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These endomitotic cycles, like those described by Geitler, consist of endoprophase r 

 endometaphase, endoanaphase, and endotelophase. Throughout the whole process the 

 nuclear membrane remains intact, there is no spindle and consequently no anaphase 

 separation or polar movement of the chromosomes. 



It seems probable that endomitosis may not be peculiar to the tapetal cells of Spiiiacia, 

 but may have a wider application and may explain many of the cytological phenomena 

 occurring in the tapetal cells of other plants, which up to now have been rather obscure. 



The meeting was adjourned at 4:45 p.m. in order that the members might 

 carry on an informal discussion and look at the excellent demonstrations pre- 

 pared. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Frances E. Wynne 

 Recording Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



The following item came just too late to be included in the December num- 

 ber : 



The California Academy of Sciences has just issued the Alice Eastwood 

 Semi-Centennial Publications in its Fourth Series of Proceedings, honoring 

 the 85 year-old botanist's fifty year term as a member of the Academy staff 

 where she is active head of the botany department. Of interest to botanists 

 and flower lovers, the 14 pamphlets include such titles as : "A Revision of the 

 Genus Fuchsia," by Philip A. Munz, professor of botany at Pomona College; 

 "Relations of the Temperate Flora of North and South America," by Prof. 

 Douglas Campbell ; "Water and Plant Anatomy," by emeritus Prof. George 

 Pierce of Stanford. The series of publications is available to the public at the 

 California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. 



Through an oversight, the name of Prof. H. H. Whetzel of Cornell Uni- 

 versity was omitted from the list published in the last number of Torreya, of 

 botanists who died last year. His death occurred on November 30, 1944. 



Mr. William T. Davis, well known to many members of the Torrey Club 

 for his work in entomology, and on the local flora, as a leader of numerous 

 nature walks on Staten Island, and for his activity in the Staten Island His- 

 torical Society, died on lanuarv 22, 1945. 



