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active cells. The wall at the small end of 

 the bulb is still very thick, and at the mo- 

 ment of bursting suddenly contracts and 

 scatters the zoospores with a rush. (8) 

 Under various conditions direst develop- 

 ment of resting cell from resting cell seems 

 to occur. This looks like a process of ar- 

 rested development of zoospores, in which 

 cell division is complete, but the character- 

 istics of the motile cell do not appear. 

 Babhford Dean, 



Secretary. 

 Columbia University. 



( To he concluded. ) 



ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ANATOMISTS. 

 The eleventh annual session was held in 

 New York City, December 28tli-30th, in 

 conjunction with the 'Naturalists' and other 

 affiliated societies. Most of the meetings 

 were held at the Medical Department of 

 Columbia University. Forty-one members 

 attended and 20 new members joined, mak- 

 ing a total of 141, of whom 10 are honorary. 

 The localities and names of the new mem- 

 bers are as follows : From Ann Arbor, Pro- 

 fessor J. P. McMurrich, University of Michi- 

 gan ; from Baltimore, Professors F. P. Mall 

 and L. F. Barker and associate R. G. Har- 

 rison, of the Johns Hopkins University ; 

 from Buffalo, Dr. N. S. Russell, assistant 

 in anatom3'. University of Buffalo ; from 

 Ithaca, Dr. L. Coville, lecturer and demon- 

 strator in anatomy, Cornell University Med- 

 ical College ; from Montreal, Dr. J. G. Mac- 

 Carthy, senior demonstrator of anatomy, 

 McGill University ; from New York City, 

 Professor J. D. Erdmann, of Bellevue Med- 

 ical College ; Dr. Evelyn Garrigues, assist- 

 ant demonstrator of anatomy, Woman's 

 Medical College; Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, asso- 

 ciate in anthropology, Pathological Insti- 

 tute of New York Hospitals ; and the fol- 

 lowing assistant demonstrators of anatomy 

 in Columbia University : Doctors G. E. 

 Brewer, C. Carmalt, H. D. Collins, G. W. 



Crary, W. Martin, W. H. Rockwell and A. 

 S. Vosburgh ; from Philadelphia, Professor 

 J. C. Heisler, of the Medico-Chirurgical 

 College ; from Savannah, Dr. E. R. Corson ; 

 from Washington, D. C, Dr. C. I. West, 

 demonstrator and lecturer in topographical 

 anatomy, Howard University. 



The address of the President, Dr. Burt G. 

 Wilder, discussed, ' Misapprehensions as to 

 the Simplified Nomenclature;' the speaker 

 urged especiallj^ a fuller recognition of what 

 had been done by the English anatomists, 

 Barclajr, Owen, Pye-Smith and T. Jeffery 

 Parker, and hoped the nomenclature of the 

 future would be called the ' Anglo-Ameri- 

 can.' 



The Association voted that abstracts of 

 papers be required in advance, and that 

 brief abstracts be included in the program j 

 that the time for reading papers be limited 

 to thirty minutes; that the Secretary-Treas- 

 urer be allowed his railroad fare and ten 

 dollars toward his hotel expenses at each 

 meeting. The Association also accepted the 

 propositions of the editors of the (English) 

 Journal of Anatomy and Physiology as to 

 making that journal the ofBcial organ of 

 the Association, and nominated Professor 

 George S. Huntington as the American 

 editor. The details of the arrangement will 

 be given in a circular to be issued by the 

 Secretary of the Association. Dr. E. W. 

 Holmes, of Philadelphia, was elected mem- 

 ber of the Executive Committee, and the 

 President was authorized to fill the vacancy 

 in the Committee on Anatomical Nomen- 

 clature caused by the resignation of Dr. 

 Dwight.* 



^he subject assigned for discussion, ' The 

 Teaching of Anatomy in Our Medical 

 Schools,' was opened by Dr. Holmes; ' The 

 Defects of our Present Methods,' and further 

 considered under ten divisions, viz: (1) Pre- 

 paratory education. (2) The value and place 



* Dr. E. C. Sjjitzka, of New York City, has since been 

 selected. 



