26 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Society lias engaged one of the workplaces in the 

 Laboratory for a portion of the year, and the first occupant 

 of their table was Mr. Walter Teare, Headmaster of the 

 Arbory School, who in addition to carrying on some work 

 on Crustacea has brought over some of his senior pupils in 

 order to show them the Biological Station and Aquarium, 

 and explain its purposes. We have also had visits from 

 other schoolmasters in the Island, and all seem interested. 



The Work of Biology. 



In a remarkable essay* on " The Functions of Science 

 in the Modern State," Professor Karl Pearson showed that 

 Darwin's work has wrought a complete revolution in our 

 ideas both as to the nature of the state and as to its 

 functions. The state is the product of an historical 

 evolution, the nation, as Huxley pointed out, is a unit 

 evolved by the struggle of one living type under the same 

 laws as apply to other phases of life, and the theory of the 

 state has now become biological — one of the most complex 

 and difficult branches of biology. Man has progressed 

 largely because he is gregarious, and the struggle in his 

 case has been not between individuals, not so much an 

 intra-racial as an inter-racial struggle. As Karl Pearson 

 says, " the future is to the nations which not only realise 

 ." the international struggle in all fields of activity but 

 " consciously develop all the factors of national efficiency 

 " with this end in view. This is the theory of national 

 " life which presents itself at the beginning of the 20th 

 " century. It connotes an immense development of the 

 " functions of science in both legislature and executive." 



Nothing is more striking in the development of 

 Science during recent years than the increased and 



" Encyclopaedia Britannica," 10th ed., vol, xxxii., 1902. 



