Seven ambitious brothers and how they bred a race of kings / editor: Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D.

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[1914]
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Credit: Seven ambitious brothers and how they bred a race of kings / editor: Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with the Californian in the other; and in the Shasta daisy which combines the characteristics of three species originally inhabiting Europe, America, and Japan respectively. AMERICA—THE RACIAL MELTING POT It is obvious that here in America we are bringing together, thanks to the extraordinary im- migration of recent years, representatives of the human species of many races and from all regions of the globe. In the nature of the case, these new comers will ultimately intermingle, and thus there will be accomplished, on a broader and more com- prehensive scale, some such blending of the strains of different human races as Mr. Burbank has accomplished in the case of the different races of plants. The question naturally arises as to whether the remarkable results that Mr. Burbank has pro- duced in developing improved races of plants are likely to be duplicated in the case of the human plant here in America. Offhand it might seem that such should be the case. But before indulg- ing in too optimistic an augury it is well to con- _ sider two or three complications. In the first place it must be recalled that Mr. Burbank imports only the best examples of the various species with which he experiments. He thus breeds from selected stock. But it is well [11]
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