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a different method to that of natural science, for its domain u is higher than 
that of physics, and therefore a higher causality, which physics have no 
right to criticise, has suspended the chain of cause and effect with which 
you anatomists are familiar.” Dr. Schmidt is of quite a different opinion, 
holding the view of Pico della Miranda, that philosophy seeks, theology- 
finds, and religion possesses the truth. The chapter cn the phenomena of 
reproduction, though it is short, shows the writer to be possessed of the 
most modern views on the subject, for we observe that he places the sponges 
close to the Ccelenterata, where Haeckel’s and other researches show that 
they should be ranked. The subject of prophetic types is also severely 
handled by the author. Speaking of Agassiz, he says : “ The pterodactyle is, 
for example, supposed to stand in this relation towards the bird. Does 
this quibble aid in the comprehension of either one or the other P Is any 
natural k idea obtained if, besides the prophecy of the pterodactyle, the 
geologically antecedent insect is regarded as its prophet, or the bird as the 
forerunner of the bat. There is no sense at all, unless the prophet becomes the 
progenitor , ivhich in these cases cannot be supposed All through is the book 
most interesting reading, and it will be thoroughly admired by all those 
who sympathise with Darwinism, having many of the advantages and none 
of the abuses of Louis Buchner’s well-known work. 
HARVESTING-ANTS AND TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS.* 
I T is with the deepest regret that we have to announce the death of the 
distinguished author of this supplement to a work which will ever live 
among those who are interested in natural history pursuits, as a marvel of 
the draughtman’s skill and the natural historian’s writing. Toward the close 
of the 3 r ear Mr. Moggridge passed away, a victim to that plague of modern 
diseases — phthisis. While he lived, however, there is no doubt that he 
worked, for this book was issued just before his death, and was intended as a 
sort of supplement to his larger essay on the same subject. Here will be found, 
as in his earlier volume, most marvellously natural drawings of the several 
curious forms of dwellings of the trap-door spiders, which he had not described 
in the earlier work ; and the book is full of his account of the nests and of 
the habits of the peculiar harvesting-ants. It is further supplemented by an 
account, in technical terms, of the spiders, which has been drawn up by the 
Rev. 0. Picard-Cambridge. It is a wonderfully graphic description that 
which the author gives, and we defy anyone with a naturalist’s tastes to 
read a page without becoming engrossed in the subject. The following are 
a series of remarks which Mr. Moggridge has put into a categorical shape, 
and which are of great use : — u (I) Do any ants collect and store seed in 
Switzerland, Germany, North France, England, or indeed in any of the 
* u Supplement to Harvesting-Ants and Trap-door Spiders.” By A. T. 
Moggridge, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; with Specific Descriptions of the Spiders, by the 
Rev. 0. Picard-Cambridge. London : L. Reeve, 1874. 
