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course a personal misfortune, but not to be able to translate the truth, 

 exactly as we see it, is a fatal defect. If there is a profession, the 

 ministry not excepted, where clean men are more essential than in 

 scientific research, it would be difficult to name it. Entomologists are 

 not angels, and are not likely to become so in the future, in this world 

 at any rate, but the man who goes after the truth for truth's sake 

 is industrious, ingenious and persevering, will be about as sure of suc- 

 cess as one day is sure to follow another. Incidentally, however, suc- 

 cess does not consist of getting your name in the papers with the great- 

 est frequency; the merest charlatan does that; nor does it mean ex- 

 ploiting yourselves before a few farmers who are seldom posted, for 

 the untrustworthy have a monopoly in that direction. The man who 

 beats the bass drum makes the most noise, but he is not the leader of 

 the band. There is all the difference in the world between becom- 

 ing famous and becoming notorious. You may secure fame or noto- 

 riety, but never both. A really good entomologist has no need of a 

 placard advertising the fact, because in the process of his development 

 he has been obliged to exhibit qualifications and combinations of 

 qualifications that are never to be found in an inefficient man. No 

 single qualification alone leads one to success, but one must needs be 

 well balanced ; be sufficiently pessimistic to be able to justly but fear- 

 lessly deal with defects in the work of others as well as his own, and 

 yet be optimistic enough to see in advance sufficiently clear to for- 

 mulate working theories and hypotheses without prematurely adopting 

 these as fixed truths. Deficiency here is the reason for so many fail- 

 ures, and, often, too, failures that seem almost like the frivolities of 

 chance. But it is not so. There is some defect, something lacking that 

 is essential to success. Naturally the unfortunate himself will say it 

 is due to a lack of opportunity or proper appreciation. Not every 

 one is capable of grasping an opportunity when offered him, and as 

 to appreciation, the world is not such an unjust judge after all, 

 though it is sometimes very tardy in rendering a decision, and 

 while the lines 



"Seven cities fought for Homer dead. 

 While the living Homer begged for bread," 



finds a parallel perhaps all too frequently, yet such cases are, at most, 

 not usual, and real success is, after all, in our leaving of the world 

 better than we found it. Besides, it is often the fear of not being ap- 

 preciated that drives men to make the mistake of chasing about after 

 notoriety and in consequence accomplishing nothing meriting success. 

 All of this leads me to make what may seem to you to be a remarkable 



