CONTENTS. 



ORIGINAL PAPERS. 



PAGE 



Geological Origin of the Present Scenery of Scotland, by A. Geekie, 



Director-General of the Geological Survey of Scotland . i 

 Iras Negra, in Angola, by Dr Welwitsch . . .22 



ilance at the Present Position and Prospects of Geographical Science 106 



Theory of Birds Nests, by Alfred Wallace ... ^3 



^eply to Mr Wallace's Theory of Birds' Nests (Editor) . . 137 



"^n Mr Wallace's Theory of Birds' Nests, by the DuKE of Argyll . 276 



itate of Science on N. W. Slopes of the Rocky Mountains, by R. Brown i 73 



lie Jararaca (Editor) ...... 260 



V Nine-Tusked Elephant (Editor) ..... 265 



)n the Vegetable Productions of Abyssinia, by W. B. Hemsley . 309 



excursions in the South of China, by Lieut. Oliver, R.A. . . 346 



"ortnight's Stay on Los Farallones, by W. Murr.\y . . 379 



REVIEWS. 



rofessor Agassiz in Brazil (S. Scudder) • ■ • • 37 



ufton's Journey through Abyssinia in 1862-63 ... 41 



.ooker and Bentham's Genera Plantarum (Prof. De Candolle) . 50 



-aker's Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia (Editor) ... 90 



Vyman on the Symmetry and Homology of Limbs (S. Scudder) . 1X2 



iaird's Review of American Birds (Ph. L. Sclater) . . 116 



■oissier's Flora Orientalis (J. G. Baker) . . . .118 



leuglin's Reise nach Abyssinien (Editor) .... 146 



riamlet Clark's Letters Home (Editor) .... 163 



Delpino on Apparatus for Fecundating Phanerogamous Plants (Editor) 181 



Pollen and Vandane's Fauna of Madagascar (Editor) . . 186 



Chapman's Travels in South Africa (Editor) .... 200 



Falconer's Palseontological Memoirs ..... 206 



Layard's Birds of SouA Africa (E. Blyth) .... 238 



Vlilde's Ferns of Europe and the Atlantic Islands (J. G. Baker) . 256 



sproat's Scenes and Studies of Savage Life, (R. Brown). . . 288 



Adam's Naturalist in India (Editor) ..... 295 



Kiihn's Filices Deckeniange (Editor) ..... 319 



Falconer and his Labours in India (W. Boyd Dawkins) . . 329 



CollingAvood's Rambles in the China Seas (Editor) . . . 363 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Straits of Magellan — Letters from Captain Mayne, . . 62, 196 



Letters from Dr Cuninghame, Naturalist . . . .64, 323 



Norfolk Island — Letter from Rev. J. Atkins . . . 123 



>foRTH Coast of Australia — Letter from Captain Howard, . 192 



Iawaii — Letter from Dr Hildebrande, Sandwich Islands . . 360 



JciENTiFic Intelligence — Letter from Prof. Van der Hoeven, Leyden 127 



Letter from Dr Candeze, Liege . . . • .129 



Letter from Ed. Blyth, Esq., on Rhinoceros Shedding their Horns 130 



MISCELLANEA, 



laps of Abyssinia ....... 69 



Ihinoceros Shedding their Ploms . . • • 7° 



