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by pure science, and it remains for the grower to 

 exploit to the full these means of production not 

 only of luxuries but of food-stuffs which may do 

 much to vary the monotony of our winter diet. 

 It would seem that the conclusions to be drawn 

 from this brief epitome of progress are that in 

 order to ensure the material prosperity of a nation 

 pure and applied science must advance hand in 

 hand. If with the object of hastening its advance 

 we shower endowment only on applied science and 

 neglect to make provision for the needs of pure 

 science all science will languish. If only from the 

 point of view of a good national investment pure 

 science should receive large encouragement and 

 support from the State. Nor should the encourage- 

 ment be financial only. A wider source of recruit- 

 ment must be open to pure science whereby some 

 of the highest ability shall find its way into the 

 ranks of scientific workers and not so exclusively as 

 now to the Temple and India, and parts of White- 

 hall, Westminster and the City. Leaders in science 

 must for their part be more alive and sympathetic to 

 the applied sciences allied with their own. All the 

 world is their province, and to neglect the pressing 

 problems of the present day is both unwise and 

 unscientific. They should confer in sections in 

 order to review and if necessary to revise the cur- 

 riculum of science. Thus we should consider 

 the preparation of programmes for the teaching 

 of botany in public schools and should devise 



