E, SCIENC 
A MONTHLY REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS 
AUGUST 1898 
“Notes and Comments : : 3 : é 
Sir William Flower—The Dissetorsnip of the Natural History Museum—The Museum of 
Contents 
‘Practical’ Geology—French ‘Protection’ of Fossils in Madagascar—An American 
Pirate—Scenery and the Poets—Models of Multipolar Cells—Synthetic Protoplasm— 
The Phyto-Plankton of the Atlantic—The Missouri Garden—Wasted Wealth—Humber 
Mud—Slugs—American Isopods—Mexican Birds—The Black Kite—An Alga parasitic 
on Ophiurids—Paper 
‘Some More Rowing Experiments. By E. Cuthbert Atkinson, M.A. (With Plate I. and 12 Figures 
‘in the Text) : 
"Scientific Proofs versus a priori Assumptions. By Rev. Professor G. Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. 
by. 
Some New Books q : : - : : 5 : i 
Essays on Museums: by Sir'W. Flower (H. Balfour)—Text-book of Entomology : by A. S. 
Natural Gas in Sussex. By Charles Dawson, F.G.S., F.S.A... 
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. Nuclear Reduction’ and the Function of Chromatin, By Prof. Marcus Hartog, D.Sc. 
Packard (G. H. Carpenter)—Mammals, Reptiles, and Fishes of Essex: by H. Laver 
(O. T.)—Anatomi der Wirbelthiere: by R. Wiedersheim (W. G. R.)—Mikroskopische 
Anatomi ; II. Schlund und Darm: by A. Oppel—Deutsche Ornithologische Gesellschaft 
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(H,. A. M.)—Growth of Spicules in the Ascon Sponges: by E. A. Minchin—Flora of 
Perthshire: by F. B. W. White—-Farnkrauter der Erde: by H. Christ—Fortpflanzung 
der Gewichse: by M. Mébius—Andrée and his Balloon: by H. Lachambre and A. 
Machuron—Practical Radiography: by A. W. Isenthal and H. S. Ward—Notes on 
Observations: by S. Lupton—List of Types of Fossil Cephalopoda: by G. C. Crick— 
Text-book of Zoology : by H, G. Wells and A. M. Davies—The Metric System—Zoology 
in Japan—Bibliography—New Serial—&c. 
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