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occurred in the winter season — October to March. 

 On the German coasts the winter percentage of 

 storms amounted to So per cent. September showed 

 but 3 per cent, instead of its fair average of 8J per 

 cent. March is windy, the stormy winter season not 

 ending until somewhat later ; the gales of March are 

 winter gales, not equinoctial. 



Demoralized Cats and Monkeys. — M. Ludovic 

 Jammes, in a paper communicated to the Academy 



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mm 



Fig. 67. — Diagram of Belem- 

 nite. (After Phillips.) a, 

 pro-ostracum ; b, rostrum, 

 or guard ; c, phragmacone ; 

 d, alveolus. Note. — The 

 rostrum and pro-ostracum 

 are shown in section ; the 

 phragmocone is entire. 



Fig. 68. — Belemnites abbre- 

 viates, showing phragma- 

 cone in situ. 



BELEMNITES : THEIR HISTORY AND 

 MODERN ANALOGUES. 



By H. E. Quilter. 



IT would be unwise on my part to enter into the 

 history of the knowledge of Belemnites, as it 

 is almost the history of the science of Palaeontology. 



Belemnites were formerly regarded with super- 

 stitious awe, enhanced by the application to them of 



Fig. 69. — Fhragmacone, 

 showing chambers. 



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\ . i< Put' 1 '' .-.' „.'<* 'w' ': 



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¥4m 



Fig. 70. — Belemnitella 

 mucronata. 



Fig. 71. — Belemnites 

 hastata. 



Fig. 72. — Belemnites 

 j>nzosia?ius. 



of Sciences on 25th of April, described some painful 

 cases of cats and monkeys acquiring a love of the 

 fumes of opium through association with the opium- 

 smokers of Camboja and China. " Evil communi- 

 cations corrupt good manners." 



M. Thollon, the eminent spectroscopist, died 

 suddenly at the Nice Observatory on Good Friday. 



such names as Spectorum cainirfa and Digite diabolo Y 

 while at present they are popularly called " thunder- 

 bolts." 



They are now however, known as the internal shells 

 or bones of a Cephalopodous mollusc, or cuttle-fish. 



This internal shell, or skeleton, is the only part of 

 the animal found fossil. When perfect, or restored., 

 it may be conveniently divided into three parts : — 



