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  THE 
  

  

  AMERICAN 
  JOURNAL 
  OF 
  SCIENCE 
  

  

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  [THIRD 
  SERIES.] 
  

  

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  Art. 
  XXVII. 
  — 
  Some 
  of 
  the 
  Possibilities 
  of 
  Economic 
  Botany; 
  

   by 
  George 
  Lincoln 
  Goodale. 
  

  

  [Presidential 
  address 
  delivered 
  before 
  the 
  American 
  Association 
  for 
  the 
  Advance- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  Science, 
  at 
  Washington, 
  August, 
  1891.] 
  

  

  Our 
  Association 
  demands 
  of 
  its 
  president, 
  on 
  his 
  retirement 
  

   from 
  office, 
  some 
  account 
  of 
  matters 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  

   department 
  of 
  science 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  is 
  engaged. 
  

  

  But 
  you 
  will 
  naturally 
  expect 
  that, 
  before 
  I 
  enter 
  upon 
  the 
  

   discharge 
  of 
  this 
  duty, 
  I 
  should 
  present 
  a 
  report 
  respecting 
  

   the 
  mission 
  with 
  which 
  you 
  entrusted 
  me 
  last 
  year. 
  You 
  

   desired 
  me 
  to 
  attend 
  the 
  annual 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Australasian 
  

   Association 
  for 
  the 
  Advancement 
  of 
  Science, 
  and 
  express 
  your 
  

   good 
  wishes 
  for 
  its 
  success. 
  Compliance 
  with 
  your 
  request 
  

   did 
  not 
  necessitate 
  any 
  material 
  change 
  in 
  plans 
  formed 
  long 
  

   ago 
  to 
  visit 
  the 
  South 
  Seas 
  ; 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  dates 
  and 
  the 
  

   sequence 
  of 
  places 
  had 
  to 
  be 
  modified 
  ; 
  otherwise 
  the 
  early 
  

   plans 
  were 
  fully 
  carried 
  out. 
  

  

  I 
  can 
  assure 
  you 
  that 
  it 
  seemed 
  very 
  strange 
  to 
  reverse 
  the 
  

   seasons, 
  and 
  find 
  mid-summer 
  in 
  January. 
  But 
  in 
  the 
  meeting 
  

   with 
  our 
  brethren 
  of 
  the 
  southern 
  hemisphere, 
  nothing 
  else 
  was 
  

   reversed. 
  The 
  official 
  welcome 
  to 
  your 
  representative 
  was 
  as 
  

   cordial, 
  and 
  the 
  response 
  by 
  the 
  members 
  was 
  as 
  kindly 
  as 
  that 
  

   which 
  the 
  people 
  in 
  the 
  northern 
  hemisphere 
  would 
  give 
  to 
  

   any 
  fellow-worker 
  coming 
  from 
  beyond 
  the 
  sea. 
  

  

  The 
  meeting 
  to 
  which 
  I 
  was 
  commissioned 
  was 
  held 
  in 
  

   January 
  last 
  in 
  the 
  Cathedral 
  city 
  of 
  Christchiirch, 
  New 
  Zea- 
  

   land, 
  the 
  seat 
  of 
  Canterbury 
  College. 
  

  

  Am. 
  Jour. 
  Scl— 
  Third 
  Series, 
  Vol. 
  XLII, 
  No. 
  250.— 
  October, 
  1891. 
  

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