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the view put forward by W. T. Blanford as to the 

 occurrence of the same phenomena in conglomerates of 

 this age in India is confirmed. Eozoon is finally 

 abandoned as owing its structure to an organism. The 

 oldest fossiliferous beds known to us are still far from 

 the beginning of life. They contain a highly developed 

 and varied animal fauna and something like the whole 

 of the older moiety of rocks of aqueous origin have failed 

 as yet to present us with any remains of the animals or 

 plants which must have inhabited the seas which 

 deposited them. The boring of a coral reef initiated 

 by Professor Sollas at the Nottingham meeting of the 

 British Association in 1893 was successfully carried out, 

 and a depth of 1,114^ feet reached. Information of great 

 value to geologists was thus obtained. 



Animal and Vegetable Morphography. Were I to 

 attempt to give an account of the new kinds of animals and 

 plants discovered since 1881, I should have to offer a 

 bare catalogue, for space would not allow me to explain 

 the interest attaching to each. Explorers have been 

 busy in all parts of the world in Central Africa, in the 

 Antarctic, in remote parts of China, in Patagonia and 

 Australia, and on the floor of the ocean as well as in 

 caverns, on mountain tops, and in great lakes and rivers. 

 We have learnt much that is new as to distribution ; 

 countless new forms have been discovered, and careful 

 anatomical and microscopical study conducted on 

 specimens sent home to our laboratories. I cannot 

 refrain from calling to mind the discovery of the eggs 

 of the Australian duck-mole and hedgehog ; the fresh- 

 water jelly-fish (figs. 13, 14, and 15) of Regent's Park, 

 the African lakes (fig. 16) and the Delaware River; the 

 marsupial mole of Central Australia ; the okapi (figs. 17, 

 18, and 19) ; the breeding and transformations of the 



