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A MONTHLY REVIEW OF CURRENT SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION. 



Conducted by HENRY C. BURDETT. 



Edited by J. BRETLAND FARMER, M.A. 



WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL COMMITTEE:— 



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

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

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



C. S. SHERRINGTON, F.R.S., Professor of Physiology in University College, Liverpool. 



J. W. JUDD, C.B., F.R.S., Dean of the Royal College of Science, London. 



W. J. SOLLAS, F.R.S., Professor of Geology in the University of Dublin. 



G. B. HOWES, F.Z.S., Professor of Zoology, Royal College of Science, London. 



H. MARSHALL WARD, F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. 



H. A. M1ERS, F. R.S., Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Oxford. 



JULY, 1896. 



CONTENTS. 



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PREHISTORIC MAN IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN. By J. L. MYRES, 



Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 335 



THE GRAPTOLITES. By J. E. MARR, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow of St. John's College, 



Cambridge ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 360 



INSULAR FLORAS (Part VI. b). By W. BOTTING HEMSLEY, Royal Herbarium, Kew 374 



SELECTION IN MAN. By JOHN BEDDOE, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S 384 



RECENT DISCOVERIES IN AVIAN PAL/EONTOLOGY. By C. W. ANDREWS ... 398 



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I. NOTICES OF BOOKS 



II. CHEMICAL LITERATURE FOR JUNE, 1896 



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