MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
We may tell them to make money as he did that they 
may help, as he did, in the uplift of the race, and let us bid 
them not to make money simply that they and their de- 
scendants may belong to the luxuriously-living idle class 
whom Froude likens to the Olympian gods, condescending 
to show themselves in their Empyrean, and saying to their 
worshipers: ** Make money, money enough, and you and 
your descendants shall become as we are, and shoot grouse 
and drink champagne all the days of your lives." 
A few years ago and the study of botany was regarded 
merely as a sort of elegant accomplishment, to be studied 
appropriately by young women and dilletante young 
Now it has become recognized as a serious occupation 
worthy of all the encouragement that the best of our 
universities can give to it. Its study commends itself alike 
to the class who demand that the end of education shall be 
the attainment of culture, and to that other class who are 
demanding that education shall be practical and who would 
apply the principle of utility to every branch of study 
pursued. Its study has intellectual value and stands for 
culture. It also has economic value and stands for utility. 
If it simply possessed economic value its place would be in 
the technical schools. But because it has an intellectual 
and culture value it is entitled to a place in the curriculum 
of the colleges of liberal arts. That it is assigned to such 
a place in all of our institutions for the higher learning is 
evidence of the fact that educators are agreed in believing 
that the study of this subject affords valuable intellectual 
training, and that it is an aid to culture. 
In 1869 Mr. Huxley declared that he conceived it would 
be one of the greatest boons which could be conferred upon 
England if henceforward every child in that country should 
be instructed in the elements of botany, and of physics. 
And he stated that he named these two subjects in prefer- 
ence to any other of the natural sciences because he was 
convinced that every educational advantage which training 
