“Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with grea…” — Charles Babbage

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.