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“  O®ECIERCE: 
A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress. 
VII. 
MA Y:; 13-9 3. 
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CONTENTS. 

Notes and Comments. ; 
The Pollination of the Yucca—The “ Zoological Record ”—Ice in 
Hong Kong--A Clawed Articdactyle-like Mammal— 
Mountain Chains as Barriers—Myeloxylon—Emin Pasha— 
The Affinities of Zeuglodon—New Monkeys—Pictures at 
Brighton—Fauna of the Ploner-See—The Peopling of the 
World—Fresh-water Medusz—The Plague of Yoles—A New 
Variety of the Pala—Costa Rica—-The Origin of the Dingo— 
Nesting of the Gobies—The Oligodynamics of Living Cells. 
Natural Selection and Lamarckism. By Wm. Platt Ball. 
Biological Theories. IW ep Roead pr eny. Organs. By 
C. Herbert Hurst, Ph.D. 
The Fruit-Spike of Galante es: A Ghapter frond ihe History of 
Fassil Botany. By Thomas Hick, B.A., B.Sc. .. : 
The Succession of Teeth in Mammals. By Miss E. C. Pollard, 
B.Sc. oh 
The Recapitiiation ‘Theory. A Rejoinder. By ©. Hesbare 
Hurst, Ph.D. .. 
Climate and Floral Regions in /Binioa, By G. F. Scott ‘Elliot, 
M.A., B.Sc. ss 
The Moas of New Zealand. By Nicnay O. Forhen. F. R. G. Ss. 
Some New Books s cer te a as a eee Re 
Types of Animal Life. By St. George Mivart.—A History and 
Description of the Modern Dogs (Sporting Division) of Great 
Britain and Ireland. By R. B. Lee._The Food of Plants. By 
A.P. Laurie.—Precis de Tératologie, Anomalies et Monstruosités 
chez VHomme et chez les Animaux. By L. Guinard.—The 
Embryology and Metamorphosis of the Macroura. By W. K. 
Brooks.— Contributions to the Anatomy of the Anthropoid Apes. 
By Frank E. Beddard.—The Birds of Derbyshire. By F. B. 
Whitlock.—Forest Tithes and other Studies from Nature. By 
‘A Son of the Marshes.’’—The Recrudescence of Leprosy and its 
Causation. By William Tebb.—Evolution and Man’s Place in 
Nature. By Henry Calderwood.—The Year Book of Science. 
Edited by T. G. Bonney. 
News of Universities, Museums, dial Societies .. 
Obituary:— Professor Alphonse de Candolle. tS Peofasaor G. A. 
Pasquale.—Rey. T. Wolle 4 
Correspondence :—G. W. Bulman. at a c. Herbert Hurst 

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