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lurther details concerning the Plantations may 
Report of the Horticulturist, on pages 115-123. 
— 
RESEARCH 
The two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Royal 
Society of London was celebrated in 1866. This Society, as 1s 
well known, was founded for the stated purpose of ‘ improving 
The Plague broke out in 1864, two years 
and the Great Fire of London 
It was between these two calami- 
In his bicentennial ad- 
natural knowledge.” 
before the Society was founded, 
occurred in the autumn of 1866. 
ties that the Royal Society was founded. 
dress “On the advisableness of improving natural knowledge,” 
Professor Huxley stated that, “to him who had the gift of dis- 
tinguishing between prominent events and important events, the 
origin of a combined effort on the part of mankind to improve 
natural knowledge might have loomed larger than the Plague and 
have outshone the flare of the Fire.” 
The scientific events of Huxley’s time gave an impetus to human 
thought and to the recognition of the value of natural science, 
which is still felt. The importance to mankind of a continuing 
program of scientific research is now universally recognized. 
Botanical research has always been a major activity of those 
botanic gardens which have been independent institutions. The 
history of the earliest gardens, in Italy, is almost exclusively a 
history of investigations carried on there for the purpose of extend- 
ing our knowledge of plant life. The duties of Linnaeus as Di- 
rector of the Botanic Garden at Upsala were almost wholly con- 
fined to research, the educational and curatorial work being assigned 
to a Demonstrator appointed specially for that work. Brief sum- 
maries of the results of research carried on at the Garden during 
1935 are given on pages 45-78. 
Pusiic EpucATION 
“When a man’s busy why leisure 
Seems to him wonderful pleasure; 
Faith, when at leisure once is he, 
Straightway he wants to be busy.” 
So sang the poet Browning; so indeed it is. But busy with 
what? If leisure and fatigue go together, as is apt to be the case 
