844 Scientific News. [ October, 
with reference to its self-fertilization, or fertilization by insects, 
birds, winds, or by other means. elow are samples: Moth- 
mullein, dog-bane, common sage, thyme, red clover, plantain, 
milkweed, mallow, thistle, cleistogamous flowers of violet, cam- 
panula, iris, lobelia, martynia, Indian corn, wild balsam. One 
student may study the vines of dodder; one, the climbing of Vir- 
ginia creeper; one, the twining of the wild morning-glory ; one, 
cucumber tendrils; one unequal-lobed leaves; one, the time of 
opening and closing of flowers ; several, the development of some 
irregular flowers; one, the order of dehiscence among anthers of 
a flower; one, the honey-glands of some flower; glands in other 
parts of plants than flowers; growing beans in all sorts of soil 
and with more or less light; the germinating power of weevil- 
eaten peas; the relative order of development of stamens and 
pistils of many plants of Indian corn; for what do ants visit 
plants ? 
“The theses were made up of original investigation and ex- 
periments, and were read in class. Students use stage mucro- 
scopes. Later in the course, each is supplied with a good com- 
aterm. Pupils prepare their own slides, make notes and draw- 
ings, which are preserved at the college. Most of the time for 
the term is spent on one plant, a favorite of which is the com- 
mon pumpkin.” 
— The British Association began its meetings Wednesday, 
Aug. 31, at York, when Professor A. C. Ramsay, Director-Gen- 
eral of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, and of the 
Museum of Practical Geology, resigned the chair; and Sir John 
vered 
sor Huxley discoursed on the “Rise and Progress of Palaon- 
tology.” On Saturday evening Professor Osborne Reynolds, 
F.R.S., delivered a popular lecture to the working classes. 
Monday evening Mr. Spottiswoode, president of the Royal 5 
ciety, gave an address on the “Electric Discharge, its forms a0 
its functions.” On Tuesday evening there was a soiree. 
_ Wednesday, September 7, the concluding general meeting was 
held at 2.30 p.m. : 
—The Penn Monthly for August contains an excellent biographt 
cal notice of the late Professor S. S. Haldeman, by Professot zs 
H. Hart. Among recent deaths of scientists we have to pak 
cle that of Dr. Ferdinand Keller, the distinguished Swiss arche- 
ologist and author of a well known work on Lake Hiebagn 
He died at Zurich, July 21, aged 80 years. A prominent Eve eh 
botanist, H. C. Watson, born in 1804, and author of several work» 
including “Cybele Britannnica,” died in July. Dr. 
Rougemont died at Neuchatel, May 27. 
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