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[June 5, 1919 



of life " in a new way, and to that end everyone should 

 know something of what Sir Ronald Ross calls the 

 "romance of disease" in order that he may value per- 

 sonal fitness and develop what another speaker called 

 a "health conscience." 



To turn now to the other aspect of science teaching, 

 namely, preparation for the business of life, the atten- 

 tion of the meeting was rightly directed by Sir Richard 

 Gregory to the scarcity of university-trained scientific 

 workers required for industrial and other purposes. 

 In the proportion of university students to population 

 England stands far behind other nations, having only 

 5 per 10,000 as against lo per 10,000 in America and 

 17 in Scotland. Though the power to remedy this 

 rests mainly with the Government and those who 

 administer "the affairs of education, yet the teacher 

 can do a great deal by endeavouring to turn the 

 talent of the nation into the most suitable channels. 

 We can no longer afford to have square pegs trying 

 to fill round holes, and to prevent this the teacher 

 must consider his work unfinished until every effort 

 has been made to place boys and girls in that walk 

 of life which seems most suited to their talents, 

 attainments, and temperaments. 



If carried to these culminating points, the work of 

 the teacher will do more than anvthing else to bring 

 about the full appreciation of the value of educa- 

 tion, and with that there will come recognition of 

 the importance of his office and the due reward for 

 his services. G. H. J. Adlam. 



THE SELOUS COLLECTION. 



'TPHE Selous collection of big-game trophies, which 

 -■- has been presented to the Natural History 

 Museum by Mrs. Selous, is, without doubt, the finest 

 ever brought together as the product of one man's 

 gun. It consists of some five hundred specimens shot 

 by the late Capt. F. C. Selous, D.S.O., during a 

 period of nearly forty years, some of the trophies dating 

 from his earliest days as a hunter. The greater part 

 of the collection is African, but there are many speci- 

 mens from Canada, Newfoundland, the southern 

 Carpathians, and Asia Minor. 



Although the collection contains only a few actual 

 " records," the average standard of the heads is very 

 high, the series of Kudu being especially fine. The 

 horns of the grandest specimen of this animal in the 

 Selous Museum measure: — Length, (curve) 6of in., 

 (straight) 45I in. ; circumference, 1 1^ in. ; tip to tip, 

 33 in. It was shot in 1890, and Capt. Selous's diary 

 contains an entry referring to this specimen : — " My 

 joy may, therefore, be imagined when I saw that the 

 most superb specimen of a koodoo bull that my eyes 

 had ever looked upon lay dead before me." Another 

 equally grand specimen is the skull with horns of the 

 white rhinoceros from Mashonaland, a practically 

 extinct species. This animal was shot in 1880, and 

 Capt. Selous records that "the anterior horn is the 

 longest for a bull " that he ever saw. There are 

 sixteen specimens of lion, chiefly heads. A mounted 

 specimen measures 9 ft. ii in. in a straight line 

 from nose to tail. The series of heads of wapiti, 

 from Wyoming, U.S.A., includes several remarkable 

 examples. 



Mrs. Selous has also presented to the Natural His- 

 tory Museum the superb collection of European birds' 

 eggs, every clutch in which was collected bv Capt. 

 Selous, and is labelled most carefully, with exact date 

 and locality. 



The specimens will in due course be removed 

 from Worplesdon to South Kensington, and kept 

 together as the " Selous collection " for a period of 

 years. 



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