1892 
Qtrerendo.ro 
(Mioho&e&n) 
1 
August 
Tc & foreigner, however, the relative security to life and 
property throughout Mexico is a very pleasant thing as compared with 
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the condition of affairs a f m years ago, 
Juarez is regarded by this same man and cthere of his name feel¬ 
ing at Mexico*s greatest man* ■ • 1 
Among other things 1 could not but notice the characteristic 
failing of his countrymen in his studying at the same time 5 or 4 
branches of science and speaking of some of the leading scientific 
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men of Mexico as being very intelligent,- knowing all branches as 
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he put it. this is the greatest failing of the men of ability in a 
scientific way* they get a little of various branches of science and 
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become proficient in non©. 
The work of the scientific exploration of Mexico is being don© 
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now, as heretofore, by foreigners who appreciate the richness of 
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the field. 
In nearly ©very oapital in the country exists a scientific so¬ 
ciety and the beginning of a museum which continues to remain a 
beginning, 
% friend at Querendaro asked me if I had not met the members of 
the scientific society in Guadalajara, and I said that I had not, as 
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I did not know of its existence at the time of my visit there, "That 
is a pity" he said, "for they are very intelligent men and very active, 
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Ydiy they are in correspondence with nearly every state in the republio," 
"It Is strange", I remarked "that the zoology and botany, ©to,, of the 
state remains so unknown, for Mr. Pringle and I find its botany and 
zoology almost unknown." "Chi" he exclaimed, "They do not attempt 
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field-work. They are closet naturalists," 
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In other words, there exists what is considered a group of so- 
called very active scientific men in one of the largest cities of the 
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