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other lines of work too numerous to mention in the short time avail- 
able for this paper. Furthermore, in the very near future, America 
may be called upon to furnish botanical workers for the world. A 
prominent London journal has already called attention to the necessity 
for the development of the agricultural resources of Great Britain’s 
colonies, and admitted that the workers must come from America. 
The great resources of South America are practically undeveloped. 
Thus far, those countries have called on European countries for most 
of their workers, but in the near future they will probably turn to this 
country. With the close of the great international war, now in pro- 
gress, the United States will probably become the great education 
center of the world, but we must give educational work largely along 
industrial lines. Are the American botanists prepared to meet the 
new demands? 
