[68] Cunningham, _loc. cit._, vol. ii, p. 7. [69] M. Lesson has received such an answer from Bongarri. Cunningham cites it as a standing joke of the chief, who, he adds, “still keeps on repeating it.” Lesson, _loc. cit._; Cunningham, _loc. cit._, vol, ii, p. 18. [70] Lesson, _loc. cit._, relates that Bongarri had his arm broken, that the fracture was not consolidated, nevertheless, the Australian chief used his arm either for rowing or for handling his weapons. [71] Cunningham, _loc. cit._, vol. ii, p. 8. [72] MacGillivray, _loc. cit._, vol. i, p. 151. Waitz, _loc. cit._, p. 203. [73] This passage. extracted from the _Voyage de l’Uranie_, is textually reproduced in the _Zoologie_ of M. Jacquinot, t. ii, p. 353. [74] I cannot say whether this is also the case in Van Diemen’s Land. The subjoined documents have been collected in Australia since 1835, namely, at a period when there were no longer any Tasmanians in Tasmania. M. de Rienzi who had terminated his voyages before that time, said that the Tasmanian women sometimes quitted their husbands to live with the European fishermen established on the coasts, _L’Oceanie_ t. iii, p. 547; this is, however, an isolated fact. [75] P. E. Strzelecki, _Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land_, p. 346, London, 1845. [76] _Monthly Journal of Med. Science, Edinburgh_, 1850, vol. xi, p. 304. [77] Alexander Harvey (of Aberdeen) on the _Fœtus in Utero_, as inoculating the maternal with the peculiarities of the paternal organism, and on the influence thereby exercised by the males on the constitution and the reproductive power of the female. In the _Monthly Journal of Med. Science of Edinburgh_, vol. ix, p. 1130; vol. xi, p. 299; and vol. xi, p. 387 (1849-1850). [78] Carpenter, art. “Varieties of Mankind,” in Todd’s _Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology_, vol. iv, p. 1341 and 1365. [79] A mare of Lord Morton, covered by a zebra, produced at first a zebra mule; covered subsequently by an Arab horse she produced successively three zebra foals like the first mule. [80] Thomas R. Heywood Thomson, on the “Reported Incompetency of the Aboriginal Females of New Holland to Procreate with Native Males after having Children by a European or White,” in _Monthly Journal of Medical Science, Edinburgh_, Oct. 1851, vol. xii, p. 354. [81] Some genera in existing faunas, containing only _one_ species, are in anterior faunas represented by a number of species now extinct, and evidently differing from the one species actually existing. [Compare the two species of existing elephants with the twelve species of _Elephas_ and thirteen of Mastodon which existed in tertiary times.--EDITOR.]