30 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Anatomy was born, and he was considered learned who 

 knew much about a few plants rather that little about 

 many. The end of the 19th Century has seen the 

 domination of yet a third school. As the systematist 

 gave way to the anatomist so the anatomist is giving way 

 to the physiologist. How a plant — no matter what 

 variety of what species it be — lives and moves and has its 

 being — what are the functions of its various parts and 

 how these parts work together for the common good — 

 what part plants play in the balance of nature — in the 

 drama of life on the earth — these are the problems that 

 botanists attempt to solve nowadays. Doubtless it were 

 well that every botanist should know by name every 

 flowering — yea — every nowerless plant of the field and at 

 the same time be conversant with its entire life cycle, its 

 minute anatomy and the wondrous phenomena of its 

 physiology. But Ars long a vita brevis est — and he has 

 no need to be ashamed who can even say, 



" In Nature's infinite booh of secrecy I can a little read." 



Appendix. 

 The following list includes the names of the chief 

 Botanical Gardens of the world in existence in 1895. The 

 list does not pretend to be absolutely complete, although 

 it probably includes all of scientific importance. Private 

 gardens such as those of Tresco Abbey, La Mortola, &c, 

 and public parks, often very extensive and not infrequently 

 arranged on scientific lines, are not recorded. The 

 approximate dates of foundation of some of the more 

 important and historic gardens are inserted in brackets 

 after the name of the city or town. 



