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Vol. I. No. 8. 



Ratu^al 



M, 9//- 



'^" SeiERGE: 



Ji JVEontlily I^evieW of Scientific ProgFCss. 



OCTOBER, 1892 



CONTENTS. 



PAGC 



Notes and Comments . . 561 



Field Observations in Natural History— The Dispersal of Plants 

 and Animals — Economic Science — Colour Blindness — The 

 Skeleton of the Voice Organs— Hairs and Feathers — The 

 Dawn of Life— The Chemist as a Stratigraphical Geo- 

 logist—The Miocene Mammals of France— The Quarternary 

 History of the Baltic— The Geological Survey of Great 

 Britain — Archaeology in Dorsetshire and Wiltshire — 

 Indexes of Science— The Nomenclature of Insects— The 

 Grasses of our Pastures. 

 I. Biological Theories. — II. The Evolution of Heredity. By C. 



Herbert Hurst, Ph.D. 578 



II. The History of the Moas, or Extinct Flightless Birds of New 

 Zealand. By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S., and R. Lydekker, 



B.A., F.G.S 588 



III. The Fore-runners of the Backboned Animals. By A. Smith Wood- 

 ward, F.L.S 596 



lY. Recent Researches in the Anatomy and Development of the 



Brachiopoda. By Agnes Crane 603 



V. Botanical Nomenclature. By James Britten, F.L.S 612 



Some New Books 624 



Fur-Bearing Animals. By H. Poland.— Les Mollusques. By 

 Henri Coupin. — An Introduction to the Study of the Genera 

 of Palaeozoic Brachiopoda. Part I. By James Hall and 

 John M. Clarke.— Our Temperaments. By Alexander 

 Stewart.— W^oodwork. By S. Barter.— Manual of Instruction 

 in Woodw^ork. By George Wood. 



New^s of Universities, Museums, and Societies 632 



Observations and Correspondence 635 



Fiat-Fishes. By J. T. Cunningham. — Foundations of Science. 

 By Dr. R. J. Ryle. — Grammar of Science. By Professor 

 Lloyd Morgan. — Oceans and Continents. By Dr. W. T. 

 Blanford.— Dispersal of Forest Trees. By Clement Reid. 



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