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basidia all over their face. The face is turned 

 outward from the main hyphse. 



The second species is one of the genus 

 JEpicoccam also a hyphomycete and was inter- 

 esting because it showed different colors of 

 mycelium when grown upon different media. 



The last species is one of the Pyrenomy- 

 cetes and belongs to the genus Podospora. Its 

 chief interest lies in the fact that the spores 

 are joined in pairs by a non-septate hypha, 

 thxis coming very near podospora zygospora. 



A New Form of Achlya: W. C. Coker, of the 



University of North Carolina. 



During the fall of 1906 saiAchlya was found 

 at Chapel Hill, IST. C, which agrees with 

 Achlya racemosa var. sielligera, Cornu in 

 many respects, but different from it in having 

 the antheridium cut off immediately below the 

 oogonium, and the fertilizing tube arising 

 from the division wall and entering the 

 oogonimn from below, as in Saprolegnia 

 hypogyna Pringsheim. Such an origin for 

 the fertilizing tube is new for the genus 

 Aclilya, and is not known elsewhere except 

 in Saprolegnia hypogyna. 



Notes upon the Preparation of the Silicate 



Medium for the Cultivation of Bacteria: J. 



C. Temple, N. C. Agricultural Experiment 



Station. 



Directions were given for the preparation 

 of this medium obviating the necessity of 

 dialyzing, and making it possible to prepare 

 this medium with greater certainty and 

 greater accuracy. The use of the medium 

 prepared in this way for the culture of vari- 

 ous organisms was illustrated by colonies of 

 various bacteria growing in a thriving condi- 

 tion upon the medium. 

 Breeding Colonies of Birds (illustrated with 



eggs and stereopticon views) : T. Gilbert 



Pearson, of Greensboro. 



The Efficiency of Soil Inoculation in the 

 Production of Root Tubercles: F. L. 

 Stevens, of the N. C. Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. 



Data were given concerning the inoculation 

 of soils with liquid cultures obtained from 

 the Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C. From many tests conducted in vari- 



ous ways there was no evidence whatever that 

 inoculation with these cultures was efficient 

 in the production of tubercles upon legumes. 

 The cultures employed were issued in liquid 

 condition in hermetically sealed test-tubes, 

 and were obtained directly from the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C. 

 The Opportunities for Study and Research at 

 the Beaufort Laboratory : H. V. Wilson, of 

 the N. C. University. 

 Does Blood Tell? Heredity according to the 

 Experience of the Children's Home So- 

 ciety: Wm. B. Streeter, of Greensboro, 

 K C. 



Probably the most difficult proposition one 

 engaged in child saving has to contend with 

 is the firmly grounded belief in the principle 

 of heredity; that as father, so son; as mother, 

 so daughter. Almost adamantine is the con- 

 viction that ' blood will tell ' but will it ? If 

 the question refers merely to mental and 

 physical qualities, those things which depend 

 upon physiological causes, undoubtedly the 

 answer will be 'yes.' If it refers to moral 

 tendencies, my experience covering a period 

 of twenty years with children born under un- 

 favorable conditions, leads me to answer the 

 question in the negative. As children of my 

 experience were recovered from the custody 

 of vicious parents at an early age, and reared 

 in the atmosphere of moral uprightness, have 

 almost invariably reached their majority in 

 the state of voluntary social purity, I con- 

 clude that it is the heredity of environment, 

 rather than the heredity of blood, that de- 

 termines moral character. 

 Oeology of the Cape Fear River: Joseph E. 

 PoGUE, of the University of North Carolina. 

 The Relation of Sporangium of Lygodium to 

 the Evolution of the Polypodiacew : Ray- 

 mond BiNFORD, of Guilford College. To be 

 published in the Botanical Gazette. 

 The Condensation of Aliphatic Aldehydes 

 with Aromatic Amines : Alvin S. Wheeler, 

 of the University of North Carolina. 

 The following reaction takes place without 

 any dehydrating agent: ECHO ■+ 2RNH, = 

 IICH(ENH), -f H,0. In some cases at low 

 temperatures the addition product is ob- 



