174 Editors’ Table. 
I am acquainted with but one extinct species of this genus, and 
this is from the John Day Middle Miocene period. It proves the 
ancient origin of this genus, now so widely distributed over the 
earth. Species of Lepus are reported by M. Gervais from the” 
Miocene (Montabuzard) and Pliocene (Montpelier) of France. : 
The Oregon species is Lepus ennisianus Cope, an animal abot 
the size of the “cotton tail,” Lepus sylvaticus. (Fig.21.) T 
(To be continued.) AF 
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EDITORS: A. S. PACKARD, JR., AND E. D. COPE. o o| 
The excellent after-dinner speeches at the farewell bate 
quet given to Herbert Spencer, Nov. 9, 1882, have been published 
by D. Appleton & Co., under the title “ Herbert Spencer on the 
Americans, and the Aintnidsns on Herbert Spencer.” Our r 
would do well to read the brochure. One of the speakers, 1 
ever, besides assuring Mr. Spencer that he stood at the head 
the philosophers of his time, an opinion which we heartily êt f 
dorse, also unequivocally asserted (see p. 75) that Spencer's 
ings on evolution (his “ Psychology” published in 1854 
anonymous articles published in 1882) has an “ incontestible å 
ority to all other promulgations of recent evolutionary 
and that the theory of evolution was elaborated “ before 
Charles Darwin had ever published a word upon the subject: 
Now we feel so cordially and sympathetically towards ^ 
Spencer that we hope his last resting place (though be the re 
far distant!) may be in Westminster Abbey, by the side of 
win. Buta philosopher as such has not brought about the 
ent attitude of the scientific and lay mind towards the doch 
evolution. This was reserved for a naturalist, the author 
“ Origin of Species,” who began, as he tells us, in 1837 t0? 
mulate his facts and to draw his inductions from observed 
corded facts, his theory of derivation having previously been ™™ 
gested during his voyage along the coast of South America: 
is the triumph not of an a priori, synthetic, or “cosmical” 
ophy, but of the inductive method of natural science, 
scientific and popular thought has been a e 
Spencer evolved his general theory of evolution, broad, © 
hensive and all-embracing as it is, in his study, Darwin 
