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The Survival of the Unlike : A Collection of Evolution 



Essays suggested by ihe Study of Domestic Plants. Hy L. II. Bailey. Cr. 

 8vo, pp. 515. (London: Macmillan and Co. 1896.) Price 8/6. 



The author, a botanist of some considerable repute at the Cornell Univer- 

 sity (U.S.A.), has in these essays desired to answer many of the common ques- 

 tions which puzzle horticulturists by appealing to the evidence of evoluti(in. 

 He desires to spread a knowledge of the evolution speculations, and the 

 methods of research which they suggest, amongst those who deal with plants 

 and animals and w^ho lead a rural life. 



The book contains 30 essays, divided into three sections : — I., Essays 

 teaching the General Fact and Philosophy of Evolution ; II., Essays expound- 

 ing the Fact and Causes of Variation ; and III., Essays tracing the Evolution 

 of Particular Types of Plants. The essays are very ably written. 



Charles Darwin, and the Theory of Natural Selection. 

 By Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.L.S., etc. Cr. 8vo, pp. 

 224. (London : Cassell and Co. 1896.) 



In this interesting little volume the author gives us what he believes to be 

 the most important statements of this great scientist, while he has grouped 

 them in such a manner as to present a connected account of Darwin's life, 

 when considered in relation to his marvellous work, and especially to the great 

 central discovery of Natural Selection, and its exposition in the " Origin of 

 Species." 



Science Progress : A Quarterly Review of Current Scientific 

 Investigation. New series. Vol. I., No. i, Oct., 1896. Price 3/- ; subscrip- 

 tion price 10/6 per annum post free. (London : The Scientific Press, Ltd.) 



The part before us commences a new series of this thoroughly up-to-date 

 journal. This part contains papers on the following subjects : — Scientific 

 Weather Forecasting, by G. J. Symons, P". R.S. ; The Natural History of 

 Igneous Rocks, by Alfred Harker, M.A. ; Recent Work upon Visceral and 

 Allied Nerves, by T. Gregor Brodie, M.D. ; Notes on Parasites, Part I., by 

 A. E. wShipley, M.A. ; Teratology in Modern Botany, by K. Goebel, Ph.D. ; 

 The Nervous System of Coelentera, by S. J. Hickson, F. R.S. ; Pala^ontolog}' 

 and Evolution, by A. C. Seward, M.A. ; and Appendixes, Notices of Books. 



A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Edited 

 by Dr. James A. H. ^Murray. Disburdened — Disobservant, Vol. HI. ; 

 and Fish — Flexuose, Vol. IV. Price 2/6 each part. 



We notice that the first of these sections contains 1396 main words, 27 

 combinations explained under these, and 127 subordinate words, or 1550 in all. 

 Of these 1450 words are illustrated by 6990 quotations. Perhaps the most interest- 

 ing word to be found in these pages is Dismal, the full history of which is here 

 for the first time exhibited. Contemporary evidence shows this to have been ori- 

 ginally the Anglo-French dis mal ; Latin, dies malt, evil or ill-omened days, 

 the "Egyptian days" of the mediivval calentlar ; and it was so applied for 

 more than three centuries. It is only as we come down to 1600 that we find 

 other things than days characterised as "dismal." 



The Vol. IV. section contains 956 main words, 314 combinations explained 

 under these, and 170 subordinate entries, making 1440 in all. The obvious 

 combinations, recorded and illustrated by quotations, without individual defini- 

 tion, number 372 more. 



Of the 1812 words contained in this section, not more than 35 existed in 

 Old English. The most striking characteristic of this portion of the English 



