ABSTRACT
The herbarium of Linnseus—of dried plants, well arranged and labeled—and his System of Nature is the first great landmark in the modern history of the Natural Sciences, botany and zoology. Librarians have adapted their card catalogues from the herbarium. Botany has thus led in disciplining the concrete ordering of the mind, well nigh as definitely as mathematics for its abstract order. Mill, Bentham and more actually thus trained themselves with their plant-collections. In this simple way we botanists learn to see the great world, and try to make each student his own traveller, gaining his own widening vision of the world. In the war, various students from this little school of botany have won distinctions, one as "the best observer in the British Army," another as a responsible cartographer: and another similarly employed and appreciated in the War Office at Washington.
