PHYSIOLOGY OF TO-DAY 



animal organism can be settled. The public hears of only 

 the final result, and even then only ii it happens to be 

 something of paramount importance for the welfare of 

 mankind. The slow, steady growth of our knowledge of a 

 subject, contributed throughout the ages by hundreds 

 of workers, many now entirely forgotten, is never properly 

 appreciated. In this connection Starling has written: 

 "Every discovery, however important and apparently 

 epoch-making, is but the natural and inevitable outcome 

 of a vast mass of work, involving many failures, by a 

 host of different observers, so that if it is not made by 

 Brown this year, it will fall into the lap of Jones, or of 

 Jones and Robinson simultaneously, next year or the year 

 after." To which may be added what Abel has said: "the 

 lap into which the ripe fruit falls generally has a very good 

 head atop of it." 



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