. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. OCEANOGRAPHY, BIONOMICS, AND AQUICULTURE. 435 to the Malay Archipelago, Wyville Thomson, Hincks, and Carpenter, the successors of Forbes, Johnston, and Alder, were beginning their life work. Abroad that great teacher and investigator, Johannes Miiller, was training among his pupils the most eminent zoologists, anatomists, and physiologists of the succeeding quarter century. In this country, as we have seen, Huxley was just beginning to publ
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. OCEANOGRAPHY, BIONOMICS, AND AQUICULTURE. 435 to the Malay Archipelago, Wyville Thomson, Hincks, and Carpenter, the successors of Forbes, Johnston, and Alder, were beginning their life work. Abroad that great teacher and investigator, Johannes Miiller, was training among his pupils the most eminent zoologists, anatomists, and physiologists of the succeeding quarter century. In this country, as we have seen, Huxley was just beginning to publish that splendid series of researches into the structure of nearly all groups in the auimal kingdom to which comparative anatomy owes so much. In fact, the few years before and after the last Ipswich meeting wit- nessed the activity of some of the greatest of our British zoologists— the time was pregnant with work which has since advanced, and in some respects revolutionized our subject. It was then still usual for the naturalist to have a competent knowledge of the whole range of the natural sciences. Edward Forbes, for example, was a botanist and a EVOLUTION. DISTRIBUTION Field Naturalist MEDICAL geologist, as well as a zoologist. He occupied the chair of botany at King's College, London, and the presidential chair of the geological section of the British Association at Liverpool in 1854. That excessive specialization, from which most of us suffer in the present day, bad not yet arisen; and in the comprehensive, but perhaps not very detailed survey of his subject taken by one of the field naturalists of that time, we find the beginnings of different lines of work, which have since developed into some half dozen distinct departments of zoology, are now often studied independently, and are in some real danger of losing touch with one another. (See diagram.) The splendid anatomical and "morphological" researches of Huxley and Johannes Miiller have been continued by
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