This day is published, in crown 8vo. price 7s. 6d. THE DAWN OF OF LIFE; Being the HISTORY of the OLDEST KNOWN FOSSIL REMAINS, and their Relations to Geological Time and to the Development of the Animal Kingdom. By J. W. DAWSON, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, Montreal; Author of Archaia,'' Acadian Geology,' &c. &c. Illustrated with a Coloured Map of the Laurentian Region of the River Ottawa, prepared by the late Sir W. Logan; numerous Full-page Illustrations; and about Fifty Woodcuts, BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Fourth Edition. With Twenty Illustrations. Price 7s. 6d. THE STORY OF THE EARTH AND MAN. 'A very able and interesting sketch of geological science.'-SPECTATOR. This most valuable volume. We commend the book to all who wish to obtain information on scientific subjects, presented in a reverential spirit, and with singular harmony and intelligence.'-CHRISTIAN OBSERVER, Just published. With Coloured Frontispiece and gilt edges, price 68., forming a handsome and appropriate gift book. THE FERN PARADISE: A Plea for the Culture of Ferns. Including Descriptions of Rambles after Ferns through the Green Lanes, the Woods, and Glens of Devonshire. By FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH, Hon. Sec. of the Park Preservation Society, Author of The English Peasantry,' 'The Romance of Peasant Life,' &c. The GARDEN says:-Mr. Heath has divided his book into two distinct parts; the first he devotes to glowing descriptions of the paradise in which the fern revels when growing in the copses, hedge-rows, and moorlands of Devonshire; the second relates to the various kinds of ferns and their culture. In this latter portion enough practical instruction is conveyed to enable anyone who has been led captive by the charming word-painting' of the earlier chapters of the work, and who has the least possible space, to undertake with fair hopes of success the care of these lovely forms of vegetable life.' THE PHENOMENA OF SPIRITUALISM SCIENTIFICALLY EXPLAINED. THE PHENOMENA OF SPIRITUALISM SCIENTIFICALLY By ASA MAHAN, D.D. 'The book gives evidence of patient and careful investigation, and it deals with the whole question in a truly scientific spirit.'-DAILY REVIEW. In crown 8vo. price 98. THE HIGHER MINISTRY OF NATURE VIEWED IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN SCIENCE. By JOHN R. LEIFCHILD, A.M., Author of Our Coal Fields and our Coal Pits' &c. 'A rich contribution to the mental necessities of our time. It is the work of a mind comprehensive in its grasp, deep in its sympathy with nature, and strong in its love of truth. His right to be heard by theologians ismanifest in the conservative yet purely philosophical spirit in which theology is treated.'-LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW. London: HODDER & STOUGHTON, Paternoster Row. RUPTURES (By Royal Letters Patent). WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS, Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions, 1851 & 1882, Is allowed by upwards of 500 Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD AND PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the Truss (which cannot fail to fit) forwarded by post, on the circumference of the body (two inches below the hips) being sent to the Manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228 Piccadilly, London. Price of a Single Truss, 16s., 218., 268. 6d., and 31s. 6d.-Post Free. Price of Umbilical Truss, 42s. and 52s. 6d.-Post Free. Post-office Orders to be made payable to JOHN WHITE, Post Office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c. For VARICOSE VEINS, and all cases of WEAKNESS and ́SWELLING of the LEGS, SPRAINS, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each.-Post Free. Manufacturer, JOHN WHITE, 228 Piccadilly, London, W. LOAN EXHIBITION OF SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS AT THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. The Exhibition will OPEN on the 1st APRIL 1876, and will remain open until the end of September, after which time the objects will be returned to the owners. It will consist of instruments and apparatus employed for research and other scientific purposes, and for teaching. It will also include apparatus illustrative of the progress of science, and its application to the Arts, as well as such as may possess special interest on account of the persons by whom, or the investigations in which, it had been employed. The precise limits will be found further detailed under the several sections in which the syllabus has been arranged for convenience, and for the information of exhibitors, rather than as a matter of scientific classifi cation. Models, drawings, or photographs will also be admissible where the originals cannot be sent. And the apparatus may, in certain cases, be arranged in train as used for typical investigations. The syllabus and the forms on which to enter descriptions of objects offered for exhibition may be obtained on application to the Director of the South Kensington Museum, London, S.W. These forms should be filled up and returned as soon as possible, so that exhibitors may receive early intimation as to the admissibility of the objects they propose to send. Whilst every care is taken of objects lent for exhibition, the Science and Art Department cannot be responsible for loss or damage. The committees will have the right of rejecting any object that it may be thought unadvis able to exhibit. The cost of carriage of all objects selected for exhibition will be defrayed by the Science and Art Department. It is hoped that institutions or individuals having instruments of historic interest will be good enough to lend them. By order of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education. PYRETIC SALINE C 'HAS MORE THAN A EUROPEAN REPUTATION,' MARK And is important to all, more especially those who have charge of others, to Travellers, English Ministers, British Consuls, and Europeans seeking to reside in Tropical and Foreign Climates. It is found pre-eminently beneficial in preventing and curing CHOLERA and SMALLPOX, by Purifying, Invigorating, and Vitalising the Blood and supplying it with its lost saline constituents. Any person who has already the latter complaint should take it, and be kept in a cool and darkened room, to prevent its leaving any trace on the features. 