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twenty years ago — Dr. Kraepeliii has since worked over the sub- 

 ject — that the sting of the bees and wasps is an organ composed 

 of modified limbs, and is to be regarded as homologous with the 

 organs which, in other insects, are devoted solely to reproductive 

 functions. These points he carried out so that he could trace 

 every portion of the one in the physiologically very different or- 

 gan of the other. 



The last of the studies which we can allude to are those of 

 the development of Limulus. Dr. Lockwood, the first to study 

 the subject, pointed out the similarity of the young horseshoe 

 crab to the trilobites, and this Dr. Packard elaborated in his 

 more extensive paper. His studies in this direction led him to 

 investigate the ancestry of the king-crab, and he now has in 

 press an extensive memoir on the fossil king-crabs, in which the 

 subject will receive still further treatment, and will, no doubt, 

 present many new views based iix^on the study of extensive suites 

 of specimens. 



Lives like this of Dr. Packard are of interest, not only in 

 themselves, but as instances of heredity. Dr. Packard's father 

 was a man of mark, as every graduate of Bowdoin will testify ; 

 while his grandfather Packard — a Revolutionary soldier — was 

 a graduate of and a tutor in Harvard College. His maternal 

 grandfather was the Rev. Dr. Appleton, formerly President of 

 Bowdoin College. With such an ancestry, is it to be wondered 

 that three of the sons should rise to eminence as college profess- 

 ors, while the fourth should become a prominent physician ? 



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CONG BESS AND INTERNATIONAL 

 COPYRIGHT. 



IF it were charged that under our 

 system of government measures of 

 interest to the whole people, particu- 

 larly such as might chiefly concern their 

 intellectual and moral welfare, were apt 

 to receive less attention from the Leg- 

 islature than measures of purely local 

 concern, we fear that the action of 

 Congress up to the present in the mat- 

 ter of international copyright might be 

 cited as a striking case in point. For 

 many years past the thinking men of 

 the country, those who give it its in- 

 tellectual standing among the nations 

 of the world, have been urging the ne- 



cessity, both as a matter of national 

 self-respect and also as one vitahy af- 

 fecting our intellectual growth, of the 

 enactment of an international copy- 

 right law. Congress, however, in its 

 zeal for " appropriations " and for party 

 strategy, saw nothing in this demand 

 to commend it to any special attention. 

 On the contrary, the question raised was 

 not one that seemed to come at all with- 

 in the range of practical politics. Had 

 the promoters represented one party in 

 the state, and had they been able to 

 show that they were organized for ef- 

 fective party warfare, they would have 

 got a respectful hearing at least from 

 the side they supported. But no; they 



