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VOL. XIV., No. 88. JUNE 1899. 



NATURAL 



JUL ;;:, science 



A MONTHLY REVIEW OF 



SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS 



CONTENTS 



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Notes and Comments . . . . . . .421 



Ornithological Amenities — Marine Zoology in Jamaica — An Old Link between 

 North America and Arctic Europe — The Artillery of the Bombardier Beetles 

 — Economic Entomology — The Royal Society's Conversazione — Essex and 

 East Anglia — The Essex Museum of Natural History — Nature-Study — Fish- 

 ing at the Cape and elsewhere — Development of Lepidosiren — The Man in 

 the Beast. 



The Study of Natural History .... 



By Professor J. Arthur Thomson, M. A. 



Fresh- Water Biological Stations : America's Example 

 By D. J. Scourfield. 



Weismann's " Regeneration " . 



By Professor Marcus Hartog, D.Sc. 



Anal Glands of the Aphodiinae .... 

 By Dr. L. Bordas. 



Fresh Facts ....... 



Some New Books ...... 



Obituaries ....... 



Joseph Wolf — Sylvanua Hanley — Jabez Hogg — Sir Frederick M'Coy. 



News ........ 



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Index ......... 483 



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