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Conducted by HENRY C. BURDETT. 



Edited by J- BRETLAND FARMER, M.A. 



WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL COMMITTEE:- 

 H. E. ARMSTRONG, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry at the City and Guilds of London Institute for Technical 



W. R. E DUNSTAN, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, St. Thomas' Hospital and Pharmaceutical Society, 

 G. F. FITZGERALD, F.R.S., Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the University of Dublin. 

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APRIL, 1895. 



CONTENTS. 



MOUNTAIN SICKNESS. By C. S. ROY, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Pathology in the 

 University of Cambridge', 



SPANISH ANTHROPOLOGY. By JOHN BEDDOE, F.R.S ... ■■■ - ■" 



ON METAMORPHOSIS IN PLANTS. By K. GOEBEL, Ph.D., Professor of Botany in 

 the University of Munich ■ "" " .'.'' uattt 



THE COAGULATION OF THE BLOOD ^Additional Note). By W. D. HALLI- 

 BURTON M D F.R.S., Professor of Physiology in King's College, London 



THE ARRANGEMENT OF|THE ATOMS IN A CRYSTAL. By H. A. MIERS, M.A. 



WHAT IS A "TENDENCY"? By A. W. BENNETT, M.D., Lecturer on Botany at St. 



L^MES" TO THE GEOLOGY OF THE WESTERN ALPS. By 



J. W. GREGORY 



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