D. — ZOOLOGY. 97 



through years of seemingly unproductive toil, to strive after the solution 

 of the great basal problems of life. Such workers forfeit for themselves 

 the hope of wealth, leisure, and public recognition. As a rule they die 

 in harness, and leave not much beyond honoured names. These are 

 they who worship at the Altar of the Unknown, who at great cost 

 wrest from the darkness its secrets, not recking of the boon they may 

 bring to humanity. It is for these I plead, not for themselves as 

 individuals, but for the means wherewith to keep the flame of pure 

 research burning, for the ]abora,tories and equipment that all Universities 

 need. 



1920 



