76 A REPLY TO " SOME CRITICAL NOTES, ETC." 



In his criticisin of the Catalogue Mr. Thomson's statements 

 prove : 



1. That he failed to ascertain beforehand what reasons led 



to the compilation of the Catalogue ; and 



2. That he is wholly unacquainted with the printed direc- 



tions issued by the International Conference, by which 

 the arrangement and classification of the work criti- 

 cised were determined. 



Mr. Thomson's principal charges are printed in italics, and 

 following each will be found my reply. 



/. /'. :?, Utu'.s 0-15 <nnl 27. 



" / ]iai\ to ciilli'ct, (irmmie, nml clttssifi/ the tmtti'rial iiithnut a 

 colU'fa/ue." Thh not ((Itot/i'ther uniDnhitioun stuteuieiit is, 

 hou-eirr, set i reel i/ anmxtent irith a nuhxetjiu^nt remark, in 

 wliicli our liihlioifra/iher (ichnoirli'dtfes the serrices of three 

 in-ll knnirn authoritiex, alio rerisi'tl, nrniiii/ed and 

 cluasifieii the cheuiistri/ .sections, the rertebnitcs, mid the 

 Lej)ido])ter((. The- prefdce discloses an error. 



As a matter of fact the whole of the subject matter of the 

 Catalogue was collected, arranged, and classified before any por- 

 tion was submitted to the three gentlemen, whose assistance is 

 gratefully acknowledged in the preface. Professor Liversidge 

 read and corrected the final proof of the Chemistry section form- 

 ing pp. 48-51. Mr. De Vis supplied the class names given in 

 brackets after each new species named by Mr. Saville Kent or 

 by himself. Mr. Tryon read the two last proofs in pages of 

 Section 2435, Lepidoptera, and suggested several valuable 

 improvements afi'ecting the classification of species adopted 

 by the authors themselves. There is therefore no error to 

 disclose. 



II. r. :2, lines '27-29. 



The second entnj on the first jxKje oj' the Catalof/tw of Authors 

 reveals a stupid oinission 'of the title of n u-ork. 



It may be some satisfaction to Mr. Thomson to know that, 

 notwithstanding his evident animus, this is the only error in the 

 Cataloarue which he is able to substantiate in his criticism of 

 twelve printed pages. 



