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Zoology requires — 1st. A kno^Yledge of all the leading types of animals, 
including their general structure, habits, geographical distribution, trans- 
formations, &c. ; 2nd. Comparative Anatomy, especially of the Vertebrated 
groups ; 3rd. Palaeontology, as no modern work on Zoological Classification 
can be considered as complete in -^-hich the extinct species are not intro- 
duced into their proper situations in the zoological series ; 4th. It has been 
urged, I think injudiciously, that the minute anatomy of the tissues, 
cells, &c., of animals (Histology) ought also to form a portion of the 
Zoological Professor's teaching. 
" Mr. Hope's deed of donation and foundation of the Hope Professorship 
of Zoology directs that the duties of his Professor should be especially 
directed to the articulated animals ; and in the Syllabus of Studies of the 
great Continental Universities, printed in the Keport of the University 
Commission, it will be seen that a separate Professorship is assigned to this 
division of the Animal Kingdom, Dr. Gerstaecker at Berlin and M. Emile 
Blanchard at Paris being the Entomological Professors. 
" The Keepership of the Hope Collections throughout the Museum vpas 
also imposed on the Hope Professor, and the enormous extent of his 
Collections (the Entomological portion as a whole being, in my opinion, 
only surpassed by the National Museums of Loudon, Paris and Berlin) 
will always absorb a very large portion of the Professor's time, independent 
of professorial teaching. 
"It would therefore, in my opinion, be desirable that an Assistant 
Professor of Zoology/ should be appointed, as well as one of Comjmrative 
Anatomy, with whicli Histology might be temporarily associated, if it 
should be thought desirable to detach it from Physiology. A Readership in 
TalcBontology seems also advisable. 
"I cannot conclude this letter without mentioning another subject which 
has long forced itself on my attention, namely the want of a Professor or 
Reader in Natural Theology, whose duty it should be to counteract the 
atheistical demoralization resulting from the unlimited teaching of Dar- 
winism, in which Design in Creation, and even Creation itself, are openly 
or virtually denied or ignored. 
" I am, Very Reverend Sir, 
" Yours, &c., 
" J. 0. Westwood." 
The attempt which is now being extensively made to introduce 
the study of Natural Science, and especially Natural Historj'-, 
into the principal great schools throughout the countrj^ has been 
proved to work in a satisfactory manner at Marlborough College, 
and I have now before me the seventeenth half-yearly Eeport of 
the Natural History Society of that establishment, whicli was 
