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  Bibliographical 
  Notice. 
  

  

  This 
  journal 
  was 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  definitely 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  Faculty 
  

   of 
  Sciences 
  at 
  Lille, 
  although 
  it 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  limited 
  its 
  work 
  to 
  the 
  

   Department 
  of 
  the 
  North 
  or 
  even 
  to 
  Prance 
  ; 
  under 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  

   Professor 
  Giard 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  regarded 
  specially 
  as 
  the 
  exponent 
  in 
  

   France 
  of 
  Darwinistic 
  ideas, 
  which, 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  its 
  establishment, 
  

   were 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  popular 
  among 
  French 
  naturalists. 
  For 
  a 
  long 
  

   time, 
  indeed, 
  M. 
  Giard 
  was 
  almost 
  the 
  only 
  French 
  zoologist 
  of 
  

   repute 
  who 
  adopted 
  the 
  heterodox 
  English 
  theory, 
  and 
  many 
  of 
  our 
  

   readers 
  will 
  remember 
  the 
  rather 
  contemptuous 
  fashion 
  in 
  which 
  

   the 
  theory 
  of 
  Natural 
  Selection 
  was 
  treated 
  by 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  leaders 
  

   of 
  scientific 
  opinion 
  in 
  France. 
  

  

  The 
  ' 
  Bulletin 
  Kcicntifique,' 
  however, 
  managed 
  to 
  hold 
  its 
  own, 
  

   and 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  1887 
  eighteen 
  volumes 
  were 
  published 
  

   in 
  the 
  original 
  form. 
  They 
  contained 
  numerous 
  valuable 
  contribu- 
  

   tions, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  department 
  of 
  zoology, 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  which 
  

   translations 
  have 
  appeared 
  in 
  this 
  Journal 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  connexion 
  of 
  

   the 
  Editor 
  with 
  the 
  Marine 
  Laboratory 
  at 
  Wimereux, 
  near 
  Boulogne, 
  

   enabled 
  him 
  to 
  furnish 
  its 
  pages 
  with 
  many 
  articles 
  upon 
  the 
  zoology 
  

   of 
  the 
  shores 
  of 
  the 
  Pas 
  de 
  Calais 
  which 
  are 
  of 
  special 
  interest 
  to 
  

   British 
  naturalists. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  meantime 
  Darwinistic 
  views 
  have 
  gained 
  ground 
  to 
  a 
  con- 
  

   siderable 
  extent 
  in 
  France, 
  and 
  some 
  few 
  years 
  ago 
  XL 
  Giard 
  was 
  

   appointed 
  to 
  a 
  professorial 
  position 
  in 
  Paris, 
  where 
  he 
  has 
  since 
  

   continued 
  his 
  labours 
  in 
  teaching 
  ; 
  and 
  last 
  year, 
  on 
  the 
  completion 
  

   of 
  the 
  second 
  series 
  of 
  nine 
  volumes 
  of 
  the 
  original 
  ' 
  Bulletin,' 
  this 
  

   publication 
  also 
  made 
  a 
  fresh 
  departure, 
  and, 
  while 
  still 
  retaining 
  

   its 
  connexion 
  with 
  the 
  older 
  journal, 
  as 
  indicated 
  by 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  

   the 
  volume, 
  not 
  only 
  adopted 
  the 
  more 
  ambitious 
  title 
  which 
  stands 
  

   at 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  this 
  notice, 
  but 
  also 
  enlarged 
  the 
  size 
  of 
  its 
  pages 
  and 
  

   introduced 
  a 
  very 
  liberal 
  allowance 
  of 
  plates 
  for 
  the 
  illustration 
  of 
  

   the 
  papers 
  occupying 
  them. 
  As 
  the 
  present 
  volume 
  is 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  a 
  

   new 
  and 
  greatly 
  improved 
  series 
  of 
  this 
  important 
  periodical, 
  we 
  

   have 
  thought 
  it 
  worth 
  while 
  to 
  bring 
  it 
  under 
  the 
  notice 
  of 
  the 
  

   readers 
  of 
  the 
  ' 
  Annals." 
  

  

  When 
  we 
  look 
  at 
  the 
  articles 
  which 
  it 
  contains 
  we 
  cannot 
  but 
  

   feel 
  that 
  the 
  regular 
  contributors 
  to 
  this 
  journal 
  are 
  following 
  in 
  

   the 
  footsteps 
  of 
  Charles 
  Darwin 
  at 
  least 
  as 
  closely 
  as 
  the 
  natu- 
  

   ralists 
  of 
  any 
  other 
  country. 
  Not 
  that 
  they 
  devote 
  themselves 
  par- 
  

   ticularly 
  to 
  the 
  formal 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  idea 
  of 
  evolution, 
  which 
  

   they 
  may 
  not 
  unjustly 
  regard 
  as 
  placed 
  above 
  the 
  reach 
  of 
  attack 
  : 
  

   but 
  they 
  rather, 
  while 
  working 
  in 
  the 
  spirit 
  of 
  the 
  theory, 
  follow 
  

   the 
  example 
  of 
  their 
  great 
  leader 
  by 
  the 
  prosecution 
  of 
  researches 
  

   into 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  organisms 
  studied 
  by 
  them, 
  less 
  as 
  things 
  to 
  

   be 
  dissected 
  and 
  sectioned 
  than 
  as 
  living 
  entities, 
  having 
  functions 
  

   to 
  perform 
  in 
  nature 
  and 
  important 
  relations 
  to 
  one 
  another. 
  In 
  

   fact 
  nearly 
  all 
  even 
  of 
  the 
  descriptive 
  papers 
  in 
  this 
  volume 
  are 
  

   worked 
  in 
  this 
  spirit. 
  

  

  As 
  examples 
  of 
  this 
  we 
  may 
  notice 
  especially 
  the 
  descriptions 
  of 
  

   two 
  new 
  genera 
  of 
  Epicandes, 
  Probopyms 
  and 
  Pafcepyge, 
  by 
  MM. 
  

   Giard 
  and 
  Bonnier, 
  an 
  abstract 
  of 
  which 
  appeared 
  in 
  our 
  issue 
  for 
  

  

  