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appeal to the student of zoology, and we may now give 

 attention to the opportunities that are open to advanced 

 students of this science in their universities. 



Opportunities at the French Universities. The 

 French universities are admirably equipped in personnel 

 and material for training biologists for university posi- 

 tions. The incidental advantages are to be placed co- 

 ordinate with the scientific. To miss the experience of 

 university studies in Paris is to lose "one of the greatest 

 opportunities of the intellectual life." To a penetrating 

 quality of mind the French university professors generally 

 add finish and refinement in the presentation of the 

 background and of the achievement of scientific investi- 

 gation. The method of lecturing in France is character- 

 ized by thoroughness, lucidity, finish, and philosophical 

 grasp; and contact with these excellent models is invalu- 

 able in molding the standard of production as well as 

 of literary form and the art of expression. Nicholas 

 Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, in 

 writing of his impressions as a student in Paris, makes 

 this pertinent observation: "For the first time the Latin 

 spirit came to have definite meaning and reality. It 

 was so different from the Anglo-Saxon spirit as revealed 

 in America and so different from the Teutonic spirit as 

 revealed in Berlin. Somehow it seemed subtler and more 

 refined, more delicate and more highly civilized than 

 either." 



While the opportunities at Paris are alluring, it is un- 

 doubtedly a better plan to begin one's student life in 

 France at one of the provincial universities. One is less 

 diverted, and comes more thoroughly into touch with 

 French life ; and there is no lack of men of distinction in the 

 various universities outside of Paris. The zoological 

 student might do well to start at Montpellier (DUBOSCQ), 



