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^USTRATED MAGAZINE 



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Founded by RICHARD A. PROCTOR. 

 LONDON: DECEMBER 1, 1S99. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial 



On the Treatment and Utilization of Anthropological 

 Data.— VI. Facial Form. By Aethtje Thomson. 

 M.A., II. B. {Illustrated) 



Secrets of the Earths Crust.— VI. The Coming of 

 Man. By Geentillb A. J. Cole, m.b.i.a., F.a.3. 



The Mycetozoa, and some Questions which they 

 Suggest.— VII. By the Right Hon. Sir Edwabd Fet, 

 D.C.I., LL.D., P.E.S., and Agnbs Fet 



Two Months on the Guadalquiver. — V. Flowery 

 Plains and Bustards. List of Birds. By Haeet F. 



WiTHEEBT, F.Z.3., IT.B.O.r. ' 



Hippalus and its Surroundings. By E. Waltee 

 Mausdeb, P.E.A.S. {Plate) 



Letters : W. H. S. Monck j Laubenck B. Tappenden ; 

 P. DE Jeesey Q-bui 



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Obituary 



British Ornithological Notes. 



WiTHSBBT, F.Z.S., M.B.O.TJ. ... 



Science Notes 



Notices of Books {Illustrated) ... 



Books Received 



The Karkinokosm, or World of Crustacea, — XII. 



Breath of Water. By the Rev. Thomas R. 



Stebbino, M.A., P.E.8., F.L.S., F.z.s. {Illustrated) 



Microscopy. By John H. Cooke, f.l.s., p.&.s. {Diagram)... 



Notes on Comets and Meteors. The Shower of 

 Leonids. By Vf. F. Dbnkino, p.e.a.8 



The Face of the Sky for December. By A. Fowleb, 

 p.b.a.s. {Illustrated). 



Chess Column. By C. D. Lococz, b.a. 



EDITORIAL. 



WITH the single exception of the promised 

 paper on the " Pitch Lake of Trinidad," 

 we have been enabled, with the valued 

 aid of our contributors, to carry out the 

 programme of work which we set before 

 our readers twelve months ago. 



Turning to some of the more important projects in 

 our new year's work, we have received the promise of 

 some further Astronomical Plates from Dr. Isaac 

 Roberts, to whom we are already so much indebted 

 for numerous magnificent examples of Astronomical 

 Photography. Mr. E. Walter Maunder is going out 

 to Algeria for the purpose of obser\'ing the solar 

 eclipse of May, 1900, and he will relate his experiences 

 in our columns. Mr. Maunder is also at work upon 

 a series of popular articles on " Astronomy without a 



Telescope," to commence with the January number. 

 In this department of our work we hope to have the 

 aid of Miss Agnes M. Gierke, Mr. J. Evershed, Mr. A. 

 Fowler, Mr. J. E. Gore, and Prof. E. C. Pickering. 

 Mr. W. F. Denning will again contribute a column 

 during the year on Comets and Meteors, and Mr. 

 Fowler will continue to conduct the column on the 

 Face of the Sky. 



We hope to publish at an early date an original 

 drawing of the Planet Mars, which has been specially 

 made for KNOWLEDGE by M. Eugene M. Antoniadi, 

 who will also contribute a further paper on " Cloud 

 Photograph}'," to be illustrated by some more of his 

 successful photographs of clouds. 



An important series of Ethnological Studies from 

 the facile pen of Mr. R. Lydekker will commence in 

 our January number with a consideration of the 

 native races of the .Australian continent. These 

 articles will be fully illustrated from a selection of 

 interesting photographs which Mr. Lydekker has 

 kindly placed at our disposal. 



Our readers will be glad to learn that there is 

 considerable prospect of Mr. Fred. Enock's return to 

 our columns as a contributor of those delightful life- 

 histories of minute insects, which have been too long 

 absent from our pages, owing to great press of work 

 upon the author. 



Arrangements have also been made for the issue, 

 during the year, of a series of original articles by Mr. 

 H. H. W. Pearson, of the Royal Gardens, Kew, on 

 " Plants and their Food," in which Mr. Pearson 

 proposes to consider in detail the nutrition of the 

 green plant. In addition, we hope to place before 

 our readers several further sets of papers, for which 

 arrangements are now in progress, and of these we 

 may direct attention to the following : — -A set of 

 studies on "Scenery and Geology in Europe," by Prof. 

 Grenville A. J. Cole ; a series of papers on " Wireless 

 Telegraphy," by Mr. G. W. de Tunzelmann ; and an 

 introduction to sociology and to the origins of 

 history, under the title of " The Evolution of Simple 

 Societies," by Prof Alfred C. Haddon, who pro- 

 poses to describe the hunters, fishers, [herders, and 

 tillers in typical communities, and to note the effects 

 of environment and mode of life upon them. 



The Rev. Thomas R. R. Stebbing will contribute 

 two or three concluding chapters to his fascinating 

 study of the Crustacea, with which he has delighted 

 our readers during the past two years ; Mr. Howard B. 

 Little will contribute som^e articles on " Electricity as 

 a Natural Force," in which he proposes to deal with 

 thunderstorms, magnetic storms, and the .Aurora 

 Borealis ; and, finally, Mr. William Shackleton in- 

 forms us that he is now hoping to redeem his promise 

 of last year in regard to the article on " The Pitch 

 Lake of Trinidad." 



We avail ourselves of this opportunity to offer our 

 grateful thanks to our readers, our contributors, and 

 to the Press, for the generous support accorded to our 

 efforts, and our assurance that we intend to spare no 

 labour in making the pages of KNOWLEDGE both 

 useful and welcome all over the world. 



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