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any other branch of science. But we are already botanists; in 

 the main our development will continue in this broad field. 

 What I would point out is that now and again we can leave 

 our desks and microscopes and laboratories for prairie and for- 

 est and stream, and that we have a field close at hand in which 

 we can train our powers of observation and our taxonomic 

 judgment, at the same time enhancing our enjoyment and ex- 

 tending the bounds of botanical knowledge. 



