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tions will be ultimately set aside, when a more critical spirit prevails 
among species zoologists. Money is so badly needed for scientific re- 
search and its publication, that it is melancholy to notice its perver- 
sion to such an object. It is also difficult to understand how any one 
who understands the true needs of science can devote his time to writ- 
ing such a book. In concluding these remarks, we wish to emphasize 
the fact that Mr. Rafinesque was not a Kentuckian, nor an American, 
so that patriotic (!) motives can scarcely enter into the proposition. 
—lr is greatly to be hoped that the newly established Botanical 
Society of America can be induced to hold at least some of its meet- 
ings at the same times and places as the societies of Naturalists, 
Morphologists and Physiologists, for not a few will be members of 
more than one of these organizations, while there are many questions 
like those of evolution, heredity, geographical distribution, studies 
of the cell and of protoplasm, which, whether presented from the zo- 
ological or the botanical side are of equal interest to all. We notice 
that the provisions of the constitution of the new society are in effect 
that annual and special meetings are to be held at times and places 
appointed by the council, so that there is, in this respect, no trouble in 
affiliation with the older organizations. 
—Proressor W. W. Norman of De Pauw University goes to the 
place in the University of Texas recently vacated by C. L. R. Edwards, 
now of Cincinnati. In view of the treatment experienced by Dr. 
Edwards, the position can hardly be said to be a desirable one, and 
we withhold our congratulations until we see whether the university 
authorities know more or are more sensible of the advances of science 
than they were a faw months ago. The best we can do is to extend 
our sympathies. 
The numbers of the American Naturalist for 1894 were issued at 
the following dates: January, Jan. 25; February, Feb. 17; March, 
Mch. 8; April, Apl. 2; May, May 4; June, June 1; July, July 15; 
August, Aug. 14; September, Sept. 15 ; October, Oct. 10; November, 
ov. 8; December, Dec. 5. 
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