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Lake on the roots. 
Mr. Butler is a conscientious and modest young man with 
great musical talent, who is taking his last year at Bronx Park 
and Columbia for his Ph. D. degree, and this is a part of that 
work. His ideas of specific limitation or rather lack of limita- 
tion he has gotten wholly from that source and so has never 
had any correct conception of what a species is, but regards it 
as simply any old form that he may wish to describe as new. 
‘he writer would be glad to subscribe several cents toward a 
fund for the education of the professors who are responsible 
for this kind of work so that they might go to some botanical 
kindergarten where they could learn that a plant growing in 
the shade or on a north slope or in a cold lake will differ from 
another from the same’ parent which grows in a warmer and 
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