WORLD BEST TO BELGIUM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 May 1915, Page 2

WORLD BEST TO BELGIUM.

"In biology- the name of Van Benede"n of Louvain and Liege has a permanent place," writes ''liens" in the New Statesman. "Thanks, above* all, to his long and brilliant researches, the real nature of 'fertilisation was established. In the seventies of last' century he showed that the spermatozoon enters into intimate union with the ovum and that there is a fusion the.ir nuclei. "In 1883 he went far to confirm the admirable guess of Huxley, and practically demonstrated the presence of substance derived from each parent in the nuclei of all the body-cells of the offspring. These discoveries lie at the very base of modern cytology and embryology, and are yearly more significant in relation to our study of tne material apparatus^ pf heredity." * "Lens" also'points ,out that it was a Socialist of Ghent, Dr. Miele, who invented and there established in 1901 :the;f'first School for Mothers. "Dr. Miele's great idea-^-of wnicn everyone should have thought ages ago—has so worked out that now there are a thousand such schools in France, four hundred in Britain,' and seventy-seven in Belgium." ,