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Mr. Darwin's new book, Descent of Man, is the latest sensation in Biological literature. A work so filled with curious and instructive facts, the harvest of many years of patient and well directed toil, can not fail to make its impression as a work of profound learning whether its

conclusions are accepted or not. Every page is pregnant with most interesting facts which are brought to bear upon the subject in hand so ingeniously and well, that even the objector is almost forced to accept bis deductions.

Whether the theory of natural selection and of the descent of man shall finally be accepted by the scientific world as acknowledged scientific doctrines or not, it is cer-

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tain that the doctrine has recently made rapid advances and is now very generally accepted, especially by the younger and rising naturalists.