The Making of Species 
Russell Wallace. To-day it is not among 
Englishmen, but among Americans and Con- 
tinentals, that we have to look for advanced 
scientific ideas. 
Even as the Ultra-Cobdenites believe that 
Free Trade is a panacea for all economic 
ills, so do most English men of science believe 
that natural selection offers the key to every 
zoological problem. Both are living in a 
fool’s paradise. Another reason why Great 
Britain is losing her scientific supremacy is 
that too little attention is paid to bionomics, 
or the study of live animals. Morphology, 
or the science of dead organisms, receives 
more than its due share of attention. It is 
in the open, not in the museum or the dis- 
secting-room, that nature can best be studied. 
Far be it from us to deprecate the study of mor- 
phology. We wish merely to insist upon the 
fact, that the leaders of biological science must of 
necessity be those naturalists who go to the 
tropics and other parts of the earth where nature 
can be studied under the most favourable con- 
ditions, and those who conduct scientific breeding 
experiments. Natural selection—the idea which 
has revolutionised modern biological science— 
came, not to professors, but to a couple of field- 
naturalists who were pursuing their researches 
in tropical countries. It is absurd to expect 
those who stay at home and gain most of their 
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