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under forest conditions in different localities and on different soils. 

 There is too wide a conviction, based upon insufficient evidence, 

 that it can never pay to grow native trees for timber, and that the 

 only imported trees worth planting are Pinus insignis (radiata) and 

 Eucalyptus globulus. Australasia is without a well-appointed 

 scientific arboretum, and if the Cawthron Trustees will establish 

 such a park for the study of forest problems they will be initiating 

 a great and much-needed educational work and will earn the thanks 

 of all tree lovers. 



III. Should only researches of obvious economic importance be 

 carried out at the Institute? 



I think not. Every large economic research involves the collection 

 of so many purely scientific data that to confine attention to 

 researches which we can see to be useful would, in the end, lead to 

 disaster. The instances already mentioned illustrate clearly how 

 very generally investigations in pure science form the basis upon 

 which industrial development becomes possible. 



Let me now outline to you the plan which the Commissioners have 

 recommended and which the Trustees propose to follow. First of all 

 a site has been secured. This is the Annesbrook Estate of twenty 

 acres, bounded by the Rocks road, the Waimea main road, and the 

 railway; it is nicely wooded, well-drained and partly in orchard. The 

 site overlooks Tasman Bay and the Waimea Plains, and is, I consider, 

 an ideal situation, whether from the aesthetic or practical standpoint. 



The Institute will contain well equipped chemical and biological 

 laboratories, suitable offices, and a fine library, rich in scientific 

 journals and memoirs containing the original researches of investi- 

 gators in all parts of the world. By exchanging the bulletins from 

 the Cawthron Institute with those of other institutions, the library 

 will be further, enriched ; these bulletins will form a valuable record 

 of investigations carried out in the Institute. 



Included in the Institute will be a Technical Museum, this being 

 wisely specified in Mr. Cawthron 's will. The museum will illustrate 

 in an interesting and striking manner the value of science to agri- 

 culture in its widest sense, to mining, forestry, and the secondary 

 industries. A further important function will be to demonstrate the 

 results of the investigations carried out by the members of the staff. 



The researches will in the first instance bear chiefly upon agricul- 

 tural and in particular upon fruit-growing problems. 



A Director will be appointed who should be a man of high 

 scientific attainment and administrative ability. He will be respon- 

 sible for the organisation of the researches to be carried out by a 

 staff of trained investigators. The plan of work will be decided by the 

 Director in consultation with a Board of the most eminent scientific 

 men in New Zealand. The Trustees have requested the Cawthron 

 Commissioners to act for the present as an advisory board. The 



