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A MONTHLY SCIENTIFIC, ARTISTIC, AND INDUSTRIAL REVIEW. 



GUARANTEED CIRCULATION, 5000. 



VOL I., NO. 8. 



August 1, 1891. 



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EDITED UNDER THE DIRECTION 



OF 



MR. ADOLPHE BOUCARD, 



NATURALIST, 



Officier d'Académie, 1878; Knight of the Royal Military Order of the Conception, 1881 ; 

 Knight Officer of the Royal Order of Cambodje, 1889; Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Isabelle la Catholique, 1882; 



Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society, London, 1865; 



de la Mission scientifique française au Mexique et dans l'Amérique centrale, 1866; of the Royal Museum of Madrid, 1881; 



Commissioner for the Republic of Guatemala in the Paris International Exhibitions of 1878 and 1889 ; 



Member of the International Jury, Paris, 1889 ; Member of many scientific societies; 



etc. etc. etc. etc. 



CONTENTS OF No. 8.— AUGUST 1, 1891. 



The Plantain or Banana Plant by A. Boucard. 



A Visit to the British Museum. Natural History 



Department. 

 Inauguration of the Statue of Pierre Belon, the 



Naturalist. 

 A Giant Land Crab. 

 An easy way of making ^100 a year in collecting | Scientific Books for Sale 



specimens of Natural History at leisure time. 



Royal Aquarium. 



Review of New Scientific Books. 



Report on the celebrated Collection of Shells formed 

 by the late Sir David Barclay and sold in public 

 Sale at Stevens the 6th of July and three follow- 

 ing days. 



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