AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



all the fault of the public: it is partly the 

 fault of the biologist. 



In the first place, the biologist too usu- 

 ally finds much difficulty in making him- 

 self understood by the public. He seems 

 unable to escape from the use of a ter- 

 minology that is included only in the 

 larger dictionaries and these dictionaries 

 are at home while the public is in the 

 lecture hall. Hence the people who listen 

 to him go away confused and incapable 

 of doing what the biologist thinks he 

 has suggested to them to do. There are 

 hundreds of interesting and pertinent facts 

 of biology that are today waiting intel- 

 ligible telling in order to be made use of! 



In the second place the biologist appar- 

 ently has difficulty in estimating the 

 varying degrees of practicalness of his 

 knowledge. His facts and his recom- 

 mendations run all the gamut from 

 tangible practicability to most academic 

 impracticability. Take the very examples 

 I have used this evening! If the biologist 

 has nothing more to contribute to the 

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