PLANT FERTILISATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15196, 15 July 1911, Page 4

PLANT FERTILISATION.

Professor Bcnham last night delivered a lecture i.i the Dundas Street Primitive Methodist Church Hall under the auspices of the church literary and debating society. The llev. G. Knowles Smith, president ot the society, occupied tho chair, and there ■was an audience that half filled the hall. The professor's lecture was on tho subject of the fertilisation of plants, and by Ihc use of specially prepared lantern slides he illustrated the various kinds of cross fertilisation in the casss of the lawyer, tho pansy, tho buttercup, the lily,, (he orchid, and many other (lowers Ho gave a most interesting account of the wondorful ways in which fertilisation is carried out with the aid of birds, of insects, and of the wind. The lecture concluded with a brief history of (lowers and the evolution through which they have come to their present form. The professor's, address was ;ircatly enjoyed, and at ite close ho was accorded a very hearty voio of thanks. An invitation was extended In him to return again at. some future time, and to this the professor kindly consented.

Fifty-seven certificate of naturalisation wero during March to aliens in England, of whom 22 were described as oomini; from Russia.

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