Vol. IX. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED . NO. 57- 



1^^ JAN 4 1897 



RATUr^AL 



"■^" SeiEeeE: 



R JVIonthly I^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



NOVEMBER, 1896. 



CONTENTS. 



Notes and Comments 281 



To Collectors of Fossils— What is Palaeontology ?— Paving- 

 stone Palaeontology — A Plea for Detail in Stratigraphy — The 

 Organisation of Sections at the British Association — Modifi- 

 cation and Variation — Are iwe Descended from King-crabs? 

 Cell Facts and Cell Theories — " Anatomical Characters " in 

 Systematic Botany — Alternation of Generations in Plants — 

 Mosses and Ferns — A Nesting Fish (Amia calva) — Bird Day — 

 Phosphatic Chalk— English Cave Dwellers. 



I. The Influence of Mind in Evolution. By EHA, Author of " A 



Naturalist on the Prowl" 297 



II. The Preparation and Mounting of Chalk Fossils. By Arthur W. 



Rowe, M.D 303 



III. Zoology since Darwin. Part II. By Professor Ludwig von GrafT, 



Ph.D 312 



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



Orang-outang. By Arthur Keith, M.D. .. 316 



V. The Cell, and some of its Supposed Structures. By Professor J. 



Bretland Farmer, M.A 327 



Some New Books 330 



Im Australischen Busch und an den Kiisten des Korallen- 

 meeres: by R. Semon (P. L. S.).— Roman Fever: by W. North. 

 — The Goulstonian Lectures on the Malaria Germ : by P. 

 Manson. — Catalogue of the Jurassic Bryozoa: by J. VT. Gregory 

 (A. W. W.).— Bibliography of Irish Glacial and Post-Glacial 

 Geology: by R. L. Praeger.— The Glaciers of the Alps: by J. 

 Tyndall. — Die Acephalen der Plankton-Expedition: by H. 

 Simroth.— New Serials.— Varia. 

 Obituary 339 



G. Brown Goode— F. von Mueller— N. Ruedinger— Marshall 

 Hall. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies 342 



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