JVoI. XII. All Rig ht s Reserved No. 72 



NATURAL 



7,^^= "SCIENCE 



A MONTHLY REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS 

 FEBRUARY 1898 



Contents 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments ■......,.. 73 



The Deep-sea Shark, Chlamydoselache— A Veritable Sea-serpent — The Mechanism of 

 Living Protoplasm — The Development of a Crane-fly — 'The Pioneers of Natural 

 Science ' — Artificial Ants' Nests — Catching' Plankton — Fermentation and Ferment 

 Action — The Jamaica Botanic Gardens — Natural History in the School-room — A 

 Great Work on Early Cartography— The Geology of Franz Joseph Land — The Struc- 

 ture of Gold Nuggets— Fatigue in Beading — Publication or Manuscript ? — Natural 

 Science in Lincolnshire — The Genera of Rodents — A Devonian Fish-spine 



The Classification of the Day Butterflies (<<,/-/»,/, /, ,i-Uh Plate II.). By A. Radcliffe Grote, A.M.. 87 

 The Geographical Distribution of the Actiniaria of Jamaica. By J. E. Duerden," B.Sc. . 100 



The Authenticity of Plateau Implements [tcifh riairs IV.-VIL). I. By Rev. R. Ashington 



BuUen, M.A., F.G.S. H. By W. J. Lewis Abbott, F.G.S. . . . . .106 



Suess's Theories of Geographical Evolution. By J. W. Gregory, D.Sc, F.G.S. . . 117 



Some New Books ........... 123 



The Australian Tertiary MoUusca : by G. F. Harris— Soils and Sub-soils : by Horace B. 

 Woodward— Kalender fUr Geologen, Palaeontologen und Mineralogen filr das Jahr 

 1898 : by K. Keilhack— With Nature and a Camera ; by R. Kearton— A Revision of 

 the North American Bats of the Family Vespertilionidae : by G. S. Miller, jun.— The 

 Lepidoptera of the British Islands : by C. G. Barrett 



Obituaries ............ 133 



N. Kleinenberg — T. J. Parker— G. G. Hubbard — S. A. Miller— and others 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies ....... i3g 



Correspondence .....,...._ 143 



Oswald H. Latter— H. M. Vernon— P. Q. Keegan 



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