and Moder way the prine lo of back to pro-said the speaker, although nothing definite was: known until Weismann intro: duced the conception of the germ plasm. From this starting point all the modern theories had been evolved. Mendelism tended to dissect the germ plasm into elementary hereditary units, which were called unit characters.
The principle of inheritance had rely dissipated the former my-story that shrouded such subjects blended inheritance, atavism reversion. The study of human heritance, although, could not pursued with the same thoroughness or in the same manner employ ed with animals and plants, nevertheless revealed the same facts. hered resulted in the:
A crowded hall at the entertains ment given by the Dramatic Section. W. A. last Friday afte the ge appre: tion of these enjoyable afternos Mrs, Harry' Peyton-Griffin, who ranged the programme, provided a surprise in the person of Mr. Ullman, a talented Czecho-Slovakian ist, who is passing through Shanghai on his way to New Zealand and Austratia, He opened programme with a Ballade of ing great foclinge as ry. His second num= ber, the "Bear Dance," the Czecho" Slovakian al _danee, was an arresting performance, given with brilliancy, It was an unusual' portunity for the audience, inas~ much as Mr. R, V. Dent, the local accomplished pianist, gave two pianoforte solos, Seriabine's "Etude. Op. 8" and Rackmaninoft's Prelude No. 5 in G Minor and_goncrously responded to the call for encores. Mr. Dent played with hig usual finished case, perhaps scoring on the side of a more exquisite delicacy, while the other was a master of emotional sbando Mrs, Griffin read this element by the wledge of the of speci internal secretions or] chemical regulators called hormones.
the interaction of em ronmental fluences and the active hormones, tered characteristics might come being. These in turn, react-through the agency of these secretions might impress them. selves on the heredity substance of! the germ cells.
AE the close of Professor Porte field's stimulating lecture thusiastic vote of thanks accorded the speaker on the motion of Mr. Sowerby delighitul form from the works of Teal autho Helen Brom-field, "The Grief of Ah Nam," a story of a domestic staff and' the Number One Boy of realistic humour, Had it not been nounced that Mrs, Buekstone, although suitoring from eraciatinge toothache, was pluckily holding to her engagement to sing, whence would not have sus her indisposition, for both in and in the dramatic touch ves a piquant touch to hee cellent, form.
ing of "Little Man," and lad were perhaps the most popular a audience, Little Miss is reliably reported that when hai on Sanday" morning outside Woo. ange
sung, she collided with a fishing ly sank. lives were lost. of Miss Sharp's, graceful dances, Tooking Tike an orange butterfly she lightly floated across the stage.
Newton held his charmed with his songs, which brought out the sweetness az well as the power of his delightful voice.
continued applause after his Fathers").
Daneing bro fal and highly enjoy (Land of My by Clarke, he respond ike Thou this Rose" but unfortunately had 90 more music with which to gratify the call for an encore after his song "Coming to You." 2
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