HOW ZOOLOGISTS DO THEIR WORK 19! 



of learning, and ill-provided with books, he finds 

 in this his chief recreation ! As for the school- 

 master, how is the routine of school-work re- 

 laxed, and labour changed into pleasure, when he 

 lets his boys exchange grammar and Euclid for 

 zoology, and the lessons of the schoolroom for 

 lessons in the fields! 



The most important part, however, of a zo- 

 ologist's work is not the giving of instruction, but 

 the labour of original research, to which we have 

 already alluded : not the mere communication of 

 information, but the task of adding to the general 

 store of knowledge ; not teaching, but discovery. 

 The work of the man of science is, in fact, within 

 the limits of his own department, the work of 

 seeking after truth. 



