. The zoology of to-day [microform] : opening lecture for the session 1918-19, delivered before the faculty and students of the University of Manitoba, October 9th, 1918. Zoology; Zoologie. w -\ 3U. t!iruu;_:hi>ut the Empire committees were estahlislu-d to (ir^;aiiizf atul assist the prosecution of "Srienliric :i!ni ; The commitliv in this cnintry- has already clone much useful work, and appealed to the Universities for co-operation ' 1 liel that I must emphasize the point here for, m the short time I have been anmiiK v>>n. 1 ha\e eiu-Muntered an UK


. The zoology of to-day [microform] : opening lecture for the session 1918-19, delivered before the faculty and students of the University of Manitoba, October 9th, 1918. Zoology; Zoologie. w -\ 3U. t!iruu;_:hi>ut the Empire committees were estahlislu-d to (ir^;aiiizf atul assist the prosecution of "Srienliric :i!ni ; The commitliv in this cnintry- has already clone much useful work, and appealed to the Universities for co-operation ' 1 liel that I must emphasize the point here for, m the short time I have been anmiiK v>>n. 1 ha\e eiu-Muntered an UKHfference to research, not only outside, hut to a certain extent inside, the University, that is stran^'ely out of keepint; with the part sut'h imist plav* in the future of this nnminmn, and of the Empire of which it forms a part The KfCi't- educational valu'. of research is that it causes the student to think for himself, which is. after all, what lie "But, as you say, if we rise again frmn these disasters, we shall again see'our statesmen lose themselves in endle-ss ( on forms of government and iKilitieal cjuestions. mstead of fioing to the root ..f the matter. We are paying the jienaltv >'i tiftv vears forgetfulness of science, of its conditions of (leveloj,- menl,' its immense influence on the destiny of a great jieople, ami of all that might have assisted the diffusion of light. 2 vide The "Report of the .\dministrative Chaimian of the H'-iorary â \dvisorv Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of Can- ada," (ittawa, UtlS. v. 24: "Science in Canada has. therefore, not'come into all her own in the academic world. The work of the eighteen Universities is still in the main along hues outside science. Their departments of Science, pure and applied, are of eomparatuelv recent origin, and the niajnnty of them, U must be said, are very inadequately ; 3 inde Adams. "The Xeed for Scientific Research,&q


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