Fresh Relics of Glacial Man Reported at the Buffalo Meeting of the
A. A. S. G. F. WRIGHT......
Fossils and Fossilization. L. P. GRATACAP
The Biologic Origin of Mental Variety, or How We Came to Have
Minds. HERbert NicholS.........
EDITOR'S TABLE.-The Antivivisectionists Again, 32; Vivisection of
Idiots, 33; The American Association at San Francisco, 34; A
National University, 200; The X Rays (Illustrated), 201; Graft-
ing Snakes, 201; The Destruction of Mosquitos, 201; Antarctic
Exploration, 202; The Huxley Memorial, 202; The Destruction
of the Seal Herd, 385; Credit for Work, 385; The Field Museum,
385; The Filson Club, 386; The New Commissioner of Fisher-
ies, 386; The Bestiarians Before Congress, 468; The Spoliation
of Nature, 563; The American Association at Buffalo, 564;
Priority of Publication, 651; Presidents of the American Asso-
ciation, 652; The Decimal Catalogue System, 652; The Ameri-
can Association, 805; The Field Museum, 806; Notice to Our
Contributors, 806; Personal Names in Nomenclature, 925;
Species Describing. 926; Nansen and the Deep Sea, 927; Survi-
val of useless Names, 1027; Correction Concerning a Review of
Wachsmuth and Springer, 1027; Dates of Publication of the
Numbers of the AMERICAN NATURALIST.....
RECENT LITERATURE:-Petrology for Students, 35; Crystallography,
A Treatise on the Morphology of Crystals, 35; Elementary
Physical Geography, 37; Synoptical Flora of North America,
38; Natural History of Plants, 39; Recent Books on Vegetable
Pathology, 120; The Iowa University Bahama Expedition, 122;
The Shrews of North America, 122; Iowa Geological Survey,
Vol. III, 123; Duration of Niagara Falls, and History of the
Great Lakes, 124; Korean Games, 124; Williams' Manual of
Lithology, 203; The Corundum Deposits of Georgia, 204; Plant
Breeding, 204; Murray's Introduction to the Study of Sea-
Weeds, 290; Taxonomy of the Crinoids, 292; Geological Survey
of New Jersey, 387; Annual Report, Vol. VI, Geological Survey
of Canada, 387; Elementary Physical Geography, 388; Guide
Zoologique, 388; Practical Zoology, 389; Elementary Lessons
in Zoology, 389; Chats about British Birds, 389; Check List of
North American Birds, 390; The Cambridge Natural History,
469; Geological Biology, 471 ; Surface Colors, 564; The Whence
and Whither of Man, 565; Factors of Organic Evolution, 566;
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought, 568; Ethics of Mar-
riage, 569; The Structure of Solpugids, 653; The Bears of North
America, 656; Journey Through Mongolia and Thibet, 731;
Publications of the United States Geological Survey for 1893-4.
Fourteenth Annual Report, 732; An Introduction to the Study
of Zoology, 733; The Cranial Nerves in Batrachia, 733; Structure
and Life of Birds, 734; The Earth and Its Story, 927; A Hand-
book of Rocks, for Use Without the Microscope, 728; Gregory's
Plant Anatomy, 1028; Boulenger's Catalogue of Snakes in the
British Museum, 1029; Nuttall's Handbook of Birds, 1031; Edu-
cation of the Central Nervous System, 1032; Lydekker on the
Geographical History of Mammalia......
RECENT BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS —41, 125, 205, 295, 390, 473, 570, 657,
734, 807, 830......
