By request the Editor of this magazine wrote a review of all that he could find on record relating to the chapter by Mr. Darwin, favoring the view that there is an immediate effect of pollen on fruit.

This paper appears in the Rural New Yorker of June 13, pages 404, 416. The result of that review is, that there is no evidence that any change by pollen has ever been accomplished in fruits, though it appears that the cotyledons of some seeds - being part of the new plant - may be affected. The following letters refer to the articles in the Rural New Yorker.

The first is from Mr. D. S. Marvin, Watertown, N. Y. " In crossing grapes I have never observed any variation in the fruit immediately produced. I have had light colored fruit in seedlings from Gregg and Taylor, two black caps." This last point shows that change in fruits may come about even after crossing, and yet without the pollen having any influence to prevent change, much less causing it.

The next letter is from the distinguished President of the American Pomological Society. "I wish your paper on the immediate effect of pollen on fruit in the Rural New Yorker could have been reserved for the meeting of the Pomological Society at Grand Rapids. It is one of the most remarkable papers of the age, able, reasonable, sensible, exhaustive, and finally conclusive, that I have ever read, and I believe will be so regarded by all intelligent people.

"I started experiments with the Strawberry under glass this spring, taking diverse kinds for the purpose, and not one of them has sustained the hvpothesis that there is any immediate effect of pollen on fruit".