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id not perceive ‘the real significance of the facts which he 
had discovered,” it was not because he, like his contemporaries, 
“ Sprengel failed to understand the full meaning of the structure 
of the tlowers which he has so well described, from not always 
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20. Large Cephalopod.—A cephalopod “ of great bulk,” 12 feet 
9 length, has been captured on the coast of Japan.—Japan Mail, 
an. 23. 
21. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism; by Ose 
Scumipr, Prof. Univ. Strasburg. The International Scientific 
Series. 324 pp., 12mo, with 26 wood-cuts. New York, 1875. 
(D. Appleton & Co.)—This volume contains, in a brief dogmatic 
form, the views of Darwin on descent, combined with those of the 
more imaginative Heckel. The author has nothing but matter In 
his philosophy, and is intolerant toward those who do not think 
with him. 
