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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1888. 



PLANT-LIFE. 



lyriJ- W. T. THISELTON DYER'S address 

 -l-'J- to the Biological Section of the British 

 Association at Bath was devoted to a general 

 review of the condition of Botanical Science. 

 Mr. Dyer first of all alluded to the decadence of 

 systematic botany in this country, and cot in this 

 country only but also on the Continent — a fact 

 as lamentable in its way as was the corresponding 

 neglect of physiology in the early half of the 

 century. Allusion was made to the irrational 

 action of the medical authorities who, despite 

 the traditions and practice of thousands of years, 

 have recently excluded, or all but excluded, 

 botany from the curriculum of medical educa- 

 tion, and this at the very time when the direct 

 importance of vegetable physiology to medical 

 science generally, and to pathology in particular, 

 has become more obvious than in any former 

 time. 



The relations of systematic botany to a natu- 

 ral, that is, to a genealogical as distinguished 

 from an arbitrary classification, and to the geo- 

 graphical distribution of plants and the past 

 history of the. world, were then touched on. The 

 latter portion of Mr. Dyer's address was devoted 

 to the discussion of the phenomena of fermenta- 

 tion and its relation to disease, involving, of 

 course, a brief review of the life history and 

 mode of action of bacteria under varying circum- 

 stances. 



The following condensed extracts will convey 

 some idea of the manner in which the subject 

 was handled by the Director of the Royal 

 Gardens at Kew : — 



" It is not so very long ago that at English uni- 

 versities, at least, the pursuit of botany was regarded 

 as an elegant accomplishment than as a serious 

 occupation. This is the more remarkable because at 

 every critical point in the history of botanical science 

 the names of our countrymen will be found to occupy 

 an honourable place in the field of progress and 

 discovery. In the seventeenth century Hooke and 

 Grew laid the foundations of the cell theory, while 

 Millington, by discovering the function of stamens. 



