1867 



A GOOD EXAMPLE 



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(i.e. Coracomorphse) than they are unlike one another, 

 and that it will have to stand in a group by itself. 



It is as much like a wren as you are less so, in fact, 

 if you go on maintaining that preposterous fiction about 

 Serpentarius. 



2. Wood-peckers are more like crows than they are 

 like cuckoos. 



Aegithognathae 



Cypselomorphae 



Coracomorphae 



Desmognathae 



. Coccygomorphae. 



Gecinomorphae 



3. Sundevell is the sharpest fellow who has written 

 on the classification of birds. 



4. Nitzsch and W. K. Parker 1 are the sharpest 

 fellows who have written on their osteology. 



5. Though I do not see how it follows naturally on 

 the above, still, where can I see a good skeleton of 

 Glareola ? 



None in college, B.M.S. badly prepared. Ever yours 

 faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



1 Except in the case of Serpentarius. 



An incident which diversified one of the Gilchrist 

 lectures to working men is thus recorded by the 

 Times of January 23, 1867 : 



A GOOD EXAMPLE. Last night, at the termination 

 of a lecture on ethnology, delivered by Professor Huxley 

 to an audience which filled the theatre of the London 

 Mechanics' Institute in Southampton Buildings, Chancery 

 Lane, the lecturer said that he had received a letter as he 

 entered the building which he would not take the re- 

 sponsibility of declining to read, although it had no 



