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Vol. VI. No. 37 



Rathp^al 

 # Sbierge: 



K ]YEonthly Review of Scientific Progress. 



MARCH, 1895. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments.. 145 



Argon— Sir Robert Ball and the Cause of an Ice Age— The 

 Origin of the Irish Fauna— Irish Cave Dwellers — "The 

 Geologist at the Luncheon-Table"— The Courtship of the 

 Spider — Comparative Edibility — The Origin of Oolite— Peri- 

 dotites and Phosphates — Geology in France — Madagascar 

 Fossils — When is a Ruby not a Ruby ? — Oranges and Frost 

 from Florida — Flora of Borneo — The Troubles of a Missionary 

 — Trinomial Nomenclature — Esoteric Science. 



I. The Mammals of the Malay Peninsula. Part III. By H. N. 



Ridley, M.A., F.L.S. (Concluded) 161 



II. The Development of Spiders' Lungs. By G. H. Carpenter, B.Sc. 167 



III. The Origin of Species among Fiat-Fishes. By J. T. Cunningham, 



M.A. (To be continued) 169 



IY. Wasps and Weather. By O. H. Latter, M.A 178 



Y. The Structure and Habits of Archaeopteryx. Parts III. and IY. 



By C. H. Hurst, Ph.D. (With Plate II. To be continued) . . 180 



YI. An Eelworm Disease of Hops. By Professor J. Percival, M.A. 



(With Plate III. and Text-illustrations) .. 187 



Some New Books 198 



Memoir of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay. By Sir A. Geikie — 

 A Handbook to the Primates. By H. O. Forbes — Butterflies 

 and Moths (British). By W. Furneaux — Lectures on the 

 Darwinian Theory. By A. Milnes Marshall— A Synopsis of 

 Arctic and Scandinavian Foraminifera. By A. Goes— The 

 Mountains of California. By J. Muir — Recent Publications 

 and Periodicals. 



Obituary 208 



R. A. Goodsir — H. C. Lombard — L. R. Gibbes — H. Christoph 

 — C. v. Felder — E. H. Acton— Marquis of Saporta — J. W. 

 Hulke. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies 209 



Correspondence :— O. T.— F. A. Bather— F. A. Lucas — P. C. Mitchell 



—Sir H. H. Howorth— Errata , 214 



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