X TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



(ll.) REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. 



Poison of the Water Lizard, 300 ; Respiration in the Amphibia, 350 ; Af- 

 finities of the Heloderma horridum, 308 ; Occurrence of a Cuban Crocodile 

 in Florida, 308 ; the Crocodile as a Poacher, 309. 



(i.) FISHES. 



General : Change of Volume of Fishes in Swimming, 348 ; the Develop- 

 ment of Sharks and Rays, 349 ; Longevity of Fishes, 312 ; Eggs of the Silu- 

 ridse, 313 ; Sensibility of Fish to Poisons, 313 ; Structure of the Embryonic 

 Cellule in the Eggs of Bony Fishes, 314; Fish Living in Dried Mud, 311. 

 Special : Food of the Shad, 310; Shad in the Gulf of Mexico, 338; the 

 "Nerfling" Fish, 311; Spawning of Whiting-pout, 312; the Basking Shark, 

 351 ; the Structure of the Lancelet, 310 ; Fossil Ceratodus in Queensland, 

 308. 



(k.) ARTICULATES. 



Insects: An Army Worm, 344; New Fossil Spider, 317. Crustaceans: 

 Explanation of the Alleged Occurrence of the King-crab in Holland, 316. 

 Annelids : Vomiting a Liver-worm, 315. 



(1.) MOLLUSKS. 



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

 Brachiopods, 353 ; the Embryology of Terebratulina, 314; Variation in the 

 Banded Shells of California, 314; the Food of the Oyster, and a New Para- 

 site, 315; Drowning of a Chinaman by a Haliotis, 345; Dall's Catalogue 

 of the Shells of Behring's Strait, 345. 



(m.) RADIATES. 



Allman on a New Order of Hvdrozoa, 354. 



(n.) PROTOZOA. 

 Greel's New Amoeboid, 31G. 



H. BOTANY (clviii) 355 



General : New Yearly Report of the Progress of Botany, 361 ; Recent Pub- 

 lications in Systematic Botanv, 363 ; Phvsiological Classification of Plants, 

 366. 



Floras and Distribution : Botany of the Bermudas, 355 ; Sea-weeds of 

 the Bay of Fundy, 356 ; Vegetation in the Sheep-raising Portions of South 

 Africa, 374 ; Geographical Distribution of the Cupuliferae, 367. 



Publications : Reports on the Plants of the Wilkes Exploring Expedi- 

 tion, 374. 



Vegetable Physiology : Diffusion of Pollen in the Atmosphere, 35G ; 

 Cause of Phosphorescence of Decaying Wood, 358 ; the Ascent of Sap in 

 Plants, 358 ; Periodical Flow of Sap in Trees, 364 ; Promotion of Germina- 

 tion by Camphor-water, 358 ; Germination and Growth at Low Tempera- 

 tures, 359 ; Effect of Temperature upon the Germinating Power of Wheat, 

 360 ; Effect of Carbonic Acid and of Oxygen on the Growth of Plants, 370 ; 

 Sarracenia variolaris as an Animal-eater, 365; Dr. Hooker on Carnivorous 

 Plants, 371. Constituents and Uses of Plants : Manganese in Seeds, 359; 

 Recent Uses of Sea- weed, 362. 



Particular Species : The Snow-flower, 360 ; the Eucalyptus globulus. 

 361 ; Chinese Oil-beans, 362 ; Origin of the Domestic Vine, 362 ; Orna- 



