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since, in Rose Bay, Port Jackson, comprising tlie skull and about 150 ver- 

 tebrae. The specimen measured more than 10 feet in length. Only one 

 species of the genus is known, G. anguineus Garman, from the Sea of Sa- 

 gami, Japan, as well as from deep waters in the vicinity of Madeira, the 

 Azores and the coast of Norway; while the length of the largest specimens 

 hitherto known, appeared to be about 5 feet. — Mr. Fletcher showed ger- 

 minating seeds and young seedlings up to 4 inches, of a common leafless 

 parasite, Gassytlia ■pubescens R. Br., one of the Dodder-Laurels [N. O. Lauri- 

 neae]. The portion of the embryo which emerges from the seed is at first 

 cylindrical, shortly becoming clup-shaped; meanwhile the rudiments of the 

 roots, of which there are usually three, appear as a median and two lateral 

 projections — sometimes only two are developed. The roots and root-hairs 

 of seedlings no older than those exhibited attain considerable development; 

 in this respect, as also in the presence of chlorophyll in the young stems, 

 differing markedly from young Dodder plants [N. O. Convolvulaceae] (as 

 described in text-books, e.g., Kerner and Oliver's > Nat. Hist, of Plants«, 

 I. 173), to which at an early stage they offer some resemblance. A leafless 

 condition characterises both types. 



III. Personal-Notizen. 



Vom 1. Oktober an lautet meine Adresse: 

 Dr. Boris Zarnik, 



Einjähr. -Freiwill, im k. k. Landesschützenregiment Nr. I, 1. Komp. 



Bozen (Tirol). 



Aus Anlaß der Einweihung des neuen Naturliistorischen Museums 

 der Senckenbergiscben Gesellschaft in Frankfurt a. M. wurde dessen 

 Direktor, Herr Dr. F. Römer, zum Professor ernannt. 



Nekrolog. 



Am 31, August d. J. starb in Pavia der ordenti. Prof. der Zoologie 

 und Vorsitzende der naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität 

 von Pavia Dr. Pietro Pavesi, geboren daselbst am 24. September 1844. 



Am 21. September d. J. starb in Braunschweig Prof. Dr. Rudolf 

 Blasius, Vorsitzender der Deutschen Ornithologischen Gesellschaft, 

 geboren am 25. November 1842 in Braunschweig. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



