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Vol. I. 



N^. 9. 



Ratwhal 



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SeiERGE 



K ]\Ioiit:hly I^evieW of Scientific Progress. 



NOVEMBER, 1892 



CONTENTS. 



Notes and Comments 



Tennyson— The Crisis in the United States Geological Survey— 

 The Australian Barrier Reef —Biological Stations- The 

 Anti-Yivisection Challenge — Phenology — Arctic Expe- 

 ditions—More Newspaper Science. 

 I. The Evolution of Consciousness. By Professor C. Lloyd Morgan, 



F.G.S 



II. Primaeval Man: a Palaeolithic Floor near Dunstable. By Wor- 



thington G. Smith, F.L.S. 



III. The Evolution of Sharks' Teeth. By A. Smith "Woodward, F.L.S. 

 lY. The Walk of Arthropods. By George H. Carpenter, B.Sc. . . 



Y. The Falling of Leaves. By A. B. Rendle, M.A., F.L.S 



YI. Norwich Castle as a Museum. By Henry Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Some New Books 



Animal Coloration. By F. E. Beddard. -Essay on Liie and 

 Death. Uy A. Sabatier.— Horn Measurements. By R. Ward. 

 —The Sportsman in South Africa. By J A. NicoUs and 

 W^. Eglington.— A Yertebrate Fauna of Lakeland. By H. A. 

 Macpherson.— The Birds of Devon. By W S. M. D' Urban 

 and M. A. Mathew.— The Birds of Lancashire. By F. S. 

 Mitchell.— The Conchological Society's List of British Land 

 and Freshwater Mollusca,— Sponges of the North Atlantic. 

 By E. Topsent.— The Future of Silver. By E. Suess.— Geo- 

 logical Map of Scotland. By Sir A. Geikie. 



Neiws of Universities, Museums, and Societies 

 Observations and Correspondence 



The Permanence of Ocean Basins. By Dr. A. R. Wallace.— 

 Museums and Specialists. By F. A. Bather.— The Parasites 

 of Cut Corks. By J. Lawrence Hamilton.— Second Wind. 

 By J. Lawrence Hamilton. 



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