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

Author: Various

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70507

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## Summary

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._

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-i-no-5-may-1860-70507/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-i-no-5-may-1860-70507/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-i-no-5-may-1860-70507/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-i-no-5-may-1860-70507/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-i-no-5-may-1860-70507/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.—_Talking in beetles—Identity of Egyptian](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-i-no-5-may-1860-70507/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.—_Delicate Hints.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cornhill-magazine-vol-i-no-5-may-1860-70507/chapters/1/index.md)