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cats and dogs, jackals and hawks, bulls and serpents. But the 
latter were no longer worshipped, except by the most ignorant of 
the population, for any divinity in themselves, but only as repre¬ 
sentatives of higher deities or as the favorite symbols of the gods. 
In India, also, we find the spiritual deities of the Brahmins wor¬ 
shipped under the forms of animals or with animal accompani¬ 
ments. These serve to show that the new Brahminic religion was 
compelled to accommodate itself to some extent to the older and 
grosser faith it superseded. Many illustrations of this accommo¬ 
dation in Hindu religion were given by the lecturer. 
A final cause instanced to account for the persistence of animal 
worship among more civilized people was the wide-spread belief 
in metempsychosis or transmigration of souls. When the man 
sees in the dumb brute an imprisoned ancestral soul he cannot but 
venerate and adore his returned but mute protector and friend. 
In conclusion the lecturer treated in detail of some of the more 
noteworthy creatures to which divine honors have been paid by 
man. 
REMARKS UPON THE COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH. 
By PROF. RAPHAEL PUMPELLY.* 
REMARKS UPON THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY. 
By RICHARD LEWIS.t 
* Made before the Society December 4th, 1S84. A paper upon this subject by Professor 
Pumpelly was read at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, October, 1S84. 
t Delivered before the Society January 9th, 1SS4. 
