Excerpt from Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1968, Vol. 93 In general, {whether good or bad, theoretically disposed or otherwise, taxonomists themselves, like other scientists and scholars, find their own activities self-justifying because they bring some degree of intellectual satis faction. This is doubtless the chief motivation for most of us, whatever rationalizations we offer about usefulness when called upon to Show why society Should support us. Nevertheless, society does support us, niggardly though we claim this support to be. Why? Partly because, from Sheer inertia, the dispensers of 'funds will usually keep a going concern alive, but also, as any worker in a systematic service organization can testify, because there is a genuine call, from science and industry as well as many other activities of man, for the services of the namer and classifier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.