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particularly, will play in the life of nations. As men have come 
to know that everything in modern warfare is controlled in a 
large measure by science—no gun of large caliber is located or 
fired without its aid—so they have come to know that in the 
making of things—in the economy and progress of manufactur- 
ine. peareponiy gecience must have a place, an important place 
too 
The following quotation from a letter to the Director from the 
Secretary of the Royal Botanic Society of London, concerning 
the suspension of the Society’s Journal during the period of the 
war, is not quite so optimistic as to the general recognition of the 
value of science in peace and war, but indicates how completely 
the people of England have made everything secondary to win- 
ning the war, and how completely all their resources are being 
utilized to this end. “In this country, it is a truism that science 
does not pay, and now with the mind of England intent upon the 
fighting line, and all our activities devoted to that end, there is 
little time and less money for peaceful scientific pursuits. The 
editor of the Journal (of the Royal Botanic Society) is engaged 
in a munitions laboratory, and our Botanic Garden is growing 
vegetables and giving a helping hand to a great hospital for 
wounded and invalided soldiers, for the council of the Society, at 
the beginning of the war, opened its gates to all wearers of uni- 
form, and it is with very great satisfaction they have noted your 
cwn among the number. 
In his address at the fiftieth annual commencement of Cornell 
University, on May 22, 1918, President Schurman, calling atten- 
tion to Germany’s advantage over her enemies cre of the 
encouragement she has given to scientific research for a genera- 
tion, spoke as follows: 
“Germany has the advantage over all her opponents, especially 
over Great Britain and the United States, in the solid fabric cf 
science she has constructed during the last generation by means of 
generous government encouragement of and appropriations for 
scientific research and instruction. Our Government to-day, in- 
structed by the war, is ready to spend billions of dollars for new 
scientific truths in which, prior to the war, it felt no concern and 
for which it would make no provisions.” 

* Science, May 10, 1918, p. 450. 
