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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 Pkasianus gallus. If the seeker after 



