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  of 
  Education 
  to 
  collect 
  and 
  publish 
  statistics 
  and 
  extended 
  information 
  

   regarding 
  the 
  teaching 
  of 
  biology 
  in 
  the 
  colleges 
  and 
  universities 
  of 
  the 
  

   United 
  Slates. 
  We 
  have 
  reached 
  a 
  time 
  when 
  we 
  may 
  well 
  take 
  a 
  sur- 
  

   vey 
  of 
  what 
  has 
  been 
  accomplished 
  as 
  an 
  incentive 
  to 
  the 
  furthering 
  of 
  

   work 
  in 
  this 
  line. 
  The 
  forthcoming 
  report 
  will 
  show 
  a 
  very 
  rapid 
  exten- 
  

   sion 
  of 
  laboratory 
  work 
  in 
  the 
  past 
  years, 
  and 
  it 
  will 
  bring 
  to 
  notice 
  some 
  

   of 
  the 
  inequalities 
  in 
  the 
  distribution 
  of 
  biological 
  instruction, 
  which 
  it 
  

   will 
  be 
  well 
  for 
  the 
  colleges 
  interested 
  to 
  correct. 
  It 
  will 
  show, 
  for 
  ex- 
  

   ample, 
  that 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  foremost 
  of 
  our 
  universities 
  has 
  two 
  unusually 
  

   able 
  men 
  teaching 
  zoology, 
  and 
  practically 
  no 
  botanical 
  instruction. 
  It 
  

   will 
  show 
  that 
  another 
  with 
  a 
  wide 
  reputation 
  has 
  the 
  same 
  weakness. 
  

   It 
  will 
  show 
  that 
  the 
  instruction 
  in 
  botany 
  in 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  colleges 
  is 
  yet 
  

   of 
  the 
  high 
  school 
  grade, 
  recognizing 
  the 
  existence 
  of 
  no 
  plants 
  but 
  the 
  

   Phanerogams. 
  It 
  will 
  show 
  that 
  some 
  of 
  our 
  oldest 
  institutions 
  have 
  

   been 
  the 
  slowest 
  to 
  recognize 
  the 
  necessity 
  of 
  adopting 
  the 
  laboratory 
  

   method 
  of 
  instruction. 
  In 
  many 
  other 
  directions 
  we 
  think 
  that 
  this 
  re- 
  

   port 
  will 
  prcve 
  both 
  instructive 
  and 
  suggestive 
  to 
  biologists 
  and 
  college 
  

   presidents. 
  

  

  Strakge 
  as 
  it 
  may 
  seem, 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  alterations 
  in 
  college 
  courses 
  

   are 
  due 
  not 
  so 
  much 
  to 
  the 
  conviction 
  of 
  the 
  faculty 
  that 
  the 
  change 
  is* 
  

   desirable 
  one 
  per 
  se, 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  conviction 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  necessary 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  

   compete 
  successfully 
  with 
  other 
  institutions. 
  Some 
  leaders 
  there 
  must 
  

   be 
  m 
  every 
  reform, 
  and 
  many 
  followers. 
  Statistics 
  in 
  regard 
  to 
  botanical 
  

   instruction 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  time 
  will 
  prove 
  to 
  even 
  the 
  most 
  conservative 
  

   college 
  president 
  or 
  faculty 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  imperatively 
  necessary 
  to 
  recognize 
  

   the 
  science 
  of 
  botany 
  in 
  the 
  curriculum 
  as 
  of 
  equal 
  importance 
  with 
  

   Chemistry 
  and 
  physics, 
  if 
  a 
  college 
  is 
  to 
  offer 
  any 
  choice 
  of 
  work 
  to 
  its 
  

   students, 
  or 
  if 
  it 
  ,s 
  to 
  compete 
  on 
  equal 
  terms 
  with 
  others 
  on 
  which 
  it 
  

   perchance 
  looks 
  down. 
  Speed 
  the 
  day 
  when 
  we 
  shall 
  see 
  thorough 
  in- 
  

   suudmim 
  the 
  science 
  whose 
  interests 
  the 
  Gazette 
  strives 
  to 
  promote, 
  

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  the 
  day 
  when 
  we 
  shall 
  see 
  gemral 
  instmdion 
  in 
  the 
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  strives 
  to 
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  in 
  the 
  hands 
  of 
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  and 
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  of 
  research 
  in 
  the 
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  whose 
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