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Classification of the Sci.
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memoirs of agricultural scientists in vain for any but the most trivial reference to the sense of taste. The same thing may be said of Fruit Growing, of Olive Growing, and of Mushroom Growing. With Viticulture it is very different. Nothing is put upon the soil without considering its effect upon the taste of the wine, and there is hardly anything common to the knowledge requisite for Wine-making and that requisite for Agriculture. A special division of this group concerns the peculiar science of Tobacco-curing, with the secondary sciences of Cigar-rolling, Snuff making, etc. A somewhat isolated science ministrant to the Gust-Instinct is that of Perfumery.

Among sciences intended to gratify the Getting-Instinct, we are not to include Economics, although it is defined as the science of wealth. For its fundamental part is not a practical science at all; and its practical branch is not studied for the purpose of making its student rich. The present division must consist rather of such sciences as Book-keeping, Rating, Banking, Patenting, Insurance, Fire-extinguishing,

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