'It cures the worst form of ordinary or Sick Headache in ten minutes.' Taken as a morning or evening draught it is most agreeable, invigorating, and cooling; it removes bilious affections, heartburn, and acid eructations, in a marvellous manner. Her Majesty's Representative, the Governor of Sierra Leone, in a Letter of Request for an additional supply of the PYRETIC SALINE, states:- It is of GREAT VALUE, and I shall rejoice to hear it is in the hands of all Europeans visiting the Tropics.' SICKNESS, HEADACHE, and NAUSEA are in most cases immediately relieved by taking a teaspoonful in a tumbler of cold water. This can be repeated once or twice in two hours, if needful. SEA VOYAGES.-It is a very valuable accompaniment, and should on no account be omitted. It instantly allays the sea or bilious sickness. For BILIOUS CONSTITUTIONS, giving rise to vitiated secretions, Indigestion, and Eruptions on the Skin, a teaspoonful should be taken daily with the dinner in a tumbler of water, and the same quantity on going to bed. A spurious Preparation having been palmed upon the Public, with the mere transposition of the words of my label, it is needful to notice the Trade Mark on the top right and left-hand corners of the Buff-coloured Wrappers. 'RAWAL PINDEE, PUNJAB, INDIA, 28th March 1871. On the recommendation of several officers who had some of your Pyretic Saline in the West Indies, all of whom speak in the highest terms of it, we were induced to try it for the first time in this Province. From the ascertained merits of your preparation after use in the fever-stricken districts by which we are surrounded, we firmly believe that the use of your Pyretic Saline will do more to PREVENT fever than all the Quinine ever imported can cure. We write thus strongly, because, both from personal experience and observation, we believe we have at length found a remedy against the ever-present fevers of these parts, which costs the British nation hundreds of valuable lives in Peshawur alone. We are now willing to enter into special terms for large and continued supplies, &c.' May be obtained of the Proprietor, HENRY LAMPLOUGH, Consulting Chemist,¦ 113 Holborn, E.C. (second door from Hatton Garden), London. Sold by all respectable Chemists, in bottles, 2s. 6d., 48. 6d., 11s., and 21s. 'HAVE IT IN YOUR HOUSES TO SECURE THESE BENEFITS.' RUPTURES. THE PATENT SELF-ADJUSTING TRUSS Has now been in use by the Public for nearly SEVENTY YEARS, and is found to answer better than any other kind of Truss, adapting itself to every movement and position of the body, and requiring no galling understrap to keep it in its place. Inventors, Patentees, and Manufacturers, SALMON, ODY, & CO. To His late Majesty, WILLIAM IV., and to Her Majesty's Army and Navy, 292 STRAND, LONDON (Opposite Surrey Street). N.B.-LADIES' BELTS, ELASTIC STOCKINGS, made to any measure. Price List on Application. A FEMALE ATTENDS UPON LADIES. THE LONDON WARMING & VENTILATING COMPANY (LIMITED), 23 ABINGDON STREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W. AND 22 RUE DE L'ECHIQUIER, PARIS. Managing Director and Secretary, Mr. WOODCOCK. Churches, Greenhouses, Offices, and Buildings of every description, warmed by means of a modification of the Plan successfully used by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney in both Houses of Parliament. Steam, Hot Water, Gas, and (in open or enclosed fireplaces) Coal and Coke, are equally available for the process. The cost is less and the effect greater than that of any other known means. The Horticulturist will find herein an instrument of new and important power. For ordinary sitting-rooms, a patent fresh-air grate may be made use of. The apparatus may be seen at work in the Houses of Parliament, the Offices of the Department of Science and Art, in St. Paul's, York Minster, and 12 other Cathe drals, besides 800 Churches in England, and Govern ment and other Public and Private Buildings too nume rous to name in an adver tisement. Particulars and Testimonials forwarded on application. Electric Cameras, MAGIC & PHANTASMAGORIA Dissolving View Apparatus, With Oxycalcium, Oxyhydrogen, or PHOTOGRAPHED AND COLOURED Including Views of France, Italy, Switzer- STATUARY, PHOTO-MICROGRAPHS JOHN BROWNING, To Her Majesty's Government, the Royal 63 STRAND, W.C. AND 111 MINORIES, LONDON, E ESTABLISHED 100 YEARS. Illustrated Lists, with full descriptions, on application.¡ CONTENTS.-No. LVII. BIRDS WITH TEETH. By Henry Woodward, F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. PAGE CARNIVOROUS PLANTS. By Alfred W. Bennett, M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S. ... ... ... 351 ... OUR SUBMARINE DEFENCES. By Captain C. Orde Browne, R.A. ... ... ... ... THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE KANGAROO. By St. George Mivart, ... ... RECENT DISCOVERIES IN PHOTOGRAPHY. By J. Traill Taylor REVIEWS: ... 395 Insectivorous Plants-Tyndall on Light and Sound-Instructions for the Arctic Expedition Victorian Organic Remains-American Geological Surveys-The Cretaceous Flora of America-The Birds of Missouri-Geology of Missouri-The Science of Language-A Manual of Bee-Keeping-Ganot's Physics-South African Hydrology-Phrenology-Smithsonian Report - Supplement to Watts's Astronomy-Botany - Chemistry-Geology and Paleontology- 403 No notice can be taken of anonymous contributions. Contributors must write their names and addresses on the first page of MS. If accompanied with stamps, unsuitable manuscripts will always be carefully returned. The Editor does not hold himself identified with the opinions expressed in contributions. All communications to the Editor are to be addressed to 192 Piccadilly. 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