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[January io, 1895 



cent.). — On fl-oxycinchoninf, by MM. E. Junafleisch and E. 

 Lc^er. The preparation and properties of this compound aft 

 given in detail, and thirteen of its salf; are described. S-oxy 

 cinchonine is an energe'icdiacid base ; it turns litmus blue, and 

 reddens phenolphlhalrin. — .\c'ion of chh>rine on the secondary 

 alcohols, by M. A Brochet The action of chlorine on alcohols 

 of the type R.CIIOH CH, yields ke'ones of the form 

 R.CO.CCIj, the radical R i einc also chlorinated to the exien' 

 characteristic of the radical. — On the industrial preparation 

 and physiological properties of the oxalate and of the crystal- 

 lised salts o( nicotine, by MM. W. P.trenly and E. Grasset. 

 The mortal do»e of pure nicotine is 20-2I mgm. per kilogram 

 weigh! of animal. The fatal dose in the combined stale is 

 much larger. An animal slowly accttstonted to the action of 

 the p"ison can support daily a dose greater than thai fatal in 

 ordinary cases. — On pine tar, by Af. .\dolplie KenarH. — 

 Kemaiks on the muscles and brnes of the hind bmb of Hatleria 

 fuiulala, by M. .\. Periin. — Comparative stuHy of the lobed 

 and reticulated Rhizopoda of fr«-sh wa'er, by M. Felix Le 

 Dantec. — On the nests oi I'esf'a crahrn, L. ; oider of appear- 

 ance ol the earlier cells, by M. Chail-s lanet — The frai;men's 

 of the upnermost stratum of Ubaye, by MM. \'.. [laiig and \V. 

 Kilian. — On the conrluions of propigaiion of typhoid fever, 

 cholera, and exanihemalous typhus, by M. Renard. 



New South Wales. 



Linnean Society, November 28, 1S94. — The President, 

 Prof. Pavid. in the chair. — Rr-de-cnpiion ot A^piditgs ramsavi^ 

 Macl., by Kdear R. Waiti-. — A revir-w of the fossil jiws of 

 the Afacropoiiiiue '\n the Queensland Museum., by C. W. He 

 Vis. The very tine collection of "ver i leven hundred dissociated 

 jaws or portions of jaws in the (Queensland Museum has been 

 studied in the light of a knowledge "f the nature and rantie of 

 ihe variations, indiviiliial and specfic, presented by the skulls of 

 479 individuals referable to sixteen < xi-tiny siieci'S The follow- 

 ing species were de-cri bed as ne« : Falorchfstes parvtis^Sthenurus 

 pales, S. orcas. Halmaliirus vinceus, H. thor, H. dryas, II. 

 oJin, H. indra, H. iiva, H. Vishnu. Macropus magister, M. 

 pan. and M. faunus. — Notts •"' snme I, and Pianarian^cullecied 

 byThos. Steel, Esq . on the Blue M .untains, N.S.W., by Dr. 

 .A. Dendy. — On a Biiiish bivalve mollusc found in Australia and 

 Tasmania, wtlh its disiril'Uii n ; and on a new sul>-genus of 

 Trochidii, by J. Bazier. — Ctyplodon Jlfxiiosa, Montagu, 

 was recorded for the first time Imm P rt .Sieiihens, N.S.W., 

 and Esperance Bay, Tasmania. — The name Solauderia. Fischer 

 (1880), being preoccupied by Duchassaing and Michelotii 

 (1846), it was proposed 10 replace it by Rossiltria. — De>criplion 

 of a new Australian eel, by J. Douglas Of;iiby. — Gymndhorax 

 prionodon. sp.n., from Pnrt lack^nn. appearefl to be closely 

 allied to ihe .\llanlic species C oiellaltis — On a new Tvpbloi'S 

 previously confoundetl with 7. utis;uiroitris, Peters, by G. A. 

 Boulcnger, E. K..S. — Botanical n'nes (rem ihe Techm logical 

 Museum (part iii.), by J. II. Maidin and U. T. Baker The 

 writers gave a list, with localities, <f 1 lanis new to New Sou'h 

 Wales; also no'es on some rare or little kno^n plants 

 indigenous to the colony. — On n new species of EnWi'pneiula 

 from the coast of N- w South Wales, by James P. Mill. The 

 name/^/>'c<Oi/^raa«j/ra/iVHj<> waspiopos-i' f.ir the fir I dcscrib'-d 

 Australian species of Enieiopnensta. It is pecially charac'cr- 

 ised externally by the great development of the genital wings 

 which completely hide the gill area, and extend far into the 

 hepatic region, and by the piesence of two longitudinal 

 epidermal stupes overlying the two ciliated bands of the 

 intestine. In the mttdc of formation of 'h- probo-cis pore, il 

 appears to be the mfist variable of all Enferopneiiitii hitherto 

 described. The mtjst interesting prtints in its internal anatomy 

 are the presence of a median l.ngnu linal inf Ming of the 

 ventral wall of the heart blar(dcr into the cavity of the same, 

 the presence of a transverse vessel between the dilTeieni 

 proboscis vessels, and the much branched condition o( the 

 gonad". — On a Platypus emliryo (r>m the intrauterine eig 

 by J. P. Mill anil C. J. Martin. The embryo described was 

 taken from one of two eggs just ready |i> be laid. The eggs 

 mcasuicd iS mm. by ij'j — being somewhat larger than the 

 eggs descrilcd by Caldsycll. The emliryo inure nearly 

 resembled that of ihe Virginian uposstim (IJidelphys) ol 

 seventy-three hours, ilescnbed by Selcnka, ihan anv other 

 embryo known in ihe authors. The Platypus embryo is, 

 however, much longer. 



