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and the Western Ghats, and the extremely varied forest vegetation of the - 
outer Himalayan ranges, belong to this region. The greater part of Central 
and a large portion of Northern India belongs to what may be called 
the intermediate region with a rainfall between thirty and seventy-five 
inches. ‘The extensive Sal forests (Shorea robusta) of the sub-Himalayan 
tract and of Central India are found in the moister parts of thi 
ion. Where the rainfall exceeds forty inches, forest vegetation is 
fairly luxuriant, but the great drawback in this, as in most parts of 
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smallest spark is sufficient to set it on fire. Hence the jungle fires ae 
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o much to keep back forest vegetation. Successful attempts have, aed 
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we proceed inland, until a country is reached almost without rainfall, 
and with very little spontaneous arborescent vegetation. In the inter- 
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part of the Deodar forests (Cedrus Deodara), which. furnish the North- 
west of India with timber. Here, as elsewhere, the influence of moisture 
quantity of wood.—G. Lemoine, ‘ Sur les Forêts dans leur rapports avec 
le Hydrologie.’ : k 
Professor Allman, in describing the structure of Noctiluca, too 
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occasion to point out the curious analogy that exists between. "a 
other of chitine. In each case the cell is lined by a protoplasmic layer 
(primordial utricle) ; this is connected to the nucleus in Noctiluca as m 
vegetable cells by protoplasmic threads in which there is, in the case o 
octiluca, a slow granular movement. : w 
. August 20.—Professor Lawson “On a species of Tortula new 
ee Specimens of Tortula inclinata were exhibited. Professor 
indberg, while stayin 
.Was mixed up with ica diu of Tortula tortuosa collected by cg 
Lawson in the old stone pits at Holton about four miles from Oxford, anc 
