text:  Mr Waterton has never been famous for showing too much mercy to his opponents in controversy--and on the present occasion the vials of his wrath are poured forth without stint though certainly not without strong provocation on the head of Mr Swainson well known some years since as a writer on natural history and as one of the principal advocates of the _Quinary System_[11]--a sort of zoological _transcendentalism_ (to borrow a phrase from Kant and his disciples) then fashionable according to which all the genera and species of animals known or hereafter to be discovered were held bound spontaneously to arrange themselves in circular groups of _five_ neither more nor less in obedience to some intuitive principle of nature of which the details were not yet very clearly made out