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issues to the worker on biology. Whether the work the results of 
which can but he on the main a heritage for others is worthy of 
execution will perhaps be decided by those ^ T hose immediate interests 
are involved. These remarks, many of which the authors agree are 
raised on matters uninvestigated or unproven will not be valueless 
if they merely stimulate interest. 
DU—. 
Mr. R. W. Munro said : If I may make a passing reference 
to the last paper, I wish to say that it is a most instructive as 
well as a valuable contribution, for which both Mr. Coombs and 
Mr. Cookson deserve our thanks. We know that Mr. Cookson is very 
keen on this branch of agriculture — (hear, hear) but he is not in the 
country at present, and we are sorry that we are not able to discuss 
it now so much as we should wish to. We hope, however, to have it 
printed and we can then study it. Some of the remarks that 
Mr* Coombs read to us have an application to other products as well. 
