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of our Universities to provide such men, but to the absence of sufficient 

 incentive to induce a young man to devote his Hfe to such studies when 

 other professions hold out such greater prospects of adequate re- 

 muneration. That is the great difficulty that confronts us; it is a 

 difficulty that is slowly lessening, but only slowly, and until it is more 

 fully overcome Canada cannot take the position in Zoological research 

 to which her opportunities call her. 



