CHAPTER II. 



HOW TO STUDY 



Someone has said that to be a cultured man or woman one must 

 know something about everything ; everything about something ; and 

 never wilfully or maliciously cause suffering to others. 



No better ideal of what a student of biology should try to attain has 

 ever been written. If all biological principles now known are grasped 

 by the student he can most certainly be said to come as near knowing- 

 something about everything as it is possible for him to come. 



If he will learn the Frog thoroughly, he can come under the second 

 division of importance, and if he will bear the final of the three injunc- 

 tions in mind, Biology will be a humanizing and cultural as well as a 

 scientific and laboratory study. 



Never read a book, article, or paper, without fountain pen and note- 

 book or note-paper beside you. 



(Probably 95% of all you are ever going to read, you will want to 

 forget, but the remaining 5% you will need, and need badly when that 

 need comes.) 



I. Notes are of no vafue unless they are usable. There are differ- 

 ent types of records for different purposes, but those found most con- 

 venient by the author are as follows : 



For regular lectures and for general reading: A series of ordinary 

 bond paper cut to the size of 4x6 inches. 



Many of these can be carried in the pocket constantly if a little 

 heavier paper, or even a piece of cardboard 4x13 inches is bent in the 

 mid-line so as to form a covering for the loose cards. A rubber band 

 is placed about the packet. 



A paste-board file for this size of card can be obtained at any 

 stationery store, and the cards then held together by fasteners can be 

 placed under subject headings, ready for access at all times. 



No book or article of value should be read without its name, sub- 

 ject, author, and edition of the book stated. (This latter is very im- 

 portant, because in a year or two another edition may have all its pages 

 differently numbered, and even additions and deletions made, so that 

 should you quote such a volume, and the one to whom you are quoting, 

 looks it up in another edition, you will be considered not only inaccurate 

 but absolutely untruthful.) 



For clippings If you own the journal or paper in which an excellent 

 article appears, cut it out. Be sure, however, to write upon it immed- 

 iately the name of the periodical from which you clipped it, as well as the 

 year, month, and day it appeared. 



Until you have a large accumulation take ordinary long (envelopes 



