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As the total number of albino seedlings was small no attempt 

 was made to classify the degrees of albinism in relation to the 

 degrees of endosperm color. 



The inheritance of endosperm color has been studied by sev- 

 eral investigators who have concluded that this character is 

 composed of at least two factors. The results are not easily 

 interpreted even with two factors, the investigations revealing 

 many complications, and it is possible that these may be due at 

 least in part to a linkage between the several factors for endo- 

 sperm color. 



The present correlation may be considered in the nature of a 

 coherence since it is highly probable that the albino character 

 and white endosperm were brought into this cross from the 

 tunicate parent. The progeny of a self -pollinated ear from a 

 sister plant of the male parent of the cross between Zea ramosa 

 and Zea tunicata was noted in 1916 as having produced many 

 albino plants. The yellow endosperm undoubtedly came from 

 the ramosa parent and thus far no albino seedlings have been 

 found in the strain of Zea ramosa we have been growing. 



There is, however, the possibility that this apparent coher- 

 ence is in reality a physiological correlation between white or 

 albino endosperm and albino seedlings. As a demonstration of 

 the truth or fallacy of this statement a strain having yellow endo- 

 sperm, and producing gametes carrying the albino character 

 should be crossed with a white strain lacking the albinistic ten- 

 dency, but the final results of such a cross cannot be obtained 

 before the fall of 1918. 



ETHNOLOGY. — An initiation at Hano in Hopiland, Arizona. 

 J. Walter Fewkes, Bureau of American Ethnology. 



There are three pueblos on the East Mesa of the Hopi In- 

 dians called Walpi, Sitcomovi, and Hano. These villages, situ- 

 ated in Northeastern Arizona, are composite in population and 

 have been affected in different degrees by influx of clans from 

 different directions the former homes of these clans now indicated 

 by ruins. The inhabitants of Walpi are homogeneous. Sit- 

 comovi, originally settled by clans from Zuni, has lost the Zuni 



