1896 



AIL RIGHTS RESERVED . NO. 47. 



H. will" 



AT U HAL 

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I Monthly Review of Scientific Progress. 



1,2a// JANUARY, jf8o6, 



CONTENTS. "»G| 



Notes and Comments . e ^ eSctit - of Life in 



Our Bengawan Fossil -A"^?* ,**" _ T he Speciesmonger 

 Africa- Dr. Donaldson Smi ™ 8 a ?°" rn V True W F rd in Jest- 

 in High Places On *™*"*£^£ot*2&*nd-iL Fresh- 

 Erratics -Glacial Geology in the Nortno Channel Islands- 

 Water Station in »°*'°Xu Theofy : New Memoirs on Cells- 

 Zoology i«i a P a ?- T Jl®5; U p*feSor Karl Pearson's Reply 



Professor Ray ^ ankeste *;„Y „ Miscellaneous Information" 

 to Mr. Balfour-Dipterocarps- Miscenaneo B . biio 



— European Elephants-Bibliography 01 *oo 5 J 

 graphic Innovations. . p Bv Howard Y. Knox. 



The Great Avalanche on the Gemmi Pass. r.y ±rJ 



(With Plates I. andlL) «v J' Arthur Thomson, F.R.S.E. 21 



. TheEndeavourAfter Well-being. By J^Artnur Charles 



J The Constantinople Earthquake of July 1U ' .... 27 



£' ^ Davison, M.A., F.G.S (^^f Lo rrain Smith.. .. .. 34 



8 T^e* p'erTh^^^ ** A |~ ?■ ^^ « 



(Illustrated) 46 



Some New Books .. ■ -,. V w# t." Blanford.— The Royal 



The Fauna of British India, by « • * dekke r.-Handbook 

 Natural History, Birds: edited by K. £y dler Sha rpe.- 



to the Birds of Great B "* a1 ™/ b _ y ,£ r. ogilvie-Grant.- 

 Handbook to the Game .Bird. . by ^ ' Headl | y ._ Bi rdcraft : 

 Structure and Life of B^-^, p arC s et de Faisandenes : 



b, MaM W^-^SSS dTtose-Cour: by G. 

 by R. Saint-Loup.-Les Oiseaux a t Qf the 



Cornevin.-Hawks and J^jJ* of Woo dpeckers : by 

 ? a E m L. : B b eal. A T?eT F pes of W-dpeche by F A- Lucas. 

 l T he Crow Blackbirds and their Fo«i. oy Barrows 



The Common Crow of the United J^**^^ Fishe ry : by 

 and B. A. Schwarz -The H rim y a y alogue of the Marine 

 Ernest W. L. Holt («• ** -* 1 '. Pi i sb ry. - Petrology for 

 Molluscs of JfP an: Ha l y ke fl.The Elements of Botany: by 

 Students: by Alfred Harker xn ulture; Pra ctical and 

 Francis Darwin (A. JJ' . A l- Intr S dtto tion to the Study of 

 Scientific: by James Mm £ _ A " lar History of Animals: by 

 Zoology: by B. L^fy;^^ b " H . Fl Lrquhar .-Popular 

 Henry Scherren. -Nature sStorj.oy H. d Robertson 



Readings in Science : by John Q» H * South Wa , . by 



The Flowering P ants a "*f e ™ S dies in Botany: by James 

 J. H. Maiden.-Microscopical Studies a 



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