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do not speak of taxes on the memory, for memory has nothing to do with 
the existence of natural groups, although some scs are in the habit 
of objecting to names because, forsooth, they tax the m 
With respect to species, Mr. Allen carries vba MH to an extreme. 
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concludes that analogous variations are only of like value; the inference 
is by no means a perfectly safe one, though it may be best in proposing 
at least ten species have been admitted by one of the most accomplished 
Three such species are considered by Mr. Allen, who had never seen them 
and was only guided by analogy, as variations of one; Otaria jubata, O. 
Ulloc, and O. (Phocarctos) Hookeri,* being referred to O. jubata extended; 
and three other species —— admitted by those who have exam- 
ined them, are admitted as very doubtful, i. e., Arctocephalus Falklandicus, 
A. cinereus (Gray), and A. antarcticus. It may be that Mr. Allen is correct; 
after years the nomenclature is again disturbed by the revival of the 
unjustly buried names. It is to be feared that some of the species which 
Mr. Allen has doomed to annihilation will yet arise and assume a healthy 
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w words as to the relations of the family. Mr. Allen, treating of 
e. primary groups of the Pinnipeds, remarks (p. 21), that * d 
that they have a higher value than a sub-family value, I d for the 
present the classification elaborated by Dr. Gill, in his Prodro 
they seem intermediate in general features between the earless s 
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