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others are similar to the metachromatin granules of Babes and the red 
granules of Butschli, which are now called volutin granules. They vary 
very considerably in number at various stages, appear and disappear 
with remarkable ease, and are associated with active metabolic conditions. 
They occur either directly in the cytoplasm or in what may be called 
volutin vacuoles, and from one to three granules, possessing somewhat 
similar characteristics, are usually found*in the nuclear vacuole. 
Glycogen is very abundant at certain stages. It is visible in the living 
cell in the form of clear bright refractive vacuoles or vacuolar spaces, 
In the process of bud formation the nucleus divides amitotically into 
two equal or unequal portions, one of which passes into the daughter cell 
together with a portion of the network of chromatin. In spore formation 
the nuclear vacuole and network disappear before the division takes place. 
7. Interim Report on the Structure of Fossil Plants. 
See Reports, p. 320. 
8. Report on the Survey of Clare Island.—See Reports, p. 321. 
9. Interim Report on the Experimental Study of Heredity. 
See Reports, p. 319. 
SUB-SECTION OF AGRICULTURE. 
CuarrMan.—Major P. G. Cratatn, C.B., F.S.5. 
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26. 
The Chairman delivered the following Address :-— 
THE occupant of this chair, in the great annual convention of the promoters 
and appliers of science, cannot fail at the outset of a new session to 
put on record his emphatic endorsement of the claim, so strongly and so 
reasonably pressed by his distinguished predecessor at Dublin, that dis- 
tinctively agricultural problems, instead of being regarded as a subsidiary 
sub-section of any single division of the Association, should be accorded the 
full dignity and convenience of a ‘ Section.’ Specialised research is to-day 
one of the governing features of scientific inquiry. It is but fitting, there- 
fore, that those who are trying to equip the agriculturist with all the 
knowledge which recent speculation and experiment have to offer for the 
fuller and more economic development of the soil should at least be allotted 
equal space and sectional rank with the engineer, whose problems are dis- 
cussed in Section G, or with the schoolmaster, whose educational methods 
are debated in Section L. 
If there were any country in the world where an apology could legiti- 
mately be offered for relegating agricultural science to a secondary position, 
it is certainly not that in which we meet to-day. In this wide Dominion of 
Canada, in this progressive province of Manitoba, in this great city of 
Winnipeg, where the agricultural industry must dominate the interests of 
the people, hardly any subject in the whole range of study can claim a 
