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CONTENTS OF OCTOBER NUMBER. 



Life in Death, as Manifest in Falling Leaves. 

 Curious want of Ingenuity in the Harvesting 



Ants of France. 

 Fi-og Farming. 

 Some Thoughts on Light. 

 Cysticercooids Parasitic in Cypres cinerea. 

 Some remarks ou the Puccinise attacking 



Galium. 

 The Influenza Bacillus. 



Mounting Medium for Vegetable Structures. 

 The Study of Entomology. 

 A Homely Zoophyte Trough. 

 Beetles. 



Dips into my Aquarium. 

 Artificial Sea-Water. 

 Among the Sea- Urchins. 

 Food from Wood. 

 The Elements of Microscopy. 

 The Aspect of the Heavens. 

 In Darkest Africa. 



Selected Notes from the Society' s Note Books, 

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Coccus cataphractus. 



Gomphonema Germinatum. 



Fronds of Ferns. 



Cuticle Stangeria paradoxa. 



Stangeria paradoxa. 



Tracheae of Insects. 



Unopened Eye-lids of Kitten. 



Section of Piper. 



Law of Mole. 

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