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STATE OF ZOOLOGY 
Mammifers, not to mention the well known labours of Bell, and 
the useful researches of the encyclopsedic J. E. Gray, who so 
worthily superintends the first zoological museum in the world ; 
there are, at present, three men who are earnestly engaged on 
this class in Britain— Martin, Waterhouse, and Ogilby. The 
first, if it had not been for the unfortunate failure of a pub- 
lisher, would probably have finished a complete general work 
on the Mammalia, the commencement of which, embracing only 
the varieties of Man and the Simiidm, forms a luminous sample 
of a work worthy of all praise, and leaves in us a lively and 
unhappily insatiable desire for the remainder. Mr. Waterhouse, 
who occupies the enviable position of Curator to the Museum 
of the Zoological Society of London,^ and who founds his 
researches upon the structure of the cranium, to which, how- 
ever, he perhaps attaches too exclusive an importance, has 
given us some excellent monographs, of which I beg to offer as 
a specimen to this meeting, that of the Galeopitlieci, in which 
group he establishes, on good grounds, two species. He has 
also arranged the Carnivora into new and very natural 
groups, giving his chief attention, however, to the Rodentia, 
in regard to which we may depend upon his work being most 
perfect, as he has promised to figure the entire series of this 
very intricate order. Of Mr. Ogilby, the worthy secretary of 
the same Zoological Society, it is sufficient to allude to the 
Iriendship and renown which he enjoys among men of science. 
He spares no exertion to increase his extensive knowledge of 
Mammalia, with the view of publishing, in due time, a general 
work on species. Meanwhile, he does not cease to publish 
memoirs on many questions connected with this subject, espe- 
cially on the Ruminantia, which he has arranged in a much 
more philosophical manner than was before known. And even 
those who, like myself, cannot attach so great an importance 
to the organs of locomotion and of prehension, as he is dis- 
posed to do, must admit, that even the abuse of this principle 
has in his hands been beneficial to science. By conversing in 
* Mr. Waterhouse does not now occupy this position, hut he is 
equally well placed for the study of Zoology, as assistant-curator in 
the British Museum. — Ed, 
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