It is not without some compensating advantages. In these days when science is so much subdivided it is well that students of subjects even so diverse as those with which we have to deal should occasionally meet on common ground, and have the opportunity of learning from each other's lips the kind of work in which they are engaged.
Report of the Sixtieth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Presidential Address (p. 719), John Murray. 1891