294 HENRY HILL GOODELL 



Gentlemen of the Association : in my feeble way I 

 have endeavored to outline to you the great work accom- 

 plished at Rothamsted. I have likened that station to 

 Argus of the hundred eyes, to Briareus of the hundred hands. 

 Those mystic impersonations of power and sight were de- 

 pendent each of them upon the individual eyes and hands, 

 which went to make up their being. In like manner the 

 strength of the station depends upon the individual char- 

 acter and make-up of its staff. 



We have with us here to-night an eye and hand of Roth- 

 amsted an eye which has not sought hi vain the inter- 

 pretation of Nature's problems; a hand which has most 

 skillfully assisted the eye in these interpretations. 



