VOL. XIV., No. 83. - JANUARY 1899. 



FEB 2 1899 



NATURAL 





SCIENCE 



A MONTHLY REVIEW OF 



SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS 



CONTENTS 



Notes and Comments ....... i 



Pure Science — A Contribution to the Biology of Cock-Fighting — A Delicate 

 Operation — Birds and their Surroundings — The Skin and Fins of Ichthyo- 

 saurus — Books and the Customs — A Thorny Subject— Philosophy of Evolu- 

 tion — Eyes in Bivalve Mollusca — Those Cretaceous Gryphaeas — The San 

 Jose Scale — A Warlike Entomostracan and a Decrepit Trilobite — More 

 North American Fresh- "Water Copepods — The Biology of the "Victorian Era 

 — A Half-Century of Evolution — Is Telegony a Mare's Nest ? — A Study 

 in Hybridism — Variation in a Sea-Anemone — Sensitive Protoplasm in 

 Plants — A New Species of Revolving Alga — The Corundum of India — 

 Abstracts of Papers before Reading — A Slight Misunderstanding — Photo- 

 graphy in National Museums — Physiology of Reproduction. 



Funafuti : the Study op a Coral Atoll (Illustrated) . . 17 



By Professor W. J. Sollas, M.A., LL.D., D.Sc, F.R.S. 



Professor Weldon's Evidence of the Operation of Natural Selection 38 

 By J. T. Cunningham, M.A. 



Biological Analogy and Speech-Development . . .46 



By Henry Cecil Wyld. 



Animal Symmetry (Illustrated) . . . . . .50 



By Arthur T. Masterman, B.A., D.Sc. 



Fresh Facts ........ 64 



Some New Books ....... 67 



Bark Beetles [W. F. H. Blandford]— Another Text-Book of Botany— The 

 Complete Genealogist [X.]. 



Obituaries ..... 73 



William Guybon Atherstone — George James Allman — Von Guembel. 

 Correspondence . . . . . . .78 



News ......... 81 



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