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the full belief that what is good for them is good for all. It is 

 only the little minds, the confirmed scarabeists (to make use of Dr. 

 O. W. Holmes's amusing example), the men who cannot rise 

 above the level of a list of species or an account of the metamor- 

 phoses of a monad, that affect to believe that science is a sacred 

 thing, that should, like the mysteries of the Egyptians, be the 

 sole property of a few priests. 



Let all, then, who wish for information combined with the en- 

 tertainment of the highest faculties of the brain, promptly sub- 

 scribe to Knowledge. 



Animal Analysis 1 — This work is a series of blanks to be filled 

 by the student, like those which have been introduced into the 

 study of botany with such success. They are essentially neces- 

 sary to a proper study of zoology in schools, and we are glad to 

 see so good a beginning made in supplying the need. We hope, 

 however, that some changes will be made in them as presented in 

 this first edition. The Batrachia and tortoises are omitted— a 

 serious error, since these animals, especially the former, are the 

 most available and most easily analyzed of all the Vertebrata. 

 In the snakes, examination of the teeth is not required — a great 

 omission. Finally the order to which a species belongs is not 

 required, thus losing one of the principal points of diagnosis in 

 the Vertebrata. 



Biologisches Centralblatt. 2 — It is not often that a new scien- 

 tific journal attempts more than to represent either some well 

 acknowledged department, or more frequently some specialty, 



tion. The fortni-htlv public atari, which w< wish To notice here, 

 is distinctly genual in its scope and aim. The first volume, now 

 completed, shows that this periodical tills an unoccupied and im- 

 portant field with marked ability and success. This Ccntralbhtt, 

 one of many, attempts chiefly to give abstracts of the most valua- 

 ble and important researches, as far as possible those of general 

 interest; special prominence is given to summaries of the results 

 obtained concerning any subject our knowledge of which has 

 been increased bv several s -parate investigations. The sciences 

 included are botany, zoology, ph ysiolog^ scientific psychology 



the greater part of the' most 'noteuorthv cm rent biological dis- 

 coveries. Indeed we think the /iiolo^isches C \ntratblatt may be 

 justly described as indispensable to the general student. ln e 



