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Vol. V. No. 34 



Ratui^al 



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Ji JVIonthly I^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



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DECEMBER, 1894. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments . . . . 401 



The Scots Fishery Board— Science and the State— Geology in 

 Queensland — The U.S. Geological Survey — A Geological 

 Record — A Universal Zoological Record — The Linnean 

 Society's Catalogue — Science and Medicine (Sir James Paget 

 and Dr. Lauder Brunton)— Antitoxins — An Electrical Theory 

 of Vision — Mind and Body — Realism in Art — Physiological 

 Apparatus for Plants — The Discoverer of Dionsea— Change of 

 Address. 



I. The Homes and .Migrations of the earliest known Forms of 

 Animal Life, as indicated by Recent Researches. By Henry 

 Hicks, M.D., F.R.S 417 



II. Cephalopod Beginnings. By F. A. Bather, M.A., F.G.S. (Illus- 

 trated) 422 



III. The Wing of Archaeopteryx. Part II. By W. P. Pycraft, 



M.B.O.U. (With Plate lY. and Text-Illustrations) . . 437 



lY. Pseudo-Biology. By F. A. Bather 449 



Some New Books . . 455 



A Naturalist on the Prowl, or in the Jungle. By " Eha " — A 

 Manual of the Geology of India. Second Edition. By R. D. 

 Oldham^Amphioxus and the Ancestry of the Yertebrates. 

 By A. Willey — Index Kewensis — The Orient Guide — Recent 

 Journals and Pamphlets. 



Obituary 464 



N. Pringsheim— P. Duchartre— G. L. Figuier— L. Mauthner— 

 Hugh Mitchell— O. Koechlin— B. N. Rake— H. Tate— Lent— 

 Kretzschmar— G. L. E. Andreae. 



Neinrs of Universities, Museums, and Societies 467 



Correspondence:— W. B. Hart— F. A. Bather— H. O. Forbes 471 



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