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ence, irrespective of the particular kind, must be regarded 

 as a profession. 



692. The combinations of like units which have accom 

 panied these separations of unlike units, are equally con 

 spicuous. Those occupied in science as a whole, as well 

 as those occupied in particular divisions of science, have 

 everywhere tended to segregate themselves and consoli 

 date. 



On the Continent each nation has a scientific academy or 

 equivalent body, and in some cases several such. In our 

 own country we have, similarly, a fixed general union 

 among scientific men the Royal Society; in addition to 

 which we have a nomadic general union the British Asso 

 ciation. 



Then beyond these largest corporations including all 

 kinds of scientific men, we have various smaller corporations, 

 each comprised of those devoted to a particular branch or 

 sub-branch of science a Mathematical Society, a Physical 

 Society, a Chemical Society, an Astronomical Society, a 

 Geological Society, a Physiological Society; and others 

 occupied with sub-divisions of Biology Botany, Zoology, 

 Anthropology and Entomology: all of them being chil 

 dren of the Royal Society and in some measure aids to it. 

 ISTor let us forget that besides these metropolitan socie 

 ties there are scattered throughout the kingdom local so 

 cieties, devoted to science in general or to some division of 

 science. 



This is not all. Integration, general and special, of the 

 scientific world is made closer, and the cooperation of all 

 parts aided, by continuous publications ; weekly and month 

 ly and quarterly journals which are general in their scope, 

 and others of like periodicities which are special in their 

 scope. Thus minor aggregates held in connection as 

 parts of a great aggregate have their activities furthered 

 by literary inter-communication; and as elsewhere im- 



