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acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the 

 highest of duties ; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. 



" If these ideas be destined, as 1 believe they are, to be more 

 and more firmly established as the world grows older ; if that 

 spirit be fated, as I believe it is, to extend itself into all depart- 

 ments of human thought, and to become co-extensive with the 

 range of knowledge ; if, as our race approaches its maturity, 

 it discovers, as I believe it will, that there is but one kind of 

 knowledge and but one method of acquiring it ; then we, who 

 are still children, may justly feel it our highest duty to recognise 

 the advisableness of improving natural knowledge, and so to aid 

 ourselves and our successors in our course towards the noble 

 goal which lies before mankind." 



Continued interest in ethnology is manifested by the 

 publication of a paper on " Prehistoric Remains in Caith- 

 ness " in the Natural History Review for February, and 

 in the sympathy expressed with a scheme brought before 

 the Asiatic Society by Dr. Fayrer for the promotion of 

 anthropological research in South Asia. 



The following palaontological memoirs also belong 

 to 1866:— 



1. " British Fossils. Illustrations of the Structure of 

 the Crossopterygian Ganoids" (Mem. Geol. Survey, 

 U.K., Decade XII, 1866. Sci. Mem., Supply. Vol. n, 

 p. 20). — This deals with the genera Glytopomus, Coelac- 

 anthus, Macropoma and Holophagus, and is a continua- 

 tion of work to which allusion has already been made 

 (see p. 62). 



2. " On a Collection of Fossil Vertebrata, from the 

 Jarrow Colliery, County of Kilkenny, Ireland " (Trans. 

 Roy. Irish Acad., xxiv, 1871, pp. 351-69. Read January 

 6, 1866. Sci. Mem., iii, vm, p. 180). — The extinct 

 vertebrates in question are Amphibia (Labyrintho- 

 donts). 



3. " On Some Remains of large Dinosaurian Reptiles 

 from the Stormberg Mountains, South Africa" (Q. J. 



