SPECIALIZATION AND ORGANIZATION. 2$ 



It means a comprehensive working library ; ample 

 funds for serial and monographical publications ; funds 

 for travelling research ; and resources for cooperative 

 work with similar stations in other parts of the 

 world. It means, further, all those important aids and 

 accessories of investigation, such as conservators of 

 material, assistants in microtomical and other mechan- 

 ical work, skilled draughtsmen, photographers, lithog- 

 raphers, and so on to the end of all the needs of 

 such an organization. 



Create such conditions of work, and how biology 

 would flourish. Specialization would characterize the 

 individual members ; but organization would dominate 

 the aggregate. In place of the weakness of isolation, 

 we should have all the power of union. There would be 

 economy of time, money, service, physical and intellect- 

 ual strength. The productive power of each individual 

 would be intensified and augmented beyond calculation 

 by that of every co-laborer; for while the units minis- 

 tered to the whole, the power and influence of the whole 

 would redound to the benefit of each. The difference 

 between isolation and a union of this kind, is like 

 that which separates the solitary cell from a highly de- 

 veloped organism, or the nomadic aggregate from civ- 

 ilized society. We need viva voce contact for incentive, 

 for stimulation, for inspiration, and especially for main- 

 taining that " moving equilibrium " of our specialized 

 forces which constitutes progressive scientific life ; and 

 organization in the direction I have roughly indicated 

 will accomplish all these ends. 



In conclusion, let me say that the establishment of 

 such a station as I have sketched will probably never 



