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AML Rights Rederved | ‘No. 69 
NATURAL | 
.uu SCIENCE 
A MONTHLY REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS 
12, f/f NOVEMBER 1897 
Contents 
- Notes and Comments ‘ ; : : : ; oy SBR 
The Confirmation of Darwin’s rhwee of Coral Islands—The Temperatures of Reptiles, 
Monotremes, and Marsupiais—Entomology in Australia—The Cuckoo—The Mental 
Development of a Child—The International Geological Congress—A Floating Scientific 
Station—The Black Sea— An Extinct Sea-Cow—The Beaver in Norway—tThe Fishes of 
the North Atlantic—The Study of Botany—Botany of the Azores 
- The Fundamental cig Speer of camp Sh By Professor Marcus M. Hartog, D.Sc., 
M.A., F.L.S. é : ; as 3 - 305 
Reproductive Divergence : A Factor in Evolution? By Karl Jordan, Ph.D. » oC SLT 
A New Scheme of Geological Arrangement and Nomenclature. Part I. By Sir Henry H. 
Howorth, M.P., F.R.S. . F . ‘ 3 : ks f : <i oem 
The Authenticity of Plateau Man (with Plate TX). By William Cunnington, F.G.S. F Raa 7-0 
Evidence of the Antiquity of Man in East London, ee See with a Note on the Castor-Oil 
Plant. By George R. M‘Kay . , . 334 
The Seed Production of Cut Flowers. By Rudolph Beer, F.L.S. ; $ P ; Bg Yj 
Some New Books a . 340 
Synoptical Flora ae North America: by Asa Gray—Traité de Zaolpise pubis | sous la 
direction de Raphael Blanchard: by P. Pelseneer—The Vivarium: by Rev. G. C. Bateman 
—The Theory of National and International Bibliography : by Frank Campbell—The 
Aeronautical Annual for 1897—-The Psychology of the Emotions: by Th. Ribot—The 
New Psychology : by E. W. Scripture—Nature-Chat : by E. A. Martin—John Hunter: 
by 8. Paget—Wiljiam Pengelly: by H. Pengelly—The Vertebrate Skeleton: by S. H. 
Reynolds—Lessons in Elementary Biology: by T. J. Parker—Wiedersheim’s Elements 
of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates : by W. N. Parker—Scraps from Serials— 
New Serials 
Obituaries a 5 : . ‘ ’ j , 5 ‘ ~. 9852 
William Archer and others. 
News of Universities, Museums and Societies - : ; , . > > 24 363 
Correspondence ; . 857 
W. Kidd, M.D.—T. D. A. Cockerell—H., N. Ridiey_J. ign bating 8. Sinclair. 
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