Abstracts of Essays i}i Vot. I independently puhlisJied 



in this Country. 



I. A short abstract in ' Nature,' Vol. XXXVII, pp. 541-542, by P. C. 

 Mitchell. 



II. A short abstract in 'Nature/ Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 156-157, by P. C. 



MiTCHLLL. 



III. A short article on the subject of this Essay in 'The Nineteenth 



Century ' for May 1885, by A. E. Shipley. 



IV. Abstract in 'Nature,' Vol. XXXIII, pp. 154-157, by Professor 



Moseley. 



V. Abstract in ' Nature,' Vol. XXXIV, pp. 629-632, by Professor 

 Moseley. 



VI. Abstract in ' Nature,' Vol. XXXVI, pp. 607-609, by Professor 



Weismann, 



P^urther details in a second abstract in 'Nature,' Vol. XXXV^II, pp. 

 134-136, by G. H. Fowler. 



VII. No abstract has appeared. 



VIII. A short abstract in ' Nature,' Vol. XL, p. 303, by P. C. Mitchell. 



A criticism of Professor Weismann's theories will be found in ' The 

 Physiology of Plants,' by Professor Vines, Lecture XXIII, pp. 660 

 et seqq. 



