VOl. VIII. AU ffl0HTS ^SERVED . No . 49. 



Ratuj^al 



VSeiERGE: 



£ jVIonthly Review of Scientific. Progress. 



MARCH, 1896. 



CONTENTS. 



PAG! 



Notes and Comments 145 



The University for London— Professor Marshall Ward on 

 " Modern Botany " — The Fertilisation of an Australian Wild- 

 Flower— The Teaching of Marine Biology — The Association of 

 Species — Modern Shallow-water Deposits -The Attachment 

 of LarvaB— Fish-Culture— Preservation of Marine Mollusca 

 The Hinge of Bivalve Shells— Concerning Snails— The New 

 Photography — Danish and German Science— The Giant Birds 

 —The Kea— Dr. Charles Janet on the Hornet— The Archaeo- 

 logy of Yucatan — The Bohemian Museum. 



I. Professor Huxley : from the Point of View of a Disciple. By Pro- 

 fessor T. Jeffery Parker, D.Sc, F.RS. 161 



II. The Natural History Departments of the Bohemian Museum. By 



Dr. Anton Fritsch. (With Plate V. and 3 Illustrations). . . . 168 



III. The Pigments of Animals. Part II. By Marion I. Newbigin, B Sc. 173 



IV. A Rowing Indicator. By E. Cuthbert Atkinson, B.A. (Illustrated) 178 



V. Dispersal of Seeds by Birds. By H. N. Ridley, M.A., FL.S 186 



Some New Books 200 



Darwin and After Darwin : by G. J. Romanes. — The Origin of 

 Plant Structures by Self-adaptation to the Environment : by 

 G. Henslow.— The Plants of the Bible: by G. Henslow.— A 

 Monograph of the Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of the 

 British Isles : by John W. Taylor (B. B. W.).— Fauna der 

 Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der Perm-formation Bbhmens : 

 by Anton Fritsch. The Diseases of Personality: by Th. Ribot 

 (C. LI. M.). — Les Cavernes et leurs Habitants: by Jules 

 Fraipont. — Bibliographies. — Some Serials. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies . . 208 



Correspondence ..212 



W. F. Hume H. W. Burrows and R. Holland Adam Sedgwick 

 —Geo. H. Carpenter. 



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