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enlisting their interest as well as their confidence in the under- 

 taking. 



The object of publishing the report above referred to was to 

 emphasize the importance of the problems that have constituted 

 the research program of the Garden since its foundation and to 

 enlist the interest and confidence of possible donors of permanent 

 endowment for the continuation of this work at the Garden. 

 Copies of the report will gladly be sent to anyone on request. 



There is a more or less wide-spread impression among lnvniru 

 in science that botanical research is already quite adequately pro- 

 vided for in the existing agricultural colleges and agricultural ex- 

 periment stations, and the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. This indicates a lack of understanding of the scope and 

 resources of these institutions and especially of the unlimited 

 nature of the field to be explored, and the inherent difficulty of the 

 task. 



Bacon's simile of picking up a few grains of sand here and there 

 on the shore of the vast ocean of the unknown involves no exag- 

 geration. One of the most effective modern statements is thai of 

 Prof. Liberty Hyde Bailey (recently president of the. American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science), published in our 

 annual report for 1925 : 



"The fear that work in science may be duplicated, when :: nnv 

 agency enters the field, is an unconscious expression of the feel- 

 ing that there exists in nature a definite sum of knowledge to be 

 uncovered and that when one fact is subtracted there remains that 

 much less to investigate. But there is no such limit. The un- 

 ■.•overing of one fact or phenomenon only discloses another. 

 There are no remainders. The held is limitless." 



To one who Tins comprehends the sit nai n .11 ih. ' ,; den -; ay >ea 

 for $500,000 for research will be regarded as a conservative re- 



A. Crcssv Morrison Prise 



The project of disease resistance in plants has been continued 

 by Dr. Reed and his assistants along the lines initiated by him in 

 1921. Two papers were published as Botanic Garden C\ ulnbr, 

 -:011s, and a third paper, to be published in 1928. was awarded by 

 the New York Academy of Sciences, the A. Cressy Morrison 



