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MAN'S INTELLIGENCE.

AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY.

The evidence that man is evoly. of animals collected for the Lon-ed from a common ancestor with don Zoo by Mr. Cotts, which is also the anthropoid ape is complete. the third and largest from the

In these words Professor Sir Zambezi, is now at Beira, to be Arthur Keith, conservator of the shipped in the Glongorm Castle in Royal College of Surgeons and one a few days' time. There are over of the world's greatest anthropo- 350 live specimens. One of the logists, recently summed up the most curious is the wading bird, present position of science regard. or "stilt," 14in. high, of which ing Darwin's theory of man's des- 11. leg. The bird is black cent. In a special statement.to a and white, with a long bill, and its Daily Mail reporter he said that remarkable legs, which are more the knowledge of man had increas ifke a stick insect than the lega ofed tenfold since Darwin first made a bird, are red: Mr. Cott, who is known his startling discoveries.. now in Beira with the collection, This autumn, when the British As- also has a chameleon, 14in. long, sociation meets at Leeds, Sir Ar- which, he says, "is the largest he thur Keith will give his presiden- has ever seen.

tial address on "Darwin's. Theory of Man's Descent as it standa to- day." Before the gathering of the greatest British scientists ho will sum up the evidence. Ho stated yesterday:

Among other Interesting lizards are some monitors, the largest of which la 4ft. long, and a beautiful smalbenizard with longitudinal yellow stripes on a black ground which merge at the root of his tail My conclusion will be wholly in into a bright sky bluc. This is a support of Darwin, and I shall go most interesting novelty. The col into greater detail. We are writ- lection has been largely made to ing the history of man in a new stock the new Reptile House, way; Darwin's book was the begin- which is now approaching complening. Contrasts."

tion, and includes over 300 geckos, skinks, giant monitors, and other lizards. There are two species of cobra, six puff-adders, a green mamba, and about 25 other amall snakes, many of them poisonous. Mr. Co:t's only invertebrate speck mens are 22 large millipedes, the biggest being Din. long.

Tiger-Cats,

We cannot yet say why the hu- man stock has budded into the in- telligent being that man is to-day, or why the poor anthropoid ape should have remained so low down the scale. Neither do everything about the beginning of life or its end. That is not our daty. At present one can only apeculate about the beginning and the end of life.

we know

Among the mammals are two

Scientists all, over the world are tiger-ent kittens at present being mothered by a large black cat. working at this great task of com- There is a fine young koodoo, two piling man's history. Professor that the young bushbucks, five duikers,. a Nuttall has shown us

that of young warthog, two young porcu chimpanzee's blood and pines, some forest rats, a baboon, other anthropoid apes gives exact- and some monkeys. The birds in-ly the same reactions, as human. clude spurwing and Egyptian blood. This happens with the no other animal. We reese, knob-billed duck, a rare red-blood of billed pintall duck, white-faced know, too, that certain human and whistling tree-ducks, an ibis, diseases will also attack the an- a large grey heron, some egrets thropoid. Our work for the most two beautiful and rare jet-black part is in terms of thousands of Here is a tibia (leg bone) moorhens with bright green beaks years. and red legs and eyes, and many which has just come from Ipswich other fine specimens, including and is 10,000 years old. Bateleur eagle and a black and white fish-eagle, as well as a few gorgeous parrokeeta.

"Educated people," added Sir Arthur, "are prepared to believe in evolution. In the United Mr. Colt lost many of his snakes, States, however, there is a large as red ants ate them alive, seven section of the population, unac being thus killed in one night. He quainted with what has happened, also found that the box with three and that section refuses to believe of his puff-adders, which had been in the theory of maa's descent.

We "In England that is not so. carried on the heads of native porters, had been so eaten by white are better educated here; and.in ants that the wood was only as the Church the theory has a good. thick as paper and could be pent-following.".

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and perhaps to Angguiland for duck. He has many excellent

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Mr. Cott is now assisted by Mr. Blore, who is keeper of storks at photographs of small animals in the London Zoo, and will travel their natural habit and volumin- home with the present consign- ous illustrated notebooks. ment. All these animals come captured a 'specimen of the very from near the junction of the rare scaled ant-eater, called Pan- Shire and the Zambezi, and Mr. golin, but the creature died, as it Cott intends to search the forest in could not be fed properly, and the Zambezi Delta for snakes and declined eggs.

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