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"Southern South America has probably a larger percentage of birds, specifically same, as intertropic S. of equator, compared with Europe; hence it is closer allied by percentage system, but this can hardly be considered the case 1111

"If North America had no mammal identical with Europe, same way as S. America has not, then the percentage system would not show that N. America was incomparably closer allied in its mammifers to Europe than S. America is.

"It comes to this, that the percentage system takes no account of relationship of organisms, when all species different.

"For instance Galapagos land birds all different from S. American. Yet certainly closest alliance."

[This is a very good example of his manner of criticizing his own methods, or methods presented to him, and considering the matters involved from every point of view.]

to all custom, on the floor of the senate house. It was Mrs. Huxley; to whom else could the unique distinction have been offered?

Degrees were conferred on twenty-one delegates, nearly all of them men whose names are familiar to every biologist.

Three Americans received degrees, Wilson, Loeb and Walcott. It is not customary for the university to confer degrees upon its own