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mathematical sciences.” We can scarcely accept this dis- 
tinction. On the one hand, biology has had great difficulty in 
disentangling herself from organised nonsense, and, on the 
other, her most recent conceptions seem to the outsider quite as 
preposterous as do the deductions of the physicist. 
“ Our Origin as a Species,” by Prof. R. Owen, is somewhat 
disappointing, as being merely negative in its tendency. The 
illustrious author still recognises the Cuvierian genera of 
Quadrumana and Bimana. Now we submit that whatever organ 
has a heel-bone is not a hand, but a foot, and that consequently 
the order Quadrumana — four-handers — has no existence. 
A story entitled “ The Black Poodle ” may be a satire on dog* 
worship. 
