Periodical Literature, 
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Nature ( continued ). 
No. 977. Thompson : Distribution of animals and plants by ocean-currents. 
,, — Marshall Ward : Timber, and some of its diseases IX (X in No. 978, 
XI in No. 981). 
„ — Green : Vegetable Rennet. 
,, 978. Layard : The dispersion of seeds and plants (illustrated). 
,, 979. Wrightson : How to increase the produce of the soil. 
„ 980. Argyll, Duke of : Functionless organs (discussion in the following 
numbers). 
„ — Hemsley : The new vegetation of Krakatao. 
,, 981. Morgan : Natural selection and elimination. 
The Fauna and Flora of the Lesser Antilles. 
,, 985. Thiselton-Dyer : Opening Address. (Brit. Assoc. Sect. D. — Biology). 
„ 986. Wallace : Mr. Gulick on divergent evolution. 
„ 989. Nicholls : ‘ Fauna and Flora of the Lesser Antilles.’ 
,, 990. The Queen’s Jubilee Prize Essay of the Royal Botanic Society of London 
(see also No. 992). 
„ 991. Romanes : Definition of the theory of natural selection. 
,, — Hemsley : Flora of the Kermadic Islands. 
„ 992. Thiselton-Dyer : Mr. Romanes’s Paradox. 
,, — Johnstone : The colouring matter of the testa of the seeds of Rape 
( Brassica Rapa ) (illustrated). 
News, Chemical. Vol. LVII. No. T484-1492. 
Stocks : Iodide of Starch. 
Blake : The relation between the atomicity of the inorganic elements 
and their biological action. 
Collin and Benoist : Estimation of Tannin. 
Vol. LV 1 II. 
Nettle fold : A Seaweed dye. 
Tidy : Poisons and poisoning. 
Phipson : On Rhinanthin. 
Cross and Bevan : The action of Chlorine on the Ligno-Cellulose. 
Williams : The chemical examination of certain gums and resins. 
Johnstone : Existence of a volatile Alkaloid in pepper. 
Warden : Note on Erythroxylon Coca grown in India. 
Papers and Proc. of the Hampshire Field Club. No. 2. 
Eyre : A list of Hants Fungi. 
Dale : List of private collections in the county of Hampshire of objects 
of Natural History, etc. 
Shore : Ancient Hampshire Forests and the geological conditions of 
their growth. 
: Microscopic examination of a gelatinous growth found on a 
small pool in connexion with a spring in the grounds of Red 
Lodge, Bassett. 
Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists* Society. New Series. Vol. V, 
Part III. 
Jones : Varieties of Ferns in the Bristol District. 
White : Flora of the Bristol Coal-field. 
Jones: The Crossing of Ferns. 
