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Further discussion did not take place because the time had arrived for the 

 members of the Congress to pay a visit to the Brussels Museum of Natural 

 History, which was in fact far more useful, for the discussion called forth by 

 the discourse of Mr. Schaus was really of little account. 



To sum up, only an unfavourable judgment can be pronounced in general 

 with regard to the views brought forward at the Congress in defence of the 

 biological superstition which is called mimicry. This cruisade has evidently 

 miscarried completely. Doubtless its ardent believers will still uphold this theory. 

 At the second International Entomological Congress held at Oxford they have 

 returned to the charge in the same manner. It will doubtless long continue 

 to supply the need for zoological romance in popular periodicals but by the 

 serious, scientific entomologist it can no longer be acknowledged. 



M. C. PlEPERS. 



