MISCELLANEOUS 

 COMPOUNDS 



In the 1930's and early 1940's, a series of papers by 

 McNair appeared on the subject of biochemical sys- 

 tematics, for example, Angiosperm Phylogeny on a 

 Chemical Basis (1932; 1934; 1935a; 1935b; 1941a; 

 1941b; 1943; 1945). The nature of the response to 

 McNair's papers at the time they were published is 

 not known, but his work has been referred to fre- 

 quently by later investigators. However, some re- 

 viewers have been rather critical (for example, 

 Turrill, 1942; Wee vers, 1943). 



McNair's work represented essentially a 

 compilation of certain existing chemical data and 

 the derivation of taxonomic generalizations there- 

 from. His principal thesis, that more advanced 

 families presumably form more complex chemical 



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