Societies and Academies

Abstract

GÖTTINGEN

Royal Society of Sciences, March 7.- M. Wieseler read a paper On the Surname i£ Asphaleios“as applied to Poseidon. -Dr. Drude presented a note On the Systematic Position of Schizocodon, a genus created by Siebold, to which some plants found in the highlands of Japan are referred. The author regards Schizocodon as an anomalous Primulacea, allied to Sol-danella, and clearing up the relationship between the Primulacea? - and the Polemionacese.-Dr. Carl Fromme made a communication On the magnetisation-function of a ball of soft iron, i.e. the magnetic moment obtained in a ball of unit volume by unit magnetising force.-M. Noldeke communicated a note On the Greek Names of Susiana.-M. Bjerkesm gave a generalisation of the problem of motions produced in a still inelastic fluid by the motion of an ellipsoid.