DEC 30 1896 



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Vol. VII. No. 46. 



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"'" SeiERGE: 



K JVIonthly I^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



DECEMBER, 1895. 



CONTENTS. 

 Notes and Comments 3*89 



The Museum in Epping Forest (Illustrated)— Trustees for 

 Local Museums -Local Museums and Educational Bodies — 

 Dr. Hertwig on the Cell— The Cell in Botany— The Reign of 

 the Nucleus— Adam Sedgwick on the Inadequacy of the Cell- 

 Theory— The Nucleus and its '-Sphere of Influence "—Mr, 

 G. C. Bourne on the Cell-Theory— E. B. Wilson's Atlas of 

 Fertilisation and Karyokinesis — Fossil Cells— Reconstruc- 

 tions from Series of Sections — The Heart in Birds and Rep- 

 tiles—The Anatomy of Chauna— An Autograph Portrait of 



Huxley (Illustrated)- — Stipules African Orchids North 



American Deltoid Moths— Dispersal of Marine Animals by 

 Seaiareeds. 

 I. Oceanic Deposits Ancient and Modern. Part II. By "W. F. Hume, 



D.Sc, A.R.S.M., F.G.S 385 



II. Murray's Mud-Line. By James Chumley 395 



III. On the Darmrinian Hypothesis of Sexual Selection. Part II. By 



G. Norman Douglass 398 



lY. The Swedish Marine Biological Station. By F. A. Bather, M.A., 



F.G.S. (with Plate XX. and Text Illustrations) 407 



Y. The Use of Formalin as a Preservative Medium for Marine 



Animals. By James Hornell 416 



Some Ne-w Books 421 



A Monograph of the Order of Oligochaeta : by F. E. Beddard 

 (F. Yejdovsky). — The Migration of British Birds : by Charles 

 Dixon. — The History of Mankind: by F. Ratzel. — An Intro- 

 duction to the Study of Rocks: British Museum.— Guide to 

 the Collection of Rocks and Fossils belonging to the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Ireland : by A. McHenry and W. W. Watts 

 (G. A. J. C.) — Systematic and Handy Volume Atlases: by E. G. 

 Ravenstein. — A Handbook to the Carnivora: by R. Lydekker.— 

 Recherches sur les faunes marines et maritimes de la Nor- 

 mandie: by H. G. de Kerville.— Recent Writings on the 

 Foraminifera. — Photograms of '95. 



Obituary 433 



R. Brown — W. B. D. Mantell -A. Yiktor Rydberg— P. H. 

 Lawrence— H. Heliriegel— E. Baumann— E. W. BuIl~F. Berte 

 —J. Kostal— E. Slizenberger— J. Fallou-Dr. Riva- G. Wilhelm 

 —P. Bertkau— L. Duda— J. E. Garretson. 



Neinrs of Universities, Museums, and Societies 435 



Index and Title Page to Volume VII. 



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