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in taxonomic shackles which he has not had the temerity to 
refuse to wear. It is often only when we have finished our 
monographic work that the dawn of a workable classificatory 
system arises. 
The descriptions are ample, the synonymy extensive, and 
the distribution of the species fully recorded; the illustrations 
comprise eight coloured and fourteen uncoloured plates, with 
occasional figures in the text. We have thus a pleasant duty in 
bringing this publication to the attention of all shore naturalists, 
and we do so with a conviction that the result will soon appear 
in bionomical notes on the Polycheta in the pages of ‘ The 
Zoologist.’ 
The Work of John Samuel Budgett, Balfour Student of the Uni- 
versity of Cambridge. Edited by J. GRanam Kerr. Cam- 
bridge University Press. 
THE memory of John Samuel Budgett is one which Cambridge 
hath delighted to honour, and rightly so. A life of promise 
prematurely closed, a character which endeared its owner to 
many friends, combined with a love of real zoology which 
carried him more than once to the Tropics and eventually cost 
him his life, are features of a personality which could not fail 
to leave its mark. His principal achievement was the discovery 
of the life-history of Polypterus senegalus. As his biographer, 
Mr. A. K. Shipley, remarks :—‘“‘ After years of patience, after 
three unsuccessful journeys into the heart of Africa, he had at 
last succeeded where all others had failed, and as he watched 
under the microscope the gradual unfolding of the ovum, the 
formation of the layers, the building up of the organs, he must 
have experienced a joy peculiar to men of science, and experi- 
enced by but few of them.’ Dr. Boulenger’s testimony sum- 
marizes the whole business :—‘‘ Collectors of zoological speci- 
mens there are in plenty, but they are seldom in a position to 
make observations on the breeding habits of the lower verte- 
brates. Several attempts had been made with the object of 
procuring the developmental stages of the African fishes Poly- 
pterus and Protopterus, but in vain. Budgett determined not to 
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