lIHNEiN 30CIEIT OP lOHBOS. 1; 



S!r ■ ™/ f.T°' "*■"" "^"-^-^^ "= object into thirteen 



PI«L w"t' """*^' '"' "'^"'"'" ^'^™"'^ respectivelyu^on 

 plants. We then come to the absorption of nutritiye elements 

 the c,rculat,on of Suids, foUowed by that of gases, thJugtZts 



"nTof °?"rr-» -^g». the'n^etkmorphtif S 

 movements of the substances out of which the organic ceUs are 



tension of vegetable tissue from mechanical and other Lses 

 To the advantages of this apparently exhaustive distr button of 

 the subject must be added that of exceUent typographier^ ' 

 rangements. Aline or two at the commencement of each seT 

 bon, ,n an open type, indicates the subject of the section tt 



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It IS announced that the whole work is to be completed during 

 the present year. The first volume is to contain the planT "l! 

 nd the general morphology of organs by Hofmeister, the" 

 sion of buds by Irmisch. and the anatomy of organs of veg Men 

 m vascular plants by De Bary. The second, Cryptogam ™W 

 « to be completed by Pringsheim on Alg», and Hofmeister 1 

 Mosses and vascular Cryptogams. The third is to be devoted to 

 sexual reproduction, by Hofmeister. If this plan beTs well 

 carried out to the end as it has been commenced, it will supply 



but so active are the researches now made, that even the volume 



serXsTor f '-"™ -PPl^onting. The curious ob! 

 servations of Charles Darwin, published in our own Journal 



»d toutm'l """'^ f '^"*^' "^^ ™* y^' --^^^ ao -ny; 

 and would make, mportaut additions to Julius Sachs's last chap^ 



W; ht „ n . "^T'' "''" ■■''"' ''* °™ of our recent meet- 



ings by a distinguished philosopher who is not one of ns or of 

 our science, Mr. Herbert Spencer, seemed to throw a new iLht 

 upon some of the effects of physical causes in promoting ph no 

 mena of vegetable life. This paper, however, being in the pritert 

 hands, I have not yet been able to study it, and therefore rTfrl 

 from givmg expression to any considerations that the hearing i^ 



Zt t^e """^'.r? 'r '"«^^^'«^- I "''■^ only express a hfpe 



that the ingenuity he has shown in conducting some experiments 



on the circulation of imbibed liquids, may be further a'pplM to 



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