GENERAL NOTES.-Petrography.-The Origin of Adinoles, 43; Notes
from the Adirondacks, 43; An Augengneiss from the Lillerthal,
45; Petrographical Notes, 45, 130, 210, 300, 395, 477, 579, 663,
744, 817, 1040; Igneous Rocks of St. John, N. B, 127; Eruptive
Rocks from Montana, 128; Porphyrites and Porphyritic Struc-
ture, 128; Granophyre of Carrock Fell, England, 129; Sheet and
Neck Basalts in the Lausite, 129; The Eruptives of Missouri,
207; Rocks from Eastern Africa, 208; A Basic Rock Derived
from Granite, 209; Cancrinite-Syenite from Finland. 209; Rocks
from the Sweet Grass Hills, Montana, 210; Examples of Rock
Differentiation, 297; Ancient Volcanics in Michigan, 393;
Gneisses of Essex Co., N. Y., 393; Volcanic Rocks in Maine,
394; Spotted Quartzites, S. Dakota, 394; The Gneisses and
Leopard Rock of Ontario, 395; Malignite, A New Family of
Rocks, 475; Foliated Gabbros from the Alps, 476; The Rocks of
Glacier Bay, Alaska, 477; Volcanic Rocks and Tufts in Prussia,
576; Igneous Rocks of British Columbia, 577; Chalcedony Con-
cretions in Obsidians from Colorado, 578; Basic Dykes near
Lake Memphremagog, 578; The Origin of the Maryland Gran-
ites, 578; The Eruptives and Tufts of Tetscheu, 660; A Nephe-
line-Syenite Boulder from Ohio, 662; Crystalline Rocks of New
Jersey, 662; Simple Crystalline Rocks from India and Australia,
662; The Weathering of Diabase, 663; Petrography of the Bear-
paw Mountains, Montana, 741; Two French Rocks, 741; The
Granite of the Himalayas, 742; California Rocks, 742; Gabbro-
Gneiss from Russell, 743; Geology of Point Sal, California, 814;
Leucite-Basanites of Vulcanello, 815; A Squeezed Quartz-Por-
phyry, 816; Mica-Syenite at Rothschonberg, 817; The Sioux
Quartzite of Iowa, 1038; The Peridotites of North Carolina,
1038; Shales and Slates from Wales............
Mineralogy. Contact Goniometer with two Graduated Circles, 573;
Crystallographic Properties of the Sulphonic Acid Derivatives
of Camphor, 573; Optical Properties of Lithiophilite and Tri-
philite, 573; Native Sulphur in Michigan, 574; Leadhillite
Pseudomorphs at Granby, Mo., 574; Celestite from Giershagen,
574; Minerals from the Galena Limestone, 575; Miscellaneous
Notes, 575, 739, 813, 934; The Chemical Composition of Tur-
quoises, 737; Alstonite and Barytocalcite, 737; Rutile, Cassi-
terite and Lircon, 738; Development of Faces on Crystals, 809;
Albite from Lakous, Island of Crete, 810; Fosterite from Monte
Somma, 810; Fayalite and the Chrysolite-Fayalite Group, 811;
Rhodophosphite, 812; Etched Figures on Some Minerals, 932;
Pollucite, Mangano-columbite and Microlite from Rumford,
Maine, 933; Epidote and its Optical Properties...............
Geology and Paleontology.-On the Species of Hoplophoneus [Illustra-
ted), 46; The Gold-bearing Quartz of California, 52; Precam-
brian Sponges, 53; Embryology of Diplograptus, 54; The
Upper Miocene of Montredon, 54; Notes on the Fossil Mam-
malia of Europe, 131, 306, 480, 665; The Glossopteris Flora in
Argentina, 135; Geological News, 136, 217, 401, 746, 821, 941;
Bear River Formation, 211: On the Occurrence of Neocene
Marine Diatomaceæ near New York, 212; The Succession
of Glacial Changes, 216; The Paleozoic Reptilian Order
Cotylosauria (Illustrated), 301; The Puget Group, 304; The
Geological Structure of Florida, 305; The Glaciers of Green-
land, 311; Geology of the French Congo, 396; The Antartic
Continent, 397; Two Epochs in Vegetable Paleontology. 397 ;
