JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY 175 



"The more we look into the question, whether by the light of 

 analogy or the evidence of facts, the more are we convinced that 

 lines of rigid demarcation (either between genera or species, 

 though especially the former) do not anj^where, except through 

 accident, exist. And hence it is that we ascend, by degrees, to a 

 comprehension of that unity at which I have already glanced; 

 and we are led to believe that, could the entire living panorama, 

 in all its magnificence and breadth, be spread out before our 

 eyes, with its long-lost links (of the past and present epochs) 

 replaced, it would be found, from first to last, to be complete and 

 continuous throughout, — a marvel of perfection, the work of a 

 Master's hand." — p. 179. 



It is a good thing to become acquainted with some of the older 

 naturalists and their ways of working. 



FOEDYCE GbINNELL, Jk. 



