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Vol. IX. ..- ^ ngg- ALL RIQHTS RESERVED . NO. 58. 



Bathi^al 



/M" SeiERGE: 



K JVIonthly I^evie^ of Scientific Progpess. 



DECEMBER, 1896. 



CONTENTS. 



Notes and Comments 345 



The Botanist of the Future— The Study of Variation— The Use 

 and Abuse of Collecting — British Snails — N.Spp. ?— The Reduc- 

 tion of Publication— "Drunken larith Writing" — Mycenaean 

 Culture— Geological Time — Palaeontology and Geographical 

 Distributipn — International Congresses — The Encouragement 

 of Zoological Research — Jamaica as a Tropical Marine 

 Biological Station— Teaching Physiography— The Hinge of 

 Bivalve Molluscs— A Big Fungus — Sexual Reproduction in 

 Fungi— Botanical Crumbs. 

 I. The Determination of Fossils (with List of Specialists) . . 361 



II. Zoology since Darwin. Part III. (conclusion). By Professor Ludwig 



von Graff, Ph.D. . 364 



II r. A Plea for Details in Comparative Anatomy. By F. G. Parsons, M.D. 369 

 lY. An Introduction to the Study of Anthropoid Apes. lY.— The 



Gibbon. By Arthur Keith, M.D 372 



Y. Cunning in Animals. By W. L. Calderwood, F.R.S.E 380 



Some New Books . . . . . . 386 



A Monograph on Carbonicola, Anthracomya and Naiadites : by 

 Wheelton Hind (H.B.)— Records of Big Game: by Rowland 

 Ward (R.L.). — Genera and Sub-genera of Yoles and Lenimings : 

 by G. S. Miller (O.T.).— Die Spiele der Thiere : by Karl Groos,— 

 A Geographical History of Mammals : by R. Lydekker. — 

 Manuel de Geographie Botanique : by O. Drude.— How^ to Study 

 Wild Flowers: by G. Henslow.— Rules for Regulating Nomen- 

 clature : by Lord Walsingham and J. H. Durrant.— The Prices 

 of Books. 



Obituary 396 



H. Trimen— H. N. Martin— A. A. L. Trecul- M. Schiff— J. D. 

 Whitney— L. Palmieri-J. E. Erichsen— G. M. Humphry— G. 

 Harley— F. C. S. Roper— A. S. Smith -R. Zander— L. Rudolph— 

 B. Eppelsheim— H. Miiller— J. L. Delbceuf— R. Avenarius— 

 Professor Schnetzler— C. G. Gillet— R. v. Dombrowski- F. 

 Miiller— T. Margo— H. v. FouUon— E. Renbaugh— H. D. v, 

 Nostrand- W. H. Gibson— C. B. Brown-Sequard— J. B. Lembert 

 —Dr. Callender— E. Giovanardi— M. Chaper— R. Kerry— G. H. 

 Richards — J. E. Gray. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies 400 



Correspondence .. 407 



Stratigraphical Geologist— Bernard Hobson — Walter Howchin. 



Index and Title-page to Volume IX i 



Subject Index, for cutting up ix 



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