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most honorable names in Great Britain and it is especially desira- 

 ble that the number of subscribers be great rather than the indi- 

 vidual subscriptions, for in a memorial to this great epoch-maker 

 in science should appear contributions from all those who appre- 

 ciate his work or honor his memory, and their name is legion. 

 The form which the Memorial is to take has not yet been decided, 

 but it will probably include an endowment for a scholarship to 

 cany on biological research. The English circular appropriately 

 says: ''though the works of Charles Darwin form his best and 

 most enduring memorial, his many friends and admirers feel that 

 these should not be his only monument. They are desirous of 

 handing down to posterity the likeness of a man who has done so 

 much for the advancement of natural knowledge, possibly in the 

 form of a statue to be erected in some public place. They wish 

 further, if possible, to establish a Fund associated with his name, 

 the proceeds of which will be devoted, in some way hereafter to be 

 determined, to the furtherance of Biological Science. 1 ' 



In the English subscription list the amounts vary from two or 

 three dollars to five hundred, so that any one can give, and we have no 

 doubt that many readers of this will be glad to contribute within 

 these limits. The home circular says that "subscriptions may be 

 sent to Alexander Agassiz, Cambridge, Mass., who will acknowledge 

 the same and forward them to the Treasurer of the English Execu- 

 tive Committee of the Darwin Memorial.'" — J. M. C. 



Aralia racemosa, L. — This plant is well adapted to show the 

 morphological character of a panicle. Two or three internodes 

 from the ground is a leaf about 2^- ft. long. In its axis may be 

 found 1 to 6 umbels. The next internode bears a leaf about 1^ ft. 

 long. In this axis is a raceme of 4 to 7 umbels. The leaf of the 

 following internode is only about f ft. in length. It bears a panicle 

 of 4 t<- 7 umbels. The succeeding leaf is f in. long, the petiole 

 equalling the ternately parted rudimentary blade. The axis contains 

 3 to 4 umbels in a panicle. Then follow two or three leaves scarce- 

 ly i in. long with undivided blades passing into triangular bracts. 

 This is the normal condition, but intermediate states are found 

 connecting the leaves morphologically with the bracts by a con- 

 tinuous series of specimens. What seems to be a large panicle is 

 the primary stem bearing small racemes or panicles in the axis of 

 leaves in their ordinary form or reduced to bracts. 



This species is prtandrous. The petals and stamens fall off 

 before the 5 stigmas recurve to receive the pollen, insuring cross- 

 fertilization. — A. F. Foerste, Dayton, Ohio. 



Animal and Vegetable Chlorophyll.— To say that one 

 difference between plants and animals is that the food of the 

 former is inorganic and that of the latter organic is hardly a cor- 

 rect statement, for the food of both kinds of organisms is necessarily 



