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BOTANIST IMITATES 



LIFE'S PROCESSES 



Artificial Cell Behaves Like 



Growing Plant in Many 



Respects 



TORONTO, Ont., Jan. 2 (United 

 Xews). An artificial cell has been 

 made that will imitate many of the 

 processes of the living plant by Dr. D. 

 T. Macdougal, director of botanical re- 

 search of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, and exhibited before the 

 American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. 



It was shaped like a fat candle and 

 consisted of a tube of clay, wood or 

 paper, lined with a mixture of gela- 

 tinous substances and soap and filled 

 with water. 



Such a cell will behave like a plant 

 cell filled with real protoplasm in ab- 

 sorbing and giving off water in oppo- 

 sition to osmotic pressure, and will 

 even select certain salts out of solu- 

 tion just as a plant picks out its 

 proper food. Chemists are unable to 

 account for this strange action 6n the 

 part of the man-made cell. 



Dr. J. P. McMurrich, professor of 

 anatomy of the University of Toronto, 

 was elected president of the associa- 

 tion. It was decided to hold the next 

 meeting in Boston and the 1923 meet- 

 ing in Cincinnati. 



