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ZOOPHILISM EXTRAORDINARY. 
To the Editor of the journal of Science. 
Sir, — In these days, when to poison a mouse in the interests of 
Science is a serious offence, it is interesting to find that cock- 
fighting is experiencing a revival. In Birmingham — which ac- 
cording to a modern statesman is “ civilising England,” and 
which recently forbad one of the professors at the Mason College 
to apply for a license to perform physiological experiments — it is, 
according to a local paper, “ a common thing, in certain beer- 
houses in that town, to promote the exhibition of dog-fights of a 
most brutalising description. Only the other night upwards of 
forty persons assembled in the garret of a public-house, where a 
pit was constructed of circular boards, fixed with hooks, so as to 
be capable of dexterous removal in case of a police raid. In this 
arena two fierce bulldogs, with a stake of £50 depending upon 
the result, fought with mad fury for forty-seven minutes to an 
accompaniment of applause and wild yells of delight. A more 
sickening spectacle it would be difficult to conceive. One of the 
animals was torn literally to pieces and fell dead upon the floor, 
and the other was carried away in a terribly mangled condition.” 
Have the “ Bestiarians ” no word in protest, or is the liberty to 
tear each other to pieces one of the “ equal rights” which the 
bulldog is to share with the human “ rough ” ? — I am, &c., 
Graduate. 
k SPACE OF n DIMENSIONS, AND THE “ UNSEEN 
UNIVERSE.” 
To the Editor of the Journal of Science . 
Sir, — The conception of space of more than three dimensions, 
the possible existence of which seems looming upon the mind of 
some of our most eminent mathematicians and physicists, such 
as Zollner, Clifford, and, among the living, Dr. Spottiswoode, 
may perhaps throw a light upon the existence of a whole series 
of Unseen Universes, co-existent and mutually inter-penetrating. 
We live and adl in tri-dimensional space. At death we pass into 
4- dimensional space, still retaining our pawer of seeing into, and 
under certain conditions of interfering in, tri-dimensional space, 
but incapable of seeing into or conceiving the existence of 
5- dimensional space. As our nature becomes more highly deve- 
loped we pass successively into 5-, 6-, &c., dimensional space, 
