Miscellaneous Notes. 
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The Centralblatt furBakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infcktions- 
krankheiten has also been reorganized, and is to appear in an 
enlarged form. Part II., which will deal with the botanical and 
technical, as opposed to the medical and hygienic, side of the subject 
is under the joint editorship of Dr. Uhlworm (late of the Botanisches 
Centralblatt) of Berlin, and Dr. Hansen of Copenhagen, and will 
publish original papers, reports of societies and institutions, and 
reviews, contributors being remunerated at fixed rates. It is to be 
hoped that an effort will be made to notice all bacteriological 
publications which do not appear in its own pages. The rigid 
specialization of scientific journals is in these days a most desirable 
di ection in which to aim, and we should like to see it carried very 
much further than has been attempted at present. 
The “Seminar” Method in Botanical Teaching. 
We are very glad to be able to publish Mr. Seward’s interesting 
account of his experiment in the co-operative method of ad¬ 
vanced teaching familiar at German Universities in the various 
“seminars.” We do not think that (with the exception of Professor 
Miall’s classes, which we gather were elementary) it has been 
previously tried in this country in any of our University departments 
of Botany, but we believe its obvious merits will quickly recommend 
it to many of our botanical teachers, now that Professor Miall’s 
and Mr. Seward’s evident success are on record. It will we believe 
be found to be readily applicable to many of the branches of botany 
commonly taught in our Universities, physiology, anatomy and 
ecology being those perhaps which most readily suggest themselves 
as suitable for the experiment. One great advantage, we thinlq 
will be the absolute impossibility of either teachers or students using 
it for purposes of “cram.” We shall be glad to publish correspondence 
on the subject from botanical teachers. 
The Segmentation of the Stem. 
In connexion with the review which we publish of Professor 
Celakovsky’s work on the segmentation of the stem, it may be of 
interest to point out the striking similarity of some essential points 
in his theory with the hypothetical account of the evolution of the 
shoots of Angiosperms given by Mr. Herbert Spencer in his 
