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regular classes. Those, on the other hand, whose lots are cast in 
institutions of research, being relieved of the round of duties 
incident to the university professorship, would seem to be marked 
as the ones to use such instruments of general education as are 
most suitable for reaching the great public outside the schools 
and colleges. The press, as already said, is probably the most 
available and powerful of all such instrumentalities. 
I would not be understood to mean that every person regu- 
larly employed by institutions of research in non-industrial 
science should be held responsible for a certain amount of 
popular writing or lecturing or arranging of collections or the 
like. Such an idea put into practice would undoubtedly carry 
disaster in its train not alone to the institutions but to the cause 
designed to be promoted. My view is that these institutions, as 
institutions, ought to hold themselves obliged, from time to time, 
to give out in a form readily accessible to and comprehensible by 
the rank and file, the results of their most significant achieve- 
ments. Indeed, I am willing to go a step farther and say that 
such institutions might well be held to something of the sort by 
their boards of administration. I am persuaded that such a 
course would be, in the long run, not only not obstructive but 
actually promotive, of the work of investigation itself. 
It is true something in this way is being done by some, pos- 
sibly all, of the research foundations of the country. But in 
very few if any, so far as I can judge, is the doing accepted as 
a weighty obligation and as a set pohey. So it happens that 
what is done is an exceedingly small fraction of what ought to 
be and might be done. 
Under its present management, the Marine Biological Station 
of San Diego holds duties in this direction to be as incumbent 
upon it as are those of making discoveries about the Pacific 
Ocean and the things that live in it. 
Submitted December 28, 1911. 
