A BIOLOGICAL LECTURE
I ' "ALL FLESH IS GRASS." _ A popular scientific lecture, under the title, of "Leaf. Green, Nature's Great Achievement," was given in Everybody's Theatre last night by Professor H. B. Kirk. By stimulating the imagination of his audience, and directing it skilfully, the lecturer contrived to avoid references to the difficulties ordinarily to be overcome by the student who would learn the structure of cellular tissue, and to avoid also the use of a multitudo of scientific terms not in common use. He made the story of the processes that go on continuously in the flesh of a plant leaf diverting as well as "instructive. Having got over the initial obstacles in the ivay .of popular discourse on such' a subject he spoke of the importance for all living things of the presence of' green colouring matter in all plants, even in ; those not appearing green to the eye of man. He explained as occasion offered how it was that but for the presence of that substance in plants imparting to them their green colour, no life could bo sustained on earth, and demonstrated the truth of the Scriptural • parados, I "All flesh is grass." '
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2397, 1 March 1915, Page 8
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197A BIOLOGICAL LECTURE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2397, 1 March 1915, Page 8
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