(Tther*? of flie same specicvS, and the stamina wefei aUv'-iys 

 carefullv extracted, whilst immatnre, from cverv blosliom 

 which I intended to afford seeds. The remaining blossoms 

 of the trees were also totallv destroyed, and no other blos- 

 som?, except those from which the pollen was. taken, were 

 ever unfolded in the neighbourhood, in the sclson when 

 the Experiments were made; and I have also invariably 

 declined to draw any conclusion from the appearance of a 

 plant, in which I could not certainly distinguish some por-. 

 tion of the features and icharacter of the supposed male 

 parent. '' ■•: -' ^i '- . ;'':.-: i;- ': 



-' It'rs perhaps also proper to statie, that the ptcdominahce 

 of 'the cliaracter of tl;ie; female ■parent, could scarcely hav,e 

 urisen from any defective action of the pollen ; for, except 

 in ca^^es where supcrfcetation took place, I have invariably: 

 found the effect of a very large, or a very small quantity. of 

 pollen, to be invariably the same, in its influence on. the 

 dfTspriiVg; and in the. greater part of the ex'periments, 

 ft-om which I have drawn the preceding conclusion's, mor^^ 

 than ten times as much pollen was deposited on, the stig- 

 mata, as could have been deposited in unmutilated blossoms 

 by the ordinary means employed by nature. , , • 



In all attempts to discriminate the different influence of 

 the male and female parent on the offspring of animals 

 nianv difficulties present themselves, owing to the intermix- 

 tures which have been made of the different breeds of do- 

 i^esticated animals of every species, and the cons^uenfc 

 absence of all hereditary permanency in the character pf 

 each variety. For, under these circumstances, the otlspring: 

 will be very frequently found to show little resemblance 

 either to its male or female parent, either in form,, or sta- 

 ture, ,or colour. It will therefore be necessary, before I 

 enter on the subject of viviparous animals, to observe that 

 when I applv the terms large and small to the male or fe- 

 ftiale parent,' I extend the meaning of those terms to the. 

 f)arev^ta2;e from which the male and female descend, and 

 hot to the size of the individual only, which becomes the 

 immediate parent of the offspring.. 



Mr. Cline has observed, in a communication to the 

 Board of AarJculture, that if the niale and female parent 

 differ considerably in size, the dimensions of the foetus, at 

 the bififjs will be regulated much more by the size of the 

 female; than of the'male parent; and, if the meaning of 

 the teriti-^large and small be extended to the varieties, as. 

 well a'g to thie individuals, his remark is perfectly just. But 

 r ^ experience 