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SOCKS, PAMPHLET, and SERIALS RECEIVED. 



Books. — .\ Mono^ra|»li of the Mycetozi>.i: A. Lister (LonJon, Brit. 

 Mus ). — Rei^en in den Molukken : Prof. K. Martin. 2 Vols. Text and 

 Plaiesd.eiden, Brill)— Harvard College, by an O.xonian: Dr. G. B. Hill 

 (Macmillan).— Annuaire. 1S95, par le Bureau des Longitudes (Paris 

 Oauihicr-Villars). — La Fabricalion des Eaux-de-Vie; L. Jacquct (Paris, 

 Gaulhier-Villars). 



Pa.mi-hlet. — An Essay on Southerly Bursters: H. A. Hunt. 



Sbkials.- Natural Science. J.anuary (Rait).— .Astronomy & -\ktro- Physics 

 December (Wesley) — Journal of ihe Koyal Micrusconical Society, December 

 (Williams). — Bulletin de l.'Acade nic Impiriale des Sciences de St. Piters- 

 bouri:. September, Octr^ber, November (Sl Pitersbnnrg). — Bulletin of 

 the .American Malhcni.aiica] Society, Deceinber (New York, Macmillan). 

 — Humanitarian. January (Hutchinson). — Century Magazine, lanuary 

 (Unwiii). — C' ntempnrar>* Review. January *Isb ster) — Natural History of 

 Plants, Part 9 Kerner and Oliver (Blackie) — Fonnighily Review. 

 January (Chapman) — Stances de la Sociiitti Krai ,^-aise de Physique, i8g4. 

 3*" fasc. (Paris) — School Review. December (Ham-lton, New York). — 

 Zeitsrhrifi fur Physikalische Chemie, xv. Hand, 4 Hefi (Leipzig, Engel- 

 maon). — New Review, January (Heinem.ann). — Hiilletin de la Socictc 

 de Oc'ogiaphie, 3'' Trim. 1804 (Paris) — (leol 'ciral Magazine, January 

 (Diilau) — .Mind. J.inuarv(\^ illiantsl. — Nali 'ual Review, January (Arnold) 

 — Lornhill Magazine, January (Smith, Elder). — Ji>urnal of the Royal 

 Acriculcural Society of England, 'third Scries. Vol. v. Part 4. No. 20 

 (Murray). — Annals of Scottish N'atural Hist-'ry, January (Kdinburgh, 

 Douglas) — Iniernalionales Archiv (iir Kthnograohie. Band vii. Heft 5 anil 

 6, and Supplement zu Band vii. (Leiden, Biill). — (Juarierly^ Journal of 

 Microscopical Science. December (IJhurchill). — Kssex Naturalist, Nos. 6- 

 10, Vol. viii. (Chelmsford. Durrani). — Scrihner's Magazine, lanuary (S 

 Low). — Ph nographic Quarterly Review. No. 2 (Pitman) — Memoirs and 

 Proceedings of the Manchester Li'eraryand Philosophical Society, Fourih 

 Series, Vol. 8. Mo. 4 (Manchester), — Science Procre-s. January (Scientitin 

 Pre^s). — Round the World. Part 1 (Newnes). — Medical Magazine, January 

 (140 Strand). 



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CONTENTS. 



The Origins of Art. By Prof. A. C. Haddon . . . 

 Forbes's Handbook of Monkeys By R. L ... 

 Birds of the Wave and Woodland. By T. D. P. . 

 Our Book Shelf:— 



Goto: " Studies on the Ectoparasitic Trematodes of 



Japan" 



Mason: " Woman's Share in Primitive Culture" . . 



Catch pool : " A Textbook of Sound " 244 



Gelcich : "Otiica" 244 



Letters to the Editor: — 



On the Liquclaclion of (iases — A Claim for Ptiority. — 

 Prof. Charles Olszewski; Prof. J. Dewar, 



F. K.S 245 



The Term " Acijuired Characters."— Prof. E. Ray 



Lankester, F.R.S 245 



Boltzmann's Minimum Theorem. Edw. P. Culver- 

 well 24"' 



Aurora of November 23, 1S94. — Prof. A. S. 



Herschel, F.R.S 241. 



Peculiarities ol P>)chical Research. — Prof. Oliver 



J. Lodge, F.R.S 247 



The Study of Cloud. (UluslntUd.) By W. E. P. . 24S 



Sir Chatlts Newton, K.C.B 250 



Notes J51 



Our Astronomical Column : — 



The Greater Nebula of Orion 25J 



The I'ransit of Mercury 25,! 



An Important A-leroid 251 



Prof. Adams' Collected Memoirs 254 



The Bird-Winged Butteiflies of the East. (Illus- 



(tilled.) By W. F. Kirby 254 



A New Element in the Nitrogen Group. By A. E. 



Tutton 2S* 



Science in the Magazines 2591 



Seasonal Changes on Mars 259 



University and Educational Intelligence a6l 



Scientific Serials ?6' 



SocieticR and Academies *8*' 



Books, Pamphlet, and Serials Received 264 



