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VOL. XIV., No. 85. MARCH 1899 



NATURAL 



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SCIENCE 



A MONTHLY REVIEW OF 



SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS 



CONTENTS 



Notes and Comments . . . . . . .177 



Endowment of Research — Economic Entomology — Great Auks in Ireland — 

 About Yeast — Systematic Position of Phoronidea — Prickly-Pears on the 

 War- Path — " Terminologic Transgressions " — Early Life on Earth — The Pass- 

 ing of the Vanquished — The Functions of Marine Stations — Salt-developed 

 Succulence— Chalazogams — A Theory of Colour Vision — Adaptation — Biblio- 

 graphy of Zoology — The Museum and Gardens of Trivandrum — The Trans- 

 formations of an Earwig. 



Vegetable Animation . . . . . . .193 



By John H. Wilson, D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 



The Great Glacial Moraine of Permian Age in South Africa . 199 

 By Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. 



The Penicuik Experiments : An Appreciation . . . 203 



By J. Arthur Thomson, M.A. 



The Geographical Distribution of the Arachnida of the Orders 



Pedipalpi and Solifugae . . . . .213 



By R. I. Pocock. 



Protoplasmic Currents and Vital Force .... 232 

 By Professor A. L. Herrera. 



Fresh Facts ...... 



Some New Books ..... 



Obituaries ...... 



Henry Alleyne Nicholson — William Colenso — Thomas Hincks. 



Correspondence ..... 



News ....... 



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