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Excerpt from On the Principles of Classification in the Animal Kingdom: On the Structure of the Halcyonoid Polypi; On the Morphology of the Medus�
The time has, however, gone by, when the mere translation of family names, or of more general or minor divisions, into another language, could be presented as a new system, and the raising of a secondary division into the rank of a primary group, or the lowering of a primary division into a subordinate position, constituted an improvement in the knowledge of the natural relations of animals. Nothing short of a material addition to the information we possess respecting any group of animals, can now be considered as a real advance in Zoology.
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