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Vol. VI. i^,°jH No. 40 



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K ]VLonthly Review of Scientific Progress. 



JUNE, 189S. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments.. .. .. .. .. ..' .. 361 



The Royal Society's Selection— The Harveian Oration— Geo- 

 logical Literature — The Earthquake at Laibach — Artesian 

 Water in Queensland (Illustrated) — Niagara and the Great 

 Lakes — Primaeval Man — The Shells of the Antilles— Hanging 

 Foliage — A Primitive Lily — The Action of Light upon Bacteria 

 — A New Worm — Mesenchyme — The Yertebral Column of 

 Fishes — A Monograph of Crinoids. 

 I. The Assogue (Putorius hibernicus) . A Peculiar British Mammal. By 



016. ield Thomas, F.Z.S. (With Plate iv.) .. 377 



II. The Canons 1 f Southern France. By A. J. Jukes-Browne, M.A., 



F.G.S 379 



III. Individual Yariations. By Rev. George Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., 



F.G.S 385 



IV. The After-Shocks of Earthquakes. By C. Davison, M.A., F.G.S. 



(Illustrated) 391 



Y. Eozobn and the Monte Somna Blocks. By Sir J. William Dawson, 

 C.M.G., F.R.S., H. J. Johnston-Lavis, M.D., M.R.C.S , F.G.S., 



and J. W. Gregory, D.Sc, F.G.S., F.Z.S 398 



YI. In the Home of the Nautilus. By Arthur Willey, B.Sc. (Illus- 

 trated.) With Introduction by Professor E. Ray Lankester, 

 M.A., F.R.S ,. .. 405 



Some New Books 415 



Yergleichende Anatomie der Echinodermen. By A. Lang — 

 Lehrbuch der Botanik. By Strasburger, Noll, Schenck, and 

 Schimper — Student's Text-book of Botany. By S. H. Yines — 

 Hand-book of Systematic Botany. By Warming and 

 Knoblauch, translated by Potter — The British Museum 

 Catalogue of Mycetozoa. By A. Lister. 



Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 



Karl Yogt— Karl Ludwig— E. Duges— H. J. Carter— G. A. Rex— 

 F. Posepny — A. W. Stelzner — W. Parker Snow— E. Rostan — 

 C. Rey — R. Sachsse — G. Buchanan. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies 429 



Correspondence: — Editor of " Zoological Record" 432 



Index. 



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