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potency" of tlie egg or sperm in one or tlie other direction. 

 Certainly these gall-insects show that the allosomes are not sex- 

 determining bodies per se and this is still further established by 

 the fact that the division into male and female layers takes place 

 one generation prior to the formation of the sexes. The evi- 

 dence which Morgan thus gives from the animal side is in com- 

 plete agreement with that presented by the heterosporous pteri- 

 dophytes. We must at present, therefore, regard tlie allosomes 

 as sex-indicating rather than sex-determining or sex-producing 

 bodies. 



SPECIAL VIEWS REGARDIXG SEX-IX II ERITAXCE. 



( iuyer reports that pheasant hybrids are almost all males 

 and suggests that their sex is due to incompatibility of the germ 

 plasms. The known hybrids resulting from a crossing of guinea 

 fowds and ordinary chickens are also all males. He says that 

 in the case of hybrids and ])articularly those from widely sep- 

 arated parents, there would in all probability be more or less de- 

 fault in the metabolic processes because of the incompatibilities 

 whicli must necessarily exist between two germ-plasms so dis- 

 similar. 



Kauft'man studied the water molds, Saprolegniaceae, with 

 especial reference to the variations of the sexual organs. He 

 holds that sexuality can be controlled by external conditions. 



]\Iaud and Raymond Pearl made a statistical study based on 

 200,000 births in Buenos Aires. They show that there is a 

 markedly greater preponderance of male to female births in 

 children born of parents of different races. This seems to be in 

 agreement with the results obtained from hybrid pheasants. 



Among botanists, Strasburger, Correns, and Noll believe that 

 the egg tends to produce females. If this were really the case, 

 the reduction division could have nothing to do directly with 

 sex-determination in the heterosporous plants, since no allosomes 

 are known to be present and the eggs are vegetative descendants 

 of spores produced through reduction. But on the other hand, 

 they think that the reduction division in the microsporocyte sep- 

 arates male tendencies of unecjual vigor so that in dioecious 



