TEXT-BOOKS AND GENERAL. 
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modern biological theories are markedly metaphysical : Garbowski 
(‘ 248). — Philosophical, aspects of zoology ; Sabatier (594). — Zoology as 
“a factor in mental culture”; Gage (242). — Value of the morphological 
method in zoology ; MacBride (430). — The present positiou of mor- 
phology in zoological science ; MacBride (430). — Experimental method 
in entomology; Giard (261). — Palreontolog}’’ as a morphological dis- 
cipline ; Scott (623). —Essay on philosophical palaeontology ; Gaudry 
( 254). — A plea for details in comparative anatomy ; Parsons (522). — 
Hypothesis and observation ; Butschli (96). — The old vitalism and the 
new; Burdon Sanderson (601). — New theory of life ; Le Dantec(404). 
On life and death ; Grawitz (279), Le Dantec (402). — Assimilation 
and activity ; Vuillemin (690). — Relative efficiency of animals as 
machines ; Miles (467). — Life before fossils ; Morris (486). — Fossils 
and fossilization ; Giiatacap (278). — “Ethology,” its value. Obser- 
vation alone is apt to mislead ; experiment aloue has its fallacies ; 
statistics alone yield very limited results ; advantageous to combine in 
natural conditions the experimental and the statistical methods ; appli- 
cation of this to the study of necrophagous Invertebrates ; Dahl (146). 
— The differentiation of organisms ; Labbe (388). — Polyzoic conception 
of organisms. Are Metazoa individual “ persons ” or aggregates of indi- 
viduals ? Delage (155). — Individuality and polyzoism ; Durand (178), 
Le Dantec (405). — Interdependence of medicine and biology ; Lister 
( 418). — The light thrown on some biological processes, phagocytosis, &c., 
by the investigation of disease ; Russell (592). — Idea and fact in 
biology ; essays on “general physiology,” on the polyzoic or polypsychic 
conception of the organism, &c.; Durand (de Gros)( 178). — On the migra- 
tion of birds; Clarke (119). — Experiments on the attraction of insects by 
flowers ; Plateau (540). — Plants and ants ; partnerships and mutual 
adaptations ; Heim (316). — Caprification ; Eisen (194). — Biological 
experimentations, its functions and limits ; Richardson (566). — For- 
mulation of the natural sciences ; Cope (128). 
Historical : — Zoology since Darwin ; von Graff (274). — History of 
science ; passages from classical works; Dannemann (150). — Die Natur- 
forschende Gesellschaft in Zurich, 1746-1896; Rudio (591). — Life and 
letters of Louis Agassiz ; Marcou (441). — P. J. Van Beneden, 1809- 
1894; Van Bambeke (41). — Charles Darwin, his life and work; 
Diebolder (160). — Charles Darwin; Poulton (545). — George Brown 
Goode ; Gill (267). — Thomas Henry Huxley ; Foster (236), Keller 
(360), Parker (521), De Varigny (675) : Huxley’s services to biology ; 
Nusbaum (501) : memorial tribute ; Osborn (514, 515) : Huxley and his 
work; Gill (266). — Scientific life of M. Lessona ; Camerano (101). — 
Henry Newell Martin ; Foster (237). — Romanes, life and letters ; 
Romanes (576). — Lifeand work of Nageli; Cramer (133). — Biographical 
appreciation of P. L. Sclater, happily still the secretary of the Zool. Soc. 
London; Brown Goode (272). — Carl Vogt, life of; Vogt (688). — 
Reminiscences of a Yorkshire naturalist ; W. C. Williamson (718). — 
Natural science and medicine at Bern ; Gobat (269). — Report on the 
zoological results of the “ Challenger ” expedition ; von Lendknfeld 
( 409). — Summary of the zoological results of the “ Challenger”; Eulers 
(188). — Historical note on the use of the tow-net, begun by Eschscholtz, 
1823-26 ; Ritter (573). 
List of vertebrated animals in the gardens of the Zoological Society of 
London ; Sclater (622). 
Nomenclature : — Divergencies between the rules for naming animals 
proposed by the German Zoological Society and the Stricklandian code of 
nomenclature; Sclater (621). — Index Generum et Specierum Ani- 
malium ; Sherborn (635). — Rules of nomenclature in zoology ; Steb- 
bing (647), Allen (9), Sclater (621). — Change in zoological nomeu- 
