312 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
have no difficulty in making some important improvements. We 
think he would be told that Galeopithecus (p. 183) is now well 
recognized as an Insectivore, and perhaps he may be converted 
from that dangerous heresy which teaches that the Strenia (pp. 178, 
179) form only a family (AZanatide) of the Cetacea. Perilous, too, 
is the position of that man who doubts “ the absolute agreement 
among ornithologists” not to consider the Sauwrwri lower (instead 
of higher) than the Pici (p. 152), and Dr. Giinther’s latest views on 
the arrangement of Fishes are certainly not those which have been 
followed (p. 130). But we must not criticize in detail. There 
seems to have been more than ordinary care bestowed on the 
printing, but some blemishes we cannot help noticing. We should 
like to know the authority for the spelling Ryngota (p. 78), which 
appears to be intentional, and we may observe that the name of 
the wonderful new genus of Leptocard Fishes last year described 
by Prof. Peters * was called by him Epigonichthys, and not Epizo- 
methys, as Mr. Pascoe has it (p. 131), following an unlucky misprint 
in ‘ Nature’ (vol. xv. p. 66). 
Our readers, or some of them, we know, are not partial to over 
much science. But they must recognize the fact that they form 
part of a very large army, and the other fact that no army is good 
for much unless composed of what are technically called the three 
“arms” of the service in due proportion. All three must know 
their drill, or in other words should be versed in Anatomy; and 
then of the three “arms,” there are first the physiologists and 
embryologists, who may be compared to the artillery and engineers ; 
next, representing the infantry, are the cabinet-workers, including 
the nomenclaturists—a small but useful class who may be likened 
to pioneers, from the necessary and thankless office they discharge ; 
and lastly, the field-naturalists, whose best similitude may be 
found in the cavalry, not only from their discursiveness, but from 
the way in which they crown a victory by a rapid charge when 
the ground is won, We are not of those who think that the need 
of field-naturalists will ever be lessened through the work of their 
less rapid brethren, and the more cavalry are acquainted with the 
tactics of their fellow-soldiers the more brilliant and effective will 
be their operations. © 
* Monatsbericht Acad. Berlin, 12 June, 1876. 
