The Evolution of the Sciences 



under their various physical, mechanical and 

 chemical aspects. Another series of concordant 

 investigations applied to glass and crystal 

 enabled the great glass-works in Jena to create 

 types of glass and crystal suitable for all the 

 requirements of science and industry. 



Why should what is the rule elsewhere be 

 the exception in our universities? Why should 

 the physiologist be so seldom seen working with 

 the physicist, or the geologist with the chemist? 

 It is not because they have nothing to tell one 

 another ; it is, sad to say, because they no longer 

 understand one another, but have become com- 

 plete strangers. 



One could wish that those whose task it is 

 to distribute rewards would do all in their 

 power to encourage scientific collaboration. 

 It should be the duty of the great scientific 

 societies of every land, whose members repre- 

 sent the Glite of the scientific world, to point 

 out, say every three years, the problems which 

 were ripe for solution. 



A programme of research, drawn up by a 

 committee of the society, would furnish to the 



workers in our laboratories what they often 



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