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Reookd of Current Resbarohes, &c. — continued. 



FAGB 



Anatomy of CapreUidx '^53 



Cyclops 254 



Lernanthropus — one of the Copepoda 254 



Red- Blood Vascular System of certain Crustacea 258 



Unobserved Orffan in Sappliirina 260 



Ostracoda in Tree-tops 260 



Neto Family of the Lernxida 261 



Optic Organs of Free-living Polycluetous Worms 261 



ChiHopoda of the Virginian Coast 263 



Adaptation and Mimicry in the Turhellaria 263 



Jxtnd Flanarians of Germany 264 



Encysted Scolex of Tetrarhynchus 267 



Natural History of the Orthonedida 268 



The Elasmopoda — a Nexo Order of Ilolothuridea 268 



Nervous System of Comatula 269 



Development of Aster ias rubens 270 



Tactde Organs of Eucharis midticornis 271 



New Fossil Coral 272 



Haeckel's ' System of the Medusx ' 272 



New Hydroid Zoophytes 274 



Species of Hydra 275 



Structure of Siliceous Sponges 275 



Organization and Development of Chalinidx 277 



Formation of Free-sioimming Buds by a Halisarca 279 



Muscle-fibres of Sponges 280 



Eeplacement of Siliceous Skeletons by Carbonate of Lime 282 



i^eto J7i/«8orm (Plates VII. and VIII.) 282 



Glycogenesis in Infusoria, dc 285 



New Species of Ophrydium 287 



Leidy' s Fresh-water Bhizopods of North America 288 



Endamceba Dlattie 290 



Botany. 



Effects of uninterrupted Sunshine on Plants 291 



Heliotropism of Ilarlwegia comosa (^Chlorophylum) •• 292 



Influence of the Electric Light upon Vegetation 292 



Decomposition of Carbonic Acid by Leaves illuminated by Artificial Light 294 



Distribution of Water in the Plant 294 



Sugars of Vegetation 29.5 



Ejects of Starviition on Vegetable and Animal Tissues 296 



Composition of Chlorophyll 296 



Formation of Chlorophyll in the Dark 298 



Colouring Matter of Flowers 298 



Absorption of Salts through the Roots • • 299 



Equililnium of the Vresmre of Gases in the Tissues of Plants 299 



Internal Processes which cause the Curvatures that accompany Gron^lh in 



Multicellular Organs 300 



Function of Vegetable Acids in the Turgidity of Cells .300 



Function of Oxalic Acid i7i the Plant 300 



Eml>ryology of Gymnadcnia ronopsea 301 



Embryiinic Structure and Germination of Streptocarpu^ 302 



Phyllodyof tlie Ovuleaof Hesperismalronalis ."02 



Cell-diviiion 303 



Strwiuri' of the Aerial Roots of Orchids 305 



Luminous Fungus from tliA Andoman Islands 306 



Loculariii ril>e»icola 306 



White lUlberries 306 



RvsearrJies on Vredinex 307 



Dredo Circm/e 307 



Onion-rutt, Urooyslis Cepulai 307 



yEcidium abitlinum i 308 



Excrescences on the Roots of the Alder •^"9 



Influence of Temperature on the increase of Yeast . . 309 



Corrosion of Grains of Starch by a Micrococcus 310 



