THF. FROORES.< OF SCIENCE
��of <1ilT«retit uations in science, which and Lister. The; are fit represeiitativcK
woulii iletermine how it has changed in of the great men who gave distinction
ijuality, quantity and direction from to Great Britain in the Victorian era.
|*riod to i)eriod, and how far it has Of those men only Hooker held a seieii-
ilependeil on natural ability and bow tific position, and be too is typical of
far on social institutions. There is the aristocratic system, for he inherited some basis to assume that the smaller . not only his ability, but also his wealth,
Euio^-ran nations, Switzerland, Hoi- his title and the directorship of the
litnd aud the Si'.andinavian countries, Kew Botanical Gardens from his
hnve done remarkably well, that France father. Darwin is particularly notable
has fallen l)ehind Great Britain and as a representative of aristocratic and
<<erniBny, that Great Britain has had individualistic genius. He came from a
the greatest number of men of excep- family line manifesting great ability
tional performance, that Germany has and having ample wealth; he married
produced the largest number of com- a wife from a similar line and trans-
1-etent investigators and the best or- mitted to his children both ability and
^nization for research. wealth. He filled no position but did
There are here reproduced photo- his work while living as a country
grapbs of four plaques which have gentleman.
been unreiled in Westminster Abbey, It is doubtful whether again we shall
representing Darwin, Wallace, Hooker look on men like these. In Germany
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