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ing pollen, that the student 

 will be equipped to carry for- 

 ward his investigations along 

 the same lines on his own 

 account play the Sherlock 

 Holmes to the lilies and the 

 orchids, and exchange the old 

 botany for the new. And I 

 promise that the new line of 

 work will be so enthralling 

 that there will be no more of 

 the analysing, classifying, and 

 filing away of dead, dry speci- 

 mens, but a pursuit afield of 

 vital facts in the life history 

 of flowers and their affinities, 

 to "catch the manners, living, 

 as they rise." 



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