60 Scientific Intelligence. 
Dr. Coues spool Bo in the footsteps of his distinguished — 
predecessor, “not blindly, but unable not to see the validity of his 
arguments, ” (195) om a — a few minor — or @ 
ences.” In respect to these se scr De Coue es is ‘Ted to 
first ae he has “no acknowledgments to make” excepting to — 
Sirsa and therefore, whatever satisfaction may be derived — 
om having so taken up the s subject fresh, he has also lost the — 
benefit of ‘the checks which an acquai intance with many and dif- — 
ferent and en ponderous expressions for the same idea “in 
order to eioid monotony,”’+ whereas, in homologies, as in mathe- 
matics, each object and Sin should be now wn by a —, a 
, at 
. 
ns > attention, and the absence of all secondary sonaideldl 
es Coues has accepted roe oleh the view of the normal posi- 
tion of the membra for comparison which was first proposed by 
Wyman, and adopted by Foltz, Folsom and or ag this view is 
based 
fring position ee it is quite potable that ae and. en 
might have followed ay in the a that it is their normal 
change in my n t int was one of the chief mo- 
tives for the preparation o ie the bare pats referred to, since do- 
* Owen, Wyman and the Pe 
©} Ae for ra sale = ag ebirg i * is ined with “‘ biarticulated creat toe,” 
p. 193; and in a few cases there is seta, to in “ morphologically homologous” — 
and “ teleologically analogous,” p. 194. 
