1883.] The Scope and Provinces of Zoology. 343 
which it is built ; Taxonomy ,* or the study of an animal’s 
“place in Nature,” which Taxonomy may be either “ Phy- 
togeny ” or “ Phylotecty.” 
In separating (Ecology from Chorology, Prof. Huxley has 
been followed ; in divorcing it from Physiology, Dr. Mivart ; 
in dividing Ergology into three instead of two sub-provinces, 
justification is sought by referring to a more or less parallel 
classification of the departments of Biology by Professor 
Haeckel, namely, into Zoology, Protistics, and Botany, the 
sub-provinces of Ergology being — (i.) Physiology minus 
Neurology; (ii.) Psychology; (iii.) “ Nousology ” (?).+ In 
deference to etymology and convenience, Tedtology has been 
extended so as to embrace Promorphology, or the Stereo- 
metry of organisms : the word “ Phylotecty ” has been in- 
vented in antithesis to “ Phylogeny,” thus bestowing a 
prestige on the speculations of a school of teleologists whose 
consciousness of their philosophical and numerical jeopardy 
will not allow them to fail to appreciate the compliment. 
One point alone remains to be contested. 
The last chapter of “ The Cat” is devoted to a considera- 
tion of the “ pedigree and origin” of that animal. Phylogeny 
concerns the former, no special designation is given to the 
study of the origin. The treatment of this latter commences 
thus : — “ This second question refers, as before said, to the 
probable causes which have determined that process of evo- 
lution which has, in fadt, taken place.” No doubt this pro- 
cedure is in accordance with Professor Haeckel’s views. 
Professor Huxley has borrowed from the physicians the 
word “ (Etiology,” and this “ oetiology” is no insignificant 
department of occasional value, but is one of the four pri- 
mary provinces of the science. In the “ Anatomy of Inver- 
* *■' Taxonomy” would be better restricted to the aCtual tables of classifi- 
cation, save that we have no designation for the aggregate study of Compara- 
tive Merology, Embryology, &c. 
t vovq, contraction of vooq f talent, disposition ; “ vooq is sometimes used 
by Plato for the excercise of reason ” (Pickering, and Dunbar — Lexicons); 
cLvOpuTruv vooj, the mood or temper of men (Liddell and Scott, abridged, 
1852); voocr<poc.M 5$, weak in mind, insane. Nous.— 1 “This Greek word has 
become thoroughly naturalised” (T. Lewis O. Davies, “Suppl. English 
Glossary”). Given in “Imperial Dictionary,” 1882. It occurs in “Peter 
Pindar, in the “ Ingoldsby Legends,” and in Hood’s “ Fairy Tale ” : vovq, 
as reason (the faculty), universally used ; vbi 30-1$, also a definition (C. D. 
Younge, “ Eng.-Gk. Lex.,” 1874). “ The sum total of the mental action of a 
rational animal may be called its noesis ” (St. George Mivart, “ The Cat,” p. 
386). Noesis is given in Mayne as including perception. Thus both nous and 
noesis are borrowed without modification from the Greek, but the former is as 
familiar to the populace as is the study of Comparative anecdotal Psychology 
