12 Berry — Present Tendencies in Paleontology. 



want, that it is not to be expected that the pragmatist 

 and the idealist will contentedly lie down together like 

 the proverbial lion and lamb, or that the Survey will ever 

 lack for critics or defenders. Without posing as either 

 may I not venture to hope that research will constantly 

 increase in both quality and amount, and that the day will 

 speedily arrive when a first rate paleontologist can com- 

 mand as large an income in the successful practice of his 

 profession as he can in an administrative position. 



I have, I fully realize, inflicted upon you to-night a few 

 rather poorly articulated and in some cases trite illustra- 

 tions. A large subject hastily presented always leads to 

 half truths, unless elaborated in much greater detail, and 

 I can only hope that those who follow me in the series will 

 display a greater competence than I have done. 



Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Maryland. 



