Botany and Zoology. 



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1 nothing of i 



abject, that Geoffrey's saying, 'science kn 

 uUure' had well nigh become a conceded, even if unexpressed principle 

 n natural history, especially in botany. Under the study of homologies 

 —so fertile iu excellent results — botany and even zoology have become 

 ilmost exclusively morphological. In this fascinating book on the fer- 

 ilization of Orchids, and in his paper explaining the meaning of dimorph- 

 sm in hermaphrodite flowers, Mr. Darwin,— who does not pretend to be a 



■he science. Hereafter teleology must go hand in lui"nd with morphology, 



In all this we faithfully believe tha 

 theology will richly gain, and equ: 

 iried form as original, or whether we 

 , that they are derived ; — the grand a 

 -/n in nature being drawn from the sai 

 ties, and enforced by nearly the sam 

 in the other. 





3. UjKm a new species of Tomopteris. — This minute worm, c 

 magnitied figure (made by Prof. Dana while in the East Indies) is here 

 given, agrees in generic characters, (as they are stated by Grube, in D>e 

 FamiUen der Anneliden.) with T. oniscifonnis, from the figure of which 

 however, (published by Quoy anc" " 

 niard, in the Ann. dea'Sci., V^ S 

 s,) it differs very markedly. It v 



responds to what Carpenter anc 

 parede — as reported by Dr. Leuckart, 

 Wler;m. Arch., 18G0-6] 

 garded as the young con 

 onisciformis ; but the m 



absence of the anterior pair of bristles, 

 which are also reported to characterize 

 the voung, make it highly improba- 

 ble that we have here an immature 

 form. Prof. Dana having very kindly 

 placed at the disposal of the writer his 

 occasional observations upon the 

 nelids made dnrinff the Wilkes Ex- 



plane and diverging about 60''." 



