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3 . Colleagues in Ichthyology — Sale of bogus 

 degrees — "The Japanese menace" — Mis- 

 guided patriotism — Botany Bay — Showy 

 blossoms — Sydney Harbor — Fine merinos — 

 In time of drought 



4. Essentials overlooked — The McConnels and 

 Edward Jordan 



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1. Baldwin Spencer — Welton Stanford — Endow- 

 ment for Psychology — Coover and the Thomas 

 Welton Stanford Fellowship — Foundation of the 

 Workingmen's College — Giant eucalyptus — 

 Blacks' Spur forest — Australian parrots — The 

 laughing jackass — Not a poultry yard -— Primi- 

 tive mammals — A practical idealist — At 

 Adelaide 



2. English genius transplanted — Away from 

 "home" — ^Huge unoccupied areas — Lack of 

 variety in AustraHa — Homogeneous population 

 and somber color — Few "self-starters" — The 

 irreverent ^ydiney Bulletin — "Government pays" 



3. Wellington — Sir Robert Stout — University of 

 New Zealand — "Examining" and "teaching" 

 universities — Too much examination cheapens 

 scholarship — Undue sensitiveness — Maclaurin 



— Rutherford again, and Brown — The Ferry 



— Canterbury pioneers — Brown trout and 

 Loch Leven essentially the same — New Zea- 

 land forests — Pelorus Jack 



4. Imaginary returns — A free pass — Wanganui 



— Auckland — Fear of capitalism — A noble 

 tree — Rotorua — ■ The charm of New Zealand 



— Weakness a social menace — Seddon — The 

 coddling-moth — American enterprise 



5. An International Commission of Zoology — Prob- 

 lems of zoological nomenclature — The "first 

 reviser" compromise — Boston code of nomen- 

 clature — The Jordan Committee — Life too 



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