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51_72 Cambridge, England it from top to bottom; I am quite friendly to the theory and ready to accept it when in can be! At the Taxonomy meeting Diels of Berlin presided. My arrival was late since I left the Morphology section to get there. The discussiton papers related to the Chinese flora. - Eileen Whitehead Erlanson, in her paper on Roses, stated definitely that species in the genus Rosa cannot be determined by chromosome number. (But Miss Crum says that in print she says the poopsite. I may have misunderstood.) - Professor John Briqeut of Geneva talls me that the original Mocino-Gesse drawings were lost and that nothing is now known of them. DeCandolle's new genera and species of Mexico therefore rest on the colored copies preserved at Geneva. |
51_73 Aug. 18, 1930 - This evening I walked in the meadow field of St. Johns College by the river Cam with Dr. R. E. Woodson. After a bit were were joined by Dr. Andersen, also of St. Louis, who asked me a very difficult question: Is there any difference in character between the famililes of Liliflorae, and the families say of Labiatae and Compositae? He meant as to kind and character and degree of variation and quality of relationships in each group, though he did not state the thought he had in mind very well. After a moment's reflection I said: No, I do not belive that there is any differece. I find much the same kind of complexities in Liliaceae or Juncaceae that I find in Dicot families, that is parallel variation, continuous variation or an inter-complex |
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