The Rev. THOMAS BROWN on Specimens of Fossil-wood from the Base of the

Lower Carboniferous Rocks at Langton, Berwickshire.

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

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on the so-called 'Mimicry' in Plants

on Eriophorum alpinum, Linn., as a British Plant

Mr. A. G. MORE on Spiranthes Romanzoviana, Cham.

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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-

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ence to the Replum....

Mr. J. SADLER on the Species of Grimmia (including Schistidium) as repre-

sented in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh.....

Mr. NEIL STEWART'S Observations on the intimate Structure of Spiral ducts

in Plants and their relationship to the Flower

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Inquiry into the Functions of Colour in Plants during

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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-

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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....

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......

Mr. A. W. LEWIS's Proposal for a Modification of the strict Law of Priority

in Zoological Nomenclature in certain cases

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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.

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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...

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Professeur VAN BENEDEN sur les Chauves-souris de l'époque du Mammouth

et de l'époque actuelle

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The Rev. R. B. WATSON'S Notes on Dredging at Madeira

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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

Professor W. H. FLOWER on the Composition of the Carpus of the Dog

Dr. ARTHUR GAMGEE on the Magnetic and Diamagnetic Properties of the

Blood

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Sir DUNCAN GIBB on the Uses of the Uvula

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on some Abnormalities of the Larynx..

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Professor HUMPHRY on the Caudal and Abdominal Muscles of the Crypto-

branch

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Mr. E. RAY LANKESTER on the Existence of Hæmoglobin in the Muscular

Tissue, and its relation to Muscular Activity ...

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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

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...

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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

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on the Cervical Vertebræ in Cetacea

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Professor R. H. TRAQUAIR on the Restoration of the Tail in Protopterus an-

nectens

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Dr. J. BATTY TUKE and Professor RUTHERFORD on the Morbid Appearances

noticed in the Brains of Insane People...

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Professor TURNER on the Placentation in the Cetacea..

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-'s Notes on the Cervical Vertebræ of Steypirethyr (Balœ-

noptera Sibbaldii)...

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Dr. M. WATSON'S Contributions to the Anatomy of the Thoracic Viscera of

the Elephant

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ANTHROPOLOGY.

Professor TURNER'S Address to the Department of Anthropology

Dr. JOHN BEDDOE on the Anthropolygy of the Merse

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→ on Degeneration of Race in Britain

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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

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Dr. EUGENE A. CONWELL on an Inscribed Stone at Newhaggard, in the

County of Meath......

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Mr. W. BOYD DAWKINS on the Origin of the Domestic Animals of Europe.. 149

on the attempted Classification of the Paleolithic

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 .....

Sir DUNCAN GIBB on Centenarian Longevity..

on the Fat Woman exhibiting in London....

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Mr. GEORGE HARRIS on the Iereditary Transmission of Endowments and

Qualities of different kinds

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on the Comparative Longevity of Animals of different

Species and of Man, and the probable Causes which mainly conduce to pro-

mote this difference...

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...

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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 ?

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Lieut.-Col. FORBES LESLIE on Megalithic Circles

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on Ancient Hieroglyphic Sculptures

Mr. M. MOGGRIDGE on Bones and Flints found in the Caves at Mentone and in

the adjacent Railway Cutting ...

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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

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on some indications of the Manners and Customs of the

early Inhabitants of Britain, deduced from the Remains of their towns and

villages

The ABBÉ RICHARD on the Discovery of Flint Implements in Egypt, at Mount

Sinai, at Galgala, and in Joshua's Tomb....

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Professor STRUTHERS on Skulls presenting Sagittal Synostosis

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The Rev. W. S. SYMONDS on Implements found in King Arthur's Cave, near

Whitchurch

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Professor TURNER on Human and Animal Bones and Flints from a Cave at

Oban, Argyleshire

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Mr. C. STANILAND WAKE on Man and the Ape

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The Rev. W. WEBSTER on certain Points concerning the Origin and Relations

of the Basque Race...

