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Even on strictly scientific grounds, and apart from all questions 

 of practical application, botanical readers are likely to agree 

 that the investigations have given much more interesting results 

 in other lines of research than in those that relate to genetics. 

 Indeed, our author has recognized this on his own account, in the 

 conclusion of his last chapter on heredity. 



"All the characteristics mentioned in the chapter on Fluctua- 

 tion have been made the subject of statistical records in the 

 ordinary course of routine observations. Thus we possess the 

 curves for growth, flowering, boiling, and shedding for almost 

 every individual studied. Data for weight of lint per seed, and 

 for ginning out-turn are also to hand, but the majority of these 

 records are of more value as supplementary sources of informa- 

 tion in physiology than from the standpoint of Genetics. At the 

 same time, they are frequently of interest as showing the com- 

 mercial resultant of those conflicting gametic forces whose lines 

 we have endeavored to trace" (pp. 173-175). 



O. F. Cook 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



March 26, 1913 



The meeting of March 26, 1913, was held, in the laboratory 

 of the New York Botanical Garden at 3:30 P.M. Vice-President 

 Barnhart presided. Twenty-two persons were present. 



The minutes of the meeting of March 11 were approved. Dr. 

 John H. Barnhart, chairman of the budget committee, submitted 

 the following report which was adopted: 



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Bulletin 885.00 



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Index cards 200.00 



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$2,850.00 



