PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE.
♦ A meeting of the Canterbury Philosophical Institute was held last evening. At the commencement of the meeting the president, Mr G. A. Jobberns, made sympathetic reference to the death of Dr. Charles Chilton, a very distinguished member of th* Institute. On the motion of Mr R. Nairn a motion of sympathy with Mrs Chilton was carried, the meeting standing. Mr Nairn then read a paper on "The Influence on Sap by Transfusion." He described the circulation of sap in plants, and saM that the exact method by which the tap rose in a plant was still unknown. Mr J. W. Calder, of Lincoln College, read a paper on "The Inheritance of a Malformation in Wheat," a phenomenon which ijas undergoing investigation at Lincoln College.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19770, 7 November 1929, Page 12
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