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GEOGRAPHY.

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 ....

Captain CHIMMO on Cagayan Sulu Island ....

Dr. COPELAND on the Second German Arctic Expedition...

Captain F. ELTON on the Limpopo Expedition

Mr. CHRISTOPHER GEORGE on a Self-replenishing Artificial Horizon

Dr. GINSBURG's Further disclosures of the Moabite Stone

Dr. J. D. HOOKER'S Ascent of the Atlas Range....

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IBRAHIM KHAN's Journey from Yassin to Yarkand

Captain B. LOVETT on the Interior of Mekran

Colonel R. MACLAGAN on the Geographical Distribution of Petroleum and

allied products..

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Dr. R. J. MANN on the Formation of Sand-bars...

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PANDIT MANPHAL's Report on Badakolan

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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

Archimandrate PALLADIUS's Letters from Vladivostok and Nikolsk, South

Ussuri District..

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Mr. E. H. PALMER on the Geography of Moab

Captain H. S. PALMER on an Acoustic Phenomenon at Jebel Nágús, in the

Peninsula of Sinai

Capt. WARD on the American Arctic Expedition

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Capt. A. PULLAN's Notes on British Gurwhal

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 ..

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Colonel HENRY YULE on Captain Garnier's Expedition up the Camboja.... 190

ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS.

Address by LORD NEAVES, one of the Lords of Session, President of the Sec-

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Colonel Sir J. E. ALEXANDER on Sanitary Measures for Scottish Villages .. 200

LYDIA E. BECKER on some Maxims of Political Economy as applied to the

Employment of Women, and the Education of Girls

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Mr. WILLIAM BOTLEY on Land Tenure

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Mr. THOMAS J. BOYD on Educational Hospital Reform: The Scheme of the

Edinburgh Merchant Company....

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Mr. SAMUEL BROWN on the Measurement of Man and his Faculties.

Sheriff CLEGHORN on the Wellington Reformatory ....

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Mr. F. P. FELLOWES on a proposed Doomsday Book, giving the Value of the

Governmental Property as a basis for a sound system of National Finance

and Accounts

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Mr. WILLIAM HOYLE on Political Economy, Pauperism, the Labour Question,

and the Liquor Traffic

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Mr. A. JYRAM-Row on the present state of Education in India, and its bear-

ings on the question of Social Science....

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Mr. CHARLES LAMPORT on Naval Efficiency and Dockyard Economy

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Mr. W. M'BEAN on the Edinburgh Industrial Home for Fallen Women, Aln-

wick Hill, near Liberton

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Mr. JAMES MEIKLE on the Mode for Assessing for the Poor-Rates

Mr. W. A. PETERKIN on the Administration of the Poor Law

Mr. GEORGE SETON on the Illegitimacy of Banffshire

on the Expediency of recording Still-Births

on certain Cases of Questioned Legitimacy under the

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Operation of the Scottish Registration Act (17 & 18 Vict. c. 80) ... 217

Dr. GEORGE SMITH on Indian Statistics and Official Reports

Mr. WILLIAM STEPHENSON on the Scientific Aspects of Children's Hospitals 221

Mr. G. JOHNSTONE STONEY on the Relation between British and Metrical

Measures

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Mr. W. TAYLOR on the Manual Labour Classes of England, Wales, and

Scotland

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Mr. JAMES VALENTINE on Census Reform....

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Mr. R. BAILEY WALKER on the Organization of Societies, nationally and locally

considered

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Mr. WILLIAM WESTGARTH on the Law of Capital

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MECHANICAL SCIENCE.

Address by Professor FLEEMING JENKIN, F.R.S., President of the Section .. 225

Mr. PHILIP BRAHAM on an Apparatus for working Torpedoes...

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Mr. F. J. BRAMWELL'S Account of some Experiments upon a "Carr's Disin-

tegrator" at work at Messrs. Gibson and Walker's Flour-mills, Leith ...

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