16 GERMANY IN SCIENCE 



poraries in other lands. 



Let me take up the science of ornithology as an illustra- 

 tion. What work ever appeared in Germany which can of 

 one moment be compared with Audubon's Birds of America, 

 Gould's Birds, Dresser's Birds of Europe, or some of the great 

 monographs which in the past fifty years have issued from 

 British, French, and American presses. What German work 

 may be put alongside of Bowdler Sharpens Catalogue of the 

 Birds in the British Museum. I recognize the value of the 

 labors of Cabanis, of Reichenau upon the Birds of Africa, of 

 the writings of Hellmayr, and of the late Count von Berlepsch, 

 but creditable and important as has been their work, it is al- 

 together dwarfed before the vaster labors of the scores of eager 

 inquirers in other lands who with better facilities and longer 

 purses have led the race. 



Take the science of entomology. Germany has made val- 

 uable contributions to it, which I, as an entomologist, am the 

 last man to deny. But taking all the literature upon my 

 favorite science from German pens, and placing it against 

 the results of the labors of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Belgians, 

 Italians, Russians, Swedes, Danes, Dutchmen, Spaniards, Jap- 

 anese, and Americans, how really small in amount, and how 

 relatively poor in appearance it is. And the remarkable thing 

 in some of the later and more pretentious works issued from 

 German presses is the fact that the work is in reality not the 

 work of Germans. As an illustration let me cite the great 

 Treatise issued in Leipzig entitled "Die Gross-Schmetterlinge 

 der Erde" finely illustrated, intended to give an epitome of 

 all the species of butterflies and larger moths on the globe. 

 The text is, so far as the work has issued from the press, 

 principally from the pens of such men as Dr. Aurivillius, of 

 Sweden, and Jordan and Warren of England. 



What names in German biological science can compare 

 with those of Jussieu, of Bonpland, Decandolle, of the Hookers, 

 or of Asa Gray in botany? With those of Buff on, Cuvier, Milne- 

 Edwards, Wallace, Darwin, Huxley, and E. Perrier in zoolo- 

 gy? We are not oblivious of the writings of Mendel, of Weiss- 



