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problems, and in this sense we are all general botanists ; that is, just 

 botanists. 



For if ' general botany ' as something distinct from ' botany ' is a 

 myth, there is no doubt that the various branches of our subject are related 

 in the whole. In this address I have tried to indicate not only the scope 

 and present position of our knowledge of the general physiology of the 

 cell, but where this particular part of the science of plants comes into 

 contact with other branches of botany, and how the application of a know- 

 ledge of the facts, principles and methods of cell physiology may be 

 expected to lead to an increase in knowledge, not only of the physiology 

 of the plant, but of other aspects of botanical science and of its industrial 

 applications. 



