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means whereby some of our youth training for 

 research obtain a working knowledge of ordinary 

 methods of cultivation. Cultivate the laboratory 

 a little less and our gardens rather more. Dis- 

 courage the modern sessile habit assumed by 

 students and see to it that the men who are to 

 replace us have wide as well as deep experience. 

 Provision should be made for interchange of 

 students and professors between this country 

 and other parts of the Empire. Train our youth 

 to express themselves both by word of mouth 

 and written word more clearly and convincingly 

 than we have learned to do. Let our Universities 

 provide courses of scientific instruction for the 

 unscientific as well as the purely professional 

 courses. For the sick have need of the physician. 

 The admirable work of the Cambridge University 

 Press in issuing terse and intelligible manuals of 

 scientific discovery should be generally copied; for 

 a wide public exists which desires to know what the 

 researchers are accomplishing, but which requires 

 that the instruction should be given in intelligible 

 English. These are some of the things that we 

 must essay if we are to join with the everlasting 

 duty of seeking truth the pressing need of circu- 

 lating it of proselytising the nation. 



