88 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ April, 
of the old with the new. The botanical teaching of the future will con- 
sider these not as two opposing methods, but as complementary, both — 
essential to the rounding out cf a botanical course. 
BEFORE THE botanical activity at our American colleges can b3 much 
increased, the Board of Trustees, Regents and Presidents must get rid of 
chin a 
received lately an invitation to the botanical chair of a well-known Ohio — 
college, in which, after reciting the duties of the chair, the President 
added: “As at present the professor’s whole time will not be occupied, 
he may be asked to take also some additional work of a congenial nature.” 
Why can not those in authority see that the giving up of the whole 
time to instruction is the chief cause of the lack of scientific spirit in our 
colleges as compared with those of Germany? Give any man who has the 
capacity for original research in him the time necessary for the prosect- 
tion of such work and in five years he will attract more students to the 
institution with which he is connected than he would by fifty years of the 
most commendable teaching. It is not the fame of DeBary the teacher, 
but of DeBary the investigator, that draws students to Strasburg. And 
researches, and when they allow time for the work, then shall we see botany 
and all the kindred sciences flourish. ‘Such a college would be as a tree 
planted by the rivers of water! 
OPEN LETTERS. 
The Hohzo Dsufu. 
In looking over your note ‘< ‘cal work” 
op p. 46, ante, on “A Japanese botanical W 
ie hee typographical errors in the name of “i author, which should 
18 great work was finished in 1828. Th f the 
after the classical Chinese herbal, the Honzokomotu, I think that 
