1136 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



MICHAEL FOSTER, M.D., Sec.R.S., Professor of Phy- 

 siology in the University of Cambridge. 



J. BURDON SANDERSON, M.D., F.R.S., Waynflete 

 Professor of Physiology in the University of Oxford. 



W. H. FLOWER, F.R.C.S., F.R.S., Conservator of the 

 Hunterian Museum and Hunterian Professor. 



GEORGE J. ROMANES, LLD., F.R.S., Secretary of the 

 Linnean Society. 



ADAM SEDGWICK, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge. 



E. RAY LANKESTER, M.A., F.R.S., Jodrell Professor 

 of Zoology in University College, London. 



H. N. MOSELEY, M.A., F.R.S., Linacre Professor of 

 Anatomy in the University of Oxford. 



A. MILNES MARSHALL, M.D., D.Sc., Professor of 

 Zoology in the Owen's College, Manchester. 



W. T. THISELTON DYER, C.M.G., M.A., F.R.S., 

 Assistant Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



W. B. CARPENTER, M.D., F.R.S. 



G. J. ALLMAN, M.D., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of 

 Natural History, Edinburgh. 



JOHN MURRAY, F.R.S.E., Director of the Challenger 

 Expedition Reports." (>') 



A brilliant array of names ! A noble staff of scientific 

 men, which, anyone would suppose, a government would 

 welcome with delight, and find a pleasure in favouring 

 their suggestions, aiding their investigations, and munifi- 

 cently supporting their self-sacrificial labours. And did 

 not our Government do so in this case ? Certainly ! 

 Does the intelligent reader think for one moment that I 

 would ruffle the feathers of his national pride by allowing 

 him to indulge the "impossible' belief that our rulers 



