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SPECIALIZING. 



The question of specializing often occurs to the mind of 

 the student of nature, and unless he has a very strong will 

 power, the chances are that he will fund hirrtself unable to fix 

 his energies on any one branch. It may be more pleasing to 

 change from one object to another, but in the end little is 

 gained. Again, the specialist need not confine his attentions 

 ■ to the one thing he is studying, to the neglect of all others, 

 but to make that his specialty, as it were, the study of which 

 he looks forward as a duty which claims a greater part of his 

 investigations. Some may come forward with the argument 

 that some of the world's greatest naturalists were not spec- 

 ialists, devoting their time to all or several branches of sci- 

 ence. But the rapid advancement which science has made 

 since their time has made it impossible to attain a knowledge 

 of the whole; and that there are few minds at this day which 

 are competent to grasp and digest as much as either of these, 

 great scidntists, and probably it would be difficult to find 

 half a dozen scientists to-day, who have studied and attained 

 a clear comprehension of the elements of all the natural sci- 

 ences. The specialist has one great advantage, that of being 

 well versed on at least one subject, while the non-specialist 

 has a very feeble idea of, perhaps, all, but at the same time 

 being unible to discourse fluently about any one thing. In 

 the near future we may look for a more general turning to- 

 ward specialization in the various branches of science, and 

 tor a larger amount of work than could be accomplished by 

 the same individuals under other circumstances. — Ex. 



S:ir fish should bj firs, imnersed in, fresh water for four or 

 five hours, to kill them, and then extended on aboard. The 

 rays may be held in place by pins placed each side of them. 



