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the character outlined must evidently go forward. Those 

 engaged in teaching have with a few exceptions time for 

 little more than an occasional investigation of limited scope, 

 particularly in a field which requires continuous applica- 

 tion. Governmental departments where it could best be 

 taken to a successful issue have only too often been sub- 

 servient to political policies demanding immediate re- 

 sults. An ounce of compiled compendium is — to them — 

 worth more than a ton of painstaking investigations which 

 makes an advance on a theory. Looking a few generations 

 into the future is not their concern. Exceptional work 

 has been done by those more or less closely connected with 

 certain State Agricultural Experiment Stations. The names 

 of East and Hayes, of Connecticut, Pearl, of Maine, Emer- 

 son, of Nebraska, Dean Davenport, Rietz and Smith, of 

 Illinois, are familiar to all interested in the application of 

 the principles of evolution. One often conjectures, how- 

 ever, as to the extent to which some of the most valuable 

 contributions are in reality "by-products" of investigations 

 meeting the approval of the "Missouri" type of legislator. 

 A remedy for such conditions clearly lies in endowments 

 either in connection with universities, or through the estab- 

 lishment of the specialized private institution. 



That the problem of applied evolution will eventually 

 be solved there can be no doubt. That it will occur in our 

 generation may only be expressed as a hope. 



