RAPHAEL MELDOLA, F.C.S. LATE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON It would be meaningless to assert that the two stages above mentioned were _completely_ independent of one another. It is obvious that the amount of organic and living matter contained in the caterpillar determines the size of the butterfly, and that the quantity of organic matter in the egg must determine the size of the emergent larva. The assertion in the above heading refers only to the structure; but even for this it cannot be taken as signifying an absolute, but only a relative independence, which, however, certainly obtains in a very high degree. Although it is conceivable that every change of structur…
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