1898 Journal of Applied Microscopy 



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The annual report of the Director of the Office of Experiment Stations gives a 

 glimpse of an organization of forces, gradually being perfected, which will 

 undoubtedly be of inestimable value to agricultural pursuits and botanical inves- 

 tigation throughout the country. The agricultural experiment stations scattered 

 over the United States have long been of great service to their immediate sec- 

 tions, but until recently there have been no efforts in the direction of coopera- 

 tive operations under the guidance of competent authorities. Now the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture has undertaken to supervise the activities of this 

 great number of isolated stations and endeavor by giving necessary assistance 

 to economise money and time in researches which may come within the scope 

 of the stations. Not only the stations of the states and territories on the conti- 

 nent, but also stations located in Hawaii and Porto Rico are to be included in 

 this organization. At the head of the organization stands a body of men 

 chosen from universities in every state in the Union and trained in special lines 

 so that together they represent American botanical research. The society formed 

 by these men — The Botanical Society of Washington — is perhaps second to 

 none in the world as regards its personnel, and makes Washington the botanical 

 center of America. With this body of professional botanists as the directing 

 force and more than sixty outposts located in every section of the country, 

 each under direct control of able science men, America must soon become one 

 great experimental garden where each plot is made to serve the purpose for 

 which it is best fitted and thus be of greatest benefit to the whole. 



The work, however, to be successful, must receive the support of those not 

 directly connected with its management. 



The latest report of the Decimal Association issued from the London offices 

 under date of June 4, 1902, states that there is a very decided growth of public 

 opinion in favor of the compulsory adoption of the Metric System of weights 

 and measures throughout the British Empire. The reform has many supporters 

 throughout the colonies and the British consuls residing in countries where the 

 Metric System is in use, urge the change from the present confused and compli- 

 cated English System to the Metric System as one of greatest importance to 

 British commerce. The recent favorable report by the Committee on Coinage, 

 Weights and Measures in the United States Senate indicates that this country is 

 ready to follow the lead, if not to lead, in the adoption of a system which has so 

 much in its favor. 



