THE MYCETOZOA. 5] 
Nature were merely human assertions as to the invariable order of 
events. This is, I hope, a pardonable and elementary digression. 
Sir Edward and Miss Fry, on the text of the Mycetozoa, raise 
questions of the most far-reaching biological importance. It is 
done with the most consummate appreciation of botanical research. 
In one or two matters, however, I must correct. 
The authors cite the experiment of Falkenberg yielding the 
barren result of attempted hybridization of Cutleria adspersa and 
C. multifida as impressing ‘the mind with the fundamental 
than to support it; but hybridization is like “what the soldier 
i it were, let us bring the argument within 
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vesiculosus 3 could not fertilize F. serratus 2. In the light of 
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a character of real value.’ That such a comparison of colour 
characters is admissible for a moment no botanist will agree. 
Miss Fry’s essay, but I submit that the whole evidence 
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‘strike me as most clear and suggestive comments on a subject 
obscured by Weismann. On th i 
prose for a comparison. . 
et me, finally, for the sake of usefulness, correct a small error. 
The authors advise readers to get Mr. Lister’s Guide at “ South 
Kensington Museum,” about to write ‘‘there is no such 
place,” but I recall the dangers of debate on what is a — 
ry), 
Cromwell Road, S.W. «South Kensington Museum, w the 
Victoria and Albert Museum, is, as I need not say, another 
institution. G. M. 
