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K ]^oiithiy l^eview of Scientific Progress. 



JULY, 1894. 



CONTENTS. 



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Notes and Comments „;.„." „Jj 



Mathematical Biology - Another Critic of Wexsma^?,^^/ 

 Another Theory - Normal Nature of Ammonite Abnor- 

 malities - Echinoderms - Depths of the Sea-The Jungle 

 Book-The Education of Sally-The Bird's Foot-Colours of 

 Birds' Eggs — Tadpoles — Museums' Association — Sunday 

 Opening of Museums— Darwin and the Y.M.C.A. 

 Some Shell-boring Algae. By Professor T. Johnson, B.Sc, F.L.S. 

 An Address to the Museums' Association on the Museums of 



Dublin. By Professor Yalentine Ball, C.B., F.R.S 



III. Recent Progress in our Knowledge of Earthworms and their 



Allies. By F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S 



lY Nearctic or Sonoran? By G. H. Carpenter, B.Sc 53 



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Some New Books •• " ^ " j. c ^+u«» 



Scientific Taxidermy. By R. W. Shufeldt-Creatures of other 

 Days. By H. N Hutchinson. (Illustrated.) -The Camel. By 

 A G Leonard - Blind Crustacea. By Chas. Chilton - 

 Gestaltung und Yererbung. By W. Haacke-Flore de France. 

 By a. Acloque-Natural History of Plants. By K. yon 

 Marilaun-Index to Periodical Literature. By E. Hethering- 

 ton-The Country Month by Month-New Serials. 



°G*eorge John Romanes-X. von Klipstein-Jozsef von Szabo- 

 K A. Fiedler-Alphonse Derbes-Thomas Morong-K F. 

 Thedenius. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies 



Correspondence :-George Henslow-Entomophilos- Agnes Crane 



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