Science for Science’s Sake 
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Copyright, 1900, by Doublcday, Page & Co. 
By A Radclytfe Dugtnorc. 
BEAVER AT WORK. 
What is the kernel of all this discussion about the pedagogical sin of 
making collections and of attaching names thereto ? The old idea of the 
study of nature was to make an inventory of things. The things were 
bewilderingly numerous, and to put them away in a cabinet, with a proper 
ticket attached, was to know them. The great thing was names and classi- 
fication ; and these names must be arranged in books. This natural history 
bookkeeping received its largest impetus from the binomial method of 
naming, which might be called a system of “ double entry.” 
This naming of things was necessary. It is the starting-point, as a 
citv directory is. But it is only the beginning of wisdom. It is not an 
