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Vol. IV. No. 25 



Ratukal 



SeiERGE: 



Jl JVIonthly I^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



/^, V/ 



MARCH, 1894. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Notes and Comments.. 161 



Haeckel (with Portrait) — Yon Zittel — Dariwin — Harvard Museum 

 and Scientific Co-operation— Birds' Eggs at the British 

 Museum — Deficiencies in Museums — The Modern Museum 

 — 'Winchester College— Absence of Experimental Psycho- 

 logy in England- Theories and Facts in Biology — A Whale- 

 Fight in the South Atlantic—Armoured Whales— ^py- 

 ornis. 



I. The Fossil Plants of Canada as Tests of Climate and Age. By 



Sir J. W^. Dawson, K.C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S. 177 



II. Natural Science in Japan. II. Present (continued) and III. 



Future. By F. A. Bather, M.A., F.G.S 183 



III. Adaptation in Liverworts. (Illustrated.) By Jesse Reeves . . 194 



lY. Thermo - metamorphism in the South-Eastern Highlands of 



Scotland. By George Barrow, F.G.S 198 



Y. The Museums of Public Schools. II. Eton. (Illustrated.) By 



W^ L. Sclater, F.G.S 201 



YI. Instinct and Intelligence in Chicks and Ducklings. By G. 



Lloyd Morgan, F.G.S. 207 



Some Neiw Books . . 214 



The Psychological Review. — Theory of Development and Here- 

 dity. By Henry B. Orr.— Microscopic Foams and Proto- 

 plasm. By O. Butschli, translated by E. A. Minchin. 



Obituary :— Sir Samuel Baker.— Sir Gerald Portal.— J. K. Hasskarl. 



-T. Y. Middendorff, etc 228 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies . . 231 



(The Haeckel Celebration — Special Account.) 

 Correspondence :— S. S. Buckman.— Y- Ball.— C. D. S.- J. W. Evans 239 



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