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HERBAL TREASURES: Value of a Country's Flora. Impressions that have been harboured in the minds of his hearers that botany is a dead science calling only for the col- lection and classification of plants were dispalled by Dr. John M. Coalter in an illuminative address before the Asiatic Society in Tok- yo recently., Dr. Coulter is head of the department of botany in the University of Chicago, and was sent to the Oriant-last aut- umn by a New York educational society to do research work and deliver a series of lectures. After four months in China, where he studied and delivered addresses before student bodies, Dr. Coulter

in to Japan want

com- pany with his wife and daughter to conclude his lecture tour. The address given in Tokyo was his seventeenth in Japan.

In his talk. Dr. Coulter held np the science of botany as a this sational asset. Through science, he said, nations can find new resources, open fabulously valuable mines of raw materini and produce better quality and more quality in their agricultural the While tracing products. advance scientists in America bave made in recent years in botany and illustrating the bene-1 fits that have accrued therefrom, fact that The emphasized the

Oriental countries, especially China, are years behind along this line and present tremendous reservoirs for botanical treasures yet unopened.

There are three main uses, to which the science of botany can be put for developing natural resources of any country" said the scientist. "The first of these is the knowledge revealed in the cultivation of forests. Trees not only produce lumbar, but have a direct bearing on the entire agricultural system. Trees give us what is known as the water) cycle. that is the moisture is absorbed from the ground by the roots of these tree, passed by evaporation into the atmos phere, and returned again in the form of rain. Areus denuded of trees are always unproductive,! because this water cycle has been broken. There is no means for evaporation, and therefore no moisture. In an experiment conducted by my department at the University of Chirago we measured the volume of water poured into the atmosphere by an acre of forest, and found it to total during the foliage season approximately 20,000 gallons.

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"Industrial organizations in tion of genties we are able to America are coming to realize imprare the present species and the value of botanical science. obtain perfect specimias.". If on alding professional the other hand a cartalo grain and botanists to their staffs. There is or plant is allowed to grow yaar a wealthy field in this work still after your without cire and un- untouched in China, which if der unfavourable environment the rate. We are now, improving explored would add enormously species will eventually deterio- to that country's resources.

"The most recent work in this all species of plants and grains by particular branch of the science selection and straight line breed. is the study of plant society. It ing,

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has been found that wild plants "In addition to producing new are not scattered over the face of species and improving the exist the earth in an unsystematic ing ones, the botanist-has been to ara insured against damige by according

For fashion, but are organized into able to prodace species which distinct groups their individual needs. Plants scientific plant breeding. which do not make the same de- example, in the time of wide- mand on the soil are always spread plant disease the botanist found together, while plants of walks into the field and searches the same family, demanding the for an individual plant that has

untouched by same food, are found separated. remained

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Mar. 17d. 1th. 41m.-Pressure An Extensive Evil. has increased moderately Vladivostock. and

Notwithstanding the measures stationary over Japan and For- of prevention in force, large mosa. It has increased slightly quantities of cocaine of Japanese over the Philippines, Indo-China and German origin are still 160x being smuggled into and S. Chins.

- This disreputable traffic is a very lucrative one and greed of gain is a strong incentive to the traffick ors. In his annual raport Mr. T. Gibb, Excise Commissioner in the that United Provinces, states during the past official year no less than 293 ounces of the illicit- drug were seized in the Province.

A strong Mongolian anticy clone has spread southward

Strong monsoon may be ex- pected along the S.E.. coast of Chinx and fresh monsoon over the F. China Sea.

- Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am to-day. 0.01 inch. Total since January 1st, 5.68 inches,against an average of 4.52 inches,

FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.

District.

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The significance of Mr. Gibb's statement is emphasised by the fact that this quantity is sufficient to provide for the legitimate re- quirements of the Province for three years. Strenuous efforts were, made to cope with the evil, and it is gratifying to note that several of the most notorious and wealthy dealers in the United

1 Formosa Channel N.E. winds, Provinces were brought to

China between 2 South coast of HK. & Lamocks

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Another function of the forests) is the production of forest litter, the most fertile soil known for the growing of plants. This grade of soil has high receptive and retentive powers in relation to moisture. The third value of forests is of course the lumber Through the they produce. Tscience of botany, we are able to produce perennial forests which We are able to never die out. mark the treas that have reached the maximum of their growth, in order that they can be removed to give room for more trees.

SEARCH FOR NATIVE PLANTS.

