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siderees au point de vue de leur fecondite, et la perpetuite de 



leurs characteres." 



Godron. 



Godron's paper is chiefly devoted to the solution of the question 



". . . whether hybrids reproducing by self-fertilization sometimes keep 

 their characters invariable during several generations, and whether they 

 are able to become the types of constant races, or whether, on the con- 

 trary, they always return to the form of their ancestors at the end of 

 several generations, as recent observations seem to indicate." 



Plate XXVI. D. A. Godron, 1807-1880, Professor at the University at Nancy. 



