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Vol. III. /^ ^ // No. 19. 



Ratui^al 



SeiERGE: 



K ]V[onthly I^evieW of gcientific^. Progress. 



SEPTEMBER, 1893 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments . . . . . . . . . . 161 



The Britisli Association — Trilobites — Fishes at High Tempera- 

 tures — The D-nrindling of Limestones — Bibliography of 

 Botany. 



I. On Epiphytes By Percy Groom, B.A., F.L.S 172 



II. On the Relation of the Fauna and Flora of Australia to those 



of New Zealand. By C. Hedley, F.L.S 187 



III. Recent Researches on the Fauna and Flora of Madagascar. By 



C. Davies Sherborn, F.G.S 192 



lY. The Interlocking of the Barbs of Feathers. By W. P. Pycraft, 



M.B.O.U 197 



V. The Liucernarians as Degenerate Scyphomedusae : a Note upon 



the Phylogeny of the Order. By James Hornell . . 204 



VI. Biological Theories. VI. The Phylogeny of Lucernarians. By 



C. Herbert Hurst, Ph.D 209 



VII. Notes on the Pipernoid Structure of Igneous Rocks. By Professor 



H. J. Johnston-Lavis, M.D., F.G.S 218 



VIII The Evolution of Life 222 



Some New Books 226 



Birds in a Village. By W. H. Hudson. — Handbook of Palaeon- 

 tology. By K. A. von Zittel. — Chemical and Micro-Mineralogical 

 Researches on the Upper Cretaceous Zones of the South of 

 England. By W. F. Hume.— Elementary Biology. By T. J. 

 Parker. — Subterranean Picardy. By M. Pilloy.— Fossil Shells. 

 By G. D. Harris. — Catalogue of S. Australian Minerals. By 



H. Y. L. Brown 



Obituary : — John Rae. — J. W. Davis. — G. Brook. — M. von Hantken. 

 — G. W. Shrubsole.— Anne Pratt.— G. R. Vine.- D. Homfray.— 



F. Kiaer 231 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies . . 235 



Correspondence : — Dr. C. H. Hurst.— F. A. Bather.— E. S. Goodrich. 

 — J. Lawrence Hamilton 238 



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