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is the basis of their livelihood. They should then, and in the long 
run will, refuse to grant especial privileges to either position or 
wealth, but will expect work to be rewarded by recognition, and 
will rigorously exclude pretensions based on art or mere nomencla- 
ture. This they will do as necessary self-preservation, whenever ~ 
the tendency may be in an opposite direction. 
We regret to read in our esteemed contemporary, the American 
Geologist, an editorial apology for what most scientific men disap- 
prove. We refer to the purchase of the scientific work of a man 
and the publication of it by the purchaser as though it was his own 
production. While this kind of a contract is perhaps legal, it is 
disreputable to the purchaser, A man under necessity for 
the means of a livelihood may make such a sale of himself 
without blame; but the man who buys, cannot in this 
way get a sound scientific reputation. Works of art placed 
before the public in this way, have been the cause of prosecution 
of a charge of false pretence against the pseudo-producer. 
We refer to the Belt case in London, where busts sold as the work 
of Belt were found to have been purchased by him from the real 
artist. Belt was mulcted in damages by the court after a trial 
which attracted much attention. But whatever the law may be, 
the moral obliquity and intellectual poverty that such a transac- 
tion implies on the part of the purchaser, are too plain for dispute. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Baur’s MORPHOGENY OF THE CARPUS AND TARSUS OF THE 
ERTEBRATA,'— The first portion of Dr. Baur’s work npon the 
above subject deals with the Batrachia, excluding the Salientia ; 
e second will treat of the Sauropsida ; the 7 hird of the Mam- 
malia. The orders of Batrachia accepted are the Ganocephala of 
Owen ; the Rhachitomi, ype and Ste hala of Cope; 
the Proteida, Urodela, and Anura, To the Gasiosepiads omer 
the most ancient of four-footed vertebrates, but Archegosaurus 
1 Beit nir Mo h agents des Carpus und Tarsus der Vertebraten, 
Five oe Ok “Theil, Batractia: Jena, Verlag von Gustav, 
