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compiler selects forty-five of those in which the courses are pre- 
scribed, makes his tables and draws his deductions largely from them! 
These forty-five include such as Amity, Georgetown, Iowa, Illinois, 
Lenox, Moore’s Hill, Parsons, Scio, and Simpson colleges, and Lom- 
bard and Union universities, to rank among which Amherst, Dart- 
mouth, Lafayette and Princeton must feel proud! 
Dirricut as such tabulation might be, it was in comparisons that 
the value of the report might be expected to lie. What courses are 
courses, ought to be clearly set forth. Had this information been put 
in easily available form, we might hope that those prominent institu- 
tions which are so wofully remiss in offering instruction in botany 
and zoology would be brought to a realizing sense of their shortcomings, 
and be thereby forced to a reformation. But in the chapters which 
discuss the school and college courses, we have only generalities. We 
need something more specific than a statement that “a large PLOPOr: 
tion of our colleges are really doing little more than school work in 
Science. 
: he simplest experiment in either animal or vegetable 
phy ae if we have to look through 100 pages to find out which 
are 
_We recognize the difficulties in the way of presenting a bird’s eye 
‘ale of complicated facts; but it is far from impossible. We could 
eA aed the quotations from various gentlemen about the value of 
SiR training, etc., as well as the history of early biological in- 
the . far better than we can spare the proper digesting of 
to pac PBEL is, we think, inclined to ascribe too much influence 
ohn: 
8 Hopkins University when, speaking of it as a trainer of 
