The Cornhill Magazine (Vol. I, No. 5, May 1860)

WILLIAM HOGARTH: PAINTER, ENGRAVER, AND PHILOSOPHER. Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time 561 IV.—The Painter’s Progress.

WRITTEN IN THE DEEPDENE ALBUM. By WASHINGTON IRVING. 582

LOVEL THE WIDOWER. (With an Illustration.) 583 CHAPTER V.—_In which I am Stung by a Serpent._

STUDIES IN ANIMAL LIFE 598 CHAPTER V.—_Talking in beetles—Identity of Egyptian animals with those now existing: does this prove fixity of species?—Examination of the celebrated argument of species not having altered in four thousand years—Impossibility of distinguishing species from varieties—The affinities of animals—New facts proving the fertility of Hybrids—The hare and the rabbit contrasted—Doubts respecting the development hypothesis—On hypothesis in Natural History—Pliny, and his notion on the formation of pearls—Are pearls owing to a disease of the oyster?—Formation of the shell; origin of pearls—How the Chinese manufacture pearls._

PATERFAMILIAS TO THE EDITOR OF THE “CORNHILL MAGAZINE” 608