306 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



No man ever laboured from a purer love of Science. In his 

 devotion to the study of Embryology and primitive types, he 

 seemed to personify "the philosophic naturalist" depicted by the 

 late Dr. W. B. Carpenter in the Preface to his work on the 

 Foraminifera.* 



He was a large-hearted and generous-minded man, without 

 one particle of jealousy in his composition ; and though, as an 

 anatomist and physiologist, he was possessed of knowledge 

 which many a one might envy, he never in the least degree 

 seemed conscious of it. On the contrary, he seldom lost an oppor- 

 tunity of expressing his obligations to other people. It was a 

 pleasure to ask him for information, for he gave it so fully and 

 so freely. 



Those who had the privilege of listening to his lectures will 

 not easily forget the enthusiasm with which he would descant on 

 the discovery of some beautiful adaptation of structure to 

 habit, or the reverent admiration with which he always referred 

 to the wisdom of the Creator as displayed in the creation. 



NOTES AND QUERIES, 



MAMMALIA. 



The Irish Wolf-dog in Spain. — Iu some interesting notes com- 

 municated to the Royal Irish Society in January last (Proc. R. I. Acad. 

 3rd ser. i. pp. 333—339), Prof. J. P. O'Reilly gives some extracts from 

 Bowies' ' Introduccion a la Historia Natural y a Geografia fisica de 

 Espana,' 1775, showing that the so-called wolf-hound was at that date 

 distinguished from the greyhound, and that the former was introduced into 

 Spain from Ireland. The Spaniards call the greyhound galgo, as having 

 obtained it first from Gaul; the wolf-hound they call perro lebrel, and 



* "As it is the aim of the physical philosopher to determine what are 

 the fewest and simplest assumptions, which being granted the whole existing 

 order of Nature would result ; so the aim of the philosophic naturalist should 

 be to determine how small a number of primitive types may be reasonably 

 supposed to have given origin by the ordinary course of ' descent with 

 modification ' to the vast multitude of diversified forms that have peopled 

 the globe during the long succession of geological ages, and constitute its 

 present Fauna and Flora." — Carpenter, ' Introd. to the Study of the 

 Foraminifera,' 18G2 ; Preface, p. xii. 



