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and to reduce all these inquiries to a sound basis by 

 assigning to any species that position in the phyto- 

 logic system by which it can be recognized by any one 

 in any part of the globe. "When the wants of phy- 

 toglaphy are satisfied we have to call to aid chemistry, 

 therapy, geology, culture, microscoptic investigation, 

 pictorial art, and other branches of knowledge, to 

 illustrate the respective value of the species, and the 

 degree of its importance to any particular community. 

 But in the discussions of one evening we can do no 

 more than to touch succinctly only on a few of those 

 vegetable objects most promising to our own colony 

 for introduction, or most accessible among those indig- 

 enous here j we may glance on them, also, with a 

 view of learning how their elucidation might practi- 

 cally be pursued, and the knowledge thus gained be 

 diffused. To aid in the latter aim the phytologic sec- 

 tion in the Industrial Museum is to be established j 

 of the requirements of this section I shall say a few 

 passing words. 



The products and educts of the vegetable world are 

 immense ; any display of them in the order of sci- 

 ence, as iniended for this museum, must carry with 

 it a permanency of impressive instruction which any 

 other modes of teaching, sure to be more ephemerous, 

 fail to convey. But these efforts at diffusing knowl- 

 edge should be seconded by means not inadequate to 

 a great object^ and should be worthy of the dignity 

 and name of this rising country. Who would not 

 like to see the best woods of every country stored up 

 here in instructive samples — nearly a thousand kinds 

 alone to choose from, as far as our continent is con- 

 cerned ? Who would not wish to have here at hand 



