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zoology and minute anatomy; and no living 
naturalist and anatomist has published a better 
monograph than that which resulted from his 
labours. Such a man, at all events, has not 
entered the sanctuary with unwashed hands, and 
when he lays before us the results of twenty 
_ years’ investigation and reflection we must listen 
even though we be disposed to strike. But, in 
reading his work, it must be confessed that the 
attention which might at first be dutifully, soon 
becomes willingly, given, so clear is the author’s 
thought, so outspoken his conviction, so honest 
and fair the candid expression of his doubts. 
Those who would judge the book must read it: 
we shall endeavour only to make its line of argu- 
_ ment and its philosophical position intelligible to 
the general reader in our own way. 
The Baker Street Bazaar has just been exhibit- 
ing its familiar annual spectacle. Straight-backed, 
small-headed, big-barrelled oxen, as dissimilar 
from any wild species as can well be imagined, 
contended for attention and praise with sheep of 
half-a-dozen different breeds and styes of bloated 
preposterous pigs, no more like a wild boar or sow 
than a city alderman is like an ourang-outang. 
The cattle show has been, and perhaps may again 
be, succeeded by a poultry show, of whose crowing 
and clucking prodigies it can only be certainly 
predicated that they will be very unlike the 
aboriginal: Phasianus gallus. If the seeker after 
