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 y'o the Editor of SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Sir, — In answer to the question raised under this 

 heading in your correspondence coUimn, I may say 

 that the smallness of the number of openings alluded 

 to in your July number, is ever before the 

 younger biologists. In some notes which I put 

 together, I went so far as to discuss the prospects 

 before one of these enthusiasts and with the exception 

 of additional work in connection with the Science 

 and Art Department, and a few schools, which I have 

 included, my list differs but little from that given by 

 your correspondent. 



I think however that there is rather too much fetish 

 worship about the way in which the B.Sc. degree is 

 looked upon. It simply shows that its possessor, 

 having the necessarj^ ability and luck, has been able 

 to sacrifice a considerable amount of time upon the 

 altar of an unknown god, while others have not 

 reached the shrine. 



Experience is still lacking and a London B.Sc. 

 ■certificate is no proof of originality or culture. There 

 is no influence of the past or present behind it that 

 may be looked for in the case of a degree, taken at a 

 teaching university like Oxford. 



Nobody should know better the need for adaptation 

 to circumstances in the struggle for existence than the 

 naturalist, and although your second correspondent 

 has found it necessary to fall back upon other know- 

 ledge for a time, yet, considering how the various 

 brandes of the broad subject, of biology may be turned 

 to advantage, it may be possible for a man to stick to 

 the science of his choice, and earn a living at the 

 same time. If there are more appointments on the 

 other subjects, there are also more candidates. That 

 it is harder work than reading for examinations, is 

 the experience of, 

 , Yours faithfully, 



Biologist. 



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- NOTICES OF SOCIETIES. 

 Ordinary iueciings are marked t, excursions * ; names oj 

 persons foUoiving excursions are of Conductors. \ Lantern 

 Ittustrations. 

 North London Natural History Society. 

 Oct. 5.— +Pocket Box, Microscope and Lantern Ex- 



hibition. 

 7.^"Kew Gardens. L. B, Prout, 

 ,, ig.— tNotes and Echoes. F. W. Frost. 



21. — 'Cycle run to Coopersale, Essex. 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. 

 ■Oct. — +Annual Meeting- at Harrogate. 



Nottingham Natural Science Rambling Club. 

 ■Oct. 28. — +Aniiual Meeting, Natural Science, Laboratory 

 University College. 

 /^'. Fietcerlon, Hon. Sec.^ jSy, Knowte Street. 

 North Kent Natural History Society. 

 ■Oct. 4. — tBrcathing Organs. C. Dyes. 



7.— ''Field Ramble. 



18. — tMi'Toscopic Wonders trom Ponds and Ditches. 

 T. W. Brown. 

 7*. //". Hfo'.'-:!, lion. See.. Roscinovut^^o^Clnirch Lane, 



Old Ctiarlton- 



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British Dragon Flies. Wanted all species of British 

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Vertigo Mouli.nsiana (British) Borus popelaisianus, 

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