NEWS. 
Dr. A. NESTLER has been appointed assistant professor in the German 
University at Prag. 
Dr. R. HEGLER, frivat-docent in the University of Rostock, died at 
Stuttgart on September 2 
Sir Jos—EPH HooKER has been elected one of the foreign associates of 
the French Academy of Sciences, Institute of France.—Gard. Chron. 
THE SECOND MEETING of the naturalists of the central states was held 
at Chicago, on December 27 and 28, in the biological buildings of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. There was a good attendance of both zoologists and 
and Holferty of Illinois, Mottier and King of Indiana, Grover of Ohio, Cope- 
land of West Virginia, and Jeffrey of Toronto. The visitors, together with 
the botanical staff of the University of Chicago, and the ten or twelve graduate 
students who were still at the University during the holidays, made upa satis- 
factory botanical attendance. The papers were numerous enough to demand 
the division on Friday afternoon into botanical and zoological sections. The 
botanical papers were as follows: H. C. CowLes, H. N. WHITFORD, and C. C. 
ApAms: The relation of base-leveling to specific differentiation. A symp0- 
sium, treated from the standpoint of both plants and animals. B.M. DAvIs: 
Coenogametes. H. G. TIMBERLAKE: Swarmspore formation in Hydro- 
dictyon. . H. SHULL: Variation in the florets and bracts of Aster Puniceus 
Linn. H.N. WuitrorD: The genetic development of the forests of nor- 
thern Michigan and a consideration of the factors controlling the distribution 
of ‘coniferous forests. E.C. JEFFREY: An anatomical classification of vas- 
cular plants. H.C. CowLes: Application of the quantitative method to the 
dynamical study of plant societies. R. B. THomson: North American 
Chalazogams. O. W. CALDWELL: The use of color photography in demon- 
stration work, J. H. FAULL: Some interesting features in the anatomy of 
the Osmundaceae. E. B. CopELAND: Stomata of some Liliaceae. The 
success of this meeting justifies the expectation that a society of the naturalists 
of the upper Mississippi valley meeting at this time of year, can be made 
successful. A third meeting, at which a formal organization may be effected, 
will be held in Chicago in December rgor. 
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