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Botanical Paety Resting in Ascent from Bahakia Basin, Libyan Desert. 



may well be through the proper use of 

 the 'prentice system. Thirdly, they 

 must keep in touch with the people, so 

 that the work they do will be of beuefit 

 to the nation and will be understood to 

 be so. 



At the beginning the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute appears to be fulfilling these 

 conditions better than the Carnegie In- 



stitution, perhaps because its problems 

 are somewhat simpler, being confined to 

 a single group of sciences in a definite 

 place, and cultivating a field which is 

 generally recognized as important be- 

 fore all others. It is, however, the case 

 that the Rockefeller Institute has the 

 better organization, being under the 

 control of a board of scientific men and 



Magnetic Party en roulc in the Andes, Teru. 



