by music — a fact which may, perhaps, throw some 
light on the classical fable of Arion and the Dolphin. Bearing 
in mind these attributes we cannot dwell without horror on the 
description of the seal hunts, or rather massacres, which we find 
in this volume. We learn that “ at other times the young are 
used as a lure for the capture of their mothers. For this pur- 
pose they employ an iron implement having three barbed hooks, 
on one of which the young seal is impaled alive. The mother 
hearing its cries approaches it quickly, and immediately em- 
braces it in the hope to free it, but in so doing presses the other 
barbed hooks into herself, and both mother and young are drawn 
out of the water together.” An authority here quoted describes 
how, after a seal-battue, “ occasionally from out of the bloody 
and dirty mass of carcasses, a poor wretch still alive would lift 
up its face and begin to flounder about.” The same eye-witness 
mentions how all the time “ hundreds of old seals were popping 
up their heads in the small lakes of water and holes among the 
ice, anxiously looking for their young. Occasionally one would 
hurry across a ‘ pan’ in search of the snow-white darling she had 
left, and which she could not recognise in the bloody and broken 
carcass, stripped of its warm covering, that alone remained of 
it.” It is saddening to think of the physical and mental anguish 
thus inflidted upon harmless creatures at the bidding of greed 
and fashion. What would be the outcry if one tithe of these 
cruelties were inflidted in the pursuit of knowledge ! The “ Devil’s 
Walk on Earth” is incomplete without a verse telling how he 
smiled at seeing a lady in a seal-skin jacket canvassing for sig- 
natures to an anti-vivisedtion petition. 
This work is one of the many valuable contributions to natural 
history which have appeared in connedtion with the “ Geological 
and Geographical Survey of the Territories,” and for which the 
Government of the United States is entitled to the gratitude of 
men of science throughout the world. 
Unconscious Memory. A Comparison between the Theory of 
Dr. Ewald Hering, Prof, of Physiology at the University 
of Prague, and the “ Philosophy of the Unconscious” of 
Dr. E. von Hartmann. By Samuel Butler, Author of 
“ Life and Habit,” “ Evolution Old and New,” &c. Lon- 
don : D. Bogue. 
Above a year ago we had the pleasure of reviewing a work by 
Mr. Butler, entitled “ Evolution, Old and New.”* In that book 
Journal of Science, 1879, p. 487. 
