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sity town in which an exhibition of the kind was in progress. 
The main exhibit in the physiological laboratory was a living 
rabbit firmly tied down and cut open in suc \ 
illustrate the beating of the heart. Even supposing that the 
have caused a riot in England, even before the police inter- 
vened; but in Japan, women and children examined it with 
perfect equanimity, and my friends of the university staff could 
not see anything wrong. And yet these very professors and 
lecturers were in the habit every year of holding a solemn ser- 
vice of expiation in one of the great Buddhist monasteries of 
the city for the souls of the animals which had been dissected 
in their Jaboratories. 
It is an interesting speculation whether the Japanese 
crowd would have viewed the vivisected rabbit with the same 
canons of Japanese art. must confess 
tions to the exhibition were just as much aesthetic as moral. 
The study of zoology in India has not, as a matter of 
the corner, for in the days of Bl) l 
Alcock, zoological papers were amongst the most important 
published in the Society’s Journal. Nevertheless, it 18 as well 
that in our zoological work we should keep m mind both 
Firdausi and Piyadasi. 
I need not waste your time on the eran 
dog and hates mankind. : 
Scientific work is plain-sailing as long as @ man can do it 
alone. It is when he has to con 
k who loves her 
experience peculiar difficulty, namely. in ~ owl 
i their seniors. 
help they have received from their a ite 
ment in a language not one’s own. ™ 
over, is often necessary to —— rapes 
courtesy and subtle flattery. The bes ay 
culty is to say frankly what help has been received and to 
express gratitude in as few words as possibie. cone 
Phe question of plagiarism is even more difficult in scienti 
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