DIVISION OF LABOUR AMONG MICROSCOPISTS. Io! 
easily think in some other department of the subject. One way to 
account for the great number of scientific papers in Germany is 
that young Germans are taught in the universities to look about for 
some unexplored thought and to work it as exhaustively as possible 
for publication. And while German microscopists are not organized 
for the systematic movement meant in this paper, yet they do the 
next thing to it—that is, push out and work out some department 
of thought, though it is done without oversight. Now, what we 
want, in the whole domain of microscopy, is that same oversight in 
all the work that a great business manufacturer has over each man 
in his employment. If he has a thousand hands, each one has his 
work assigned him. I think if each hand should go, without the 
guiding reason of the controlling mind, and find by accident his 
work, or turned to whatever happened to be near him, it would be 
something like the present state of our science. Some of the hands 
would by their very genius do good work in such bad government, 
but the most of them would neither find their places, nor work 
enough to bring up their part of the manufacturing, and hence the 
work as a whole would suffer irrevocable loss. 
The short of the matter is, we must remember Bacon’s urgent 
directions for division of labour, which necessitates a committee to 
divide up the whole science and its applications, choose men for 
each party, aud as there are not enough living microscopists to 
take all the pieces, as mountains of microscopic truth will be un- 
touched after every living microscopist has added his wreath to the 
science, they can look about for young people and others who will 
come and labour in this field. ‘The new microscopists coming to 
work will gladly prepare for the subject which the committee of 
oversight has assigned them. Thousands of men will go at once 
to assigned work who will never go if left to themselves. It is dif- 
ficult for one just beginning a science to know what to do, or what 
parts are already worked up. Many away from good microscopic 
libraries of reference can not know what is now well done, and will 
not undertake a research which they think may be already done. 
Under this plan of conscious oversight one starting could be easily 
informed by letter from the committee what his part is, and be ad- 
vised, if a new hand, of methods, works of reference, and other 
persons who could work with him; also the character of the publi- 
cation, such as abundant illustrations, giving all the species in 
systematic botany, zoology, and mineralogy, photography of draw- 
ings, coloured or not, whatever is best ; so in histology, and all 
branches of the subject. By an organized effort much might be 
done to lay down general methods of work to which all ought to 
attain. ‘There is nothing in this to take any man from his present 
delightful study, but at once, all along the line, systematize the 
work to conquer the world. Ifsome man is a genius called toa 
