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systematist we say that characters of internal anatomy have a systematic value. 

 " This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof." Let Mr. Cockerel 

 recognise this in his new biological station, and we shall have fewer papers from him 

 on "physiological species." — Ed. Nat. Sci.] 



Das Tierreich. 



Permit me to note, with reference to your critic's remark on p. 308 of vol. viii., 

 that Bory de St. Vincent subscribed his articles Bory simply (his full name was Jean 



Baptiste George Marie ). We can, therefore, by following Bory's own example, 



save even more space than suggested. Theo. Gill. 



Some Corrections. 

 Through an error in the MS. copy of Professor Gill's review of Boulenger's 

 "Catalogue of Perciform Fishes," in vol. viii., the name Stereolepis was omitted 

 from the list of genera on p. 340, and the date of " Plectroplites, Gill," p. 341, 

 appeared as 1872 instead of 1862. 



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 exhibition halls owing to the glaring error of constructing the museum building 

 without attic or basement for storage. 



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