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Correspondence. 
[December, 
we can help being anthropomorphic. In Biology ‘ mimicry ’ 
cannot be discussed except in terms which belong to animism. 
The remedy is in the Professor’s own hands : let him show that 
all animistic potency is mechanical, and the offence ceases. — 
I am, &c., 
Henry H. Higgins. 
OCCURRENCE OF EARWIGS. 
To the Editor of The Journal of Science. 
Sir, — S., at page 690, writes of the abundance, “ almost beyond 
precedent of earwigs. As an old grower of roses, carnations, 
and dahlias, for over twenty-five years, I know an earwig when I 
see him (which is death to the earwig), but this summer — 
strange to me, as doubtless it will be to S. — I have not seen a 
single one. I grew a hundred pots of carnations, and more than 
once remarked on the absolute freedom from the “ nibbling 
thieves.” My garden faces North, on a steep hill-side, and I 
added no manure to my soil. — I am, &c., 
T. C. 
