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of this Association accordingly will be held in the mornings, from 9 to 
12.30, unless otherwise ordered by the Association, and in the Physical 
Laboratory of Columbian, University, corner Fifteenth and H. Streets, 
N. W. 
The titles of but four papers have thus far been received, to wit: by 
Dr. Wilder, “ Notes on the Biceps ” and “ The definite encephalic seg- 
ments and their designation ;” by Dr. Stroud, “ Comparative anatomy 
of the cerebellum” and “On Brain Preservation ;” all of them illustra- 
ted by specimens, photographs and charts. 
Members who intend to read papers or present specimens will please 
send titles to the Secretary as soon as convenient, that they may appear 
on the printed program 
The statue of Prof. Sane D. Gross will be dedicated during the 
Congress. 
Blank forms of application for membership will be sent on applica- 
tion.— D. S. Lamp, Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Academy of Science of St. Louis.—At the meeting of 
the Academy of Science of St. Louis held on the evening of April 5, 
1897, Professor Frederic Starr, of the University of Chicago, briefly 
addressed the Academy on the functions of such organizations, with 
especial reference to the local problems. Mr. H. C. Irish presented a 
paper on the relations of the unfolding of plants in spring to meteroro- 
logical conditions, in which were embodied deductions drawn from a 
series of observations made at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and those 
by other observers, extending back to the time of Stillingfleet, in the 
last century. Mr. Charles Robertson presented for publication a paper 
entitled North American Bees—Descriptions and Synonyms.—W m. 
TRELEASE, Secretary. 
The Botanical Seminar of the University of Nebraska.— 
February 27, 1897.—The Periodicity of Flowering, Mr. F. E. Clem- 
ents; Herbaceous Vegetation-Forms, Mr. Roscoe Pound; The Karyo- 
logy of the Ascomycetes; a Review, Mr. C. L. Shear; Organogeny of 
the Genus Prunus, Mr. A. T. Bell. March 27, 1897.—Chimney-shaped 
Stomata in Greatly-thickened Epidermis, Dr. C. E. Bessey ; Seed Pro- 
duction and Disseminations as Accessory Characters, Mr. F. E. Cle- 
ments ; Statistics Ecological and Distributional of Nebraska Grasses, 
Mr. Roscoe Pound ; The Origin of the rudimentary Ovules in Clematis, 
Mr. Ernst A. Bessey. 
