144 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
ing their own thinking and expressing their opinions, which are genuine 
even if not always complimentary to the older heads. I have had enough 
experience as a teacher to know that any attempt to dominate people is 
fatal to progress. It is not quantity but quality of work that counts. To 
be sure, there is much waste in getting quality, but there is waste in all 
progress,— the scrapping of the effete. Probably this is the reason for 
the death of the aged. We get too hide-bound by our traditions and en- 
vironment. 
THE YOUNGER BOTANISTS 
It has been my pleasure to meet in recent years many of the young- 
er generation who are coming along slowly picking their way to effi- 
ciency in the school of hard knocks. Among them are Johnston of Har- 
vard, a former Pomona man, Prof. Cory of Texas, Prof. Cottam of Utah, 
Miss Mathias of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and others. I have also 
found much pleasure in association with the members of the Los Angeles 
Nature Study Club, and with members of the Cactus Society which is- 
sues Desert, one of the best publications on succulents. In fact, I have 
who are doing botanical work. So, in spite of the recent eruption in 
systematic botany, there is much hope for the future. There are many 
younger botanists coming along, with some of whom I have worked on 
intimate terms in the last few years, whose places are yet to be made. 
Among them are Vesta Newsom, Martha Hilend, Elizabeth Ces Helen 
Sweet, Tom Craig and Ray Fosberg. 
If I were trying to be giving a fair estimate of the botanical work 
done during my time, I should have to go into the work of Trelease, 
Miss Alice Eastwood, Piper, Thornber, Conrad, Nelson, Rydberg, Pay- 
son, Pennell, Munz, Johnston, Hillman, Dewey, Holm, Elrod, Setchell, 
and possibly others, — work which I shall never be able to do. 
DR. WILLIAM A. SETCHELL 
| Inasmuch as Prof. Jones had had a cut made of Dr. Setchell to put 
into Cont. 18, it is evident that he intended to write something about 
him. I can find n nothing, however, except remarks made in personal let- 
ters to me. When, in 1932, Father was in Berkeley at the University 
Herbarium for many weeks working on the identification of his Mexi- 
can plants, Dr. Setchell persuaded him to stay several weeks longer in 
order to dictate to a secretary furnished by Dr. Setchell the story of his 
life, especially of his scientific work. He had promised to write it out 
himself long before but never seemed to get around to it. Mrs. H. P. 
Bracelin laboriously took down in long hand his rather scattering rem- 
iniscences. Father thought a great deal of Dr. Setchell, often speaking 
of him as “a prince of a fellow” and a fine botanist, — superlative praise 
from him. — M. J. B.] 
