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Dr. MOFFAT on Geological Systems and Endemic Disease
107
Dr. JAMES MURIE on the Systematic Position of Sivatherium giganteum, Faulc.
and Caut.
108
Mr. C. W. PEACH's Additions to the list of Fossils and Localities of the Car-
boniferous Formation in and around Edinburgh...
109
L'ABBÉ RICHARD on Hydro-Geology..
....
The Rev. W. S. SYMONDS on the Contents of a Hyæna's Den on the Great
Doward, Whitchurch, Ross
Sandstone of Hay, Breconshire.
Mr. J. S. TAYLOR on the later Crag-Deposits of Norfolk and Suffolk...
Mr. JAMES THOMSON on the Stratified Rocks of Islay
Prof. TRAQUAIR'S Additions to the Fossil Vertebrate Fauna of Burdiehouse,
near Edinburgh
...
on a New Fish-spine from the Lower Old Red
Professor W. C. WILLIAMSON on the Structure of the Dictyoxylons of the
Coal-measures
111
on the Structure of Diploxylon, a Plant of the
Carboniferous Rocks
112
Mr. HENRY WOODWARD on the Discovery of a new and very perfect Arachnide
from the Ironstone of the Dudley Coal-field
on the Relics of the Carboniferous and other old
Land-surfaces
113
BIOLOGY.
Address by Dr. ALLEN THOMSON, F.R.SS. L. & E., President of the Section.. 114
Dr. CHARLTON BASTIAN on some new Experiments relating to the Origin of
Life
Dr. F. CRACE-CALVERT on the Action of Heat on Germ-life
122
on Spontaneous Generation, or Protoplasmic Life .. 123
Dr. JOHN DOUGAL on the relative Powers of various Substances in preventing
the Generation of Animalcules, or the Development of their Germs, with
special reference to the Germ Theory of Putrefaction
124
Sir WALTER ELLIOT on the advantage of Systematic Cooperation among Pro-
vincial Natural-History Societies, so as to make their observations available
to Naturalists generally.
Dr. BURDON SANDERSON and Dr. FERRIER on the Origin and Distribution of
Microzymes (Bacteria) in water, and the circumstances which determine
their Existence in the Tissues and Liquids of the Living Body ...
Mr. T. B. GRIERSON on the Establishment of Local Museums
BOTANY.
Professor BALFOUR on the Cultivation of Ipecacuanha in the Edinburgh Bo-
tanic Garden for transmission to India ...
125
126
127
Mr. ROBERT BROWN on the Flora of Greenland
128
on the Geographical Distribution of the Floras of North-
west America
12
The Rev. THOMAS BROWN on Specimens of Fossil-wood from the Base of the
Lower Carboniferous Rocks at Langton, Berwickshire .
....... 128
129
Professor A. DICKSON'S Suggestions on Fruit Classification.....
Mr. W. T. THISELTON DYER on the minute Anatomy of the Stem of the
Screw-Pine, Pandanus utilis
.....
on the so-called 'Mimicry' in Plants
Mr. A. G. MORE on Spiranthes Romanzoviana, Cham.
on Eriophorum alpinum, Linn., as a British Plant
.......
Dr. JAMES MURIE on the Development of Fungi within the Thorax of Living
Birds.......
Dr. J. BIRKBECK NEVINS on the Changes which occur in Plants during the
ripening of the Seeds, in order to ensure the access of the Air and Light as
well as Heat, which are generally requisite for this purpose, without the
loss of the Seeds before the ripening is completed.
on the Nature of the Cruciferous fruit, with refer-
130
ence to the Replum....
Mr. J. SADLER on the Species of Grimmia (including Schistidium) as repre-
sented in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh.....
131.
Mr. NEIL STEWART'S Observations on the intimate Structure of Spiral ducts
in Plants and their relationship to the Flower
131
Inquiry into the Functions of Colour in Plants during
different Stages of their Development.....
Prof. W. C. WILLIAMSON on the Classification of the Vascular Cryptogamia,
as affected by recent Discoveries amongst the Fossil Plants of the Coal-
measures
ZOOLOGY.
Professor J. DUNS's Notice of two Specimens of Echinorhinus spinosus taken
in the Firth of Forth ....
on the Rarer Raptorial Birds of Scotland.
