. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. sof position are so slow that they do not attract attention. I have mentioned a few cases in which the reasons forthe forms and shapes and colours and habits may be explainedwith more or less probabilitj, but the unsolved problems ofplant life are almost infinite. To make a collection is nodoubt interesting, but it is like making a library. What isthe use of the books if you do not read them ? What is thevalue of a collection if you do not use it? The problems ofplant life are all but infinite. Great indeed as is the pleasur
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. sof position are so slow that they do not attract attention. I have mentioned a few cases in which the reasons forthe forms and shapes and colours and habits may be explainedwith more or less probabilitj, but the unsolved problems ofplant life are almost infinite. To make a collection is nodoubt interesting, but it is like making a library. What isthe use of the books if you do not read them ? What is thevalue of a collection if you do not use it? The problems ofplant life are all but infinite. Great indeed as is the pleasurewhich flowers give to the eye, it is less than the delight whichthey afford the mind. They offer an endless series of mostinteresting mechanical, optical, chemical, and other problems. It is not going too far to say that there is not a singleplant—not even the commonest—of which the whole lif«history, properties and structures are fully known to us—not one which would not well repay, I do not say theattention of an hour, but even the devotion of a
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