The Appalachian Folds, 398; The Ancestry of the Testudinata
398; The Extent of the Triassic Ocean, 400; Phylogeny of the
Dipnoi, 479; Fauna of the Knoxville Beds, 479; Reclamation
of Deserts, 485; Canadian Paleontology, 579; Jackson on the
Development of Oligoporus, 580; American Fossil Cockroaches,
581; The Comanche Cretaceous, 582; Kolqueo Island, 582;
Paleontologia Argentina, 583; The Limestones of the Jenny
Jump Mountains, New Jersey, 664; Unios from the Trias, 665;
The Cadurcotherium, 665; Fossil Jelly Fishes, 744; Is Paleos-
pondylus a Marsipobranch? 745; The Skeleton of Aepyornis,
745; Cambrian Rocks of Pennsylvania, 817; Structure of Uinta-
crinus, 819; Permian Land Vertebrata with Carapaces (Illustra-
ted), 936; Eozoon canadense, 941; Thickness of the Coal Meas-
Botany. The Vienna Propositions, 55; The Flora of Ohio, 58; The
Flora of the Sand Hills of Nebraska, 59; Recent Botanical
Papers, 60; A Recent Paper on the Relation between the Asco-
mycetes and Basidiomycetes (1llustrated), 218; Polyporaceæ,
Hydnaceæ and Helvellaceæ, 222; The Smut of Indian-Corn,
223; Antidromy and Crossfertilization, 223; New Species of
Fungi, 313; Alaskan Botany, 314; Aquatic Plants of Iowa, 315:
Another Elementary Botany, 315; Botany in the United States
Department of Agriculture, 316; Notes on Recent Botanical
Publications, 317; The Conifers of the Pacific Slope, 402; Pop-
ular Botany, 404; Notes of Botanical Papers, 404; Botany in
the Natioual Education Association, 486; Coulter's Revision of
the N. A. Cactaceæ, 486; Botanical News, 487, 587, 1045; Tild-
en's American Algæ, 584; Sets of North American Plants, 585;
Botany in Buffalo, 586; Blanks for Plant Analysis, 586; De
Toni's Sylloge Algarum, 668; The Flora of the Black Hills of
South Dakota, 669; Trelease's Hickories and Walnuts of the
United States, 670; Diseases of Citrous Fruits, 671; Mulford's
Agaves of the United States, 671; The Teaching of Elementary
Botany, 747; The Conifers of the Pike's Peak Region, 748; Ferns
near Colorado Springs, 750; Botany at Buffalo, 822; A New
Manual of Systematic Botany, 826; Evolution of a Botanical
Journal, 1041; The North American Species of Physalis and
Related Genera, 1043; The Nomenclature of Mycetozoa, 1044;
The Flora of Wyoming, 1044; The Lichens of Chicago, 1045;
Eastwood's Plants of Southeastern Utah...........
Vegetable Physiology.-Changes due to an Alpine Climate, 61; Spore
Formation Controlled by External Conditions, 63; Germina-
tion of Refractory Spores, 64; Botany at the British Associa-
tion, 65; Nitrifying Organisms, 65; Relation of Sugars to the
Growth of Bacteria, 66; Algal Parasite on Coffee, 67; Smut
Fungi by Oscar Brefeld, 137; Water Pores, 224; Biology of
Smut Fungi, 224; Function of Anthocyan, 226; Ambrosia, 318;
White Ants as Cultivators of Fungi, 319; Desert Vegetation,
321; A Second Rafinesque, 321; Change in Structure of Plants
due to Feeble Light, 405; A Graft Hybrid, 408; Ustilaginoidea,
408; A New Classification of Bacteria, 490; Ambrosia Once
More.......
Zoology.-On Bodo urinarius, 67; Influence of the Winter 1894-'95 upon
the Marine Fauna of the Coast of France, 69; Preliminary Out-
line of a New Classification of the Family Muricidæ, 69; Her-
petology of Angola, 71; Zoological News, 71, 332, 412, 590, 758,
1052; The Paroccipital of the Squamata and the Affinities of the
Mosasauridæ once more; A Rejoinder to Prof. Cope on Dr.
