RECORDING EXPERIMENTS 



EASY WAYS TO KEEP TRACK OF 

 PROGRESS 



E^ERYOXE has heard the story of the 

 distinguished professor who devoted his 

 entire life to the study of a particular 

 species of mite, and who, on his deathbed, 

 regretted that he had not confined his attention 

 to the study of the respiratory organs of this 

 insect, instead of trying to comprehend its entire 

 structure. 



This specialist, like many another, felt that 

 he had wasted his energy by attempting to cover 

 too wide a field. He felt that his ten volumes 

 or so on the anatomy of the mite could give but 

 superficial treatment of a great subject. 



Whoever sympathizes with the attitude of 

 mind revealed by this doubtless apocryphal yet 

 truly symbolic tale, will have scant patience with 

 my method of plant experimentation. For, far 

 from confining attention to a single species, or 

 even to a single genus or order, I have extended 



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