Victorian women choosing to duck the demands of domestic life to spend their time doing something they enjoyed is hardly a novel idea.

My thoughts turned, inconsequently, out of their channel of bitterness, to fresh, desperate questionings.

On Tuesday, March 21, was made the first public test of the telautograph, a long distance writing machine, the invention of Professor Elisha Gray of Chicago, which practically solves the problem of autographic communication over miles of wire.

These creatures are so anatomically similar it’s proven hard to figure out their relationships, both with one another and with later carnivoran groups.