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The November Meteor-Shower, at Glasgow. By A. S. Herschel, B.A. 



With an Illustration 459 



The Planet Mars. By Bichard A. Proctor, B.A., F.R.A.S. With an 



Illustration 466 



Archjeologia 72, 225, 394 



Literary Notices. — " Charles "Waterton ; His Home, Habits, and Handi- 

 work," 227; "On Force; Its Mental and Moral Correllates," 229; 

 "Tapeworms; Entozoa," 231; "Electricity" 231; "Dictionary of 

 Science, Literature, and Art," 231 and 316 ; " Anthropological Review," 

 231; " Date Stones," 231; " Wayside Flora," 232 ; " Handbook of the 

 Stars," 232 ; "Elementary Treatise on Physics," 233 ; " Birds of Mid- 

 dlesex," 233 ; " Eeliquias Aquitanicee," 315 ; " Brief Account of Scholar- 

 ships and Exhibitions at Cambridge," 316 ; " Scientific and Literary 

 Treasury," 316 ; " Chart of the Characteristic Tertiary Fossils," 316 ; 

 " Benedicite," 476 ; " Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection," 

 477; "Elementary Treatise on Heat," 478 ; " Easy Introduction to the 



higher treatises of Conic Sections" 478 



Progress of Invention 73, 156, 234, 317, 473 



Proceedings of Learned Societies 317, 396 



Notes and Memoranda 71, 159, 239, 318, 398, 479 



