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for Systematic Biology. 
neglect of this teaching which has made modem Systematic 
Zoology what Dr Dohrn calls it, an Augean stable.” We know 
not at present whether the soft parts of corals are even specifically 
variable or not 1 . Until they be examined, Mr Bernard’s system 
of classification is not proved to be in any way more necessary- 
let alone desirable or scientifically admissible — for the Madre- 
poraria than for any other division of the animal kingdom. 
[Note. The question of species and varieties, which has been 
to some extent discussed in the foregoing article for corals, has 
been ably considered in Crustacea by Mr L. A. Borradaile in 
a paper “ On Varieties in Marine Crustaceans,” Fauna and Geo- 
graphy of the Maidive and Laccadive Archipelagoes , Vol. I. Pt. n. 
pp. 183 et seq. (1902).] 
1 In this connection vide “On the Species of the Genus Millepora," by Sidney 
J. Hickson, Proc. Zool. Soc. pp. 246 — 257, 1898. 
