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Vol. VI. No. 35 



Ratui^al 



"■i" SeiERGE: 



K Monthly Review of Scientific Progress. 



JANUARY, 1895. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 



Research Degrees at Oxford — Research Degrees at Cambridge — 

 A Central Zoological Bureau — Nomenclature of Species — 

 Trinomial Nomenclature of Plants — Dispersal of Type- 

 specimens — Plant-types of Linnaeus — Casuarina — Geotropism 

 in Plants — Rootlets Penetrating Living Tissues — Apospory in 

 the Hart's Tongue — Histology of Fossil Plants — Fossil Liver- 

 worts — Nuggets of Gold — Sterilised Foods — Milk and Infection 

 —The Tubercle Commission — Strange Food — Additions to the 

 Zoo — The British Lion in America — Folds in the Gastropod 

 Shell. 

 I. The Study of Existing Glaciers. By Captain Marshall-Hall, 



F.G.S., F.C.S., Member of the Alpine Club 17 



II. The Mammals of the Malay Peninsula. By H. N. Ridley, M.A., 



F.L.S. (To be continued) .. 23 



III. The Distribution of Food-Fishes in Relation to their Physical 



Surroundings. By H. N. Dickson, F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S. (Illus- 

 trated) 30 



IV. The Problem of the Primaeval Sharks. By A. Smith Woodward, 



F.L.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S. (Illustrated) 38 



V. Musical Boxes in Spiders. By R. I. Pocock. (Illustrated) . . 44 



Some New Books . . . . . . . . . . 51 



The Life of Richard Owen. By R. Owen and C. D. Sherborn — 



Apparitions and Thought-Transference. By F. Podmore — 



Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology. Translated 



from the German of W. Wundt by J. E. Creighton and E. B. 



Titchener — Introduction to Comparative Psychology. By C. 



Lloyd Morgan — A Manual of Exotic Ferns and Selaginella. 



By E. Sandford — Le Monde des Plantes. By P. Constantin — 



Practical Physiology of Plants. By F. Darwin and E. H. 



Acton— Outlines of Biology. By P. C. Mitchell— Die Bildung 



der Gesteine. By J. Walther — United States Geological 



Survey — Periodicals and Excerpts. 



Obituary 65 



F. Buchanan White — Friedrich Bidder — Richard Meade— J. R. 



Wellman— G. Maydell-Stenhusen— B. F. Walsh. 

 News of Universities, Museums, and Societies . . . . . . . . 67 



Correspondence: — Sir Henry Ho worth — J. Douglas Ogilby — F. W. 



Headley— B. 71 



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