Vol. XII. - - Ail Rights Reserved No. 76 



JUN 27 189B 



NATURAL 

 "^" SCIENCE 



A MONTHLY REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS 



JUNE 1898 



Contents 



PAGE 



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



The Museum of Practical Geology — Mr Herbert Spencer on Polar Bodies : a Postscript — 

 A Quilted Squid (with Plate XI.)— Cheese to Order — Fishy Water — Sampling the 

 ' Herring Pond ' — The Drift of the Channel — The Protection of Birds— A new Hybrid 

 Grouse — Mammals of Norway — Notes on Norwegian Geology— Recent work on the 

 Foraminifera — Flowers and Insects — Polyembryony in Seed-plants— ^ Vaccination in 

 Japan — The Moco — The Australian Snipe 



A Geographical Commemoration : Vespucci, Deschnev, and Vasco da Gama . . . 377 



Some recent Progress in Root-Physiology. By Rudolf Beer, F.L.S. ..... 382 



The Study of Variations : A Rejoinder. By J. Lionel Tayler ..... 393 



On the Migration of the Right Whale (Balaena mysticetus) (with Plate XII. and text-illustration). 



By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. .397 



Some New Books ........... 415 



Elementary Botany : by Percy Groom, M. A.— Lessons with Plants : by L. H. Bailey — The 

 American Bureau of Ethnology (H.B.) — Serials 



Obituaries ............ 420 



Henry Lewis— Karl Ludwig Frldolin von Sandberger — Jules Marcou— and others' 



News ............ 423 



Correspondence .... . . . 431 



F. A. Bather— P. Q. Keegan— Wm. E. Hoyle 



Index and Subject-Index to Articles 



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