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dom, and a host of others, and adopt a scheme somewhat of this kind :— 
Let the species, as the most particular idea of a group of characters com-. 
mon to many, be called either ultimate type or species—though this lat- 
ter term has now received such a wide range from the hands of some 
that there is danger of our particular knowledge of it being altogether 
lost. Let the most general type, that is to say, that under which all 
the other and more particular groups are comprised, be called Archetype ; 
the group next in succession to the archetype being called Primary Type ; 
the next, Secondary Type; and so on: the genus or group next to the 
ultimate type or species being called Penultimate Type, unless it were 
preferred to retain the name Genus, as this term is generally used cor- 
rectly, and its position properly understood. 
There would be no inconvenience in the number of terms required, 
because, at present, even in the most elaborate systems, there are but 
five grades of characteristic groups recognised beneath the archetype, 
viz. :—Class = Primary Type ; Order = Secondary Type ; Family = Ter- 
tiary Type ; Genus = Penultimate Type, and Species or Ultimate Type. 
Sub-classes, sub-orders, sub-families, and sub-genera, would be repre- 
sented as Primary Sub-Type, Secondary Sub-Type, and so on; whilst those 
modifications of species which are commonly called Varieties and Races 
would be represented as Ultimate Accidental Sub-Type, and Ultimate 
Cultivated Sub-Type. Thesubjoined Table will explain this more fully :— 
PROPOSED NAMES. EXAMPLE. PRESENT NAMES. 
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Archetype. Vertebrata. Sub-kingdom. 
Primary type. Mammalia. Class. 
»  Sub-type. Gyrencephala. Sub-class. 
Secondary type. Artiodactyla. Order. 
ms sub-type. Omnivora, Sub-order. 
Tertiary type. Suide. Family. 
»  sub-type. Suine. Sub-family. 
Penultimate type. Sus. Genus. 
5 sub-type. ” Sub-genus. 
Ultimate type. Scrofa. Species. 
sf cultivated sub-type. » var. domesticus, Variety. 
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Archetype. Vertebrata. Sub-kingdom. 
Primary type. Mammalia. Class. 
»  sub-type. Gyrencephala. Sub-class. 
Secondary type. Proboscidea. Order. 
Tertiary type. Elephantide. Family. 
»  Sub-type. Elephantine. Sub-family. 
Penultimate type. Euelephas. Genus. 
Ultimate type. -- Indicus. Species. 
oy accidental sub-type. var. Zeylandicus, | Variety. 
The advantages that would accrue from the use of this or some si- 
milar system are, first, the simplicity of the terms used; next, the fact 
that these terms declare, at once, the relative value, in the author’s 
