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wanting. Nor has science anything to do with national prejudice. 
There can be no English, no French, and no German schools. 
Investigation makes all things even, and credit will be awarded to 
priority wherever the work be done. But there is another kind of 
. “ privilege” which is more insidious, and against this the real pro- 
ducers in the scientific field cannot too fully protect themselves. 
This is the assumption of credit for work not done, by the appli- 
ances of art and other means at the command of wealth. The 
scientific pretender who introduces names without definitions, or 
the wealthy man who publishes pictures, and claims to have made 
scientific discoveries on the strength of the work of an artist only, 
may make a considerable popular reputation. The man who 
in ordinary print only, claims discoveries not his own, is easily 
disposed of ; but if he fortify himself with new classical expressions 
or with good pictures, he produces an impression, even among men 
of science, who are not familiar with the facts. This is espe- 
cially true of those publishers who can employ good artists. 
Such is the effect of a pretty picture on the average natu- 
ralist, that one begins to question whether after all science is 
not a branch of art, and the true scientists are the artists. Of 
the value of good illustrations we make no question, but that 
they can set aside analytical scientific descriptions is a proposition 
that none but some highly “privileged” person can possibly 
make, Illustrations on a large scale can be furnished but slowly 
in some parts of the world, owing to their cost; and in other 
cases owing to the very large amount of material to be fig- 
ured. In such cases the scientific results cannot be withheld ; and 
descriptions without figures will, and, if they are good, ought to 
precede the illustrated works. To ignore such work is only the 
part of indolence; and none but “ privileged” persons can afford 
to be indolent. It has always been the way of this class to enter 
in and divide the spoil; but science recognizes no proprietary 
rights. Such persons and their admirers talk grandiloquently of 
the disinterestedness of the true man of science, and of the sublime 
indifference to all personal questions which possesses him, But we 
have always noticed that these very persons resent highly any 
invasion of their self-assumed privileges; and they are right, m 
so far as any credit which inheres in them is not granted by 
others. Scientific, like other men, must live, and their reputation 
