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Vol. VI. '^y// No. 39 



Rat^al 



SeiEROE: 



A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress. 



MAY, i8 9 5. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments.. .. .. .. .. .. 289 



The Bibliography of Zoology— A Palaeontologist on Zoological 

 System— Sir William Flower on the Principles of Nomen- 

 clature—American Plant Nomenclature— The Publication of 

 Papers by Societies — Toxins and Anti-toxins — The Sexual 

 Organs of Ferns — Botanical Education in America — Mr. 

 Wallace on Organic Involution— Specific Stability — A Bur- 

 lesque Explanation — Curiosities of Mollusca— The Queen's 

 Ostrich- Caricatures in Text-Books— The Land and Water 

 Areas of the Globe— Wild Fowl in Norfolk— The Anatomy of 

 Ornithorynchus. 

 I. Palaeontology and the Biogenetic Law. By Professor Karl Alfred 



von Zittel . . . . 305 



II. Field-Club Work in Ireland. By Professor Grenville A. J. Cole, 



F.G.S 313 



III. The Last of the "Challenger." By George R. M. Murray, F.L.S. 317 



IV. Some Definitions of Instinct. By Professor C. Lloyd Morgan, 



F.G.S , .. 321 



V. The New Oban Cave. By W. J. Lewis Abbott, F.G.S. .. 330 



VI. Bibliographical Reform and the " Zoological Record." By Dr. 



Herbert Haviland Field 333 



Some New Books 339 



Monographic Revision of the Pocket Gophers. By C. Hart 

 Merriam — A Primer of Evolution By Edward Clodd — Lehr- 

 buch der Zoologie. By R. Hertwig— Summer Studies of Birds 

 and Books. By W. Warde Fowler — The Flora of Dorsetshire. 

 By J. C. Mansel-Pleydell — Report of Observations of Injurious 

 Insects, etc. By Eleanor A. Ormerod — Report of the State 

 Entomologist of Illinois — The Great Problem of Substance and 

 its Attributes— Sveriges Geologi. By A. G. Nathorst. 



Obituary 348 



J. D. Dana— J. A. Ryder— Toyokitsi Harada — A. G. More— E. 

 H. Acton— Robert Fitch— J. E. Bommer. 

 News of Universities, Museums, and Societies . . . . 353 



Correspondence :— T. D. A. Cockerell— F. H. Perry Coste— H. F. 



Nachtrieb— C. A. Barber 358 



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