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Vol. VII. No. 43. 



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fi ]V[ont:hly I^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



SEPTEMBER, 1895. 



CONTENTS. 



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Notes and Comments 153 



The Geographical Congress— Deep-seated Water — The Scientific 

 Use of Shorthand — Post-graduate Study and Research at 

 Cambridge — Anti-Darwinism — Mr. Grant Allen's Yiews — 

 Diphtheria Anti-Toxin — The Function of the Supra-renals — 

 The Minute Structure of Spleen — The Ccelome and Nephridia 

 — Mr. Beddard's Monograph — Carbonic Oxide Poisoning — 

 Adders and their Young — Determination of Sex — The Fossil 

 Birds of La Plata — Botany and the Science and Art 

 Department. 

 I. Natural Science in Newcastle. By Rev. Canon A. M. Norman, 



M.A., D.C.Ii., F.R.S., F.Ii.S., etc 169 



II. The Geology of Ipswich and its Neighbourhood. By Clement Reid, 



F.G.S 173 



III. Some Recent Insect Literature. By George H. Carpenter, B.Sc... 179 



lY. The Nucleolus. By Rudolf Beer, F.Z.S 185 



Y. The Role of Sex. By J. B. Haycraft 193 



YI. The Alleged Miocene Man in Burma. By R. D. Oldham, F.G.S. . . 201 



Some New Books 203 



Geological Phenomena and the Flood: by Joseph Prestwich.— 

 Birds, Beasts, and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadlands : by 

 P. H. Emerson.— The Yertical Distribution of the Pelagic 

 Crustacea during July, 1894 : by E. A. Birge.— The Lepidop- 

 tera of the British Islands: by C. G. Barrett.— Outlines of 

 Zoology : by J. A. Thomson. — On the Geographical Distribution 

 of Tropical Diseases in Africa : by R, W. Felkin.— Object 

 Lessons in Botany from Forest, Field, Wayside, and Garden : 

 by E. Snelgrove.— Manuel de Geographique Botanique : by 

 O. Drude.— Index to the Periodicals of 1894 : by Miss B. 

 Hetherington. 



Obituary 215 



C. C. Babington— J. Thomson — D. C. Eaton— J. G. Norwood— 

 F. Kitton-G. v. Nordenskiold— F. E. Brown- J. Deby— F. A. S. 

 Yerneuil— G. Marx— H. Witmeur— SinJ. Tomes— H. Knoblauch 

 —J. Sprague— P. Strobel— C. B. A. Gerstaecker— W. Yoss- 

 R. Peck— N. S. Townshend— E. H. Baillon. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies 219 



Correspondence : A. R. F. 223 



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