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fear may have sometimes tried your patience, or to have inflicted 

 upon you details which could not possibly he escaped, but which may 

 well have been wearisome. But I shall rejoice I shall consider I 

 have done you the greatest service which it was in my power in such 

 a way to do if I have thus convinced you that this great question 

 which we are discussing is not one to be dealt with by rhetorical 

 flourishes or by loose and superficial talk, but that it requires the 

 keenest attention of the trained intellect and the patience of the most 

 accurate observer. When I commenced this series of lectures, I did 

 not think it necessary to preface them with a prologue, such as might 

 be expected from a stranger and a foreigner ; for, during my brief 

 stay in your country, I have found it very hard to believe that a 

 stranger could be possessed of so many friends, and almost harder to 

 imagine that a foreigner could express himself in your language in such 

 a way as, to all appearances, to be so readily intelligible ; for, so far 

 as I can judge, that most intelligent, and, perhaps, I may add most 

 singularly active and enterprising body, your press reporters, do not 

 seem to have been deterred by my accent from giving the fullest ac- 

 count of everything that I happen to have said. But the vessel in 

 which I take my departure to-morrow morning is even now ready to 

 slip her moorings ; I awake from my delusion that I am other than a 

 stranger and a foreigner. I am ready to go back to my place and 

 country, but, before doing so, let me, by way of epilogue, tender to 

 you my most hearty thanks for the kind and cordial reception which 

 you have accorded to me ; and let me thank you still more for that 

 which is the greatest compliment which can be afforded to any person 

 in my position the continuous and undisturbed attention which you 

 have bestowed upon the long argument which I have had the honor 

 to lay before you. 



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THE STUDY AND TEACHING OF BIOLOGY. 8 



By Peofessob H. NEWELL MAETIN, D. So., M. B., B. A. 



TTTE meet to-morrow to formally begin the biological work of this 

 V V University to commence that systematic study of animal and 

 vegetable form and function, relationship and distribution, which we 

 include under the names of Comparative Anatomy, Zoology, Physi- 

 ology and Botany, or in the general terms Biology or Natural His- 

 tory. I have thought that it might be well to-day to take an oppor- 

 tunity of laying before you what seem to be the ends which we 

 should hold in view, and the methods on which we should work, if we 

 are to attain or to deserve a permanent success. I am further induced 



1 An introductory lecture delivered at the Johns Hopkins University, October 23, 

 1876. 



