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Nos. 117 AND 118. ] 1921 (Seprt.-Oct. 
He MARCH Ol SCIENCE 
CLOSE on thirty years ago the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science visited Edinburgh; the other week, 
in a series of bright and stimulating meetings, the visit was 
repeated, and we could not but pause to cast a glance 
backwards and to ask whither, in the interval, the science 
in which we are particularly interested has been marching. 
Sometimes it seems, in the press of fact-collecting and fact- 
recording, that all is a blind bustle, that we rush hither and 
thither seeking and gathering, and, like the autumn squirrel, 
storing and perhaps forgetting, in order that we may have 
an excuse to seek and gather again. Are we members of a 
swirling mob, or units in an army that advances as it goes? 
Until we leave the press and look back upon the field we 
cannot tell, but a backward glance reveals a broad line of 
advance which has added to the significance and to the 
stability of our science—the closer contact of zoology with 
the realities of human existence. It has come to be recog- 
nised that, in spite of all its obscure researches and trans- 
cendental speculations, zoology has a message for the people, 
and that its works are vital to the welfare of the race. The 
once famous toast has lost its sting: “ Here’s to Science pure 
and undefiled, and may it never do a ha’pworth’s good to 
anyone.” 
We need no more than glance at zoology as it is taught 
in the Universities to gather some hint of the strength and 
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