Baur's Rejoinder on the Homologies of the Paroccipital bone,
etc. (Illustrated), 143; Boulenger on the Difference between
Lacertilia and Ophidia; and on the Apoda, 149; The Myxos-
poridia, 229; The Segmentation of the Hexapod Body, 230; The
Coxal Glands of Thelyphonus caudatus, 231; Cross Fertilization
and Sexual Rights and Lefts Among Fishes, 232; Abnormal
Sacrum in an Alligator, 232; The Polar Hares of Eastern North
America, With Descriptions of New Forms, 234; The Cruise of
the Princess Alice, 323; Australian Spiders, 324; Autodax iec-
anus, 325; Reptiles and Batrachians of Mesilla Valley, New
Mexico, 325; On Prof. Cope's Criticism of Baur's Drawings of
the Squamosal Region of Conolophus subcristatus Gray, etc. 327;
The Food of some Colorado Birds, 329; The Manx Cat, 330;
A Case of Renal Abnormality in the Cat, 331; Respiration of
Trilobites, 409; A Criticism of Mr. Cook's Note on the Sclerites
of Spirobolus, 409; The Sight of Insects, 410; Dr. Bauron Cope's
Drawings of the Skull of Conolophus subcristatus Gray, 411; The
Feeding Phenomena of Sea Anemones, 495; The Relation of Myr-
mecophile Lepismids to the Ants, 496; Lipophrys a Substitute
for Pholis, 498; Blind Batrachia and Crustacea from the Subter-
ranean Waters of Texas, 498; Lungless Salamanders, 499; Ba-
trachia found at Raleigh, N. C., 500; The Frilled Lizard, 501;
The Palatine Process of the Mammalian Premaxillary, 502; New
Formation of Nervous cells in the Brain of the Monkey, after
the complete cutting away of the occipital lobes, 502; Japanese
Leeches, 590; The Origin of Tail-forms, 588; The Spermatheca
in some American Newts and Salamanders, 589; Sense of Sight
in Spiders, 672; Classification and Geographical Distribution of
the Naiides, 674; Arkansas Fishes, 675; Batrachia and Reptilia
of Madagascar, 675; The Moulting of Birds, 676; Florida Deer,
677; Lygosoma (Liolepisma) in New Jersey, 752; On a New
Glauconia from New Mexico, 753; On the Habits of Keen's
Mouse Deer, Peromyscus keenii Rhoads, 753; The Inheritance of
an Acquired Character, 755; The Hartebeest, 755; The Heart
of some Lungless Salamanders [Illustrated], 829; On two New
Species of Lizards from Southern California, 933; Modification
of the Brain during Growth, 836; The Lion of India, 837; Inher-
itance of Artificial Mutilations, 837; Fishes in Isolated Pools,
943; On the Mud Minnow as an Air Breather, 844; The Perito-
neal Epithelium in Amphibia, 944; The Penial Structure of the
Sauria, 945; Food Habits of Woodpeckers, 946 ; The Ectal Rela-
tions of the Right and Left Parietal and Paroccipital Fissures,
947; Notes on Turbellaria, 1046; On the Genus Callisaurus,
1049; The Food of Birds, 1050; Preliminary Description of a
New Vole from Labrador.........
Entomology.-Insects in the National Museum, 72; On the Girdling of
Elm Twigs by the Larvæ of Orgyia leucostigma and its Results,
74; Heterocerca of the Lesser Antilles, 152; Bot Flies of the
Horse, 153; Fossil Butterflies, 154; Origin of European Butter-
flies, 154; North American Apheliniæ, 155; Entomological
News, 155, 506, 596, 1058; On Certain Geophilidæ described by
Meinert, 299; Life-History of Scale Insects, 242; The Segmen-
tal Sclerites of Spirobolus, 333; Secretion of Potassium Hydrox-
ide, 335; Lake Superior Coleoptera, 335; A New Diplopod
Fauna in Liberia, 413; Domestic Economy of Wasps, 504; Cir-
culars on Injurious Insects, 505; Gypsy Moth Extermination,
506; The Asymmetry of the Mouthparts of Thysanoptera [Il-
lustrated], 591; A New African Diplopod Related to Polyxe-
mus, 593; North American Crambidæ, 595; New Mallophaga,
596; Professor Forbes' Eighth Report 677; Flies Riding on
Beetle's Back, 678; Proteid Digesting Saliva in Insect Larvæ,
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