Dr. GRIERSON on the Carabus nitens of the Scottish Moors....
132
Mr. W. SAVILLE KENT on the Zoological Results of the Dredging Expedition
of the Yacht Norma' off the Coast of Spain and Portugal in 1870.......... 132
Mr. A. W. LEWIS's Proposal for a Modification of the strict Law of Priority
in Zoological Nomenclature in certain cases
133
Dr. CHRISTIAN LÜTKEN on some resent Additions to the Arctic Fauna (a new
Antipathes and a new Apodal Lophioid)....
Mr. A. G. MORE on the occurrence of Brown Trout in Salt Water...
on some Dredgings in Kenmare Bay
Mr. C. W. PEACH on the so-called Tailless Trout of Islay
Colonel PLAYFAIR on the Hydrographical System of the Freshwater Fish of
Algeria...
134
Dr. P. L. SCLATER's Remarks on a favourable occasion for the establishment
of Zoological Observatories......
Mr. ROLAND TRIMEN on a curious South-African Grasshopper, Trachypetra
bufo (White), which mimics with much precision the appearance of the
stones among which it lives .....
Professeur VAN BENEDEN sur les Chauves-souris de l'époque du Mammouth
et de l'époque actuelle
The Rev. R. B. WATSON'S Notes on Dredging at Madeira
135
137
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.
Professor A. BUCHANAN on the Pressure of the Atmosphere as an Auxiliary
Force in carrying on the Circulation of the Blood...
Dr. JOHN CHIENE's Experimental Inquiry into some of the Results of Inocu-
lation in the lower Animals
138
Professor W. H. FLOWER on the Composition of the Carpus of the Dog .... 138
Dr. ARTHUR GAMGEE on the Magnetic and Diamagnetic Properties of the
Blood
Sir DUNCAN GIBB on the Uses of the Uvula
139
on some Abnormalities of the Larynx....
Professor HUMPHRY on the Caudal and Abdominal Muscles of the Crypto-
branch
Mr. E. RAY LANKESTER on the Existence of Hæmoglobin in the Muscular
Tissue, and its relation to Muscular Activity ...
Mr. B. T. LoWNE on the Ciliated Condition of the Inner Layer of the Blasto-
derm in the Ova of Birds and in the Omphalo-mesenteric Vessels ..
Professor A. MACALISTER on the Bearing of Muscular Anomalies on the Dar-
winian Theory of the Origin of Species
........
140
Dr. M'KENDRICK on a New Form of Tetanometer
Dr. WILLIAM MARCET on the Nutrition of Muscular and Pulmonary Tissue
in Health and in Phthisis, with Remarks on the Colloid Condition of Mat-
ter.....
Dr. EDWARD SMITH on Dietaries in the Workhouses of England and Wales. 141
Professor STRUTHERS on some Rudimentary Structures recently met with in
the Dissection of a large Fin-Whale
142
on the Cervical Vertebræ in Cetacea
Professor R. H. TRAQUAIR on the Restoration of the Tail in Protopterus an-
nectens
143
Dr. J. BATTY TUKE and Professor RUTHERFORD on the Morbid Appearances
noticed in the Brains of Insane People.....
144
Professor TURNER on the Placentation in the Cetacea...
-'s Notes on the Cervical Vertebrae of Steypirethyr (Bale-
noptera Sibbaldiï).
Dr. M. WATSON's Contributions to the Anatomy of the Thoracic Viscera of
the Elephant
ANTHROPOLOGY.
Professor TURNER's Address to the Department of Anthropology
Dr. JOHN BEDDOE on the Anthropolygy of the Merse ...
... 144
147
―on Degeneration of Race in Britain
148
Dr. CHARNOCK on Le Sette Communi, a German Colony in the neighbourhood
of Vicenza.
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Dr. CHARNOCK and Dr. CARTER BLAKE on the Physical, Mental, and Philo-
logical Characteristic of the Wallons
Dr. EUGENE A. CONWELL on an Inscribed Stone at Newhaggard, in the
County of Meath...
149
Mr. W. BOYD DAWKINS on the Origin of the Domestic Animals of Europe.. 149
on the attempted Classification of the Palaeolithic
Age by means of the Mammalia
Mr. WALTER DENDY on a Gleam of the Saxon in the Weald ......
