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"I would like to add another word, and that is, the value of the train- 

 ing derived in studying botany, in identifying plants, and in noting the 

 changes going on. This training is of great value to the man who desires 

 to become a physician. To differentiate many species (and we need only 

 think of the Asters and Golden-rods) requires patience and close study — 

 and the experience is of value to the physician, by helping him to make 

 distinctions between diseases and states of ill health that appear as one 

 to the careless observer. 



"I may add that a number of photographs have been taken of native 

 plants in localities or habitats that are now undergoing destruction, es- 

 pecially of swamps and bogs and wet woods. A few years more and the 

 localities will be wholly altered, and with this alteration the flora will 

 have disappeared; it will exist only in herbaria, in photographs, and in 

 memory." 



