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Vol. III. No. 22. 



Rat^kal 

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K JVIonthly I^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



/ DECEMBER, 1893. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments . . 401 



A National Trust for Places of Beauty and Interest — Winchester 

 College — The American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science — The Correlation of Geological Formations in 

 Kurope and in America— Geological Survey of Queensland 

 — Nuclear Division — The Inheritance of Acquired Charac- 

 ters—The Flora of Eastern Malaya— The Seedlings of 

 Conifers— The Respiration of Plants— The Growth of 

 Plants — The Movements of Plants— Malformation of the 

 Daisy — Lepidostrobus. 



I. High-Level Shelly-Sands and Gravels. By T. Mellard Reade, 



C.E., F.G.S 423 



II. Some Facts of Telegony. By Frank Finn, F.Z.S 436 



III. Further Notes upon Arachnid and Insect Development. By 



George H. Carpenter, B.Sc 441 



lY. Note on the Evolution of the Scales of Fishes. By A. Smith 



Woodward, F.L.S 448 



V. The Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. By Henry Woods, B.A., F.G.S. 451 

 YI. Recent Explorations of the Maltese and Sicilian Caverns.. 455 



Some New Books 458 



Australasia. By Dr. A. R. Wallace. — The Zambesi Basin and 

 Nyassaland. By D. J. Rankin.— Elementary Palaeontology. 

 By H. W^oods.— Text-book of Geology. By Sir A. Geikie.— 

 Tables for Determination of Rock-forming Minerals. By 

 Professor Loewinson-Lessing. — The Journal of Marine Zoology 

 and Microscopy.— The Out-Door World. By W^. Furneaux. 



Obituary:— H. A. Hagen.— A. K. E. Baldamus.— G. Bennett.— D. 



Stur.— W. Dinning 467 



Nevrs of Universities, Museums, and Societies . . 469 



Correspondence . . 472 



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