Vol. X. .. . ^ -^^Ji^ meHTs RESERVEO. No. 64-, 



'UL 16 189^ 



Rathp^al 



"'' SeiERGE: 



Jl JVIonthly I^eview of Scientific Progress. 



JUNE, 1897. 



PAGC 



CONTENTS. 

 Notes and Comments •« 361 



Change of Address— The Scientific Method in Education— An 

 Appeal to the Teachers— The Educational Value of Botany 

 and Physiology— The Illinois Fresh-water Biological Station 

 — " Pump Plankton " The Classification of Rodents—" Guts 

 and Other Charnel-house Stuff"— The Hoatzin— The "Index 

 Animalium "— The Dutch Scientific and Medical Congress- 

 Publication by the U.S. Department of Agriculture— Civilisa- 

 tion in the United States Congress— Theoretical Darwinism 

 —Colour Variation in Flowers— Boulder Clay, a Marine 

 Deposit— An Old Zoological Record and Address Book— The 

 Falsification of the Record— To the Humanitarian League 

 I. Edward Drinker Cope. By A. Smith Woodward, F.L.S., F.G.S., 



F.Z.S. (with Plate IV.) 377 



II. Some Effects of the Pelagic Spawning-habit on the Life-histories 

 of Teleostean Fishes. By Arthur T. Masterman, B.A., B.Sc. 



(Illustrated.) 382 



III. Human Evolution. Y.- According to Nietzsche. By Thomas 



Common . . . . . . • • 393 



lY. The Genealogy of the Sciences as the Basis of their Biblio- 

 graphy. By Henryk Arctowski, of the Belgian Antarctic 

 Expedition • • 395 



Y. The Facts of Chromosome-reduction versus the Postulates of 



Weismann. By J. E. S. Moore, A.R.C.S. (Illustrated.) .. .. 401 



VI. Oscar Hertwig on Mechanics and Biology. By L. J. Veley . . . . 411 



Some New Books ^^^ 



Dictionary of Birds, Pt. IV.: by A. Newton (W. P. Py craft).— 

 bchmetterlingsfauna von Hildesheim, I. Tagfalter : by A. R. 

 Grote (G. H. C.) —Analytic Keys to the Genera and Species of 

 North American Mosses: by C. R. Barnes and F. D. Heald 

 (A.G.j.— New Charter: edited by H. S. Salt.— La Piscifacture 

 Marine: by M. Baudouin. — Northumberland Sea Fisheries 

 Committee: by A. Meek.— Chronographe Geologique: by E. 

 Renevier.— Glastonbury Lake-village.- Scraps from Serials. 

 New Serials. _„ 



Obituary *^^ 



A. D. Bartlett. — E. Newton. — M. Sintenis. — F. Tognini. — L. 



Karnbach. M. ThoUon. A. Palumbo. — J. B. Barla. — 



Professor Berthaud.— G. Gercke. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies *2d 



Correspondence •'„"-; .^' n" 



J. A. Wanklyn— J. H. Pledge-F. Buchanan— T. Southwell— 

 G. H. Carpenter. 

 Title-page, Index, and Subject-Index. 



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