Vol. X. ALL RIQHTS RESERVED . NO. 59. 



Ratwi^al 



' " "" SeiERGE: 



K JYIoiithly I^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



/2.y// JANUARY, 1897. 



CONTENTS. 



Notes and Comments 1 



The little Trip of the " Fram "—The Value of Morphology— 

 " A Plague o' both your Houses " — Alternation of Generations 

 in Yertebrates— Wild Hybrids between the Arctic and Com- 

 mon Foxes — The Biology of the Great Lakes — A Star-fish 

 " Struggle-for-Liifer " — An Eastern Question — A Revision 

 of North-American Slugs — All Smoke and No Fire — The 

 Antiquity of Man in Britain — Giant Ammonites — Had the 

 Belemnite an Aptychus ? — James Hall — The JBocene Beds of 

 Dorset— Botanical Scraps from America. 



I. Wanted, a British Fresh-water Biological Station. By D. J. 



Scourfield 17 



II. The Position of Morphology in Zoological Science. By E3. W. 



MacBride, B.A., B.Sc, Fellow of St. John's Coll., Cambridge .. 20 



III. The Earliest Known Seat of Learning in Europe. By Professor 



A. C. Haddon, M.A., D.Sc, M.R.I. A. (Illustrated) 33 



lY. Cope's " Factors of Evolution." By F. A. Bather, M.A., F.G.S. . . 37 



Y. Wasps and Weismann. By Oswald H. Latter, M.A 47 



Some New Books . . . . . . . . 50 



Prehistoric Man and Beast : by H. N. Hutchinson (with Plate I.). 

 — The Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology : 

 by J. W. Powell (H. Balfour).— The Reliquary and Illustrated 

 Archaeologist: edited by J. R. Allen. — The Testimony of Science 

 to the Deluge : by W. B. Galloway. — Stanford's Compendium of 

 Geography and Travel: Africa; Yol. II., South Africa: by A. 

 H. Keane. — Die Morphologie und Physiologie des Pflanzlichen 

 Zellkernes: von A. Zimmerman (J. B. F.). — Catalogue of the 

 Cases of Birds in the Dyke Road Museum, Brighton : by E. T. 

 Booth. — Baran. — Yaria. 



Obituary 62 



B. W^. Richardson— D. Robertson— A. Dowsett— G. W. Child— T. 

 King— W. F. Ainsworth— J. A. Moloney— J. W. Retgers— E, 

 Wenzel— F. Westhoff— J. Feser— E. von Wolff —A. H. Post— E. 

 Baumann. 



Nemrs of Universities, Museums, and Societies 64 



Correspondence 6S 



A. J. Jukes-Browne — A. B. Meyer— R. L. Jack— Wheelton Hind— 

 Yir. F. Holroyd— H. Bolton. 



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