A CORRECTION. I 2 5 



conseqiientlv there is no more valuable cultural study than first- 



vear biology. It fulfills Huxley's requirement of knowledge — 



that of making a man live more happily and usefully. 



In summing up the results of the discussion. Dr. Peabody, 



chairman of the meeting, called attention to the fact that nobody 



had opposed the subject as such ; and that the lines in which liiol- 



ogy seems in need of improvement are in the simplification of the 



subject matter, in the emphasizing of the development of power 



rather than of expression of fact, and in the presentation of the 



threads of unity in the biological field. 



E. M. K. 



A CORRECTIOX. 



In the article by Dr. Leavitt on the sensitive lip of Masdcz'allia 

 niiiscosa in the April issue of the Plant World, through a typo- 

 graphical error, the word " smelling"" appears (page 79) instead 

 of " swelling."" In calling attention to this mistake the author 

 writes: " I have no desire to impute to this orchid pow'ers more 

 remarkable than that which it really possesses. The sudden 

 closing of the flower is in no sense to be regarded as a sneeze."' 



