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AS we have gathered up the scattered masses of botanical knowledge, laboriously wrought out by many isolated workers, and attempted to fit them together into a consistent whole, which should outline the structure of the temple Botany, we have found that the workmen have not always followed the same architectural plan, and have often used different units of measurement. With the increasing specialisation so noticeable year by year there is a corresponding lack of coordination of work. To this lack of coordination, this want of unity of measurement, this misunderstanding of plan, we can no longer close our eyes, and I therefore feel free to invite your attention to the following somewhat summary discussion of the causes of the present unsatisfactory condition, in the hope that we may thereby be enabled to see how we may make some improvement.
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Evolution and Classifications1. Nature 48, 534–535 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048534a0
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