1050 The American Naturalist. [November, 
school advertises for an “Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 
Physics, and Biology; salary $600, with distinct understanding 
that all salaries for faculty are deducted pro rata if income is not 
sufficient to pay in full” What can they expect? Doubtless 
the institution will get all they pay for, but there is another aspect 
to the question. Are the poor students rightly treated by having 
their science taught them by such an intellectual smooth-bore as 
this advertisement calls for ? 
—A “ PROMINENT BorawisT " sets up a wail in the September 
number of the Botanical Gazette because (so he claims) the 
zoologists have appropriated and misapplied the term biology. In 
many a school “ Biology " is taught, but the study is all devoted 
to the animal side of the living world. This is admittedly so, and 
on a broad etymological basis the use of the word in this way is 
wrong. Still the zoologists are not wholly without excuse. 
Fully half of the teachers of botany are utterly unable to give any 
of the living side of their subject. Analysis is all that they know, 
and so when the zoologist goes as far as he can, and teaches all 
that there is taught of life, is he to be blamed for claiming the 
name? 
