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and wholly ignored by the world at large, may 

 contain facts priceless to the world of science. 

 It is on the accurate and painstaking work of 

 the librarian, who preserves and catalogues small 

 things as conscientiously as large ones, that we 

 rely for the completeness of our record of zoo- 

 logical knowledge. Such work has at all times 

 been carried on in the libraries of our universities; 

 but at the present time there are in existence 

 libraries specially devoted to zoological literature 

 alone. 



The museum, again, must not be forgotten, in 

 which our man of learning stores his specimens, 

 duly labelled and arranged. Here, again, is a 

 staff of curators and sub-curators; and, under 

 their direction, work for various workmen, and 

 for perhaps even a humble charwoman to dust 

 the shelves. 



Turn now to another aspect of the zoologist's 

 work that of teaching. We should think it 

 very wrong to turn men loose on the world to 

 practise in the professions of law or medicine 

 without a long and careful training to fit them 

 for their task. No less impossible is it for any- 

 one to become a man of science without a similar 

 training; for the profession of the man of science, 

 whether zoologist, chemist, botanist, or expert in 

 whatever branch, if defined in plain English, ia 

 the profession of seeking after knowledge of the 

 order of things in which we live ; and what pro- 

 fession can be more important to the world than 

 this? To attain a scientific degree of any value, 

 years of study are therefore required, and a series 

 of examinations tests or is supposed to test 

 the success of the student. Both the work of 

 teaching and the work of examining must be the 



