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the Academy, paid from the income of a bequest designed to 
foster free scholarships. Suppose the various scholarships in 
America and the fellowships in English universities were tenable 
only upon condition that a certain amount of manual labor was 
performed; would it be at all likely that Prof. Clerk-Maxwells 
` or Sir Wm. Thomsons would be the results of the system ? 
A matter which also deserves notice is the custom of assign- 
ing to Jessup students the work of arranging and labeling the 
collections of which they possess no previous knowledge. This 
plan is in principle beneficial to the student, and its originators 
rightly comprehended the benefits to be derived from a systematic 
study of any given group of animals, But it is obviously im- 
proper to entrust the determination of a collection for scientific 
study to inexperienced persons, who are, moreover, sometimes 
careless, or quite indifferent about the accuracy of determinations. 
his plan is also objectionable on account of the fact that the 
training of a young naturalist in this way restricts him to a com- 
paratively small group, so that he is quite unfitted to begin work 
as a teacher from a lack of comprehensiveness and the originality 
consequent upon a system of more general work. A broader 
preliminary training should be required of a person who ap- 
plies for the benefits of this fund, all of which would redound 
to the credit of both the individual scholars and the Academy in 
after years. His knowledge of the elements of biological science 
should be as full as possible, so that he would not be afterwards 
compelled'to go back and begin at the ground principles of his 
Science, in order to underpin, as it were, his own mental super- 
Structure. 
abundantly able to do so. The apathy which allows the present 
condition to continue, is wrong, because the opportunities for the 
