124 WALTElt AUBREY KIDD, M.D._, M.R.C.S.^ F.Z.S., ON 



the creature for a defence against the cold, those that constitute 

 weapons of offence, and also the means of its nutrition. Teeth, 

 in particular, are to be found in every organic being from man 

 to the mollusc, and the garden snail is said to be possessed of 

 1,400 teeth. But the sting is altogether omitted, and this was, no 

 doubt, intentional on the part of Dr. Kidd, who recognized its 

 rarity ; with the sole exception of that of the scorpion only occurring 

 in one tribe of all living creatures, and only in one of the ten or more 

 chief orders of insects. 



Then on page 91 the author says, " Such names as those of Thales, 

 Empedocles, Heraclitus, Democritus, and Aristotle, and the Roman 

 Lucretius, are landmarks in the history of science." Aristotle, who 

 flourished between 400 and 300 B.C., is mentioned last, and no Greek 

 philosopher of later date is spoken of, and this is, perhaps, designedly 

 so on the part of Dr. Kidd as recognizing in him the most 

 versatile and voluminous of writers, and the greatest human intellect 

 that the world has ever seen. It is not too much to say that, next 

 only to Holy Scripture, the Ethics of Aristotle has had greater 

 influence on the mind of man than any other one book whatsoever, 

 forming the subject for commentators, repeatedly studied and 

 thoroughly believed in by monks of the middle ages, and furnishing 

 the basis of reasoning by such eminent theologians among 

 ourselves as Hooker in his Ecclesiastical Polity and Butler in his 

 Analogy. 



The Secretary (Professor Edward Hull, LL.D.) — Perhaps I 

 may be allowed, at this point, just to express my own very deep 

 obligation to the author of this paper, which of course is only an 

 echo of the feeling of us all here present. 



I think I am the guilty person who had the audacity to suggest 

 DO my learned friend to handle the " Bampton Lectures " of the 

 late distinguished Primate. It was just after the death of the 

 Archbishop that the thought naturally occurred to me, and I am 

 very pleased indeed that our Chairman concurs in the view, that 

 occasionally, for the purpose of our discussions, some work of a 

 deceased author of distinction and learning may be introduced as a 

 subject for the purpose of keeping his works, to a certain extent, 

 before the public mind; and, perhaps, of giving ourselves some 

 knowledge of what he has written, of which we may not have had 

 possession previously. 



