666 ORIGIN AND TRANSFORMATION OF ANIMALS. 
the powers conferred upon a person so appointed by the first 
section of the Act above mentioned. 
“ I am, Sir, 
“ Your obedient servant, 
“ H. Waddington.” 
With the insertion of these official documents we close 
our present remarks, only stating, in addition, that which 
many of our readers will be pleased to learn, namely, that 
Professor Simonds has been specially commissioned by the 
Government to enquire into the origin, extent, and the best 
means of preventing the further extension of the small-pox 
among the sheep. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals, 
THE ORIGIN AND TRANSFORMATION OF ANIMALS, 
[We extract the following paper from that interesting serial, 
the Intellectual Observer , as it bears upon a subject we have 
ventured to take up in the present number, and has our full 
concurrence.] 
During the years 1855 and 1856 M. Quatrefages published 
a series of articles in the Revue des Deux-Mondes, which 
he has now elaborated into a book entitled f Metamorphose 
de l'Homme et des Animaux; 5 and as this work deals in a 
succinct and agreeable form with questions of great interest, 
we propose in this paper to give an account of the principal 
results which are set forth in its pages. In distinct oppo¬ 
sition to the school of Heterogenisls—represented in France 
by M. Pouchet and in England by Dr. Grant—M. Quatre¬ 
fages adheres to the maxim of the illustrious Harvey, Omne 
vivum ex ovo—“ Every living being from an egg;” and all the 
cases of eggless production he treats as phenomena of indi¬ 
vidual growth, assembling the entire group under the new¬ 
fangled and not very happy designation of Geneayenesis , or 
the “ Generation of Generations/' “Every living being," 
he says, “ and consequently every animal, comes from a germ. 
With the organization of this germ commences a series of 
