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Enough results were obtained to prove that botany could be of great service at a time of national need. The practical results were not so conspicuous to the public in the immediate activities of the war as those of chemistry and physics for example, but they were fundamental and far-reaching, looking to future as well as to present needs. We must recognize that to bring into effective cooperation great numbers of isolated, scattered, and sometimes conflicting units, takes time and a great controlling motive. But we were making progress, not so rapid as the impatient desired, but probably as rapid as human nature permitted. Now that the emergencies of war have passed, shall we stop this kind of progress? I wish to attempt to answer this question. In doing so, I shall not formulate any plan, any scheme of organization, but shall present in brief general statement what seems to me to be our opportunity. The other speakers upon the program will doubtless present more concrete suggestions, for which I hope my statement may be an appropriate background. In connection with the period of reconstruction, there has come to the science of botany a great opportunity, and botanists must rise to the occasion. It is a critical time for our science, for we may lapse into our former state and become submerged by more aggressive 1 Invitation paper before the joint meeting of botanists at the Baltimore meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. |