The road to Cucao was so very bad that we determined to embark in a periagua.

With all, or almost all, animals, even with birds, terror causes the body to tremble. The skin becomes pale, sweat breaks out, and the hair bristles.

Birds possess acute powers of observation.

Birds belonging to all the chief orders ruffle their feathers when angry or frightened.

The leaves arise from an almost woody axis; they are linear, much attenuated towards their tips, and several inches in length.

The country was so thinly inhabited, and the track so obscure, that we often had difficulty in finding our way.

Physiologists agree that the whole organism consists of a multitude of elemental parts, which are to a great extent independent of one another.

I have endeavoured to show in considerable detail that all the chief expressions exhibited by man are the same throughout the world.

It may be urged that, when several closely-allied species inhabit the same territory, we surely ought to find at the present time many transitional forms.

The truth and importance of the principle of inheritance at corresponding ages need not here be discussed, as enough has already been said on the subject.

The whole of this northern part of Albemarle Island is miserably sterile.

Pinguicula vulgaris.—This plant grows in moist places, generally on mountains.

The collar (called the peristome by Cohn) is evidently formed, like the valve, by an inward projection of the walls of the bladder.

The extreme uniformity of the vegetation is the most remarkable feature in the landscape of the greater part of New South Wales.

I may here mention two very curious sexual peculiarities occurring in seals, because they have been supposed by some writers to affect the voice.

The leaves are entire, instead of being much divided, as in the foregoing aquatic species.

European women are perhaps the brighter coloured of the two sexes, as may be seen when both have been equally exposed.

If any change has thus been effected, it is almost certain that the different races would be differently modified, as each has its own standard of beauty.

The town is of considerable size, and is said to contain 20,000 inhabitants; the streets are very clean and regular

The development of the moral qualities is a more interesting problem.