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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 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 

 Education. 



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. 



MARCH, 1896. 



CONTENTS. 



LUDWIG AND MODERN PHYSIOLOGY. By J. BURDON SANDERSON, M.D., 

 F.R.S., Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford 



ON RECENT ADVANCES IN VEGETABLE CYTOLOGY. By J. BRETLAND 



FARMER, M.A., Professor of Botany in the Royal College of Science, London ... 



THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE MOLLUSCA. 



Lincoln College, Oxford 



By W. GARSTANG, M.A., Fellow of 



THE RESERVE MATERIALS OF PLANTS (Concluded). By J. REYNOLDS GREEN, 

 M. A. , F.R.S., Professor of Botany to the Pharmaceutical Society, London 



AFRICAN GRASS FIRES AND THEIR EFFECTS. By G. F. SCOTT ELLIOT, M.A. 



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I. NOTICES OF BOOKS 



II. CHEMICAL LITERATURE FOR JANUARY, 1896 



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