Vol. XII, 



All Rights Reserved 



No. 74 



NATURAL 



-;;: SCIENCE 



A MONTHLY REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS 



APRIL, 1898 



Contents 



Notes and Comments 



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217 



"What's in a Name ? " — " Mutato Nomine " Date — Professor Liversidge's Address — 



Other Australian Addresses — Earthquakes in Australia — The Origin of the Australian 

 and Tasmanian Aborigines — Artesian Water in Australia — The Aborigines of Jamaica 

 — A Parallel between Chemical and Vital Phenomena — The Growth of Coral Islands — 

 A Note on Plant Distribution — Japanese Explorers in Formosa — The Gipsy Moth — 

 The Muscle Scars of Fossil Cephalopod Shells — Science in Lincolnshire— Feathers and 

 Females — A Card-Index to Current Zoological Literature — British Naturalists — For 

 Bibliographers 



The Study of Variations. By J. Lionel Tayler •...., 



The Late Lamented Latreille. A Study in Names. By Thomas R. R. Stebbing, M. A., F.R.S. 



Pentacrinus : a Name and its History. By F. A. Bather, M.A., F.G.S. . . , 



The Antiquity of the Deep-Sea Fish Fauna. By A. Smith Woodward, F.L.S. 



Part IV. By Sir Henry H 



A New Scheme of Geological Arrangement and Nomenclature. 

 Howorth, M.P., F.R.S. 



Some New Books . . . . . . 



The Living Substance as Such : and as Organism : by G. F. Andrews (Mrs E. A. Andrews) 

 — Traite de Zoologie Concrete, V., Les Vermidiens : by Y. Delage and E. H^rouard — 

 An Introduction to Geology : by W. B. Scott— A Handbook to the Geology of Cambridge- 

 shire : by F. R. Cowper Reed— Petrology for Students : by A. Barker— In Northern 

 Spain : by H. Gadow — Das Kleine Botanische Praeticum fur Aufanger : by E. Stras- 

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Obituaries . . . 



Sir Richard Quain — T. C. Winkler — W. Joest— and others 



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



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