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all aware, have been the subject of the most intensive research, 
especially during the last sixteen years. In these researches, 
however, the method which has been almost exclusively 
employed has been that of selective mating between different 
strains, and attention has. been too exclusively focussed on 
the adult characters of the offspring. Another set of researches 
which may eventually throw a good deal of light on the laws 
of inheritance have been going on simultaneously with the 
experiments on cross-breeding. These researches have had 
as their object the determination of the laws governing the 
development of the germ into the adult organism, and researches 
of this kind are generally denoted by the term EXPERIMENTAL 
EMBRYOLOGY. Even in this time of storm and stress, it seemed 
te me to be not inappropriate if I were to endeavour in a 
necessarily brief sketch to take stock of the positive results 
which have been gained as the harvest of thirty years’ work 
in this branch of zoology.’ He does so. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL SECTION. 
Dr. R. R. Marett, in his address to the Anthropological 
Section, dealt with Anthropology and University Education. 
He showed that in his section, also, knowledge could be put 
to good service in the interests of the nation. ‘ We have had 
some experience at Oxford in the anthropological training of 
officers for the public services. The Sudan Probationers, by 
arrangement with the Governor-General of the Sudan, have 
received systematic instruction in Anthropology for a number 
of years. Again, members of the University and others 
serving or about to serve in Africa have more recently attended 
our classes in considerable numbers, and with the express 
sanction of the Colonial Office. If the Indian Probationers 
have so far had less to do with Anthropology, it is simply 
because the programme of studies which they are expected to 
carry out within the’space of a year is already so vast. The 
following are some of the impressions I have formed as to 
the most suitable way of training students of this type. In 
the first place, each set of the officers destined for a particular 
province should be provided with a course in the ethnography 
of their special region. In the second place, all alike should be 
encouraged to attend some of the general courses provided by 
the School, if only in order that they may associate with the regu- 
lar students, and so gain insight into the scientific possibilities 
of the subject. Thirdly, such official students ought not to 
be subjected to any test-examinations in Anthropology at the 
end of their course, unless they elect on their own account to 
enter for the ordinary examinations of the School.’ 
PHYSIOLOGICAL SECTION. 
Even in his address to the Physiological Section, Prof. A. 
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