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According to Mr. Steel, in the ass complete uninterrupted 
fibulae sometimes occur. 
Those who deny the descent of the modern horse and ass 
from the fossil Equidae are obliged to pronounce these re- 
appearances of ancient types mere unmeaning individual 
variations, — in other words, lusus Nature ? , — and are thus 
driven to a contention of questionable legitimacy. 
To the Evolutionist these departures from the normal type 
of the horse and the ass are cases of atavism, — reversions 
to an ancestral structure, — and afford therefore the evidence 
which connects the recent Equidse with their fossil progeni- 
tors. It will be felt that modifications of the form of certain 
parts of the skeleton cannot be suddenly, and at one stroke, 
introduced in all the members of a species or of a genus, 
but they are established by degrees. Whilst the majority of 
individuals have already adopted a given change in form, 
others will be occasionally met with which adhere to the 
earlier form, and yield but slowly to the existing tendency to 
variation. 
VI. ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 
By Robert Galloway, M.R.I.A. 
(Continued from page 412.) 
^O cursory thinkers on the subject of Education it may 
appear surprising that the middle class, as a class, 
have not long ago demanded the establishment of 
public schools in at least some of our important centres of 
commerce and manufactures, which would provide as suit- 
able an education for their sons as Eton, Harrow, and our 
other great public schools provide for the sons of the nobility 
and the wealthy class. Why should the one class be sup- 
plied with an education which it is considered is the most 
suitable to qualify them to discharge most efficiently their 
duties in after life, and the other class be left unprovided with 
an education which would be the most suitable to advance 
them in their iuture. careers in life ? 
Many causes have operated in preventing the demand 
