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teachers, and its promotion of intercourse between workers scattered 

 for the rest of the year — there is one not alluded to by Professor 

 Theel in his pamphlet, for the simple reason that it does not exist. 

 One of the great advantages of such institutions elsewhere is that the 

 worker at them meets with his colleagues from other countries, that 

 the misunderstandings caused by distance are cleared away, and that 

 one is brought out of one's parochial groove on to the broad highway 

 of the world's science. There are, no doubt, excellent reasons why the 

 advantages of Kristineberg should have been reserved for students of 

 Swedish nationality, and chief among these one must reckon want of 

 space and want of funds. Possibly the tax that the Academy wisely 

 refuses to impose on the poor Swedish student might be laid on 

 the foreigner ; for I am sure that there must be many who, like 

 myself, would be glad to have a closer acquaintance with the 

 renowned and genial school of Swedish naturalists. 



F. A. Bather. 



