


REVIEWS. 
HuXLEY's CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMALS.*—This is not a new work, but a 
republication, without revision, of the six lectures on the classification 
of y's u 
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mend it for study to be aiite with gpp and Gould's Principles of 
Zoólogy, and Milne-Edwards’ Zoólo A large number of the admirable 
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perusal of the work has been a great treat. The author’s style is clear 
and terse, and the writer, withal, so frank and outspoken, that we feel 
strongly the personality of his clear headed, sturdy intellect, though less 
far reaching and penetratiye often, than clear sighted and decisive. 
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apoda, Arac 
and the ANNULOIDA [A ipie it ee Scolee s Cuvier's branch of 
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us with a hasty view of eight branches, or subkingdoms, of the 
kingdom. All the lower subkingdoms he considers as the ARTA 
at nature by piecemeal. T ame tendency is manifested in the students 
of a special order, or family, i multiply orders, families and genera to 
Of powers of generalization and conibination as to the new feté and 
improved methods of study, which many claim make such innovations 
necessary. We are glad to see such iconoclasts arise, and doubts thrown 

ction to the Classification of Animals, by T. H. Huxley, LL. D. London, 1869, 
Svo, pp. 147. $1.50 gold. 
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