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to an anatomical rubbish heap, and facts were selected that were significant 

 in an evolutionary scheme. Other phases of botany have been added since 

 in schemes of instruction, but so far as I can judge from bibliography, the 

 current production of Indiana botany deals chiefly A\ath taxonomy and the 

 various phases of morphology, in both of which field there have been notable 

 contributions. 



Concurrent with the development of morphology in Indiana, which began 

 approximately in 1880, and sharing in its later development from 1890 to the 

 present time, interest in the lower plant groups began to appear. Thanks to 

 morphology this interest did not express itself merely in collecting and naming 

 these forms, but in studying them, in many cases uncovering complicated 

 life histories. As a result, the list of titles is much shorter than in the taxonom- 

 ic period, but the contributions represent a very different type of work. I 

 have discovered fifteen such titles, but they all represent time and tech- 

 nique. These titles run from mosses down to Myxomycetes, and notable 

 among them are contributions to our knowledge of the parasitic fungi. 



It would be out of place for me to mention the names of all who have 

 shared in making the history of Indiana botany. If tliis sketch is ever 

 published, there should be appended a full bibliogra]>hy of the work of Indi- 

 ana bolanisls. Furthermore, it would be invidious to select a few names for 

 special mention, for we have all shared in making this history. You know 

 the men who have worked and those who are still working in this state. 



There is one further fact connected with the botanical history of Indiana 

 that seems worthy of mention. It is not personal because it belongs to all 

 of us. In 1875, before we had emerged from our purely taxonomic stage, an 

 insignificant-looking botanical journal began to appear each month. Its 

 home was on the l)anks of the Ohio, but its stimulus was Asa Cray at Harvard, 

 who month by month rebuked, advised and contrilnited. For nearly twenty 

 years that journal had its home in Indiana, and naturally it contains much 

 Indiana botany, as well as botany in general. As the years went on it grew in 

 size and influenc<'. always in the editorial care of Indiana botanists, until 

 now it is a fair representative of American botany, and has had no small 

 share in the development of American botany. This journal is distinctly a 

 Hoosier by birth, but its influence has reached wherever the science of botany 

 is cultivated. 



Now that the days are over when botany was repres<'nted exclusively 

 by local lists of species, botany knows no state boundaries. Botanj' in In- 

 diana is no longer Indiana botany. Your contributions are not for a par- 

 ticular locality, but for the scit-nc*' of botany in general. The men who for 

 a time worked in Indiana and are now working elsewhere are in a sense 

 still Indiana Ijotanists. They are colonists that you have sent into other 

 fields to continue the work they began here; but Indiana is the mother country 

 where the first inspiration came. 



