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Life in Death, as Manifest in Fall; 

 Curious want of Ingenuity in the Hai 



Ants of France 

 Frog Farming. 

 Some Tiioughts on Light. 

 Cysticereooids Parasitic in Cypres cinerea. 

 Some remarks on the Pucciniee 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-tJrchins. 

 Food from Wood. 

 The Elements of Microscopy. 

 The Aspect of the Heavens. 

 In Parkest Africa. 



Selected Notes from the Society's Note Books. 

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Coccus cataphractus. 



Goraphonema Germinatum. 



Fronds of Ferns. 



Cuticle Stangeria paradoxa. 



Stangeria paradoxa. 



Tracheffi of Insects. 



Unopened Eye-lids of Kitten. 



Section of Piper. 



Law of Mole. 

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