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States, and applies as well to biology as to astronomy. We. 
look with a sort of dismay upon the future of biological science : 
in America, so few are the earnest, self-sacrificing students who 
are devoting themselves to histology, embryology and experi- 
mental biology. When the fortunate moment arrives, that our 
flora and fauna are worked up, we hope for what the French 
would call serious work. Meantime the appeals now before the 
public, in behalf of the Anderson School of Natural History and 
the Zoological Museum at Cambridge, we trust will produce son 
results. i 
“ On the other hand, of much greater importance is it that, in 
general, almost all scientific institution ns in America feel the want 
of workers of every kind, and, in many cases, this want arises not 
so _ from financial as from social relations For the ge 
= are pgs ARTUR in the endeavor to earn his own live 
sO s possible. This latter trait of character, which most 
Sinantiy hinders the ne of year-long earnest studies, is cer- | 
tainly the fundamental reason ry scientific growth p 
respond to the necess ii This is the case, notwithstanding 
fact that Americans are in no wa y di isinclined towards the scienc 
but, on the contrary, very highly esteem both them and the m 
that cultivate them, as is shown by the above-mentioned numer 
from a a 
deficiency of persons to execute the subordinate drudgery; 
that, again, because of a fati onal peculiarity. For a ge 
would rather subject himself to the severest bodily labor for bes 
since, in the latter case, he must obey the orde 
and this he views as a deprivation of his individual freedom 
Max Scnutrze, the distinguished German anatomist ar: 
tologist, is dead. He was the editor of the well known ‘ 
fir Microscopiche Anatomie,” devoted largely to the nat 
the tissues and to the infusoria. He wrote also on the embry’ 
and anatomy of the worms, of echinoderms and hydroid m 
and on the foraminifera. He was born in 1825, and died i . 
prime of life, at Bonn, having just had completed for his us 
said, the — mà most elegantly constructed 7 
Europe. 
