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OCTOBER, 1896. 



CONTENTS. 



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Notes and Comnients 217 



Sir Joseph Lister's Address — The Old and the Neinr Physiology 

 —Experimental Psychology— The Psychology of the Child — 

 A Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology — Natural Science 

 at Cambridge — Graptolites — Fossils — Wanted : a Lecture 

 Theatre— Fruits of Travel— Bxtinct Birds — A Reconstructed 

 Moa Skeleton — Sponges— Anders Retzius — Librarians on 

 Dewey— The Flora of the Alps— Clover Hay — The Iceland 

 Earthquake — Scorpions — Lepidosiren. 



I. The Arctic Work of 1896. By J. W. Gregory, D.Sc, F.G.S. . . . . 233 



II. The Structure of the Graptolites. Part II. By Dr. Carl Wiman. 



(Illustrated) 1. 240 



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



Chimpanzee. By Arthur Keith, M.D 250 



I Y. The Organisation of Local Science. By George Abbott, M.R.C.S. . . 266 

 Some New Books . . . . . . 270 



The Biological Problem of To-day: by O. Hertwrig, translated 

 by P. C. Mitchell (M. D. H.).— Catalogue of Snakes in the British 

 Museum : by G. A. Boulenger. — ^ What it Costs to be Vaccinated : 

 by J. Collinson — The Honey Bee : by F. Benton (O. H. L.).— The 

 Shade-Tree Insect Problem : by L. O. Hcward.— Some Serials. 



Obituary 276 



A. H. Green— G. E. Ormerod— M. Yersupuy— J. M. Toner— S. H. 

 Parkes— Mr. Carriere — L, Palmieri — Professor Egli — K. Gunther 

 — F. Simony— W. Tief— J. D. Whitney— A. N. Prentiss— F. A. 

 A. Skuse— G. B. Goode. 

 Nevrs of Universities, Museums, and Societies .. .. 278 



Correspondence . . . . . . . . 280 



C. Davies Sherborn. 



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