i885-J 
Analyses of Books. 
489 
Cat teH he°l n0t mist f ke ’ the “ advanced thinkers ” to whom 
Mr. Cattell belongs— at least if we may jud-e from the titled Hi 
the :b°otio a „ dV o e r rtiSed ° f n , the fly-leaf-areVas 8 : Wy/at io ' for 
uch views L irr 0f , lelSUre - If ' 'before, Mr. Cattell shows 
nS'.'r?'? . C ° nS1Stent ln pointin S out the existence 
ucn men as essential to progress. 
be excefdinHv TVTT ° f ? e , evidences of Evolution would 
exceedingly useful; but the little work before us does nnf 
Ev^nT \ h h S imp0rtant task as satisfactorily as we could wish 
SmaUorm ^ is desc - ded from a lower 
some of S ° h f - been s P eciaP y created as we now find him, 
mio-hf- impoitant evidence has been omitted. We 
a nd h fh h particularise certain Simian features in the skeleton 
and he arrangement of the muscles which are very frequent in 
the lower human races, but which are excessively rare am 0 n" 
h W umerus Cal Cd n the ^ ^ Thus the Perforation of °thf 
occOrsOn a T, hlC f h 13 n0rma the gorilla and the chimpanzee, 
n 2 about 50 per cent of the ancient human skeletons found 
in Michigan. (See Mr. H. Gillman, “Certain Characteristics 
belongmg to Ancient Man in Michigan,” in the Report of the 
reTe^cC a oVDr St cf 10n ** ^ ^ m ° re conclusive are the 
/ if lu Clev . en & er (“Journal of Science,” 1884, p. 1^4), 
biDedM'^t ma a ‘I" 01 3Syet perfedI y adapted to an Upright 
bipedal altitude, and that certain points in his structure— A 
onlv [f wf 0 ent ° f Valv6S - in the veins — become intelligible 
Little less ® Uppoae them OH&inally belonging to a quadruped. 
s^n Llnee Of P i° 15 3 P f per by Dr * F * J* Shepherd, on the 
significance of human anomalies. 
^ M °Report ^88^ Instruction °f the Dea f and Dumb. 
W^T'V 63 ^ 3 t0 c e satisfad W working of the Associa- 
tion s School in Fitzroy Square. The oral system seems to do 
more towards mitigating the effects of congenital deaf-mutism 
than any other method which has been tried. Naturally, how- 
ever, we look to prevention rather than cure. If the Berlin 
statistics are to be believed consanguineous marriages are the 
great cause of deaf-mutism : at least persons so afflicted are 
found, in the different religious bodies in Prussia, exactly in pro- 
portion to the extent in which they countenance marriages 
between blood-relations. Deaf-mutism is most common amon- 
tne jews, who rather encourage the intermarriage of cousins* 
perhaps with a view of keeping property together; next amon- 
Protestants, who in Germany are guilty of the same laxity as we 
in EngMnt] . whilst the affliction is very rare among Catholics 
Who do not sanction the intermarriage of cousins at all. 
VOL. VII. (THIRD SERIES). 2 L 
