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SCIENCE 
A MONTHLY REVIEW OF 
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS 
VOL. XV., No. 91. 2c¢ 
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SEPTEMBER 1899. 


CONTENTS 
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Nores AND COMMENTS . : : ; - 161 
Integration in Science— Women and the Learned Societies — British 
Botany—Polemics and a Parasite—Life High and Low—As regards Proto- 
plasm—The Darmstadt Museum—<An Annelid from the Devonian—Cultiva- 
tion of the Vine for Wine in Essex—Did Palaeolithic Man inhabit Scotland ? 
—Insects and Tobacco—Ichthyosaurus at Home—A Note on Zoos. 
Tue OriciInaL Rock oF tHE SoutH ArricaNn DramMonp 5 P 173 
By Professor T. G. Bonney, D.Sc., LL.D., V.P.R.S. 
Tae Score oF NATURAL SELECTION (continued) . P : : 183 
By J. Lionel Tayler. 
SUGGESTIONS UPON THE ORIGIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN FLORA ; j 198 
By Spencer Moore, B.Sc., F.L.S. 
FresH Facts . ; 3 } : : ; + ee 
Some New Books : ; ; «.  -SE6 
OBITUARIES ; ; : ; 3 : SRB 
Carl Claus. 
NrEws . ; : ; ; ; ; : ; 233 
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