THE MEDITERRANEAN NATURALIST 
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A Monthly Journal of Natural Science. Subscription 5/- per annum. 
Contents- A ugust. 
— x — Pace 
1 L iption of Etna, July 5892— J. H. Cooke 210 
2 The Sponges of Tripoli. 221. 
3 The Meadow of Nysa in Asia Minor— Capt. It. 
Moore, R.N. 221 
4 An Ancient Birdlarid. 223 
5 Geology of the Nile Valley. 224 
6 The Relationship of the Structure of Rocks to the 
conditions of their formation— H. J. Johnston 
Laws, M.D., B.rio., F.G.S., etc. 224 
7 Tools o ' the Pyramid-Builders. 226 
8 Maltese Csecilianellse— A. Caruana Gatto. 226 
9 The Sahara. 228 
10 A Year’s Insect Hunting at Gibraltar— J. J. Walker, 
R.N., F.E.S. 228 
11 The Serpents and Ghelonians of Italy— Prof. Lorenzo 
Camera no.- 230 
12 The Depths of the Mediterranean and Black Sea — 
R. Bcynon; F.R.G.S. 231 
13 Notes ae (7 New ., • — Pcforiospora Commission in Mal- 
ta -Earthquake in Malta— Liquid air — Albino 
animals - A ge3 of trees— Organs of the throat— 
Speed of fishes— Bed of the Atlant ic — The Spar- 
row, a foe— Mortality from snake-bites— A coal- 
bnming period — Level of European Seas. etc. etc. 232 
34 Notices i Correspondents, and Exchange column. 234 
Contents-September. 
— -X — < Page 
1 Phosphate Nodules— Rev. Prof. G. Henslow, M.A., 
F.L.S., etc. 235 
2 On the extraordinary abundance of Deiopeia pul- 
chella Beis in Malta— A. Caruana Gatto 239 
3 The Eruption of Etna— T.H.G, 239 
4 A marketable commodity. 240 
5 The Peronospora among the Malta Vines— John H. 
Cooke. 241 
G The Meadow of Nysa— Capt. Moore, R.N. 
7 Assiminea iittorina. Delle Cbiaie in Malta^-A. Ca- 
ruana Gatto. 245 
8 The Relationship of the Structure of Rocks to the 
conditions of their formation— H. J. Johnston 
La vis, M.JD., B.Se,, F.G.S., etc. 245 
9 A Yea r's Insect Hunting at Gibraltar— J, J. Walker, 
R.N..F.E.S. 248 
10 Not/ s a net. News :— An abnormal worm— Pantallerian 
sponge beds— Etna— Antidotes for snake poison— 
Thunderstorm in July— A new islet in the Caspian 
— Mars— Tabacco grow i ng— A suggestion— W ate r 
spout at. Trieste— Forest fires in Algeria, etc. etc. 249 
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