July 11, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



49 



In Cambridge Sav- 

 ings Bank, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass $1,084.3-2 



In Immigrant In- 

 dustrial Sa^angs 

 Bank, New York, 

 N. y 2,882.93 



In Institution for 

 the Savings of 

 Merchants' Clerks, 

 New York, N. Y. 2,918.47 



In Metropolitan 



Savings Bank, 



New York, IN. Y, 2,999.15 



In The Fifth Ave- 

 nue Bank, New 

 York, N. Y 2,242.20 



12,127.07 



Total $12,587.07 



I have examined the foregoing account and cer- 

 tify that it is correctly cast and properly 

 vouched, 



Emory McClintock, 



Auditor. 

 June 23, 1902. 



The chief feature of the closing session of 

 the Association in the Music Hall of the 

 Carnegie Institute on Thursday evening, 

 July 3, was an illustrated lecture by Mr. 

 Robert T. Hill on the recent volcanic erup- 

 tions in Martinique, in which the chief fea- 

 tures of his recent investigations were 

 described. After the lecture a series of 

 resolutions were passed expressing the 

 thanks of the Association to the various 

 persons and organizations in Pittsburgh 

 concerned in the organization of the meet- 

 ings and entertainment of the members. 

 D. T. MacDougal, 

 General Secretary, A. A. A. 8. 

 New Y'ork, July 5, 1902. 



APPLIED BOTANY, RETROSPECTIVE AND 

 PROSPECTIVE.* 



It has been the general practice in past 

 years for the retiring Vice-President of this 



* Vice-presidential address before the Section 

 of Botany, American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. Pittsburgh meeting, June 28 to 

 July 3, 1902. 



Section to give a summary of the results 

 accomplished in research work, and to point 

 out the lines along which there appears 

 promise of further advancement. The 

 facts set forth in these addresses and the 

 opportunities pointed out in them have 

 proved of great advantage to all, especially 

 the younger men, who draw their inspira- 

 tion from what has been accomplished in 

 the past and what the future holds forth. 

 In choosing my subject, I have deviated 

 somewhat from the usual practice hereto- 

 fore followed, not because I have anything 

 particularly new to say or any particularly 

 startling facts to disclose, but rather for the 

 reason that it seems desirable at this time 

 to emphasize some of the things that ap- 

 peal to us as possibly having a marked in- 

 fluence on the future development of bo- 

 tanical work. To one who is necessarily 

 thrown in contact with the somewhat hurly- 

 burly affairs of life, the old meaning of 

 botanical work is gradually giving way to 

 something else— something that reaches out 

 into practical affairs and pushes its way 

 into paths where, a few years ago, the bot- 

 anist would have feared to tread. 



Now the question arises, is botanical 

 science to suffer by this movement, or is 

 it, after the first preliminary efforts, to 

 emerge rehabilitated, stronger and more 

 vital than ever before ? I have neither fear 

 nor doubt as to the outcome, and believe 

 that the spirit which has made us commer- 

 cially a leader of nations will enable us to 

 build up a science which neither time nor 

 change can seriously affect. It hardly needs 

 any extended statement to call to mind the 

 rapid changes which have taken place in 

 botanical work and botanical thought dur- 

 ing the past twenty years, yet a critical 

 study of these changes is, to me, one of the 

 most hopefitl signs that our progress has 

 constantly been in the direction of a strong- 

 er place in the world's usefulness and a 

 higher plane of scientific thought. Twenty 



