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is the next to be cut off; and Zoology has parted with Botany; and 
lastly, independently of the numerous Peeters for the practical ap- 
plication of Natural Science, we have seen separate societies with their 
ransactions, as well as Journals, for rraanmere. Dehahryalagey Entomol- 
ogy, Paleontology, Histology, &c. Men have thus been encouraged to 
restrict their observations to very limited classes of beings, and to gener- 
coon which resulted at the outset from generalizing upon observa- 
tions made in a limited territorial area. action and an attempt at 
a mixture of Paysical, oo a ars papers in the sa 
volume, and the hard fate e botanist or zoologist of having to ay 
and to load his shelves ver bulky ¥ etinid or sets for the sake of a few 
articles upon the subject he studies. A partial and the only obvious 
remedy for this,—one which has been generally acted on of late years 
by botanists at least,—is for the author to secure a reasonable number of 
same oa of e wes a ne paper contributes to a scientific 
ts and Sciences formerly provided every contributor with 100 
copies wae his memoir, with a view to their immediate and gratuitous 
supply separate demands, And an author is allowed to print from the 
types as many more copies as he wishes, at the bare cost of press-work 
and paper, This Academy publishes memoirs upon all departments of 
Science, and in the same volume or series ; but the provision for detached 
are i ~ ares and ca er Botanists cannot afford room nor 
and shelves as one complete work, whilst the os tehateen in science obser 
