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tropical dependencies, require the services of many trained biologists, 

 botanists and zoologists, but they are not to be had. Their work is to 

 apply modern scientific knowledge to the production and protection of 

 crops, and it offers a career of great utility to the community, and some 

 profit. There is no one who is directing the nation's education to meet 

 the nation's need in such directions ; we wait always till the gap is there, 

 and the want is felt, and trust to the slow operation of the laws of supply 

 and demand. Meantime wrong crops may continue to be planted, and 

 removable pests play havoc. There would again appear to be somewhere 

 a lack of the sense of the value of knowledge. 



' We need in this age the scientific expert, the man who knows, in every 

 branch of activity, and we need to have it driven into the inner conscious- 

 ness of everybody that to such a person we must in all cases first turn, 

 that knowledge is always to be sought and had, and knowledge used. We 

 need the employer who has imagination, not the man who thinks that the 

 services of an expert can always be bought for a pittance, if you happen 

 to need him, but the man who realises that every business to-day, if it is 

 to be great, requires its General Staff of experts, men possessed of know- 

 ledge and capable of research, and that success will go to those who follow 

 the paths which these indicate, and not to those who follow tradition, and 

 ascribe their decreasing returns to every cause save their own failure to 

 appreciate the uses of knowledge.' 



