OOLOGY 159 



with the bird and its life ; so that it is in one sense one 

 of the highest pursuits of Natural Science. But I was 

 never one of those — or, if ever, that must have been well 

 over fifty years ago — ^who thought that " oology " was 

 going to have an important effect on phylogeny {i.e. 

 classification) and so forth.* 



* A.N. to F. C. R. Jourdain, March 18, 1907. 



