Bibliographical Notice. 307 



The final paragraph of the " Reply to Criticism " requires 

 a word of comment. We are first charged with imputing 

 blame to the author for the non-insertion of detail which he had 

 given elsewhere. We can only reply, that we did not blame 

 him for it ; all we did was to deny his right, however freely 

 he may have acknowledged the labours of others twenty years 

 ago, to claim their results as his own now. 



The last sentence runs thus, " That they [**. e. ourselves] 

 should have commenced the second paragraph of their letter 

 with ' The question has nothing to do with the Eozoon con- 

 troversy,' is therefore, to say the least of it, ' most significant'!" 

 If this means any thing, it conveys an insinuation which is as 

 false as it is uncalled for. If Mr. Carter wishes an explanation 

 of our unwillingness to join in the Eozoon controversy he need 

 not look beyond his own " Reply to Criticism " for our reason. 

 A simple statement verified at every point by accurate refer- 

 ences to authorities, drawn up in a friendly spirit, and with 

 no object except the desire to correct an injustice which we 

 believed the author to have committed unconsciously, and a 

 reference to a quotation which, owing to his own misdirection, 

 was not the passage he intended to allude to, have brought 

 down upon us not merely a taunt of ignorance, but the serious 

 charge of " suppressing the truth." Under these circumstances 

 your readers will not wonder at our unwillingness to enter into 

 the discussion of a confessedly difficult and complicated subject, 

 with one so ready in the denunciation of those who do not 

 happen to agree with him in the reading of evidence and the 

 correlation of facts. We may, however, say this much, that 

 our individual views as to the structure of Eozoon have not 

 been affected by Mr. Carter's additions to the literature of the 

 subject. Declining further correspondence on the subject of 

 thisjetter, We have the honour to be, Gentlemen, 



Faithfully yours, 



W. K. Paeker, 

 T. Rupeet Jones, 

 Heney B. Brady. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



The Birds of Shetland, with Observations on their Habits, Migration, 

 and Occasional Appearance. By the late Henry L. Saxbt, M.D., 

 of Balta Sound, Unst. Edited by his brother Stephen H. Saxby, 

 M.A. Edinburgh : 1874. 8vo, pp. xviii, 398, pis. 8. 



Shetland from its geographical position deserved the devotion of a 

 volume to its ornithology. Thirty years have passed since any 



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