No. 570] TAXONOMY AND EVOLUTION. 



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No one can look unmoved upon the Hymenopteran or Helicoid 

 specialist with head bent over a drawer full of shells or dried 

 insects on pins. It is not that we resent concentration or enthu- 



with his own science of zoology. 



Zoology, a cornucopia of marvels, lies at his elbow full to over- 

 flowing, but he is unmindful of it. It is as if a man should use 

 the Parthenon only as a convenient place on which to strike a 

 match for his pipe. 



The divorce between systematic work and the rest of zoology 

 is the more regrettable because it is practically complete. It is, 

 we admit, expedient that zoology should be divided up into 

 anatomy, morphology and so on. lint such a division is allow- 

 able only when it is expedient, while for intellectual purposes 

 such a division is and has always been a danger. To obtain 