Mr. J. W. FLOWER on the Relative Ages of the Flint- and Stone-Implement
Periods in England .
150
Sir DUNCAN GIBB on Centenarian Longevity.
151
on the Fat Woman exhibiting in London..
152
Mr. GEORGE HARRIS on the Hereditary Transmission of Endowments and
Qualities of different kinds
on the Comparative Longevity of Animals of different
Species and of Man, and the probable Causes which mainly conduce to pro-
mote this difference....
153
Mr. J. W. JACKSON on the Adantean Race of Western Europe
Mr. J. KAINES on the Anthropology of Auguste Comte
Dr. R. KING on the Lapps..
Lieut.-Col. FORBES LESLIE on Megalithic Circles
154
on Ancient Hieroglyphic Sculptures
155
Rev. J. MCCANN on the Origin of the Moral Sense
Mr. W. D. MICHELL, Is the Stone Age of Lyell and Lubbock as yet at all
proven.?.
Mr. M. MOGGRIDGE on Bones and Flints found in the Caves at Mentone and in
the adjacent Railway Cutting
Mr. J. WOLFE MURRAY on a Cross traced upon a hill at Cringletie, near Peebles 156
Mr. GEORGE PETRIE on Ancient Modes of Sepulture in the Orkneys........ 156
Mr. JOHN S. PHENE on an Expedition for the Special Investigation of the
Hebrides and West Highlands, in search of Evidences of Ancient Serpent-
Worship
158
on some indications of the Manners and Customs of the
early Inhabitants of Britain, deduced from the Remains of their towns and
villages
159
The ABBE RICHARD on the Discovery of Flint Implements in Egypt, at Mount
Sinai, at Galgala, and in Joshua's Tomb.....
160
Professor STRUTHERS on Skulls presenting Sagittal Synostosis
The Rev. W. S. SYMONDS on Implements found in King Arthur's Cave, near
Whitchurch.
Professor TURNER on Human and Animal Bones and Flints from a Cave at
Oban, Argyleshire
Mr. C. STANILAND WAKE on Man and the Ape
162
The Rev. W. WEBSTER on certain Points concerning the Origin and Relations
of the Basque Race.....
GEOGRAPHY.
Captain CHIMMO on Cagayan Sulu Island
Address by Colonel HENRY YULE, C.B., President of the Section.
Major-General ABRAMOF on the Principality of Karategin
Major BASEVI on Minicoy Island
Captain L. BRINE on the Ruined Cities of Central America
Dr. ROBERT BROWN on the Interior of Greenland
Dr. COPELAND on the Second German Arctic Expedition.
174
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176
Captain F. ELTON on the Limpopo Expedition ....
178
Mr. CHRISTOPHER GEORGE on a Self-replenishing Artificial Horizon
Colonel R. MACLAGAN on the Geographical Distribution of Petroleum and
Mr. C. R. MARKHAM on the Eastern Cordillera, and the Navigation of the
River Madeira...
Rev. F. O. MORRIS on the Encroachments of the Sea on the East Coast of
Yorkshire.
Mr. S. MOSSMAN on the Inundation and Subsidence of the Yang-tsze River,
in China
187
Archimandrate PALLADIUS'S Letters from Vladivostok and Nikolsk, South
Ussuri District....
Mr. E. H. PALMER on the Geography of Moab ....
... 187
Captain. II. S. PALMER on an Acoustic Phenomenon at Jebel Nágús, in the
Peninsula of Sinai .....
.. 188
Capt. A, PULLAN's Notes on British Gurwhal
. 189
Dr. RAE on the Saskatchewan Valley ...
Mr. W. B. RICHARDSON on the Volcan de Agua, near Guatemala.
Major E. C. Ross, A Journey through Mekran
Mr. GEORGE ST. CLAIR on the Topography of Ancient Jerusalem.
Mr. TRELAWNEY SAUNDERS on the Himalayas and Central Asia
Major SLADEN on Trade Routes between Burmah and China....
Commander A. DUNDAS TAYLOR on the Proposed Ship-Canal between Ceylon
and India .....
M. ARTHUR WERTHERMAN on the Exploration of the Headwaters of the
Marañon....
190
Colonel HENRY YULE on Captain Garnier's Expedition up the Camboja.... 190