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tinents. His work was done in Bohemia, and his collections — 
filled to overflowing the spacious apartments of his mansion in — 
Prague, where he lived simply and unostentatiously, devoting — 
his fortune to the preparation of the plates and text of his works, — 
which he distributed with a princely hand. He belonged in every — 
sense to the old régime. Faithful to the memory and interests of 2 
his royal master and to monarchist principles, he was inflexiblein — 
his adherence to Cuvierian ideas in biology, in his opposition to 
ence has died in the fullness of years and honors. 3 
— Professor Oswald Heer died at Zurich, Sept. 27. He was 
born in 1809 near St. Gallen; in 1834 he became a privatdocent 
for botany and entomology in the University of Zurich, whee 
1836 he was appointed professor and director of the botanigt . 
den. Since the year 1853 his continuous series of researches 1 | 
fossil plants have made his name famous. His works on the his : 
sil plants of Greenland and Spitzbergen were notable, re eo 
extended work and papers on. fossil insects. His st kr : o 
book, The Primeval World of Switzerland, in two volumes, WA 
translated into English. It will always occupy am Ip" = 
place in a scientific library. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. =. 
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by Dr. Thomas Gill on the ichthyological results of the ee 
Dr. C. A. White on the character and funtie A hie a gn 
the bull snake (Pityophis); by Professor Lester BP; terii y Dr 
interesting botanical relic of the ese sie of Columbia, and by | 
C. V. Riley on manna in the United States. a M. Stem 
Nov. 2—Communications were read by Dr. George Wither 
berg, U.S.A., on Micrococci; by Dr. E. M. Schae! “8 Dr.T 
remarks on Manna, with exhibition of specimeni: Yi pito 
Bean on arrested asymmetry in a flounder, hae? nic dic 
specimens, and by Professor Lester F. Ward on es 
yledons. x ngs ri 
New York Acapemy oF Sciences, Oct. ba ee stret 
now held in the new building of Columbia Col T were al 
and Madison avenue. The following comm ne EE as 
nounced: On the strata of indurated shales betw 
