BOTANICAL NEWS. 359 
Dr. Karstcn has just republished the anatomical and physiological papers 
wliichj since 1843, he had inserted in various periodicals and transactions, the 
whole forumig a quarto volume of 460 pages, illustrated by 25 plates, and en- 
titled * Qesannnelte Beitriige zur Anatomic und Physiologie der Pflanzen.' 
Mr. J. Storck, -writing from the Fiji Island?, under date of June the 3rd, 
mentions that an English man-of-war was expected in the group, and that an 
excursion through Yiti Levu was projected, which he had been invited to join 
by the British consul. There was a rumour that Mr. Cliarles Moore, of 
Sydney, would pay a visit to "^iji. The cultivation of cotton in Yiti Levu was 
extending. 
The fourth annual report of the Acclimatization Society of New Soutli Wales 
shows the society to be in a very flourishing condition, and its financial re- 
sources to be increasing. Durhig the past year part of the Paramatta Park of 
Sydney has been placed at its disposal, and a good many animals and plants 
useful to the colony have been mtroduced and distributed. 
At the meeting of German naturalists at Hanover, botanists were numerously 
represented. At the first general meeting Professors Hallicr and Schultz- 
Scluiltzenstein read papers on Darwin's theory. Prof. Kallier*s paper referred 
to " Specification," and tried to prove that on this point the older views of 
Grennan naturalists were more correct and comprehensive than those advanced 
by Darwinians. Prof. Sclmltz-Schultzenstein, of Berlin, referred to Blumen- 
bach's theory of Epigenesis and " Bildungstrieb." Some things, he said, were 
true in Darwin's theory, all of whicli he claimed as Grerman property, and what 
was new in Darwinism was not sound. A pamphlet by Dr. Karl Schimper, of 
Schwctzingen, was also distributed, and afterwards partly reprinted in the official 
journal, in which lie ridicules Darwinism, and condemns it as shallow. The 
botanists and the arboriculturists and agronomists formed themselres, for con- 
venience' sake, into two sections, there being no such formalities and restric- 
tions as at the British Association. At the proposal of Dr. Seemann, Prof. 
Bartling, of Gottingen, was elected first president of the botanical section. 
Prof. Schultz-Schultzenstein read a paper on the difference between metamor- 
phosis and anaphytosis, with special regard to double flowers. In the discus- 
sion Drs. Jessen and Seemann took part, the former endeavouring to prove 
that the parts of a flower were not leaves, but branches. Dr, von Holle 
(author of a ^Elora of Hanover') exhibited full sets of all the brambles he had 
collected in Germany. Together with many other botanists, he had been 
sceptical with regard to there being several species of brambles, but the con- 
viction had been forced upon him that there were many good species. He 
divided them into three sections, the glabrous, pubescent, and glandular. 
He expressed liis desire to exchange specimens with botanists of other 
countries, and gave an interesting account of his visit to the locality whence 
!N"ees and Weilie obtained many of their species. Prof. Bartling confirmed 
the belief that there were several well-defined species, though from personal 
observation he could not believe in anything hke the number proposed by 
some (probably alluding to Muller's paper in the *Bonplandia'). Dr. von 
Holle answered Dr. Seemanu's question whether he had succeeded in discover- 
ing any diagnostic character overlooked by previous workers, and whether the 
