24 JUNE 1865, Page 19

Man's Place and Breed Unique in Nature. By a University

Professor. (Edmonston and Douglas.)—A well-written little essay against the development theory, founded mainly on the fact that wheat is nowhere found wild, nor are there any known wild grasses from which it can be produced by crossing. As man's food, so the author thinks, is man, the instinct of animals being radically distinct from reason.