The ethnobotanist, especially in his ethnopharmacologic search for hallucinogenic plants, is confronted with these and many more problems throughout the world. Faced with the ever more rapid disintegration of primitive societies and an extraordinary dearth of trained ethnobotanists, science would seem to be doomed to lose. The outlook, however, may not be so dour. Specialists in those fields upon which ethnobotany impinges are experiencing a growing realization of the potentialities of the interdisciplinary approach that ethnobotany affords. There is growing interest in ethnobotanical research amongst younger men going into botanical, anthropological and pharmacological fields. Some of the most startling scientific advances of the past twenty years have been made in various branches of ethnobotany. The future should, therefore, solidly be ours, and our trust must be to prevent its slipping from us. It might here be appropriate to end with the words of Harshberger, author of the term ethnobotany, who wrote: " It is of importance ... to seek out these primitive races and ascertain the plants which they have found available in their economic life, in order that perchance the valuable properties they have utilized in their wild life may fill some vacant niche in our own."