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Vol. I. , ^ No. 6. 



Ratui^al 



SeiERGE: 



K JVConthly I^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



AUGUST, 1892 



1892 



CONTENTS. 



PAMt 



Notes and Comments 401 



The Imperial Institute — Right of Way across the Norfolk Broads 

 — Newspaper Science— Laws of Hybridism— Texan Geology 

 — "A Severe Critic"— British Cretaceous Foraminifera — 

 The Identification of Trees in Winter —Botanical Nomen- 

 clature — The Scent of Floiwers. 



I. The Permanence of the Great Oceanic Basins. By Dr. A. Russel 



Wallace 418 



II. The Climate of EJurope during the Glacial Epoch. By Clement 



Reid, F.G.S., F.L.S 427 



III. Death. By P. Chalmers Mitchell, M.A 434 



lY. The Geology of the Central Himalaya. By H. B. W^oodward, F.G.S. 442 



Y. The "Albatross" Expedition. By W. E. Hoy le, F.L.S 448 



YI. Professor Lloyd Morgan on the " Grammar of Science." By 



R. J. Ryle, M.A., M.B 463 



YII. Technical Education in Surrey. By J. Percival, M.A., F.C.S. . . 458 

 RevieiHS . . . . 465 



Yolcanoes : Past and Present. By Prof. Hull. — Grouse Disease. 

 By Dr. E. Klein.— The Physiology of the Invertebrata. 

 By Dr. A. B. Griffiths.— Life in Motion. By Dr. J. G. 

 McKendrick. — The Microscopic Determination of Rock- 

 Forming Minerals. By Dr. F. Loewinson-Lessing. — English 

 Botany; Supplement, Part II. By N. E. Brown. — Grasses. 

 By C. H. Johns. 

 News of Universities, Museums, and Societies . . 473 



Obituary 476 



Observations and Correspondence 477 



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