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the results. Above all, we must learn “ to regard satisfaction 
with what has been done as the cardinal sin 
In working out the details of this address, I have been 
guided by the general principles that it is mainly young men 
who are in need of guidance, and that it is the most obvious 
and easily solved problems that will first attract them. There 
and importance that can be most prea undertaken in 
India, and some of them will have to be undertaken here if 
they are to be solved soon or in any eee anner. 
On the other hand there are types and groups of problems 
that demand of the investigator long thorough training, elabor- 
ate facilities, and perhaps most important of all, the stimulus of 
frequent or constant contact with others working and thinking 
along similar lines. Such problems can best be undertaken 
and extensive monographic work in taxonomy. Various limit- 
ing factors—lack of leisure time for uninterrupted application, 
lack of material equipment, musev herbariums, ade- 
quate library facilities, guidance, and perhaps most important 
of all, lack of inspiration—combine to make work in these 
fields difficult orimpossible. In this ccna it is legitimate 
to urge on those in authority the necessity for making provi- 
sion in the various universities and research institutes for the 
ee of such studies. 
I want to spn: the opportunities for research ssi 
the dolteutae hea 
ae of Indian groups. 
General morphology and anatomy. 
Physiology in some of its more general applications, 
Ecology. 
Genetics in relation to agriculture. 
Plant pathology. 
Palaeobotany. 
Utilization of plant resources. 
Educational aspects of botany. 
SDN Orie Wb 
TAXONOMY. 
Most of the taxonomic work on the nt of Ini of pee 
ular flora. It j is unfortunate for Indian Hosts 
lections have been toa large extent deposited in European he 
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