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A typical example of the condition in the United Kingdom is 
found in the situation in New Zealand. The government appro- 
priated £500 to the New Zealand Institute for applied scientific 
research which the Institute was expected to publish, but refused 
to allow any of the funds to be applied tc the expense of publica- 
tion, or to make a separate appropriation for that purpose. A 
New Zealand correspondent of the writer thus describes the situa- 
tion: 

“You have here a government, 7. ¢., the people, so ignorant of 
what science is that they decline to give money for publishing, say, 
a research dealing with the segregation of pure varieties from a 
specific group for the eventual study of heredity, but willingly 
giving a grant for certain preliminary observations regarding the 
finding of water in an area abounding in streams. The marvel, 
however, was that a water diviner was not called in, as has been 
frequently the case.” 
Aware of the truth of the first quotation above, that “ every- 
thing in modern warfare is controlled in a large measure by 
science,” and moreover that modern industry, medicine, agricul- 
ture, communication, transportation, and other pursuits of peace 
are largely controlled by or absolutely dependent upon science, 
the scientific man is always perplexed to understand a lack of 
appreciation of the importance of scientific research from those 
who are daily so dependent upon its results. How can it be a 
truism in England to-day that “science does not pay?” Yet such 
is undoubtedly the case, as it is here in America in quarters 
where one might least expect it. 
A Brocklyn newspaper, commenting editorially on the re- 
search work in progress at the Botanic Garden, as set forth in 
the Annual Report for 1917, stated that experiments in plant 
breeding with peas would never result in any increase itf the pea 
crop on Long Island. 
As though the ability to raise more peas on Long Island were 
the only, or even the chief, justification for a study of the laws 
of inheritance in living things! But worse yet, what shall we 
say of the state of mind of one who feels justified in predicting, 
without qualification, what will or will not be the ultimate result 
of any piece of scientific investigation? Increase of yield, many 
