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Vol. VII. No. 42. 



Ratwi^al 



"?" SeiERGE: 



A JVEonthly I^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



AUGUST, 1895. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGC 



Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . 81 



The New London University— Culture and Biology — Huxley 

 and Agnosticism — Sunday Opening — Sexual Characters in 

 Nautilus — The Origin of the Cephalopods — The Cultivated 

 Cineraria — Fossil Plants of the Coal-Measures — Plant Nomen- 

 clature Again — A Nominalist ! — Botany and the American 

 Government — Science in Mexico — Illinois and its State 

 Geologist— Natural History at the Indian Exhibition — Alba- 

 tross and Penguin Islands — Object-Teaching in Town and 

 Country — Science and Art Department— Our "Challenger" 

 Number. 

 I. Some Casual Thoughts on Museums. Part I. By Sir Henry H. 



Howorth, K.C.I.E., M.P., F.R.S 97 



II. Waltzing Mice. By Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S 101 



III. Bud- Variation and Evolution. By Rev. George Henslow, M.A., 



F.L.S., F.G.S 103 



lY. Chemistry and Physics in the "Challenger" Report. By A. 



Ritchie Scott, B.Sc 107 



Y. Biological Theories. YIII.— The Crystalline Lens. By C. Herbert 



Hurst, Ph.D 113 



YI. The Newcastle Museum of Natural History. By Alexander Meek 115 

 YII. Huxley. By Professor E. Ray Lankester, M.A., F.R.S. ; P. Chalmers 

 Mitchell, M.A., F.Z.S. ; and A. Smith Woodward, F.L.S., F.G S., 



F.Z.S. (With Plate XYIII.) 119 



Some New Books 129 



Museums Association; Report of Proceedings (S. F. Harmer), 

 Cambridge Natural History; Molluscs: by Rev. A. H. Cooke 

 (F.a.B.).— Stanford s Compendium; North Africa: by A. H. 

 Keane (J. W. Gregory) — Plantesamfund : by Eug. Warming 

 (M.C.P).— Brasilische Pilzblumen: by Alfred Moller (A.L.S.).- 

 The Moon: by T. G.Elger (J.W.G.).— As Aves do Brazil, Primeira 

 Parte: by E. A. Goeldi, etc. 



Obituary 1*0 



Y. Ball— W. C. Williamson— E. C. de Crespigny— B J. Clave- 

 F. Sansoni— J. Croissandeau- J. Anthony— F. E. Neumann— 

 J. Byron— F. Miiller— Sir Samuel Wilson— A. W^. Scherfel— 

 W^. Yoss— R. P. Bon— G. Moore H. F. C. Cleghorn— H N. 

 Sandbach— J. H. Redfield— P Doderlein. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies 145 



Correspondence: — Annie Lorrain Smith 152 



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