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the few instances already referred to, and notably in the national 
Department of Agriculture, today there is some hesitancy in rec- 
ognizing the employment of a staff of investigators as a legitimate 
part of the maintenance expense of an establishment which does _ 
not use a large part of their time in instruction or necessary : 
curator’s routine, it is quite certain that within a very few years : 
opinion will have so changed that a considerable number of 
salaried positions for research work or applied botany will exist) _ 
and as these positions will compete with the professorships ia A 
the best universities, it seems probable that the salaries pertaining : 
to them will be approximately those paid at the larger colleges. 
In addition to bringing together facilities for research and 
rendering them easily accessible to competent investigators, and : 
maintaining their own corps of workers, engaged in such studies, 
institutions of research have no small field of usefulness openeé 
up as publishers of the results of the work they have promot 
I shall have occasion later to speak of the means of publication i 
from the standpoint of the student who is seeking to bring - 
his work in the best form; but it also demands consideration u 
from the point of view of the institution. Much difficulty 8 
experienced in looking up the literature of a subject because of 
the large number of journals, etc., in which references must 
sought, and it is probable that at some time or other most won 
have’ impatiently wished that publication could be confined 1 
one ora few channels. Simple as this would render the bibliog: 
raphy of botany, it is obviously impossible; and the amet 
work deserving or demanding publication is so great, a? 
rapidly increasing, as to leave no doubt that means of effecting 
the latter must be considerably augmented. To publish : 
results of good work well is no less commendable oF - 
than to facilitate or perform such work. Nor is it less @Pr 
priate to an institution such as I have in mind. The object a 
publication being the adequate preservation and diffusion 
record of the results of research, however, it is easily see? 
