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Vor. V. No. 30 



Rathi^al 



'"'" SeiERGE: 



K JYIoiithly I^eview of Scientific Ppogress. 



AUGUST, 1894. 



CONTENTS. 



London and New York: MACMILLAN & CO. 



PAGE 



SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT— TAXIDERMY AS 

 A FINE ART 



Notes and Comments 81 



Vox Populi — The British Association — The Marine Biological 

 Association — Natural History as a Recreation for Sailors — 

 The Worm, the Gastropod, the Coral and the Bivalve — 

 Science at a Picnic — The Life of a Museum -Winchester 

 Once More — Science and Nature— Science and Art — In Old 

 Japan — The Hongkong Plague — Sewfer Air— Science and 

 Literature — Food for Babes — The Attack on the Pole— The 

 Pollination of the Yucca. 

 I. The Evolution of the Thames. By J. Walter Gregory, D.Sc, 



F.G.S. (Illustrated) 97 



II. Some Account of the Gall-making Insects of Australia. By 



Walter W. Froggatt 109 



III. Books of Reference in the Natural Sciences. By C. Davies 



Sherborn, F.G.S., F.Z.S 115 



IV. Some Reforms in the Oxford University Museum. By E. S. 



Goodrich. (With Plates I.-III.) 128 



V. Hertwig's " Preformation or Nevr Formation." By P. Chalmers 



Mitchell, M.A, F.Z.S. 132 



Some New Books 135 



A Handbook of the Marsupialia and Monotremata. By R. 

 Lydekker— A Handbook of the Birds of Great Britain. By 

 R. Bovfdler Sharpe — Comparative Oology of North American 

 Birds. By R. W. Shufeldt — Linnaeus's " System of Nature." 

 Reprint of Tenth Edition — Ueber das Yerhaeltniss des 

 Gaschlechts in der Natur. By Dr. Georg Klebs— Biological 

 Lectures. By A. Milnes Marshall — Introduction to the 

 Study of the Brachiopoda. By James Hall — Lehrbuch 

 der Zoologie. By Dr. J. E. Y. Boas — Geology. By 

 Charles Bird — The Jurassic Rocks of Britain. By H. B. 

 Woodward— British Museum Catalogue of Wealden Plants. 

 By A. C. Seward— The Climatology of Maryland— Congres 

 Geologique International, 1891 



Obituary 151 



Brian Houghton Hodgson— Carl Joseph Hyrtl— F. Heine— L. F. 

 Lethierry — E. Norton — F. Quiroga y Rodriquez— C. T. Liebe 

 E. Lefevre. 



Neiars of Universities, Museums, and Societies .. 155 



Correspondence:- J. Lawrence-Hamilton — Edward Crane — Frank 



Finn 159 



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