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Current Literature . 
British Medical Journal ( continued ). 
No. 1385. Jayesingha : On Hygrophila spinosa (vel Asteracantha longifolia). 
„ 1386. Tait: An address on the development of surgery and the germ 
theory. 
„ Fraser : Note on the chemistry of Strophantine. 
,, 1388. Edington : A further description of the Bacillus scarlatinae. 
„ 1390. Thin : Contagion of Scarlet fever; a critical review. 
„ 1394. Bahadhurji : Notes on Strophanthus . 
„ 1396. Shoemaker: Collinsonia canadensis. 
„ 1397. Boyce : A fatal case of mushroom-poisoning. 
„ 1398. Holroyde and Broadbent: Strophanthus. 
,, 1399. Wilson : Poisonous Fungi. 
,, 1400. Playler : The tubercle-bacillus and tissue resistance. 
,, 1403. Solomon : Poisoning symptoms arising from eating the green rind 
of the Horse-chestnut. 
„ Reilly : Poisoning by Horse-chestnuts. 
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. Vol. XLIII ( continued ). 
No. 171. Prestwich : On the date, duration, and conditions of the glacial 
period. 
,, 172. Gresley : On the formation of Coal-seams. 
Glasgow Medical Journal. 
Vol. XXVII. 
Dougall : The artifical cultivation of vaccine lymph. 
Vol. XXVIII. 
Henderson : On the relation of the air we breathe to our common 
diseases. 
Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Botany. 
Vol. XXIII, Nos. 1 5 2-1 54. 
Forbes and Hemsley: An enumeration of all the plants from China 
Proper, Formosa, Hainan, Corea, the Luchu Archipelago, and 
the Island of Hongkong, together with their distribution and 
synonymy. 
Vol. XXIV. 
No. 159. Lubbock: Phytobiological Observations: On the forms of seedlings 
and the causes to which they are due. 
,, — Plowright: Experimental Observations on certain British heteroe- 
cious Uredines. 
„ — Huxley : The Gentians : Notes and Queries. 
,, — Brown : Vaccinium intermedium , Ruthe, a new British plant. 
„ 160. Trimen : Hermann’s Ceylon Herbarium and Linnaeus’s * Flora 
Zeylanica.’ 
,, — Rolee : On bigeneric orchid hybrids. 
,, — Bolus: Contributions to South African Botany. 
,, — Scott: On nuclei in Oscillaria and Tolypothrix. 
,, — Ito : On a species of Balanophora new to the Japanese Flora. 
,, 1 61. Ridley : On a new genus of Orchideae from the island of St. Thomas, 
West Africa. 
,, — Moore : Studies in Vegetable Biology, III. The Influence of Light 
upon Protoplasmic Movement. 
