438 The Ohio Naturalist. [Vol. Ill, No. 7, 



MEETING OF THE BIOLOGICAL CLUB. 



Orton Hall, March 2, 1903. 



Mr. Ouiroga gave a paper on his native countr}-, Argentina. 

 It served to call the attention of those who heard it, to the fact 

 that Argentina is not to be compared with such Latin- American 

 countries as Venezuela and the Central American Republics. 

 The facts given and the pictures exhibited showed very plainly 

 that in prosperity and commercial advancement the country is on 

 a level with the United States. The paper took up exhaustively 

 the geographical relations, topography, geology, phj^sical geo- 

 graphy, climate, agriculture, transportation, industries and edu- 

 cation. Whenever practicable tables were given showing com- 

 parisons with the United States. In some respects, for example 

 in the animal industries, the comparison was decidedly in favor 

 of Argentina. 



Prof. Osborn stated that as he read the census reports he made 

 out a better case for the United States than did Mr. Quiroga. 



The second paper was by Prof. Schaffner on "Mendel's Law 

 of Heredity. He gave a short history of Mendel's work and 

 explained the meaning of the law. In order to get the characters 

 of only one of the parents in the offspring, the sex cells from which 

 it comes must have been pure. If we believe that in the reduction 

 division of the sex cells the division is longitudinal, there is no 

 possibility of an unequal distribution of hereditar}- tendencies. 

 But in a transverse division, segregation of characters is possible. 

 In cytology there is nothing to indicate the percentage of hj-brids 

 being as Mendel found it. He thought that the ratio must be 

 dependent rather on some balance of external conditions. He 

 also questioned whether the statistical method was entirely 

 reliable. 



RoBKRT F. Griggs, Scartan'. 



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