BY JOHN SHIRLEY, B.SC. 81 



all references to fossil plants must be catalogued under both 

 Botany and Pahieontology ; similarly, all references to fossil 

 anima^ls must be given under both Zoology and Palaeontology. 

 Mr. Thomson would have been wiser had he studied the printed 

 directions by which the auther was guided, before he so hastily 

 formulated his ill-based charges. 



XI. P. 11 lin,'>i 2-7. 



Some of the entries in the .second seetion sliow nil too pJainhi 

 the leaniwi siimpatJiij of the compiler, especialli/ in the 

 Paheontolotiical and Botanical divisions, beintj overloaded, 

 irith details, recounting numerous species, st(b-sj)ecies and, 

 ti/pes /((miliar to the author. 



In this instance Mr. Thomson again proves that he has not 

 taken the trouble to refer to the specimen catalogues supplied from 

 London, which formed the model for the construction of the 

 Queensland volume. Any unbiased critic who compares the 

 two will see that the copy has been rigidly and faithfully 

 followed. 



XII. P. 11, lines 10-14. 



The second part of the catalogue shous haste and ine.rperience 



in bibliographic compilation. Here the entries, supposed 



to be arranged accordin// to the subjects, reappear in the 



order of authors up to p. 76, where the proper arra^ige- 



ments onh/ bee/ins, and is carried to the end of p. 132. 



Mr. Thomson is again wrong in his contention. The rule 



followed in the specimen subject-catalogues for Physics, 



Mathematics, Anthropology, &c., is to arrange each sub-section 



alphabetically under authors ; but in Botany and Zoology, with 



their scientific names, the titles and not the authors' names are 



in alphabetical sequence. 



XIII. P. 11, lines 28-83. 



Mam/ raluable and oriijinal literari/ contributions to science 



hare been published from, time to time in most of our local 



periodicals. Accordijuj to the resolutions of the conference 



tliese sJiould Jiare been listed. 



Mr. Thomson is wrong in supposing that a newspaper is a 



periodical in terms of the second rule given by him on p. 4 of 



his " Critical Notes." Newspaper articles such as he mentions 



are never acknowledged as authorities or quoted as such by 



scientific journals. 



