Vol. X. ALL HI8HTS resehveo . No. 63. 



Ratui^al 



R JVEonthly l^e^eW of Scientific Progress. 

 jla/l MAY, 1897. 



CONTENTS. 



Notes and Comments 289 



The Case of the Chemical Society — The Army Examinations 

 and Science in Public Schools — Young Oxford and Science— 

 Supposed Remarkable Sea-anemones — Zoology at Bergen — 

 The eyes in Pectenand Lima — Archaeology at Bergen — Formol for 

 Zoological Specimens — The Preservation of Fish and Reptiles 

 — How are Crustacea to be Preserved ? — The Fixation of Soft- 

 bodied Marine Invertebrates — Preservation of Vertebrate 

 Tissues— Fever in Plants — Bulb-Growing — The Antiquity of 

 Man in the Eastern United States — The extinction of British 

 Butterflies — The Extermination of the Golden Eagle — 

 Buffaloes. 



I. Human Evolution. IV.— By O. Archdall Reid, M.B 305 



II. The Lemurs as Ancestors of the Apes. By Charles Earle . . 309 



III. The Museums of Public Schools. III. — Rugby, By L. Gumming, 



MA. (with Plate III.) 314 



IV. The Suprarenal Bodies of Fishes. By Walter E. Collinge, F.Z.S. 318 

 Y. Numerical Variation of Parts in Ranunculus repens. By John 



H. Pledge, (with Four Charts) 323 



Some New Books 329 



Lepidopteraof the British Islands : by C. G. Barrett ; Handbook 

 to the Order Lepidoptera, vols III. and IV : by W. F. Kirby ; 

 Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of America ; Noto- 

 dontidae: by A. S. Packard (G. H. Carpenter). — Mechanical 

 Selection : by K. Jordan, (G. H. Carpenter) . — Hemiptera Homop- 

 tera of the British Islands: by J. Edwards. - Oceanic Ichthy- 

 ology: by G. Brown Goode and T. H. Bean. — Marketable 

 Marine Fishes of the British Isles : by J. T. Cunningham.— 

 Botanisches Practicum : by E. Strasburger (D.H.S.) — Manual of 

 Determinative Mineralogy: by G. J. Brush (G.T.P.)— Gemmo- 

 graphical Tables : by "W. J. Lewis Abbott. — Lehrbuch der 

 Yergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbeltiere, I. Der Magen : by 

 A. Oppel.— Catalogus Mammalium : by E. L. Trouessart, (O.T.) 

 — Catalogue des Bibliographies Geologiques: by E. deMargerie. 

 —Bibliographies. — Willesden.— Scraps from Serials.— New 

 Serials. 



Obituary ^ • • 353 



E. D. Cope— Dr. Kenngott— L. N. Johnson— G. Ville— J. Kostal 

 R. Hogg. 



Nemrs of Universities, Museums, and Societies 354 



Correspondence 357 



G. F. Dollfus— E. S. Goodrich— P. Q. Keegan— W. K. Brooks — 

 T. D. A. Cockerell. 



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