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Red Pine is by no means nd if not much prettier, than the Atte, 
We hope to see them some day generally grown,—Meehan’s Gardeners 
Monthly ( Philadelphia). 
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of Natural History just published, Dr. Wilder shows that in the 
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liquity in leaves, but Dr. Wilder showed their reasoning insufficient. . W. 
believed it to be caused by no external agency, but by an inherent constitu- 
connection with the general subject of phyllotaxis. They had found that each 
leaf was primarily a swelling or wave of growth, freeing itself from the axis of 
the embryo; and that differences in size between the sides of a leaf were 
` caused by the greater force of the wave in its upward or downward descent. 
Such peculiarities as have been pointed out between the leaves of the Elm and 
the petiole had taken place. Professor Agassiz thought the eed antistrophe’ 
better expressed the inverse relation of corresponding parts on the opposite 
sides of a line than ‘symmetry.’ Dr. Wilder had shown that the correspond- 
ing leaves on each side of a shoot were symmetrieal.—4 bid. 
BOTANICAL NEWS, 
At a recent meeting of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, T. J. Bennett, 
Esq., F.R.S., of the British Museum, was elected one of its six British Hono- 
rary Fellows, and EN W. P. Schimper, of Strasbourg, one of its Foreign 
Honorary Membe 
The chair of Eeri in Trinity College, Dublin, vacant by the appointment 
of Professor Dickson to the similar chair in the University of Glasgow, 
been bestowed on Dr. E. Perceval Wright by the Provost and Fellows of the 
College. Dr. Wright has for some years occupied the chair of zoology in the 
same college, and is favourably known by his researches in the animal kingdom. 
During the last illness of Professor Harvey, Dr. Wright discharged for him 
the duties of his chair. He has also written several memoirs on botanical 
subjects, and among the collections made by him during his recent visit to 
Seychelles were several interesting new — which he has described in th 
. Wyville Thomson, Polar: of Natural History in Queen’s Memes. 
Belfast, wheat numerous memoirs on zoological subjects have made him ex 
tensively known among naturalists, has been appointed to the chats of bolas. 
in the College of Science at Stephen's Green, which was held along with the 
professorship in Trinity College by Dr. Dickson. 
