CHAPTER II 



HOW TO STUDY 



SOMEONE has said that to be a cultured man or woman one must 

 know something about everything; everything about something; 

 and never wilfully or maliciously cause suffering to others, 



No better ideal of what a student of Biology should try to attain has 

 ever been written. If all biological principles now known are grasped 

 by the student, he can most certainly be said to come as near knowing 

 something about everything as it is possible for him to come. 



If he will learn the Frog thoroughly, he can come under the second 

 division of importance; and if he will bear the final of the three injunc- 

 tions in mind, Biology will be a humanizing and cultural as well as a 

 scientific and laboratory study. 



Never read a book, article, or paper, without fountain pen and note- 

 book, or note-paper, beside you. 1 



I. Notes are of no value unless they are usable. There are differ- 

 ent types of records for different purposes, but those found most con- 

 venient by the author are as follows : 



For regular lectures and for general reading — A package of bond 

 paper cut to 4x6 inches in size. 



Many such sheets can be carried constantly in the pocket if a little 

 heavier paper, or even a piece of cardboard 4x 13 inches in size, is bent 

 in the mid-line so as to form a covering for the loose cards. A rubber 

 band is placed about the packet. 



A pasteboard file for holding this size of card can be obtained at any 

 stationery store, and the cards held together by fasteners can be placed 

 under subject headings, ready for access at all times. 



No book or article of value should be read without making a note 

 of its name, subject, author, and edition. (This latter is very important, 

 because in a year or two another edition may have all its pages differ- 

 ently numbered, and even additions and deletions made, so that should 

 you quote such a volume and the one to whom you are quoting, looks 

 up the quotation in another edition, you will be considered not only in- 

 accurate but absolutely untruthful.) 



For clippings — If you own a periodical in which an excellent article 

 appears, cut it out. Be sure, however, to write upon it immediately 

 the name of the paper from which you clipped it, as well as the year, 

 month, and day it appeared. 



1 Probably 95 per cent of all you will ever read, you will want to forget, but the remaining five per 

 cent you will need, and need badly when the occasion arises. 



