Vol. IX. *LL RI3HTS RESERVEO . NO. 53. 



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£ JVEonthly I^eYieiAr of Scientific Progress. 



JULY, 1896. 



CONTENTS. 



Notes and Cominents 1 



The Age of Laboratories — Species-iarork as Educational 

 Training— Habits as Diagnostic of Species — Evolving Species 

 — Natural History versus Systematic Work — American Criticism 

 of Romanes — Retzius on the Inheritance of Acquired 

 Characters — Warning Colours and Mimicry — American 

 Entomology — The Sun-haters — Recent Work on the Fora- 

 minifera— The Rabbit Plague in the United States— A Danger 

 of Clover — The Horse's Hoof — " International " Congresses — 

 The Zoological Society's Report — The Royal Horticultural 

 Society's Shoiar — Henry Woodisard on Crustacea — An Ancient 

 Octopod. 



I. How and Why Scorpions Hiss. (Illustrated.) By R. I. Pocock .. 17 



II. An Introduction to the Study of Anthropoid Apes. — I. The 



Gorilla. By Arthur Keith, M.D 26 



III. The Lobster in Commerce and Science : its Name and Nature. By 



Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, M.A., F.R.S., F.Ii.S 38 



lY. The Deisfey Decimal Classiflcation and the International Catalogue 



of Science. By William E. Hoyle, M.A., F.L.S 43 



Some New Books 53 



The Great Rift Valley : by J. W^. Gregory (T. G. Bonney) 

 (with Map). — Durch Afrika von Ost nach West: Von G. A. 

 Graf von Gotzen (P. Li. S.). — Some Serials. — The Classification 

 of Physiology. 



Obituary 62 



G. A. Daubree (F. W. R.)— F. G. Rohlfs— H. B. Pollard— Lord 

 Lilford — H. C. Levinge — A. Bogdanoff— C. M. Balling — A. 

 Duvivier— H. Stieda— D. D. Slade— T. L. Casey— H. E. Bauer 

 — H. Waller— J. Flohr. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies 6& 



Correspondence 70 



J. Parkin— S. W. Williston — Theo. D. A. Cookerell — Theo. 

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