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as, indeed, under the project system it is detailed rather than fundamental 
contributions that are made. I may summarize these points as follows: 
That, notwithstanding the truly enormous output of high quality and great 
utility from government institutions, the limitations inherent in their 
organization are such that certain important deficiencies are apparent. 
That an institute or institutes for pathology, properly organized, would 
partially meet these deficiencies. But that, as in the past, we must still 
look to the isolated students, fired with enthusiasm and willing to devote a 
life-time to the development of their fields to buttress the structure of 
pathology and add to its foundations. 
Chemistry as a science is strong in numbers and influence because 
she has maintained her unity. Botany is less a power than she should be 
because each useful offspring has gone regretfully far from the region of 
maternal influence. Witness the present separateness of bacteriology, of 
botany as applied to agriculture, forestry, horticulture, and to an extent 
to plant pathology. Integration of the various phases of botany rather 
than further disintegration is to be desired. 
