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GENERAL PAPERS 99 
Gingivallis of Gros 1849, and the Amoeboid action of the Leu- 
cocyte; each and all are known to you, each and all have taken 
years of study and lots of paper and printer’s ink, each and all 
are nearly strangers even to you, eminent in your specialties, 
and we all need to follow Kipling when he said: 
“Tt ain’t the guns nor armament nor funds that they can pay 
But the close co-operation that makes them win the day. 
It ain’t the individuals nor the army as a whole, 
But the everlasting team work of every bloomin’ soul.” 
The Physician and the Dentist should have a better knowl- 
edge of Biology and must of necessity be a trained Microscopist. 
How much we need a better teaching in this subject, in all its 
departments, the use of illumination and the apparatus for the 
purpose, the smattering in most of our schools and colleges is 
deplorable. We need a course such as Professor Gage’s at 
Cornell. Year by year the interest which is taken in the world 
around us, in the unspoiled works of Nature, continues to in- 
crease. It is now recognized that to train the powers of 
observation is one of the most important necessities in general 
education, and that it is far better for everyone to train him- 
self naturally through the interest aroused by the subjects con- 
sidered, than to learn nothing but second-hand facts from 
others. Whatever line of study is taken up, if any real progress 
is to be made, some aid to vision must be sought to see the 
structure and minute facts of the life of the subject. Here it is 
that the microscope comes into play, and it is not too much to 
claim that besides being the source of additional interest the 
instrument is a great educator, that is to say, it trains without 
appreciable effort the hand to be skillful, the eyes to appreciate, 
and the brain to elucidate. There will be times when the most 
enthusiastic Nature-student cannot be out of doors long dark 
winter evenings, wet days, even in summer, when indoor work 
must take the place of outdoor. It is then that work with the 
microscope will prove such a fascinating hobby and lead us into 
regions where it is impossible to travel without it. The whole 
science of bacteriology and the discoveries of the minute fungi 
which cause disease and putrefaction, which give the taste to 
butter and the flavor to cheese, entirely depend upon skilled 
