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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
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-
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....
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.
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
135
The Rev. R. B. WATSON'S Notes on Dredging at Madeira
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
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
Sir DUNCAN GIBB on the Uses of the Uvula
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on some Abnormalities of the Larynx..
Professor HUMPHRY on the Caudal and Abdominal Muscles of the Crypto-
branch
140
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
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 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
ANTHROPOLOGY.
Professor TURNER'S Address to the Department of Anthropology
Dr. JOHN BEDDOE on the Anthropolygy of the Merse
147
→ on Degeneration of Race in Britain
148
Dr. CHARNOCK on Le Sette Communi, a German Colony in the neighbourhood
of Vicenza.
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......
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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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152
Mr. GEORGE HARRIS on the Iereditary 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...
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 ?
Lieut.-Col. FORBES LESLIE on Megalithic Circles
on Ancient Hieroglyphic Sculptures
Mr. M. MOGGRIDGE on Bones and Flints found in the Caves at Mentone and in
the adjacent Railway Cutting ...
... 155
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
The ABBÉ 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
100
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...
162
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....
179
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...
184
PANDIT MANPHAL's Report on Badakolan
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
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-
tion
191
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
201
Mr. WILLIAM BOTLEY on Land Tenure
202
Mr. THOMAS J. BOYD on Educational Hospital Reform: The Scheme of the
Edinburgh Merchant Company....
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
Mr. WILLIAM HOYLE on Political Economy, Pauperism, the Labour Question,
and the Liquor Traffic
212
Mr. A. JYRAM-Row on the present state of Education in India, and its bear-
ings on the question of Social Science....
Mr. CHARLES LAMPORT on Naval Efficiency and Dockyard Economy
Mr. W. M'BEAN on the Edinburgh Industrial Home for Fallen Women, Aln-
wick Hill, near Liberton
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
223
Mr. JAMES VALENTINE on Census Reform....
Mr. R. BAILEY WALKER on the Organization of Societies, nationally and locally
considered
Mr. WILLIAM WESTGARTH on the Law of Capital
MECHANICAL SCIENCE.
Address by Professor FLEEMING JENKIN, F.R.S., President of the Section .. 225
Mr. PHILIP BRAHAM on an Apparatus for working Torpedoes...
229
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 ...