HAECKEL AND THE NEW ZOOLOGY 



giving up the continuous-day method of labor and re- 

 verting to the German method. 



In addition to the original researches that Professor 

 Haeckel has carried out, to which I have already made 

 some reference, there has, of course, been all along an- 

 other large item of time-consumption to be charged 

 up to his duties as a teacher. These, to be sure, are 

 somewhat less exacting in the case of a German uni- 

 versity professor than they are in corresponding posi- 

 tions in England or America. Thus, outside the hours 

 of teaching, Professor Haeckel has all along been able 

 to find about eight hours a day for personal, original 

 research. When he told Professor Huxley so in the 

 days of their early friendship, Huxley exclaimed: 

 " Then you ought to be the happiest man alive. Why, 

 I can find at most but two hours a day to use for 

 myself." 



So much for the difference between German methods 

 of teaching, where the university professor usually 

 confines his contact with the pupils to an hour's lecture 

 each day, and the English system, according to which 

 the lecturer is a teacher in other ways as well. Yet it 

 must be added that in this regard Professor Haeckel 

 is not an orthodox German, for his contact with his 

 students is by no means confined to the lecture-hour. 

 Indeed, if one would see him at his best, he must go, 

 not to the lecture-hall, but to the laboratory proper 

 during the hours when Professor Haeckel personally 

 presides there, and brings knowledge and inspiration 

 to the eager band of young dissectors who gather there. 

 It will perhaps seem strange to the reader to be told 

 that the hours on which this occurs are from nine 



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