118 ARTHUR E. SHIPLEY 



century. To explain to a trained histologist 

 double functions or to a skilled mathemati- 

 cian the intricacies of karyokinesis would 

 take a very long time. The introduction in all 

 the sciences of technical words is due not to any 

 spirit of perverseness on the part of modern 

 savants; these terms, long as they usually are, 

 serve as the shorthand of science. In the 

 Stewart times, however, an investigator could 

 explain in simple language to his friends what 

 he was doing, and the advance of natural 

 science was keenly followed by all sorts and 

 conditions of men. 



Whatever were the political and moral de- 

 ficiencies of the Stewart kings, no one of them 

 lacked intelligence in things artistic and 

 scientific. The pictures at Windsor and at 

 Buckingham Palace which the nation owes to 

 Charles I and Charles II are only approached 

 by those it owes to the knowledge and taste of 

 Queen Victoria's consort. At Whitehall, 

 Charles II had his "little elaboratory, under 

 his closet, a pretty place," 5 and was working 

 there but a day or two before his death, his 



5 Pepys, 16 Jan. 1669. 



