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insight into the mechanism tlirough which tlie life energy 

 manifests itself. 



"And so, with all the light that physics and chemistry 

 can give, commencing with the simplest problems and 

 being careful that every factor that can influence the re- 

 sult is being duly considered, the microscopist can go 

 forwa>rd with enthusiasm and with hope, not with the 

 hope that the great central question can be answered in 

 one generation, perhaps not in a thousand, but confident 

 that if each one adds his little to the certain knowledge 

 of the world, then in the fullness of time the knowledge 

 of living substance and the life processes will be so full 

 and deep that what life is, though unanswered, may 

 cease to be the supreme question." 



After the address the professor was heartily congrat- 

 ulated on his excellent treatise. 



THURSDAY MORNING. 



The morning session was held, in the anatomical lec- 

 ture room of McGraw Hall at 9.30 o'clock and the fol- 

 lowing papers were read and discussed : 



The chlorophyll bodies of chara coronata, by Prof. 

 W. W. Rowlee, of Ithaca. 



Secondary thickenings of the rootstalks of spathyema, 

 by Mary A. Nichols, Ithaca. 



A fourth study of the blood showing the relation of 

 the colorless corpuscle to the strength of the constitu- 

 tion, by Dr. M. L. Holbrook, of New York City. 



Two cases of intercellular spaces in vegetable embryos, 

 by K. M. Wiegand, of Ithaca. 



The fruits of the order umbelliferse, by Dr. E. J. 

 Durand, of Ithaca. 



The action of strong currents of electricity upon ner- 

 vous tissue, by Dr. P. A. Fish, of Ithaca. 



The morphology of the brain of the soft-shelled turtle 

 and the English sparrow compared, by Susanna P. Grage, 

 of Ithaca. 



