280 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



This publication is quite outside the usual biographical 

 horror, in which its subject is always a hero and dressed in his 

 best meeting-house clothes. John Willis Clark is never more 

 and never less than the beloved "J.," erudite, critical, and 

 laborious, while the pages in which he is described are remini- 

 scent of old customs in old University days. Dr. Shipley has 

 also spared no pains in the identification of many who appeared 

 in the same orbit as the subject of his memoir, and in this way 

 much social and local history will be found by writers of books, 

 while there are some really good stories. One must be repro- 

 duced; it relates to a Don who, married late in life, "returning 

 to his church after a honeymoon of sis weeks, publicly thanked 

 God for three weeks of unalloyed connubial bliss." 



Zoologists will find their prey in Appendix I. " J. as Super- 

 intendent of the Museum of Zoology," for it is a life-history of 

 that institution, being a full record of the many able men who 

 have taught there and arranged the collections, and a record of 

 all the principal acquisitions and their donors. There is great 

 value to naturalists in this information. 



