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Editorial Note. ing bird houses and thousands of other 

 The editor once had occasion to catch topics pertaining to farming and to 

 Dr. Morris at an occupation which he country life. It is astonishing to note 

 considers to be superior to warfare, and that so prominent a man as Senator 

 reproduces a photograph, then taken, in McLean is supplying so much detail- 

 connection with this article. ed information on many nature topics. 



DR ROBERT T MORRIS HOLDING A BRANCH WELL LADEN WITH ALMONDS. 



Building Bird Houses. 



Every one that loves birds should 

 write to Senator George P. McLean, 

 United States Senate, Washington, 

 D. C, for a copy of the pamphlet on 

 bird houses and how to build them. 

 He will also send a list of various out- 

 door bulletins from which a selection 

 may be made. In fact we are inclined 

 to think that Senator McLean will be 

 glad to give information on almost any 

 nature topic. He is one of the most 

 enthusiastic and energetic Members of 

 The Agassiz Association. He is doing 

 much to extend the work of the AA. 

 Get" into correspondence with him. 

 He is a busy man but never too busy 

 to give attention to an inquiry regard- 



Color Inheritance in Plants. 



Recent studies of inheritance in 

 plants make it appear that the green 

 coloring matter of the higher vegeta- 

 bles is not really "inherited," in the 

 sense that the outline of leaf or the 

 quality of fruit is. On the contrary, the 

 pollen parent seems never to make any 

 contribution to the chlorophyll of the 

 seedling, which arises entirely from the 

 maternal body tissue and not at all 

 from either parental germ. The "In- 

 heritance" of green color in plants, 

 is, therefore, of the general nature of 

 the so-called "heredity" of disease 

 among animals and men. That is to 

 say, it is not proper germ inheritance 

 at all. 



