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accompanying him to the invisible world.” ^ Of course this is a 
matter of conjecture or speculation, but the existence of the soul 
-of man is a subject of revelation. “Then ‘shall the dust return to 
the earth as it was, but the spirit to God who gaveit." There is 
no deliverance given like this in regard to animal creation. At the 
best we can only argue analogically. The author, in his paper, 
notices the instinct of the dog, giving some very interesting 
incidents of the faculty; the horse might also have been cited. In 
fact, throughout the animal kingdom, we meet with illustrations, 
such as the elephant, the monkey, and even among the lower orders. 
There are some striking incidents to be found, illustrative of the 
above, in Chamber’s Tracts for the People. i 
Mr. E. Lzea gives a brief paper on an incident of Etomology. 
The department of butterflies has occupied his attention, especially 
the localities which they favour, such as stone quarries and sandy 
spots, where no flowers bloom; but he regards the North Shore at 
Geelong as one of the best localities for number and variety. At 
one spot, the beautiful black and white butterfly was seenin hisrambles, 
and the /aree in considerable quantity on one species of the 
japonica; this, the paper states, is the same species as Sir F. 
McCoy affirms to feed on the native mistletoe and cherry, but here 
is an example of feeding on the japonica likewise. There were 
.other species of butterflies mingling with the above, and altogether, 
not less than ten different kinds were secured. The author 
recommends a visit to this spot by those who are interested in 
this braneh of natural history, and the most favourable periods 
to visit the spot are the months of September, March and. April. 
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SOUTH SEA MYTHOLOGY. 
By Rev. J. S. H. Royce. 
Tur mythology of the South Sea Islanders respecting the origin of 
‘things is crude in the extreme, and in some instances most amusing; 
yet the myths which have been handed down to posterity clearly 
demonstrate that they are relics of the Mosaic narrative strangely 
-distorted. All their traditions have been orally communicated from 
-one era to another, not having a written language until the Christian 
religion was introduced amongst them. We can therefore scarcely 
wonder that strange and absurd theories have been taught and 
‘believed. Among the friendly jslanders there was a tradition re- 
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