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Show SAYS PLANTS HAVE SENSES i is 1 s'r 0eorK Howard Darwin, president of the w World's Association of Science, has astonished jfKBBpBJBk tho scientific and lay worlds by his posltlvo dec-n''lijKW dec-n''lijKW ,an,'". based upon long study, that plants f'h t, fyjtf cnn B0- think nnd remember. The proofs he WiF&' iE?') produces are such thnt tho sclontitlo gnthorlng IdnauWi t-CW to wnom n,B remarks wero addressed wore conv W M s v Plll to admit the probability that plant lite ' VM y 8 yiijy Is not devoid of n certain lo ordor of Instinct ( ft ' nl('n '" 0 far'orf wnjr to lnl possessed by nnl- iVV '?' JFn3 mals' A,ul 11 way 1)0 8afo,'r sal(1 tnat 8,r George .iMllW 1,nB glvcn ho 8clentln contingent a profitable VNJw ''irt'tM&I fleId ,or 'nvcBtKatlon for somo tlmo to como. Slr GoorBO 18 tIle Bt'cnd son of the lato NB, jjfijsiUlm. Charlos Darwin, oven more famous as a sclen-iSkSHBmBBsJ sclen-iSkSHBmBBsJ tlBt than the son and as well known for the rather startling naturo of somo of his deductions uot (ess than for tho convincing fashion In which ho defended his theories. It Is far from certain that many of the striking new statements of the son upon tho subject of the development of plant life are not really tho following follow-ing out of ideas which wero settled upon and given tho light by tho senior Darwin In his lifetime. Ho Is by no means a stranger to America, cither as a matter of reputation or in personal contnet. For he came across to attend tho cclobratlon of the bicentenary nnnlvornarv of the birth of Ilenlnmln Franklin, umlor Dm miat,ir.n. of tho American Philosophical society of Philadelphia, a year or so ago. Among tho discoveries which will mnke his namo most iiotahla In tho Us. of scientists, however, aro his studies upon tho subject of tides. Probably no other authority of the tlmo Is so well versed In the real "why" of tho tides ns ho, and his writings nnd lectures on tho subject are pretty near classics. Sir Georgo Is a professor In Trinity college, Cambridge. -. |