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PHILADELPHIA, PA., MAY, 1910. 



The NEWS is not always scientific. This statement has been 

 made from time to time, and in the past we have several times 

 referred to it. We suppose that some people think that any- 

 thing that is not dryasdust reading, like the dictionary, is not 

 scientific. Science, very broadly speaking, is knowledge. One 

 of Webster's definitions of science is as follows : "Accumu- 

 lated and established knowledge, which has been systematized 

 and formulated with reference to the discovery of general 

 truths or the operation of general laws ; knowledge classified 

 and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; 

 comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge." Some 

 scientists are born such, and when they grow up they read the 

 descriptions of new species and like matters with the avidity 

 that the small boy shows for his dime novel. Next there is 

 the scientist that is made. He has taken up scientific studies 

 from a profound love of Nature, and is fond of the glorious 

 sunshine, the shady woods, the wild-flowers, the multiplicity 

 of life out of doors and the desire to investigate these wonders. 

 He is here by a process of evolution. At one time he may 

 have been a boy who collected insects and someone told him 

 there was a journal devoted to the study of such creatures. If 

 on procuring his journal he finds it entirely devoted to descrip- 

 tions of new Bombycidae and Culicidac his heart would be 

 chilled, as he was not born a great scientist, but is one by later 



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