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Life in Death, as Manifest in Falling Leaves. 

 Curious want of Ingenuity in the Harvesting 



Ants of France. 

 Frog Farming. 

 Some Thoughts on Light. 

 Cyaticercooids Parasitic in Cypres cinerea. 

 Some remarks on the PucciniEe attacking 



Galium. 

 The Influenza Bacillus. 



MountiT~~ medium for Vegetable Structures. 

 The St -C/i^ ^'itomology. 

 A Hop -•'<Va- 'trough. 



Beetles. '°tial ju- 



Dips into my .^./. sJ'^en^ 



Artificial Sea-Water. ^^lh:g^ 

 Among the Sea-Urchius. '' 



Food from Wood. 

 The Elements of Microscopy. 

 The Aspect of the Heavens. 

 In Darkest Africa. 



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