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the mascot gets the btst of it firom all, before so 
very long ! 
In time of battle, if the ship be near land, 
mascots will often needs be put ashore; notably 
such as may be in the way. Where the ship may 
dock at some friendly navy-yard then, the sailors 
see to its safe-keeping there. Where not, it may 
be given away, or sold; or if the place seems right 
turned loose to find its way. 
Other types of pets can be kept so long as 
the ship may float. Except} where silence may be 
required, parrots are among" this sort. Most of 
the parrots, however, are brought aboard, not for 
luck, but to take to friends back home, or to sell. 
Sometimes a ship has a mascot along which, 
for public reasons, it dare not desert. Thus the 
battleship "Wisconsin," named for the Badger 
State, had a badger on deck, sent it by the folk 
of that State. One day friend badger disappeared, 
though no one knows what became of it. 
Canaries are sometimes found aboard, parti- 
cularly if the ship visit some place like the China 
coast, where these are cheap. Good linnets, too, 
are often bought, particularly for torpedo-boats. 
A torpedo-boat of our Navy, on the China coast, 
at another time took a great owl along, but the 
creature moped and sulked, till the sailors tired 
of it and gave it away. 
Whatsoever the kind of mascot, though, rest 
assured it will havq a good time of it ! Whether 
the sailors really believe in its efficiency for luck 
or no may be doubted; undoubtedly with all the 
crews such facts would not be true. 
With all, though, the wild things or domes- 
tic, make their way straight to the lonely sailor- 
heart and, rest assured, no pet of earth so well- 
fed, housed, attended by willing servants with 
such care, as these mascots of the ships ! 
GERMAN NATURALISTS AFTER 
THE WAR. 
The "Yorkshire Weekly Post" has the fol- 
lowing interesting article in the 5th October is- 
sue : — ' 
"The status of the German naturalist, in 
regard to English societies, after the war is a 
question that is likely to afford many animated 
discussions. The desire to dominate in every 
department of life was made evident by Germans 
long before the war. The principle of Deutsch- 
land uber alles animated the Hun professor even 
in the most peaceful scientific enquiries. 
At the International Zoological Congress in 
March, 1913, the German representatives trucu- 
lently endeavoured to sweep away all the ac- 
cepted rules of nomenclature, and to insist that 
their own terms should receive general recogni- 
tion. Fortunately the Allies offered a stiff resis- 
tance, or natural history might have been as 
thoroughly Germanised as is the Catalogue of 
Lepidoptera, published in Berlin, wherein all the 
original names given by French authors are calmly 
discarded, and replaced by new-fangled German 
ones. 
It is often argued that science is a thing en- 
tirely apart from militarism, and that German 
zoologists should be welcomed again to the in- 
ternational fold directly peace is restored. But 
this contention rather ignores the instinctive ten- 
dency in human nature to stand clear of the liar 
and swindler when once his character is known. 
The world-dominating illusion has bitten so deeply 
into the general German mind that even when 
Professor Fritz was innocently examining the 
birds in South Kensington Museum, his ears and 
eyes were alert for any scrap of information that 
should assist in bringing about the downfall of 
the 'enemy. ' 
Lord Walsingham recently gave a striking 
example of this. A learned professor with whom 
he was on terms of friendship', who was honoured 
by the Universities of Dublin and Liverpool, and 
delivered lectures in London under the auspices 
of the London University, turned out eventually 
to be a spy engaged in fomenting rebellion in 
Ireland, and antagonism to England and her 
Allies in the United States. 
At the risk of appearing narrow-minded, 
many naturalists will reiterate Lord Walsing- 
ham 's hope that for the next twenty years at 
least all Germans will be relegated to the cate- 
gory of persons with whom honest men will 
decline to have any dealings whatever. In the 
past, English, American, French, Belgian, and 
Italian naturalists have treated the Germans as a 
brother in Science. But when you welcome a 
'brother' within your gates, you hardly expect 
he will use your hospitality to note the fastenings 
on your doors and windows, and to mark exactly 
where you keep your spoons. When you learn 
this trait in his character you are liable to remem- 
ber it, when, at the fitting time, he again comes 
smilingly forward to claim the hand of friendship. 
In proof that the German, at any rate, fails 
to keep science and militarism apart, it may be 
said that Russia, Belgium, and Roumania pos- 
sessed some of the finest entomological collections 
in the world. Fritz, as an. honoured guest, made 
careful note of these, and they now enrich various 
German museums. There is no clcotbt that all our 
