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scientific research with a view to more efficient crop yields and 
general agricultural production while, at the same time, the 
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) was instituting 
measures to reduce agricultural production. The above quota- 
tion is from Secretary of Agriculture Wallace’s reply to that 
editorial, in which he showed, with admirable conciseness and 
force, that ‘“‘research and adjustment march together.’ ‘“‘ Agri- 
culture needs not less science in its production but more science 
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in its economic life. 
It was the Bishop of Ripon who, during the meeting of the 
British Association at Leeds, in 1927, first suggested that too 
much scientific investigation was in progress, and that research 
should take a holiday. Evidently, the Bishop lost sight of the 
fact that the urge to understand nature is as fundamental in some 
men, as the urge to art, or to business or religion, is to others. 
The result is pure science. It is to applied science, the utiliza- 
tion of the results of pure science, that modern business and com- 
merce chiefly owe their methods, their efficiency (such as they 
have), and whatever measure of success they have attained. 
It is a truism that pure science, the pursuit of natural knowledge 
for its own sake, has been the chief liberalizer of the human 
intellect in all ages. 
The research program of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has 
been continued during the year 1934 along lines projected several 
years ago. Like every other human activity, it has been ham- 
pered by lack of adequate support, but nevertheless has made 
steady progress, and during 1934, as in preceding years, has made 
substantial contributions to our knowledge of plant life, both 
theoretical and practical. 
The support of our project of plant disease resistance has been 
most generously continued, now for the 14th year. Some of the 
year’s results have been embodied in two papers by Dr. Reed, 
who has also continued and extended his investigation of the 
botanical and horticultural problems connected with the genus 
Iris, with special attention to the Japanese iris and other beard- 
less forms. 
Dr. Svenson has continued his studies of the Local Flora, and 
this has also enriched the Local Flora Section of the Garden. 
