The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-27 00:00:00

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866.

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JANUARY.

Lincoln 2O

Nottingham Spring 27
CH.

Derby Spring 1
Liverpool Spring
Warwick Spring
Doncaster
Lewes Spring

Croton Park IG
Northampton 2O
Windsor Spring
Newcastle Spring 9B

AP
Newmarket Craven 2
Durham
Catterick Bridge
Abergavenny 5
.Chelmsford Spring
M.
Ascot Spring 1
Salisbury
Bath 8
Harpenden
.10
York Spring

Thirsk lO
Epsom Spring
Newmarket Ist Spring l6
Chester
1 Curragh 2l
:AY.

Epsom Summer l5
Uxbridge 2l
Manchester
Ascot Summer 29

JU
Windsor Summer 5
Newton
Hampton
Odiham
Bibury l3
Stockbridge
Chelmsford l9
JU.
Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Reading
AUG

Liverpool ., l9
Beverley 2O
Ipswich
Hungerford
Newcastle on-Tyne 26
Curragh 26
Worcester
'LY.

Down Royal Corp lg
Stamford l9
Winchester 24
I Southampton 25
Huntingdon
UST.

Brighton 7
Brighton Club
Lewes lO
Egham 14
Wolverhampton l4
Stockton l5
Oxford l6
Hastings 2l

York August 2l
Plymouth
Lichfield
Devon and Exeter
Tunbridge 2B
Derby Summer 2B
Weymouth 3O

SEPT

Warwick September
Curragh
Leicester 6
Doncaster
Canterbury lB

MBER.
Richmond
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn 24
Newmarket Ist October 26
Walsall
BER.

OCTO.

Northampton 2
Newmarket 2d October— 8
Curragh

Newmarket Houghton 22
Worcester

The English sovereign is current in India:under
its own name, owing to the strange coincidence that soo-
baran, the original meaning of which is "fine colour," also
signifies gold; and as the conversion of a b into a vis very
frequent the Indian has adopted tho English word with
the greatest ease.

THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE ON THE ORGANIC
WORLD.—We find in " L'Espace Celeste et la
Nature Tropicale," by 31. Emmanuel Liais, well known as
one of the most distinguished travellers and astronomers of
the present day, a highly interesting disquisition on the
effects of climate on the organic world. The authors
opinion, founded as it is on his own personal observation
during a long stay under the tropics exclusively devoted to
scientific pursuits, appears worthy of peculiar considera-
tions. The great diversity of vegetable and animal produc-
tions on our globe according to climate undoubtedly shows
that tho latter element exercises some influence on them,
but this influence, according to M. Liais, is only indirect.
Certain beings, it is true, can only live in certain climates,
and if transported to another will die ; but, on the other
hand, those that can bear emigration constantly retain
their generic and specific characteristics, whence it is to
be inferred that even before moving their nature was
such as to permit of their being acclimatised else-
where. In the case of man, it was formerly supposed that
difference of colour proceeded from climate, but it is now
proved that under the equator the European still preserves
the characteristics of his race ; while the black, whether
transported-to America or Europe, still remains as black as
before. 31. Liais denies that domestic animals ever re-
turned to a supposed primitive wild type, for he has seen
in the campos of Brazil oxen and horses as diversified as
our domesticated breeds, and which, nevertheless, can
only be caught by the lasso. Animals of different colours
have different degrees of strength. The parasites that de-
stroy so many horses and oxen In America do not attack
all colonies and all varieties with equal violence. And
yet no variety or breed seems to have for all that pre-
dominated over the other, and therefore led to an unifor-
mity. Nor do epidemics attack all races alike. In 1850, at
Rio de Janeiro,yellow fever raged simultaneously with cho-
lera, but the former only attacked the whites, while the
latter almost exclusively fastened upon the blacks. It has
often been said that in tropical regions sheep lost their
fleece, which was replaced by hair. 11. Liais denies this,
stating that it is their wool which prevents their spread
ing all over the country, because certain troublesome para-
sites abound, for instance in the Brazilian campos. These
parasites get into the thick wool of the poor creatures, and
torture them so that they at last decline in health.
Galignani.