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It were well to remind hasty describers of the truth enun ciated by Agassiz, when he said, The facility with which, in a new country, unknown animals can be described, and notoriety thus readily obtained, is a strong incentive to go on with descriptive work; but it should not be forgotten that the true purpose of systematic work must be to increase our knowledge of the relationship of animals of any special group already known, and serve in some way as a con meeting link in the chain of the various branches of zoology. Working in this spirit, systematic zoology helps us in our attempts to understand the laws of Nature; these must remain unintelligible to him who is busy with naming and classifying materials, reducing his science to an art, merely accumulating facts to be stored in museums, forming, as it were, a library of nature ('american Naturalist,' Aug.
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