eyes—their offspring will almost invariably have duller tints. I find it impossible to faithfully paint in words what I consider the distinguishing marks of the young New Zealander. They are most marked in the female. It is, however, very often quite easy to distinguish the colonial born and bred by their looks. Encouraged by the ardent sun's rays, and unchecked by biting cold, both English plants and English animals here quickly attain maturity. So, too, their offsprings quickly grow, and are early developed. But this early forcing is the precursor of early decay. In Australia, under a fierce sun, the children grow quickly, but like hot-house flowers they early fade, and their mental and physical powers are well nigh exhausted at an age when the Englishman is in his prime. They lack stamina. The New Zealand and colonial youth and young man is physically and mentally weaker than persons of similar age at home. They are less robust; hard work and privations soon affect them. The colonial generation, too, is constitutionally weak. The individuals are often, as they say, “seedy”; any attack of disease quickly prostrates them, and the recoveries are tardy. The women fade, become old and haggard, after rearing a small family. Like the males, they early bloom and quickly fade. In one of his singularly suggestive and delightful works, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes startles the reader by remarking that “the finest women are raised under glass,” and then exclaims:—“Good, dry, well-ventilated houses, well-paved streets, every possible comfort, and an absence of hardships are as necessary to produce fine women as a green-house and warmth to exotic flowers.” Probably owing to the absence of these things is due some of the defects just mentioned. The conclusions I draw are these:—Partly owing to the climate, and partly to other changes in the environment, the immigrants' vital capacities diminish, their physical energies deteriorate; and that these alterations are more fully developed in their offspring, and that it is certain that the race would alter much and very decidedly deteriorate, were it not for a constant stream of immigrants.

Art. VI.—Polynesia. By J. Adams, B.A. [Read before the Auckland Institute, September 13, 1875.] About 360 years ago, Magellan, after battling for weeks against contrary winds and currents through the 60 miles of straits that bear his name, got out at last into the great ocean; and steering a N.W. course, sped along with fair winds and favoring currents until he had reached the Ladrone