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lications, — and that their productions should be displayed 
in our museums and botanical gardens. Have we, then, 
even in this department, such a vast superiority as might 
reasonably be expected ? Without the slightest wish to 
overlook the splendid services rendered to Science by Darwin, 
Wallace, Bates, and Belt, we fear we cannot reply in the 
affirmative. Let us take the case of New Guinea, an island 
of whose magnificent fauna Mr. Wallace gave us, sixteen 
years ago, so tempting a vision. Let us consider that it is 
merely separated by an arm of the sea from important 
thriving and energetic provinces of the British Empire, and 
we should naturally expeCt that English speaking travellers 
would take up and complete the task. Not so ; Dr. Maclay, 
the Russian, and Prof. D’Albertus, the Italian, have stepped 
in before us. Turn even to the Fiji Islands; we have an- 
nexed them, but their thorough scientific examination has 
been allowed to fall into the hands of foreigners, who make 
better use of their scanty facilities than we do of our incom- 
parable opportunities. In Africa the case is but too similar. 
Travellers from Germany, — we need only mention Dr. 
Schweinfurth, — from Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, are 
at work in all directions, and are gathering rich spoils of 
discovery. We are, meantime, piously hoping to do a large 
business in the interior when the Zulus are disposed of. 
Let us beware lest we are merely conquering a market for 
others. 
There are yet other tests to which our educational system 
can be submitted. Do our colleges attract students from 
foreign countries ? With the exception, mainly, of a few 
Japanese our seats of learning are not frequented by 
strangers. Numbers of American young men go abroad to 
complete their studies ; but they repair not to England, but 
to Germany. The same rule holds good with various other 
nations. What they require is not to be found amongst us. 
Again, it may be asked whether we send out professors of 
the sciences to foreign nations, civilised or semi- barbarous ? 
Are the universities, the libraries, the museums of the world 
to any marked extent in the hands of Englishmen ? He 
who cannot at once answer this question with a decided 
negative must have spent his days in dream-land. We be- 
lieve that over the whole European continent, as well as in 
the United States, there is not a single professorial chair 
occupied by an Englishman. Such posts, if not filled by 
natives of their respective countries, seem to fall, as a matter 
of course, to Germans. Science in Russia, for instance, 
