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of himself “ I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me 
there is no God ” (Is. xliv., 6). Being omnipresent, He can and 
has revealed himself to his rational creatures “ at sundry times 
and in divers manners.” And one of these manners is Nature — 
that wonderful Cosmos of which C. N. truly says that it is “ an 
indivisible unity;” and this, I would add, because its Author and 
Sustainer is “ the one living and pure God.” — I am, &c., 
J. H. B. 
PS. — In reference to the note at the foot of p. 317, I beg to 
refer the writer to the note appended to my second article in p. 81 
of your February number. 
BURDENSOME NEOLOGISMS. 
To the Editor of the Journal of Science . 
Sir, — Having heard with pleasure the enlightened views enunci- 
ated by Prof. Huxley at the opening of the Mason College, Bir-. 
mingham, I was somewhat surprised to find him, in an otherwise 
valuable paper (“ Proceedings of the Zoological Society,” 1880, 
Part IV., p. 649), manufacturing new technical terms which must 
be quite unintelligible to all who are not Greek scholars. Hypic- 
thyes, myzichthyes, chondrichthyes, herpetichthyes, hypotheria, 
prototheria, metatheria, and eutheria are no trifling addition to 
the terminology with which biological science is encumbered. 
It is to little purpose to found colleges in which classical studies 
are set aside if such studies are made imperative by reason of 
the Greek technical terms which are becoming from year to year 
more numerous and more long-winded. — I am, &c., 
Common Sense. 
ADVICE GRATIS IN HIGH PLACES. 
To the Editor of the Journal of Science . 
Sir, — Has it ever struck you as something peculiar that in this 
country government deparLments always consider themselves 
entitled to gratuitous scientific advice ? Suppose that, for in- 
stance, some new vegetable disease has broken out in any part 
of Her Majesty’s dominions, or some insedt pest has made its 
