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I FANCY the incident referred to in the fable quoted by “O. J. L.” (p. 271) must have happened sometime ago, possibly when “O. J. L.” was a tadpole himself. I am sure he would not think so, lightly of our grievances if he fully realised the state of affairs in this pond of late years. At one time every tadpole who did good work had a reasonable prospect of developing into a frog on attaining a suitable age. Now there are scores of tadpoles, some of them grey-haired, who attend meetings, and croak to the best of their ability, and read papers bearing the name of some frog as joint author, but who seem fated to end their days in the tadpole stage because they cannot get sufficient food to enable them to develop into frogs.
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“AN AGGRIEVED TADPOLE”. The Salaries of Science Demonstrators. Nature 54, 319 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054319a0
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