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Another translator renders the word as "constitu- 

 tional element." The translation, "determinant," 

 which we have selected is an appropriation of an 

 analogous but not absolutely identical technical term 

 from Weismann's Germinal Selection. The use of 

 the word in this connection is open to the objection 

 that it has previously been used technically for a 

 somewhat different idea by another author. M. 

 C. Potter, in his translation of Warming's Sys- 

 tematic Botany, following Dr. E. L. Mark, ren- 

 ders the word Anlage as "fundament." Dr. H. C. 

 Porter, in his translation of the Bonn Text-Book of 

 Botany, renders the same word as "rudiment." 



In general the word Anlage means beginning, 

 plan, disposition to anything, and hence involves 

 the ideas of origin, organization and tendency. 

 Sanders defines the word in one of its meanings as : 

 "The act of planning or beginning anything; the 

 act of laying the foundation of any work intended 

 to be carried on toward completion, in order that 

 from the beginning made, a definite thing may be 

 developed or may develop itself"; (i.e., to deter- 

 mine, in the sense of limiting to a particular pur- 

 pose or direction, hence determinant). "Also, the 

 thing begun or planned, considered as the basis 

 and germ of the further development of that which 

 has already originated." 



In its restricted use as applied to organisms it 

 would mean "germ," in the sense of embryonic 

 starting point. More specifically, it is a portion of 

 plastic, organized substance, functioning as an 

 individual and containing potentially an elemental 

 organ plus a formative power. In Nageli's own 

 words, "There exists an essential difference between 



