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This is examined and assorted by trained eyes, and placed in tanks 

 of water where siphons are constantly pouring fresh sea water, after 

 which the rubbish is quietly left until accustomed to its new quar- 

 ters. Then cautiously this rubbish begins to move, the stones stir, 

 and the pulp opens into the beautiful colors, the plants, the gauzy 

 scarfs, and the numerous other strange things afterward shown to 

 the public in the aquarium below. 



Along the walls of these upper rooms are jars wherein are pre- 

 served many curious denizens of the sea that have been killed by 

 powerful chemicals, which have surprised the delicate animals before 

 their sensitive tentacles have had time to close, thus preserving to 

 science many rare creatures impossible to keep long in captivity. 



The great cost of this establishment is maintained in several 

 ways — by the issuing of publications and scientific papers in several 

 languages, by the rents from the desks or tables used by the inves- 

 tigators, and by the unusually large price of admission demanded 

 from the public at the aquarium entrance. In addition to this are 

 the fees from the students who come from afar to study here. A 

 payment of four hundred dollars each gives students the right to 

 study in the Naples zoological station for ten months of the year. 



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SCIENCE IN EDUCATION.* 



By Sib ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, D. C. L., F.E.S. 



"TT7~HEN the history of education during the nineteenth century 

 V V comes to be written, one of its most striking features will 

 be presented by the rise and growth of science in the general educa- 

 tional arrangements of every civilized country. At the beginning 

 of the century our schools and colleges were still following, with com- 

 paratively little change, the methods and subjects of tuition that 

 had been in use from the time of the middle ages. But the extraordi- 

 nary development of the physical and natural sciences, which has 

 done so much to alter the ordinary conditions of life, has powerfully 

 affected also our system of public instruction. The mediaeval circle 

 of studies has been widely recognized not to supply all the mental 

 training needed in the ampler range of modern requirement. Science 

 has, step by step, gained a footing in the strongholds of the older 

 learning. Not without vehement struggle, however, has she been 

 able to intrench herself there. Even now, although her ultimate 

 victory is assured, the warfare is by no means at an end. The 



* An address to the students of Mason University College, Birmingham, at the opening 

 of the session, October 4, 1898. 



