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Vol. IV. No, 26 



Ratui^al 



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Jl JVEonthly I^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



APRIL, 1894. 



CONTENTS. "*« 



Notes and Comments 241 



Independence in Scientifio Journalism — Ne'w Journals — Me- 

 morial Volumes — A Nemr Liemur — Pedigree Wheat— Chaos in 

 London Science Teaching — Report of Gresham University 

 Commission — University Extension — Darwin Memorial. 



I. Plateau Man in Kent. (Illustrated.) By W. J. Lewis Abbott, 



F.G.S 257 



II. Characters in Biology. By George Sandeman 267 



III. The Cross-Fertilisation of Food-Plants. (Illustrated.) By A. B. 



Rendle, F.L.S 272 



lY. Neuter Insects and Darwinism. By J. T. Cunningham, M.A. .. 281 



Y. Continental Growth and Geological Periods. By T. Mellard 



Reade, F.G.S 290 



Some New Books 299 



Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie. By Ludwig von Hbhnel.— Man the 

 Primeval Savage. By Worthington Smith. — Horned 

 Reptiles in Scotland. — The Australian Mud-fish.— Geography 

 as it is Taught. — Dredging and Distribution in Danish 

 Seas. 



News of Universities, Museums, and Societies 313 



Correspondence: — O. T.— W. A. Herdman 319 



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