254 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ October, 
ciples. But biological work appears sometimes to be regarded as a 
science distinct from both botany and zoology, so that one not unfre- 
of vital phenomena set up by biologists for biology to which I object. 
oO method, which is often referred to as the biological 
one, is supposed to include what is left out in the old, since they comple- 
The opposition supposed to exist between the ld and _ the _ 
methods is the result of this misuse of the term biological, and it wor 
two ways: First, those wishing to take up the study bere 
tricably confused. : 
.§ long as botanists are willing to suffer the most important par 
botanical teaching to be referred to in such vague terms as to effectually 
