Biological Terminology

Abstract

I SUSPECT that there are many others of the rank and file like myself who have followed this correspondence, and feel, like a man who is a bad guesser of riddles, that there is somewhere in the questions asked by Sir Archdall Reid a “catch,” and cannot yet see it. Of course, he is too busy and earnest a worker in science to ask mere riddles, and many would be thankful for a concise statement of what has been gained so far. The leading biologists have held aloof lately, and the physiologists seem disinclined to answer the appeal made to them. Is this because Sir Archdall Reid has convinced both these groups, or because they are indifferent to the issues raised, or because they are waiting for them to be put explicitly and some proposals made?