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_. other sciences, but which may also make special demands be- 
cause of its close relation to the agricultural interests of the 
country at large >—Charles E. Bessey. 
_. A Duty of Botanists.—Every botanical teacher has in his 
classes some young men and women who have the desire to 
become botanists. The number is doubtless relatively small, 
_ the great majority in every class taking but a transient interest 
__ in botanical science ; but as it is from this small number that the 
_ wWorking-force of the botanists of the future is to be recruited, 
“te embryo botanists should receive especial attention from 
sed in their catalogues) particular attention is given to botany, 
re are “ post-graduate courses of study,” leading 
“at can a young man do in any department of botany who 
snot read German, French, and Latin? The literature of 
“getable Anatomy and Physiology can only be known to him 
© no translations of the great books. What will such a 
Plantar upped man do with Bentham and Hooker's “ Genera 
fee | a DeCandolle’s “ Prodromus,” Walper's “ Reperto- 
muller’s “ Annales,” DeCandolle’s “ Monographie Phan- 
