CONTENTS. VII 



Page. 



The work of tlie Physiological Station at Paris, by E.J. Marcy 391 



The method of Organic Evolution, by Alfred R. Wallace 413 



The Part Played by Electricity in the Phenomena of Animal Life, by M. Ernest 



Solvay 437 



The Influence of Certain Agents in Destroying the Vitality of the Typhoid 



and of the Colon Bacillus, by John S. Billings and Adelaide Ward Peckhim. 451 

 Modern Developments of Harvey's Work in the Treatment of Diseases of the 



Heart and Circulation, by T. Lauder Brunton 459 



Ants' Nests, by Dr. August Forel 479 



The Evolution of Modern Society in its Historical Aspects, by R. D. Melville. . 507 



Migration and the Food Quest, by Otis Tuftou Mason 523 



The Guanches: The Ancient Inhabitants of Canary, by Capt. J. W. Gambler, 



K.N 541 



Psychology of Prestidigitation, by Alfred Binet 555 



A Discovery of Greek Horizontal Curves in the Maison Oarree at Niujes, by 



Wm. Henry Goodyear 573 



The Methods of Archaeological Research, by Sir Henry Howorth 589 



The Art of Casting Bronze in Japan, by W. Gowland 609 



Study and Research, by Rudolph Virchow 653 



Scientific Problems of the Future, Lieut. Col. H. Elsdale 667 



The Founding of the Berlin University and the Transition from the Philosophic; 



to the Scientific Age, by Rudolph Virchow 681 



The Institute of France in 1894, by M. Loewy 697 



Hermann von Helmholtz, by Arthur W. Rucker, F. R. S 709 



Sketch of Ileiurich Hertz, by Helene Bonfort 719 



