VOl. VIII. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO. 51. 



11.1 II 



SeiEReE: 



& Monthly Review of Scientific Progress. 



MAY, 1896. 



CONTENTS. 



Notes and Comments 289 



Mechanical Symmetry in Living Matter — Regeneration and 

 Involution — The Transplantation of Living Tissues — The 

 Vestige of the Yolk-Sack— The Evolution of Adaptations — 

 The Anatomical Society— Economic Work of the Marine 

 Biological Association — Preserving Fluids— Phororhacos at 

 the British Museum (Illustrated) — Prosser on Permian 

 Problems— Gneiss, Gold, Galena, and Garnets— Alpine Flora 

 The Antarctic Continent— The Distribution of Earthworms — 

 The Preliminary Notice— Priority in Nomenclature and Our 

 Proposal — Cape Colony Geological Commission — Moving 

 Pictures — The Edinburgh Summer Meeting — Economic 

 Entomology. 



I. " Das Tierreich " 305 



II. Change in Zoological Nomenclature. By J. T. Cunningham, M.A. 309 



III. A New Method in Soil- Analysis. By F. H. Perry Coste, BSc. 



F.L.S 312 



IV. Museum Work in Jamaica. By J. E. Duerden 318 



V. Reproductive Selection. By Professor Karl Pearson, F.R.S. . . 321 



VI. Lyell and Lamarckism : a Reply to Professor Brooks. By 



J. T. Cunningham, M.A. 326 



Some New Books 332 



Life, Letters, and Works of Louis Agassiz : by Jules Marcou 

 (F.A.B.). — Leitfaden fur Histologische Untersuchungen : by 

 Bernard Rawitz (E. A. Minchin). — Evolution in Art: by 

 A. C. Haddon (Henry Balfour).— Catalogue of the Fishes in 

 the British Museum: by G. A. Boulenger (Theo. Gill).— The 

 Skull of the Dog: by Walter E. Collinge (W.R.) — Die Gastro- 

 poden der Plankton-Expedition: by Heinrich Simroth 

 i W. E.H.i. -Text-Book of the Embryology of Invertebrates: 

 by E. Korschelt and K. Heider; translated by E. L. Mark 

 and W. McM. Woodworth (F.A.B.).— Faune de France: 

 Coleopteres: by A. Acloque (D.S.). — Grundziige der Palaeonto- 

 logie: by X. A. von Zittel. De Gewervelde Dieren van het 

 Yerleden : by T. C. Winkler.— By Tangled Paths : by H. Mead 

 Briggs. — New Serials.— Other Serials. 



Obituary 352 



R. E. Earll— W. Sharp— A. S. Olliff— J. Gundlach— M. P. C. 

 Sappey — S. Hirota— M. Lawson — A. Hovelacque G. Wagener— 

 E. Astrup— O. Ehlers— L. Jacoby K. Rathlef— H. Th. Wharton 

 — H. E. Barnes— J. v. Bergenstamm— A. Schadenberg — 

 J. Miiller— F. Sansoni— R. Hay— A. L. Kennedy— T. H. Buffham. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies 355 



Correspondence 360 



Henry Scherren— Recorder. 



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