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just a " snack " in fact, and a good dinner, eaten leisurely, but always 

 of fresh meat, rechauffes being simply " poison." 



The Nineteenth Century for August quotes some interesting reminis- 

 cences of Huxley by Mr. Wilfred Ward, a neighbour and friend. 



Knowledge for September contains, besides much interesting 

 matter, a iine full-page reproduction of a photograph of sooty alba- 

 trosses taken on Laysan Island, by Mr. Palmer, the collector for the 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



The Literary Digest for August 22 contains a translation from La 

 Nature of an article on the decimal division of time, with figures of 

 watch-dials divided in this way. The writer is hopeful that this 

 reform may be introduced, and quotes a resolution passed by the 

 London Geographical Society in 1896 inviting similar societies to 

 study the application of the metric system to the measurement of time. 



The Irish Naturalist for September is devoted to a description of 

 the fauna and flora of Clonbrock, Co. Galway, which was investigated 

 by a party of the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club last June. The 

 results are very gratifying, and have been worked out as follows : — 

 Land Planarians and Leeches, Land and Freshwater Mollusca, and 

 Isopods, by R. F. Scharff ; Earthworms, by Rev. H. Friend ; Spiders, 

 by G. H. Carpenter; Hemiptera and Coleoptera, by J. N. Halbert ; 

 Fungi, by E. J. McWeeney ; Mosses and Hepatics, by David 

 M'Ardle ; and Flowering Plants and Vascular Cryptograms, by 

 R. Lloyd Praeger. 



We have received from the British Association the handy little 

 guide to Liverpool and the neighbourhood, edited by Professor W. A. 

 Herdman, who himself contributes an article on the marine fauna of 

 the district. The archaeology, geology, zoology, entomology, and 

 botany are treated respectively by W. H. Picton, G. H. Morton, H. 

 O. Forbes, W. E. Sharp, and Robert Brown. Instructive information 

 is also given as to the tides, the climate, the trade, industries, etc., of 

 Liverpool ; and there are five maps, among which we may specially 

 notice the biological chart of the Irish Sea, which forms quite a new 

 departure. 



It is announced that Cuvier's work, dated 1788, on the edible 

 crabs of the French coast, as well as a number of his letters, are 

 about to be published by the Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie of 

 Halle. 



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