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of Bony Fishes, 314 ; the Embryology of Terebratulina, 314 ; of the Lemurs, 

 301 ; Development of the Eye in the Cuttle-fish, 349 ; Kowalevsky on the 

 Brachiopods, 353. General : New Experiments on the Venom of East 

 India Serpents, 287 ; Action of the Poison of Egyptian Serpents, 323 ; 

 Composition of the Cartilage of the Shark, 289 ; Composition of the 

 Body Fluids of Fish and Invertebrates, 291 , Malformation of Fish Em- 

 bryos, 294 ; Hereditary Transmission of Physical Peculiarities, 295 ; Ef- 

 fect of Parasitism in the Animal Series, 348 ; Respiration in the Amphibia, 

 350. 



(e.) VERTEBRATES IN GENERAL. 



Rapidity of the Action of the Nerves, 295 ; Fossil Vertebrates in Ohio, 322 ; 

 Action of the Poison of Egyptian Serpents, 323. 



(f.) MAMMALS. 



General Anthropology : Ethnological Inquiries to be made by the Ger- 

 man Transit Expedition, 328 ; Alleged Foot-prints in Solid Rock, 328 ; New- 

 Terms in Craniological Description, 347 ; Height of Human Species, 324 ; 

 the Theory of Errors of Observation, 324; Drowning of a Chinaman by a 

 Haliotis, 345. Man in the Old World: A New Bone -cave in Switzer- 

 land, 296 ; Mammoth Cave in Poland, 297 ; Discovery of a Human Bone in 

 a Cave in Yorkshire, 328 ; the Fossil Man of Mentone, 298 ; Kjoeckken- 

 modding in Norway, 297 ; the Early Races of Mankind in Ireland, 325 ; 

 Further Explorations in Cyprus by Di Cesnola, 332 ; Archaeological Survey 

 of British India, 332 ; Ethnology of Ancient Egypt, 331 ; Tree-villages of 

 the Solomon Islands, 298. Man in the New World : Ancient Stone Fort 

 in Indiana, 329 ; Dall's Ethnological Explorations in Alaska, 329 ; Discov- 

 ery of Aleut Mummies, 345 ; Trade among the Aborigines, 331 ; Prepared 

 Heads of Macas Indians, 297. 



Other Mammals. General : Paucity of Mammals in Cuba, 300 ; His- 

 tory of the Pacific Coast Marine Mammals, 338. Special : Habits of a 

 Young Gorilla, 300; Embryology of the Lemurs, 301; Discovery of Pu- 

 torius nigripes, 339 ; the Characters and Relations of the Hyopotamidae, 

 336 ; the Fossil Hog of America, 340 ; Genesis of the Horse, 301 ; Taming 

 the Zebra. 352 ; Extermination of Buffaloes, 303 ; Decrease in the European 

 Bison, 339 ; Relationship of American Deer to their British Analogues, 335 ; 

 New Fossil Zeuglodon in France, 302 , Antarctic Whaling, 303 ; the Species 

 of American Squirrels, 332 ; New Skeleton of the Megatherium in the 

 Jardin des Plantes, 302. 



(g.) BIRDS. 



General : New Classification of Birds, 307; Relation between the Color of 

 Birds and their Geographical Distribution, 306 ; Close Time for Birds in 

 Great Britain, 352 ; Dr. Cones' Manual of Field Ornithology, 343 ; Catalogue 

 of American Birds, 343 ; Dall on the Birds of Alaska, 340 ; Lawrence's Birds 

 of Northwestern Mexico, 341 ; Geographical Distribution of Asiatic Birds, 

 341. Special : Discovery of a New Deposit of Moa Bones in New Zealand, 

 305 ; a New Species of Cassowary, 352 ; Suggested Introduction of the 

 Rook into the United States, 342; Collection of Birds-of- Paradise, 341 ; the 

 New Fossil Bird of the Sheppey Clay, 305; Fossil Egg from the Cher- 

 sonesus, 306 ; an Egg Six Centuries Old, 340. 



