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fl Monthly Review of Scientific Progress, 
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JANUARY, 1893. 
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CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Wakes and Comments .. 1 
Scientific Dinners—National Museums—The Botanist in Winter 
—A Naturalist in the West Indies—The Square-Mouthed 
Rhinoceros—The Science of Growth—The Growth of Shells 
—The Classification of Bivalved Shells—The Curvature of 
Plants—Recent Progress in the Study of Algz and Fungi. 
‘I. Owen. By C. Davies Bones ease F.G.S.; St. Ceoree acaate F.R:S., 
and Agnes Crane _.. 15 
II. Artificial Protoplasm. By P. Ghisinieks Mitchell, M. A. 5 : 31 
III. Phases of Evolution in the Guiana yt By bile gis Rodway, 
L.S. a 5 - é 37 
IV. The Distribution sid Ganceic Evolution of some Hécent Branhes: 
poda. By Agnes Crane .. : , 46 
W. Aggressive Mimicry among the Flies of the genus Volucella. By 
Oswald H. Latter, M.A. .. ae 54 
VI. The Rothschild Museum, Tring. By A. Smith Woodward, F. L. s., 
and C. Davies Sherborn, F.Z.S. ‘ 57 
Some New Books 64 
The Visible Universe. By id: E. Gore. —Short Stalks. By E. N. 
Buxton.—Our Country’s Birds. By W. J. Gordon.—The 
Building of the British Isles. By A. J. Jukes-Browne.— 
Les Alpes Frangais. Py A. Falsan.—A Catalogue of British 
Jurassic Gasteropoda. W. H. Hudleston and E. Wilson. 
Fossil Plants as Tests at Climate. By A. C. Seward.—Les 
Lichens. By A. Acloque.—_Naked-Eye Botany. By F. E. 
Kitchener. 
Obituary 713 
H. T. Stainton—F. Spurrell—_W. “M. Williams—P. M. A. Morelet— 
F. von Thumen—C. M. Gottsche—A. Skofitz—J.S. Newberry. 
News of Universities, Museums, and Societies .. a as A 15 
Correspondence .. = te 78 
Dr. H. de Varigny— Rev. O. Fisher—G. H. ‘Carpenter. 
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