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WHEN one who has worked long in any field of science speaks before an audience such as this he is expected to say something about the condition of his branch of science when he began work with meagre and poorly adapted apparatus, to contrast it with its greatly improved condition to-day, and to dwell with pride upon the finely equipped laboratories with costly apparatus, especially designed for particular experiments, to be found by the twentieth-century scientific student.
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Some of the Next Steps in Botanical Science 1 . Nature 90, 607–610 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090607a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/090607a0