IOWA ACADEMY OP SCIENCE 
83 
It seems to your speaker that, considering the financial ability of the colleges 
of the State, and the value and dignity of the science of zoology, there should 
be from four to six more chairs of zoology in Iowa, and that there should be a 
suitable number of assistant professors and other instructors to make these 
chairs effective. 
One more suggestion: An examination o'f the calatogues of the colleges of 
the state shows that the men who are teaching zoology are overburdened with 
work. A man with six or seven hours of daily work in the recitation room 
simply can not keep up with the advance of his science, and is, of course, 
utterly unable to take the time to carry on research work and thus become 
known to the world. It is also practically impossible for a man who is expected 
to teach botany, geology and zoology to contribute to the advance of science. 
There are some rather remarkable combinations of subjects in our colleges. 
For instance, one college has a man who teaches Chemistry, Greek and Zoology! 
These remarks are not in the spirit of captious criticism. Our smaller colleges 
have to do the best they can with pitifully small means, and the men working 
in them are as a rule zealous and faithful, men of ability and noble self-abnega- 
tion. But these colleges should recognize their obligation to their instructors 
and realize that it is better to do a few things well than many things poorly. 
The college that will take the stand that it will teach at least one science 
well, even if no other science is mentioned in its catalogue, and allow one man 
to devote his time to that and to research, will create a land-mark in the 
history of the educational institutions of the State. 
