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each leaf having four seeds or pip, mature or immature, 

 would give a total of 2,000 pips that would be the 

 proper full number of seeds; but the results of the 

 examination gave only 972 mature seeds, of which 

 number (556) five hundred and fifty-six were on the 

 right side of the leaf, and 416 on the left, or 48.6 per 

 cent, of the total number grew to full maturity as seeds ; 

 of these 556 — 57.09 per cent. — were grown on the right 

 side of the leaf, 42.8 per cent, nearly on the left. 



These numbers are all too small to make a general 

 average of so large a subject, but they are so striking 

 as to call attention to the subject and induce further 

 observations in the same direction. 



Now, if these pips be examined in the apple more 

 closely, they will be found attached : first, the lowest, 

 on the right side of the carpellary leaf, next a little 

 higher on the left side, the third a little higher on the 

 right side, and last, for there are seldom more than 

 four, on the left side and a little higher, as the numbers 

 that come to maturity. 



From these observations, it seems then that there is 

 something apparently determining the why these hap- 

 penings are as they are, and it is the business of science 

 to find out the why and wherefore for everything. 



In the present instance there is no apparent reason 

 why one side should have the preference over the other, 

 but if the cause be hidden the more reason to search 

 for it. 



Suggestions or hypotheses might be made : there are 

 so many notes or arrangement, and motion, in the direc- 

 tion of the hands of a clock that thoughts are directed 

 to some cosmic influence which appears to dominate both 

 animal and vegetable growth, and possibly also mineral 

 growth amongst crystalline substances. 



Amongst such forces as appear on the surface the 

 rotation of the earth itself, its alteration of heat and 

 cold every (24) twenty-four hours by exposure to and 

 absence of the heat of the sun's rays, the magnetization 



