TWENTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION. 
AND ANNALS OF 
ASIRONOMY, BIOLOGY, GEOLOGY, INDUSTRIAL ARTS, 
MANUFACTURES, AND TECHNOLOGY. 
(MONTHLY, FORMERLY “THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL CF SCIENCE.”) 
Voi. vii. (fisy 
No. CXXXIX. 
vTTJXjIT 
1835 
CONTENTS 
. PAGE I 
Articles. 
Evolution as applied to the Che- 
mical Elements. By the Count 
O. Reichenbach 37 7 
The Composition ot Sewage. 
By J. W. Slater .. .. . 383 1 
The Parasites of Civilisation . 390 
On the Spontaneously Reversi- 
ble Spedlral Rays, &c 
Mr. A. R. Wallace, F.R.S., on 
the Relations between Spi- 
ritualism and Science. By 
R.M. N 
The Hereditary Transmission 
of Stature to Fema'e Desce ‘ 
ants in Horses 
page 
1. 
2 . 
3 - 
4 - 
6 . 
398 
400 
Articles — cm tinned . 
7. Testing for Colour-blindness in 
the Mercantile Marine. By 
J. Hogg, F.R.M.S., M.R.C.S., 

8. On the Human Ta l .. 4I 6 
Analyses of Books. 
Elementary Text-Book of Entc- 
XT molo Sy 
iNotes on the Meteorology of the 
South Australian Alps .. .. 422 
On the Mechanical Charadteis of 
Lightning Strokes 42 t> 
&c., &c. 
tV.ESPONDENCE. NOTES. 
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