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Vol. VII. Q£^ j2 1896 ^^' ^^' 



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K JVEonthly Review of Scientific Progress. 



NOVEMBER, 1S95. 



CONTENTS. 



Notes and Comments 297 



Reminiscences of Huxley— Sir William Flower upon Huxley — 

 Pasteur— Pasteur's School — London and Chicago— Catalogue 

 of Medical Literature — Bibliography of American Algae— Dr. 

 John James Wild— Victorian Mines— Crabs as Geologists— 

 Gippsland Coal — Kea of New Zealand— Novelties at the Zoo- 

 Biography of a Chimpanzee — The Thumb in Civilisation- 

 Alkaline Secretions of Moths— Veiled Medusae — Senses of 

 Medusae — The Plymouth Laboratory — Fresh Herrings — A New 

 Case of Symbiosis — Ascent of Water in Plants— Postage of 

 Natural History Specimens — Adders Again- Chinook. 

 I. Louis Pasteur. By H. A. Miers, M.A., F.C.S., F.G.S., Sec. Minera- 



logical Society, and F. W. Andrewes, M.D 314 



II. Some Casual Thoughts on Museums. Part II. By Sir Henry 



Howorth, K.C.I.E., M.P., F.R.S 319 



III. On the Darwinian Hypothesis of Sexual Selection. Part I. By 



G. Norman Douglass 326 



IV. The International Congress of Zoologists. By Professor Sydney J. 



Hickson, M. A., D.Sc, F.R.S 333 



V. The Value of Myology as an Aid in the Classification of Animals. 



By F. G. Parsons, M.D., F. R.C.S 336 



VI. The Role of Sex. Appendix. By Professor J. Berry Haycraft, M.D., 



B.Sc. (Illustrated) C42 



Some New Books 345 



Birds of Heligoland: by H. Gatke, translated by Rosen stock 

 (H. A. Macpherson).— Seventeen Trips through Somaliland : by 

 Captain Swayne (J. W. Gregory).— Stomatopoda of the " Alba- 

 tross": by Bigelow. New Lithodidae: by Benedict. Bewegungs- 

 apparat der Arthropoden : by List (T. R. R. Stebbing). Brachio- 



pods : by Shipley and Reed (F. A. Bather). Zoogeography : by 



Beddard (G. H. Carpenter.)— Dairy Bacteriology : by Ainsworth 

 Davis.— Pasteurisation of Milk: by W^isconsin University.— 

 Biology Notes, Bssex Council. — Index Kewensis. — Biblio 

 graphia Zoologica. — Insect Life. 

 Obituary 360 



C. Y. Riley— J. E. Taylor -M. Willkomm— H. A. Bardeleben P. H. 

 Macgillivray — E. von Rebeur-Paschwitz — T. J. Slatter— A. 

 Manzoni— E. de Sury— Dr. Rira— F. Miescher— H. Senoner D. 

 Brandza — A. Jamieson. 

 News of Universities, Museums, and Societies 363 



Correspondence : F. R. Roiwley 368 



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