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Vol. V. No. 33 



RATy^AL 

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Jl ]YIoiithiy I^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



NOVEMBER, 1894. 



CONTENTS. 



PACt 



Notes and Comments 321 



Change of Address — Marriage Customs of the Octopus — The 

 Habits of a Crab— 'The Toilers of the Sea"— In the China 

 Sea — Echinoderms of the Macclesfield Bank — Fresh Forms 

 of Foraminifera— The Life-History of Some Foraminifera— 

 The Extermination of Big Game— Current African Explora- 

 tion—Wasted Wealth in India— Fishing for Coal at Calais— 

 " Mente et Malleo "—The Climbing Rabbit— The Gay Science 

 of Nevrspaper Criticism. 

 I. On Random Publishing and Rules of Priority. By Rev. T. R. R. 



Stebbing, M.A 337 



II. Miocene Man in India. By Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. 



(Illustrated) 345 



III. The Wing of Archaeopteryx. By W. P. Pycraft, M.B.O.U. (Illus- 

 trated) 350 



lY. Further Notes upon the Organs of Arachnids. By George H. 



Carpenter, B.Sc. 361 



Y. Anlagen. By P. Chalmers Mitchell, M.A 366 



YI. A Portable Zoological Station in Bohemia. (Illustrated) . . . . 372 



Some New Books 376 



The Effect of External Influences on Development. By A. 

 Weismann — From the Greeks to Darwin. By H. F. 

 Osborn — The Great Ice Age. By J. Geikie — North 

 American Zoology. By G. Ord — Deep-Sea Deposits. 

 By J. Murray and A. F. Renard — The Fisheries of the 

 Mediterranean. By P. Gourret • - The Flora of Nebraska— 

 The Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. 



Obituary 389 



W^. Topley— G. H. Cotteau— P. Albrecht— Robson Benson. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies . . 392 



Correspondence: — Frederic A. Lucas— P. Chalmers Mitchell— E. F. 



Linton— T. Johnson— J. R. Hplt 395 



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