IV 
CONTENTS. 
Page, 
Mars. With a Tinted and Coloured Plate. By James Breen, F.R.A.S. 228 
Our Fresh-tv ater Polyzoa. Two Page Plates. By Rev. W. Houghton, 
M.A., F.L.S 301 
The African Lion in its Native Haunts. By Jules Gerard ... 311 
The British Fungi. With Page Plate. By Miss Margaret Plues ... 322 
The Human Skin. With Page Plate. By Isaac Ashe, M.B. ... 334 
The Furniture Woods of Commerce. By P. L. Simmonds ... 345 
Fossil Birds. With Page Plate. By S. J. Mackie, F.G.S 354 
History of a Beech Tree. With Page Plate. By Harland Coultas 365 
The Antiquity of Man. By J. R. Leifchild, M.A. 451 
On the Physical Geography of the Ionian Islands. By Professor 
D. T. Ansted, M.A., F.R.S 458 
The Telescope. By James Breen, F.R.A.S 466 
Contributions to the History of the Rotifera, or Wheel- 
Animalcules. Part IV. — The Flexible Creepers (Notommatina). 
With Page Plate. By Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S. 475 
On the Morphology of Vinca Minor (Small Periwinkle). With 
Page Plate. By James Buckman, F.L.S., F.G.S. 491 
Our British Jungermannle. With Page Plate. By Margaret Plues 493 
Colour-Blindness. With Page Plate. By Jabez Hogg, F.L.S. ... 497 
Miscellanea 80, 236, 405, 528 
Reviews of Books 96, 251, 373, 510 
Scientific Summary — Quarterly Retrospect ... 106, 262, 419,548 
