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the plant as a living, plastic being, but it is not an exclusory 
term, and also does violence to its philological derivation. 
Even the recently proposed modification into phytobiology 
does not much improve the term. The English usage of the 
word biology, as so admirably set forth by Huxley, and more 
or less consistently adopted in this country, leaves no place 
to introduce the imperfect usage of the Germans. Two years 
ago, in his wholly delightful ‘‘Chapters in Modern Botany,” 
Patrick Geddes proposed the term “‘bionomics.” The same 
year, however, a better term was advocated almost simulta- 
neously in England and America. The Madison Botanical 
Congress endorsed the word “ecology” as the designation of 
this part of physiology; and only a few days later Professor 
Burdon-Sanderson, in his Presidential Address before the bi- 
ological section of the British Association, outlined the sci- 
ence and traced the origin of the name ecology, of which he 
made use. 
Ecology, therefore, is the name under which we are to at- 
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_Physiology, in the restricted sense deals with the most 
