The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-17 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.-LAST EVENING.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, J CLY 15.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. D. R.
Beim as Consul at Hamilton, Canada West, for the United
States of America.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Senor
A. Arrindell as Consul at Antigua for the United States of
Venezuela.

DOWNING-STREET, July 15.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Richard Chal-
lenger, Esq., to bo Auditor-General for the Island of Saint
Christopher.

WHITEHALL, JULY 13.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Robert M‘lierron to the church and parish of Glatt, in the
presbytery of Alford, and county of Aberdeen, vacant by
the death of the Reverend James Walker, late Minister
thereof.

ADMIRALTY, JULY 13.
Royal Marino Light Infantry—The following gentlemen
have boon appointed Second Lieutenants : John Beck-
with Leek William llutchesuu Poe, Herbert Lyre
Robbins,George Harker Cooke, Francis Macnamara
Faulkner, George Gillman, Cosmo George Gordon, cud
Henry Byron Woods.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 17} 11 181
Ditto 3 lilonths. 11 191 12 0
Rotterdam - 12 01
Antwerp — 25 37f 25 42
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 91 13 10
Paris Short 25 15 25" 25
Ditto 3 Mouths. 25 321 25 40
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1201 1201
Vienna — 12 871 12 921
12 89 12 921
Triesto "—
Petersburgu
Berlin -,
Madrid 481 49
_ 491 490
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Niilau
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

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27 20 27 30
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27 20 '27 30
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IS MAN A MONKEY I

To those who may not be inclined to claim rela-
cionship with the gorilla or chimpanzee, the follow-
ing summary of a paper recently read to the
Academy of Sciences by M. Quatrefages may be of
some interest. The learned Academician had on
that occasion to present a work, by M. Vogt, on
" Microcephali, or Monkey-men," the author
meaning thereby human beings in whom the
brain is exceedingly small. The cases exa-
mined by him being exclusively confined to
specimens that have actually lived, or that ere
still living at the time he was engaged inw his
researches, are very rare. Those quoted from
authors by M. Vogt do not exceed 40;
his own
inquiries only enabled him to find ten instances
ilof
microcephalism, comprising men, women, and ch-
dren. After the requisite anatomical descriptions
he proceeds to examine the cause
der of
them theseto be owing
abnormal
growths, and in so doing consis
to a tendency to return to the original formation of
the human species. To this view M. Quatrefages
does not subscribe, since it leads to the conclusion
that man may have descended from the monkey ;
and to refute it he points to the fact specially
remarked on by various physiologists, viz., that
man is a walker, while the monkey is essen-
tially a climber. In these two groups the whole
locomotive apparatus is therefore strikingly dif-
ferent : the monkey can walk, but prefers climbing;
man can climb, but prefers walking. The labours
of Duvernoy on the gorilla, and of Gratiolet and
Alix on the chimpanzee, show that the monkey typo,
as it approaches to perfection, developes the climbing
faculty more and more ; and that the contrary is the
case with the human type. M. Quatrefages then pro-
ceeds to explain thateven if Darwin's theory of deri-
vation be adopted, the phenomena in question should,
according to that theory, be read differently. We
know a large number of terms of the Simian series.
We see it ramified into secondary series, all equally
tending towards the anthropomorphous type, and
constituting, not the members of a same family, but
the superior corresponding terms of three distinct
ones. Notsvithstanding the secondary modifications
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