Vol. X. 4tt KIOHTS REHERVEO . NO. 61. 



Ratui^al 



«;/ SeiERGE: 



Jl JVIonthly ]^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



MARCH, 1897. l^j; 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments I45 



Franz Josef Land and its Explorers — The Learned Society 

 Bore— Sir Henry Howorth— The Organisation of Science in 

 the United States—Geographical Distribution in America — 

 A Remarkable Rodent — Palaaontological Peccadilloes — Strata 

 as Diagnostic of Species — ^The Meaning of a Species— A Pine 

 and its Fungus— Drunk and Incapable— East African Lepi- 

 doptera — The Great Carcinologist of Norway— An Ancient 

 Arachnid — Prehistoric Man — Has the Lamprey a Supra-Renal 

 Body? — Sergestes— The Eggs of the Nautilus— Evidence for 

 the South African Committee. 

 I. The Problem of Instinct. By Alfred Russel Wallace, D.C.L., F.R.S. 161 

 II. Fresh-water Biological Stations: Europe's Example. By Professor 



Anton Fritsch, Ph.D. (Illustrated) 169 



III. The Light-Sensations of Eyeless Animals. By H. M. Bernard. 



M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S 173 



lY. The Literature of Fossil Ostracods. By C. Davies Sherborn, 



F.G.S., F.Z.S. ..- 181 



Y. Human Evolution. I.— According to Mr. H. G. Wells. By F. H. 

 Perry Coste, B.Sc, F.L.S. II.— According to Mr. G. Archdall 



Raid. By S. S. Buckman, F.G.S .. .. 184 



YI. Science in New Zealand .. 192 



Some Ne'w Books . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 194 



The Cambridge Natural History, vol. II. : edited by S. F. Harmer 

 and A. E. Shipley (Illustrated). — I<Jeue Yersuche zum Saison- 

 Dimorphismus der Schmetterlinge; Ne'w Experiments on the 

 Seasonal Dimorphism of Lepidoptera : by A. Weismann. — The 

 Natural History of Eristalis Tenax: by G. B. Buckton. — The Sur- 

 vival of the Unlike: by L. H. Bailey (George Henslow). — 

 Thomas Say as Palaeontologist. — New Serials. — Bibliography. 

 — Scraps from Serials. 



Obituary 208 



H. Gatke (J. Cordeaux)— S. Wells— H. Boswell— E. Ballard— R. 

 Warner — J. Chappell— E. Moreau— P. Briard— G. F. Schacht — 

 H. von Nordlinger — E. Dallman— T. J. Lickfett — F. von Baur — 

 A. Diirmbsrger — R. Raimann— J. UUepitsch — F. Kraus— A. L. 

 Brot — S. Tritichese — E. de Betta — J. H. Thiry — A. A. van 

 Bemmelen — S. A. B. Lundgren — C. Bahnson — C. Heitzmann — 

 W. H. Pancoast— W. H. Ward— E. G. Lodeman. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies . . 210 



Correspondence .. .. .. .. .. 214 



A. Montefiore Brice. 



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