The second main use of the science of botany for exploiting natural resources is in the search for plants valuable for their by- products. Every country should make a more thorough study of its native plants, as it is not gen- erally realized what enormous resources are being neglected in this field. Plants supply gums,

the medicines, fibers and oils which ara used in scores of industries. Until the outbreak of the world

The closer the relation between plague. Evidently this particu war it was not known that it was

two species of the same family, lar plant contains powers of in- unnecessary to import certain' plant by-products used in the the farther apart are they found.. munity. It is then crossed with

for example,

"The value of this discovery is another perfect specimen which production of.

thats wild plant group can be has not been exposed to the dis- In America, man-

next generation is medicine.

war as foreign supplies is, from the study of any given thereby crested which will resist ufacturers faced a crisis during taken as a crop indicator-that is ease, and

of group a botanist can tell what the particular disease. A group

"Take, for example, the work oldest the

sort of grain or plant could be botanists were called to Wash- were cut off. ington and were asked to search grown thers most successfully. done with wheat, the for native planta which might be. It has resulted as far as Amer- plant cultivated. Years ago the 17th Mar. found to produce the materialsica is concerned, in an enormous American wheat farmer suffered rainfall demanded. The National Ra- increase in production. Farmers heavy losses occasionally when

Pers. ChiliMias A8. May; search Council was established, no longer talk about an average there would be

Mr. T. Crabb MER. T.T. MAK yield, but can confidently expect Wheat was naturally believed to which I headed, and we started a

1 leson, Mr. N. Charters, Miss the maximum yield if they be adapted only to moist soil. country-wide investigation of all

C. Klahbaugh, Miss M. Pokrell plants. Our motive was to find plant their crops scientifically But the botanist discovered the instead of in the 'old-fashioned original wheat plant in Palestine, plants belonging to the same

haphazard way. Here again is and found that it grew under botanical research. The results Mr. Baint Requier, Mrs. Stock

arid -conditions.

of the past few years have shown Mrs. Jeanne Aquino, Mr. E family which in other countries,

s field in which China could dis- decidedly produced the raw material needed

cover new means of increasing Species of the wheat drought rethat the field of the botanist has Martin, Mr. & Mrs. Gornet. Mr.

sisting powers were crossed with

hardly been touched, and Am Pedro Boada, Mrs. Felipe San- in America.

species picked for their quality in erican business men are now chez. Date.

For example, the Medical her output Taes. 18 tost, 8.

The third main use of botany America. The result is the looking to this group of scien Tuss, 19 inst, 19.30am. Corps of the limited States Army! Tu, 18 inst,, 10.30 am faced a serious shortage of a

as a national asset is found in "hard" wheat now grown in the tiste to discover untouched mines M.To 18 inst. 10.30 m certain antiseptic, which had up

Tues., 18 iast,“noon, to that time been obtained from the study of plant genetics, or Dakotas and Arizona as wall of national resources. Mr.

Wa expermental plant breeding un- other sections in America more Tues., 18 inst., noun. Tam 18 inst. p.m. a plant in South Africa. Tom, de lost, 320p discovered a relative of this plant der scientific control. This is noted for rainfall: Borld" in

Tam, 18 inst., 5pm Ku

Toss., 18 bust, 5p.m. growing abundantly in the north the most modern phase of botany When the National Cesearch 5Pcentral states that produced the and it has contributed enorm Council, a body of botanists, was Foochow ...

same byproduct in a much better ously to the science of agricul called in session at Washington ...Wed, 19.

ture. By practical application to tell several big captains of Tango K----

Begistration 8.45 am form. Our investigations led us

Letters

further to discover that some of laws of inheritance as dis- industry, fust what they could do, (Das Thursday In 3085, Mar.7

species of almost every valuable covered in botanical science we Mr. William Thompson, a Wall plant in the world is found with have been able to increase the Street multi-millionaire," "Wan in the boundaries of the United voltime of plant production by Impressed! with Hakasz M.Wed, 19 inst

States, and that these species pro the creation of absolutely new that ha valued $10 duce the raw material desired species. Through the applica established

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justice and sentenced", tos long : terms of imprisonment. But the most effective method of sup pressing this parnicious traffic would be to deal with at its source and it may be hoped that the League of Nations may be able before long to bring into operation a suitable measure to control the manufacture of cocaine.

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Thompson hopes to aid the The consumption Rockefeller bas sided the science Kingdoms has underg science of botany as John D. spirits, and wine in the of medicine, and has provided tion since the end of the means for almost unlimited according to the Allan

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