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scientific  men,  especially  those  who  have  engaged  in  special  lines 
of  work.  I  believe  in  specialization  in  botany,  but  specialization 
should  not  degenerate  into  narrow  bigotry.  A  wise  man  long  ago 
admonished  his  friends  in  words  which  I  am  tempted  to  repeat 
here  as  most  fitting: 
But  now  they  are  many  members,  but  one  body.  And  the  eye  can  not 
say  to  the  hand  "  I  have  no  need  of  thee" ;  or  again  the  head  to  the  feet, 
"  I  have  no  need  of  you."  Nay,  much  rather,  those  members  of  the  body 
which  seem  to  be  more  feeble  are  necessary;  and  those  parts  of  the  body, 
which  we  think  to  be  less  honorable,  upon  these  we  bestow  more  abundant 
honor,  and  our  uncomely  parts  have  more  abundant  comeliness ;  whereas  our 
comely  parts  have  no  need :  but  God  tempered  the  body  together,  giving 
more  abundant  honor  to  that  part  which  lacked,  that  there  should  be  no 
schism  in  the  body,  but  that  the  members  should  have  the  same  care  one 
for  another. 
Wiser  words  of  counsel  for  the  workers  in  different  parts  of 
the  field  of  a  science  were  never  written,  and  I  beseech  you,  my 
botanical  brethren,  to  heed  them,  "  that  there  should  be  no  schism 
in  the  body  "  of  botany. 
Personality  of  the  Botanist. — Quite  easily  the  foregoing  leads 
to  a  consideration  of  the  personality  of  the  botanist  of  the  imme- 
diate future.  What  manner  of  man  will  he  be?  What  will  be 
his  training  ?  In  other  words,  what  will  the  future  demand  of 
the  botanist?  For  it  does  not  need  argument  to  show  that  the 
men  engaged  in  botanical  wrork  in  the  future  will  be  developed  and 
fashioned  in  response  to  the  demands  of  the  community. 
If  I  interpret  aright  the  movement  of  modern  society  as  a 
whole,  it  is  going  to  result  in  a  demand  for  two  things  that  by 
many  are  thought  to  be  opposite  and  antagonistic — specialization 
and  breadth.  The  first  it  will  demand  of  its  experts,  the  men  who 
are  set  aside  to  solve  particular  problems  for  the  community.  In 
most  cases  these  will  be  economic  problems  of  immediate  impor- 
tance to  the  community,  but  there  is  no  reason  why  in  the  most 
intelligent  communities  they  should  not  be  scientific  problems,  of 
more  remote  importance.  No  doubt  there  will  be  a  demand  for 
many  such  experts,  each  of  whose  tasks  will  be  restricted  to  but 
one  problem.  The  only  requirement  laid  upon  these  men  will  be 
that  they  can  do  the  wTork  to  which  they  have  been  assigned,  and 
the  more  restricted  the  problem  the  narrower  may  be  the  prepara- 
tion of  the  expert.  Such  men  will  be  demanded  in  increasing 
numbers  by  the  scientific  bureaus  of  the  general  government,  by 
