VOI. VIII. ALL *>« HTS MEWED . No . 48# 



V\ MAR r 1896 



Ratui^al 



"i" SeiERGE: 



K Monthly Review of Scientific Progress. 



FEBRUARY, 1896. 



CONTENTS. p4Gr 



Notes and Comments 73 



The Preliminary Notice— Variation of Yeast-Cells— The Nutri- 

 tive Materials in Wheat Grains— Polyembryony in a Lily — 

 The "Revue Scientifique" and Bibliography —The Biblio- 

 graphic Conference— Sir Joseph Prestwich — New Literature 

 on the Foraminifera— Australian Exploration — The Origin of 

 Slugs— The Aptychus— The Embryology of Cirripedes and 

 Isopods— The Sense of Rotation. 



I. Lamarck and Lyell : a short way with Lamarckians. By Professor 



W. K. Brooks 89 



II. The Pigments of Animals. Part I. By Marion I. Newbigin, B.Sc. 94 



III. Foraminifera of the Chalk and of To-day. By H. W. Burrows, 



A.R.I B. A., and R. Holland 101 



IV. Serum Therapeutics. By F. W. Andrewes, M.D 105 



Y. Casual Thoughts on Museums. Part III. — Palaeontological Museums. 



By Sir Henry Howorth, K.C.I.E., M.P., F.R.S 114 



Some New Books 119 



The Stalk-eyed Crustacea of the " Albatross " : by Walter Faxon 

 (T. R. R. Stebbing).— Cambridge Natural History, vol. v.: by 

 Adam Sedgwick, F. G. Sinclair, and D. Sharp (G. H. Carpenter). 

 —Descriptive Catalogue of the Spiders of Burma : by T. 

 Thorell (O. Pickard-Cambridge).— British Birds' Nests: by R. 

 Kearton (with plates iii. and iv.) (H. A. Macpherson).— The 

 Climates of the Geological Past: by E. Dubois. -Open-air 

 Studies : by G. A. J. Cole.— Introduction to the Study of Fungi: 

 by M. C. Cooke (G. M.).— Protobasidiomyceten: by A. Moller 

 (A. L. S. .— The Structure and Development of Mosses and 

 Ferns: by D. H. Campbell (J. B. F.) .— New Serials. 



Obituary ..138 



H. Miller— H. M. Drummond Hay -J. B. Wilson J G. Morris — 



E. A. Wunsch— W. Thompson— M. S. Bebb-F. P. Porcher O. 



v. Radoszkowski— A. P. Kosticher— P. S. Popow— Dr. Teich- 



mann— A. von Brunn— K. B. Schiedermayr— G. Xrabbe O. 



Borchert— P. Galardi— A. Quadri— F. Berdau -A. de Castillo. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies 139 



Correspondence 143 



William B. Clark-Edmund B. Wilson— Percy F. Kendall E. J. 

 Allen— H. H. Field. 



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