278 THE ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER D. H. Scott, late Honorary
Director of the Research Laboratory, Kew Gardens, and President
of the Linnean Society, London. Its title is “ The Evolution of
Plants,” and on p. 224 one may read “Negative evidence can never
be conclusive.” This dictum applies to the adverse reports of
Bainbridge, the official cancer-researchers, and, in fine, all
who have condemned the enzyme treatment. Another good example is
furnished by the controversy—now some quarter of a century
old—in both botany and zoology, as to the inheritance or non-
inheritance of characters acquired by the individual. Weismann,
for one, has carried out elaborate experiments to refute this
supposed inheritance of acquired characters, but all with
negative results. As a fact, the doctrine finds its strongest
support in botany, where it has been overlooked that this
apparent inheritance of such characters was confined to the
asexual generations, in which, if the term “individual” be used,
it must apply to all the produ