Abstract
MR. WILLIAM JESSE, at the instigation of his colleague, is doing his best to make a silk purse out of—well, we do not wish to be rude, so let us say, out of materials of which silk purses are not commonly made; for Dr. Alfred Edmund Brehm has the fatal facility of being able to write endless nonsense on a subject which, in better hands, might be made truly instructive. He is so far from being a true naturalist that he is constantly being misled, confounding analogies with homologies. Take his second paragraph, as Mr. Jesse translates it, and translates it very well too:—
Bird-Life.
By Dr. A. E. Brehm. Translated from the German by H. M. Labouchere, F.Z.S, and W. Jesse, C.M.Z.S. Parts I.–III. (London: Van Voorst, 1871.)
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Bird-Life . Nature 5, 180–181 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005180a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/005180a0
