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We had assumed that a bunch of bacteria had balled- 

 up and by secretion of sHme, had caused the first cyst or cell 

 sac. Dr. Condon and Dr. Fischer showed us there was not 

 need for the assumption, for there are now in the evolutionary 

 stage capsulated and non-capsulated bacteria in single species. 

 An editorial in the Journal of the Am. Med. Assn. of Dec. 18, 

 1909, gives Jensen's classification of bacteria and their sup- 

 posed evolution into higher plants and animals. 



The theory that we present is in substance that the chromo- 

 somes are the vital entities that make life, and that carry heredity 

 from germ to maturity and from generation to generation. 

 These chromosomes are of bacterial evolutionary origin, yet re- 

 tain the bacterial properties of creating metabolism^ In the 

 slow reprolduction of germ cells from the blastomere to the 

 •ovary or testis, thru only a line of epithelial cells, they do not 

 change their species, but in the rapid division of the somatic 

 •cells mutate into the various properties required for the par- 

 ticular cells which they build. 



In conclusion, I wish to express a breeder's gratitude to you 

 scientific workers, who by your exact methods of thought and 

 research and your accomplishments set example to the slip- 

 shod methods of my class, and show us what may be found by 

 direct experimentation. Our application of evolutionary kin- 

 ship we owe to the precision of the systematist. The Mendel laws, 

 by which all accurate determination of the action of 

 genetic units is derived, was formulated by a trained botanist. 

 Proofs of the cause for these laws are obtained with the aid 

 of the microscope by workers of your universities. Most that 

 the breeder has obtained since Aristotle's time has been 

 learned from trained scientists. 



The meeting then adjourned till 2 p. m. 



Afternoon Session. 



After the calling to order by the Chairman, upon motion of 

 T, W. Galloway, the committee on Ecological Survey was con* 

 tinned. 



